Subject: Re: Have NetBSD, will travel.
To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org>
From: Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/27/1999 16:03:26
Hello Julian,
That would make you the Paul Theroux [1,2] of the BSD world. Care to write
a travel journal or something? At the very least, I'm sure the nice folks
at Daemon News (editor@daemonnews.org) would be interested.
Ciao!
--Louis
[1] Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster : By Train Through China
[2] ..., The Great Railway Bazaar : By Train Through Asia
Louis Bertrand <louis@bertrandtech.on.ca>
Bertrand Technical Services, Bowmanville, ON, Canada
Tel: +1.905.623.8925 Fax: +1.905.623.3852
On 27 Jun 1999, Julian Assange wrote:
>
> There have been some recent comments on my system clock being out of
> date. I have the pleasure to inform you this is not so; I'm just
> disconnected for extensive periods, while I backpack around eastern
> europe, russia and asia. For those so interested I have doing kernel,
> crypto, and nlp development on two NetBSD-1.4 laptops, carried by foot
> and train from Berlin to Beijing (via poland, ukraine, belarus,
> lithuania, latvia, estonia, russia/siberia and monglia) including 7
> days on the trans-siberian express. During train journies, I've sucked
> power from a variety of sources, including:
>
> 1) disassembled light fittings
> 2) power cables from above roof pannels
> 3) the carriage vacuum cleaner power point
>
> The power recieved has been kind of spikey (at least I prefer that
> argument than my code is causing random lockups :), but everything,
> including me, is still alive.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian [currently in Beijing].
>
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