Projects:

In the near term I'll be working on converting the linux servers at Electronic Towne Crier in Bakersfield to OpenBSD. The packet filters for Linux just suck, the kernel has too many frequent security updates, holes everywhere else as if they were invented just to justify an expensive "support" contract; the whole Linux business has gone to the kiddies and clueless MBAs. Having worked with Linux since 1996, I still have great respect and a soft spot in my heart for much of the effort and folks who work on the project but the whole thing has changed so much that I just don't bother getting frustrated by it any more, except for the servers my clients have.

So Linux does not figure into my current project list other than that. I keep one Linux machine around just for the man pages and tool chain so I can at least have a heads up on what I'll have to do to make/keep some piece of software portable to it. That's all it's good for- Mac OS X fulfills all that Linux tries to be now and the purity and innocence embodied by early Linux lives on only in nostalgia. It's not free, and now it's poor. Poor, as in programmer. <sigh>

Also, I'll be continuing work on a prototype of a survey application, written in ATT Korn Shell 93 . It uses CGI, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL (8.x!). Other than that I do follow the mailing lists for several projects outside of Wave Division - mostly open source, security, Internet and Apple related.