Theo de Raadt wrote:
Wow, free advice as to how I can spend my time. Aren't you kind? Want some advice from me?
Yes, I _am_ full of grandmotherly kindness, as well as invariably excellent advice. It is well that you realize this. In this instance, that advice was "Do not spurn good ideas", "Do not whine about your users not buying CDs if you're in the business of writing free software, because nobody wants to hear it", and "This is what implementing this suggestion will buy you". Nowhere did I say "You should spend your time doing this". You need to read a little more carefully. Speaking a little more carefully wouldn't hurt either. I note that you make a practice of spurning innocently-offered and occasionally good ideas in a much more brutal fashion than is actually called for. I chalk this up to you not being called on it often enough when you indulge this particular vice, but I could be wrong. I will note that while your sandpaper personality can occasionally serve you well in some instances, unmoderated, it _will_ cause you to miss opportunities in others. Hint: when you kill the messenger, in the long run, you just get less mail. That aside, why not? Challenge accepted. Web-store and HTML design are not my strong points, but I've been meaning to play with them a bit. Since no money is changing hands and no "shopping carts" are being created (there being nothing to pay money for on the site), since this is just a collection of links that is being monitored, straight HTML and a little tiny bit of CGI may be "good enough" for the task. Let me see what I can do. It may come to nothing, but I have some free time. My proposed beginning for this can be seen here: http://www.sdeath.net/obsdstore I am purposely maintaining the appearance of OpenBSD's site, it loads nice and snappy and looks clean. I'm working on the CGI script for this. Caveat: This is for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY, it is going to be hosted elsewhere very very soon as soon as I get the script done, and the database populated sufficiently to be useful, and as soon as somebody else provides a place for it. If that doesn't happen, I'll probably mothball it. [snip Rob Schneiderish repeated "You can do it!"s]
You can do all the above. I am too busy. I hope appreciate my advice; look at all the good ideas I just gave you for things you can do!
You're too busy to try and save yourself some labor, and to get the things you claim you need to do better work? Huh, okay. Different strokes, I suppose. If I were that busy, I'd jump at the chance to spend a few minutes now to save hours later. YMMV, though. OpenBSD users: send me lists of things that are KNOWN TO WORK and are SUPPORTED in OpenBSD. Requirements: model numbers, revision numbers if applicable, OpenBSD revision, platform. Descriptions of the item not strictly necessary but useful. Restrict this to things that are currently available for purchase as "new", please. Don't worry about checking it thoroughly; if you bought it new in the last three years, that's good enough, I'm more concerned about getting messages involving things like S/Bus framebuffers and Multia mainboards. Bonus points if you track down good places to buy this stuff, too. I know a lot of them, but I know that I don't know all of them. OpenBSD development team: start thinking about where you want me to put this when it is complete. (I can think of a couple of places that are likely to be suggested by certain individuals, but do try to restrain yourselves.) If I can, I'll write it; as I have time, I'll maintain it; I will not, however, host it, since my pipe isn't big enough. Anybody else is welcome to host it, too, but it would probably be a much better idea to actually put it on openbsd.org. Also, please give me a list of vendors that have cooperated with you to the extent that you have required to write software for their products; this will be used in the creation of "supercategories" of OpenBSD-friendly hardware manufacturers and their products. Everybody: Suggest categories. The ones up now are only suggestions. Also, can anybody give me the raw vector or whatever file that was used to make the picture of Puffy for the 3.7 banner on the main site? I ginned up a crappy OpenBSD store graphic that sucks, but this needs something better. I'm thinking Puffy wearing a green banker's visor behind a cash register. Anybody that's actually _good_ at graphic design, feel free to come up with something better; I'm okay, but I'm not great at it. -- (c) 2005 Unscathed Haze via Central Plexus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am Chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are Free. -Eris Big Brother is watching you. Learn to become Invisible. |-------- Your message must be this wide to ride the Internet. --------|
