Monthly Archives: June 2007

77. American Wheat II

2,3 kg wheat malt
358g umalted wheat
2,3 kg pale malt

Mash in @ 55°C and rest for 20 min.
30 min @ 60°C
30 min @ 68°C
mash out @ 76°C

2 ml lactic acid in mash
6 ml lactic acid in sparge water

27g Perle (4.5% alpha) for 70 min.
15g Liberty (6.1% alpha) for 30 min.
16g Liberty for 0 min.
20g Liberty dry hop for 9 days.

US-56
18L
FG: 11,3 brix (1.045)
OG: 5,7 brix (1.009)

Bottled with 128 dextrose 7/7-7

BSDCan

I just realized I completely forgot to write anything about the main goal of my trip to Canada: BSDCan, the yearly BSD conference organized by Dan Langille in Ottawa. Several people have been recommending it for the last couple of years, so I decided to have a look for myself. The two days up to the conference, there was another FreeBSD developer summit, the largest so far with over 50 people attending. Two days packed with information from 9am to 8pm with 5-10 minute breaks. Wow, that was good! I was happy to see quite a lot of vendors turned up. Usually, they just stick whatever version and part of FreeBSD in their product and noone ever knows and everybody is happy, but it seems they are looking for more cooperation in both ways.
The DevSummit was large enough to be split in two tracks for some of the time, and it seemed that the other track was much more interesting, so not many people turned up for my portmgr status report talk. Luckily, Kirk McKusick was there so there at least were some questions.
After so much information during the DevSummit, my brain was pretty much overloaded, so I didn’t see too much of the real conference. I won’t mention all the talks I saw, but let me mention Wietse Venema, author of a.o. postfix, did a quite amuzing recap of a couple of security issues spread over time, giving a good overview on how security work has changed over the last 10-15 years. Also, the upcoming SD/MMC cards Warner Losh talked about promise some nice new gadgets in the near future.
A big thanks to Dan for putting together such a well-organized conference in a relaxing atmosphere. I for one will certainly try to be there again next year!

New ports committer: Timur I. Bakeyev

Timur I. Bakeyev has been helping out on our dear ports tree for some time, especially maintaining samba. Now he will be set loose in cvs, with a little help from shaun. Have a lot of fun!

SPOT 2007

As for the last 3 years, I’m again be working at the check-in for artists, press, and volunteers at the yearly SPOT festival. As always, hard but satisfying work, and hopefully I won’t be too busted tonight and see some music as well.