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From: Chris Baird <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>
Message-Id: <199810161458.AAA03942@brushtail.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: hmmm..
To: netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:58:48 +1000 (EST)
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Keeping to the old Usenet tradition of whomever proposes an idea has
themselves automatically volunteered, I've went and checked with the
local printing establishments and the best that any can do in
Armidale/Tamworth NSW Oz area is a minimum order order of 1000 @ $600
for "bumper stickers" (the "vinyl-looking somewhat weatherproof
doesn't look like regular paper with glue on the back" type).
Does anyone from the capital cities know of specific companies I could
turn to next?

And thanks to everyone who commented on the mascot-- it comes from the
time when this machine was the hub for the first ISP in the
Newcastle/Hunter Valley Australia.  \begin{testimonal} Brushtail had
Shell/UUCP/SLIP/PPP services on 6 dial-ins (2x 4port AST cards) running
off a 486 w/ 8M, and NetBSD-0.9/1.0/1.1.  I had to write a "ifload"
program (based on "nice") to stop nnmaster from herniating the machine
when uuxqt was running, plus the serial and VM code of the time wasn't
great, but it still holds the record for up- and down-time with its
successor APANA systems.

(I'd decided on Net because of Core's attitude wrt software engineering
(non-profit, and _how_ long did Linux take to get a working flock() or
stable NE2000 driver???) and the cooler-sounding name. :)

-- 
Chris,,