Pointless Anecdotes: I'm so out of shape

2006-06-02

I'm so out of shape

OS X has made me soft. I suddenly had to install and configure FreeBSD on an Intel box and found myself without any graphical administration tools, but had to navigate the system entirely by command-line, and with the wrong keyboard mapping to boot (haha). I'd left all my convenience scripts behind at NADA and it took me an awful while before my fingers started to get the hang of it again.

Finally I had the most important stuff in place. Now for the web application development I got the box for to begin with…

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