Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. Good on ya for doing this, Larry.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since I mentioned it > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629586266869/ > or > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157629586266869/ > > Most of these photos haven't been cleaned up much, I just did a quick > search and post so people who needed photos for the memorial could find some > quickly. It's an interesting challenge, one that most of our friends and > family will likely face one day, because for the 22 years that I've known > John, he was always the one taking photos at all the events. > > Here's something I wrote about him for the local Linux User's Group email > list: > > John Dubois, aka spcecdt, passed away this morning, losing a several year > battle with cancer. Many, perhaps most, of the people on this list have no > idea who is, but everyone owes him a huge debt of gratitude, as someone long > instrumental in the Santa Cruz geek community. These days, when $30/month > will get buy you broadband at your home, along with hosted email, and even a > website, it's almost hard to remember when an email account was a rarity. > > I met John at a b-geek party at Bonny Doon Beach, in October of '89, the > weekend before "The pretty big one". At that point, he was already running > deeptht as a public access host, providing shell accounts for free to pretty > much anyone who asked. He paid, out of his own pocket, for a ridiculously > large number of phone lines, so that people could dial in to access their > mail. > > For a while, when uscscc was decommissioned, John even provided me with > free dial-up uucp access, so that I could run my own email server. > > For many years the Armory, one of the original geek houses in Santa Cruz, > was a cultural center of the Santa Cruz geek scene. The parties at the > armory were epic in scope, and hard to describe. You could stand in one > spot and reach people arguing technical details of operating system design, > cute drunken coeds, and someone logged into the net on one of several serial > terminals in the living room. Over the past decade, or so, until John's > health became too poor, there was a weekly potluck hosted at the Armory > every Friday evening. > > John was well regarded for his technical skills, not only with computers, > but home made pyrotechnics (there's a reason the house was called "The > Armory"), and even the facility with which he made Ice Cream using LN2. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
