From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 05:31:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA24219 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 05:31:09 -0700 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA24210 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 05:31:05 -0700 Received: (from branson@localhost) by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA10127 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:30:57 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199507181230.IAA10127@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:30:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (Hackers FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: <199507180255.MAA04660@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 18, 95 12:25:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1586 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > This brings about another interesting point what are people doing > > with FreeBSD besides kernel hacking or system related work? Well..... I use one at work as anb amanda server for SGI and Sun Machines. I also use it for telecommuting from home. ( and it is great at that. ) At home I have lots of uses: - I am working to duplicate Amancio's answering computer with a cheaper modem. I am close but I have so little time :-( - I am using it for computer control of various things around my house. this is based on the xten stuff ( which is great BTW ) does my lights, air conditioning, and my heating in the winter! Also sends me mail about activities going on at home. Like someone came in the door. The alarm system just went off... somthing is in the back yard... etc.. - I use my old 386 and an xten adaptor for Light Control for bands.. it is a little slow...but with planning it works great... also looking at using the sound card to figure out the beat and automate that quite a bit... right now can be used for scenes and so forth. And it is cheap... any one looking for a cheap lighting system for plays and things it works out well. That is about it... except for hacking. -branson -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 931 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700