On 24 December 2000, I invited some of the Adelaide FreeBSD people to a barbecue. The main reason was because Kris Kennaway and Benno Rice, both exiles, were back in Adelaide for Christmas. We started off with a ritual offering to Coopers' beer on the verandah. From left to right: Greg Lehey (groggy), Benno Rice (Holocaine), Kris Kennaway (kkenn) and Daniel O'Connor (Darius). In the background we also found enough bits and pieces to put together a machine to loan to Kris while he's here. Photos are further down.
This was, of course, the most important guest.
All being active IRC users, we had to have a laptop with connectivity to our favourite channel. I set up four windows, one for each of us, but of course Darius had to do his own thing, and it took a while:
Finally we had something to eat, and found that a lazy Susan combined with a laptop and wireless networking makes for an ideal IRC environment:
It's a pity that fewer other people were active. We basically ended up serially IRCing and talking to ourselves. Here's the transcript. I'm there twice: once on the laptop as groggy, and once on my normal machine as groggled. In that transcript you can read:
<keichii> somebody take a pic of msmith museum por favor
Here they are:
The box on the left of the table is the machine we put together for Kris. It's a P5/133 with 32 MB memory, Adaptec 2940UW and 4 GB Conner drive, Matrox Millennium display card and a 17" monitor. Nothing spectacular, but it was interesting that all the bits for it were just lying around. We had a second host adaptor (Advansys) for the Sun CD-ROM drive you can see to the right of the machine, but it took exactly this opportunity to die on us.
