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[ale] Fwd: [freeside] It's Official: Atlanta Maker Faire (Not Mini!)
- Subject: [ale] Fwd: [freeside] It's Official: Atlanta Maker Faire (Not Mini!)
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 11:25:10 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Michael H. Warfield's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:35:37 -0400")
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"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> writes:
>> Maybe it's just my personal bias, but "no Linux presence" makes me
>> wonder how people can claim to actually hack things.
>
> You're almost as bad as the people who claim that all hackers are bad
> guys. You can hack a lot of things. You can even hack things that
> don't even have computers. I hack together woodworking projects or yard
> projects from time to time.
Indeed, I've been hacking together some hydro-circulation systems to
handle having moved my kegerator down to my basement and now requiring
chilled beer lines and longer vertical runs for line cleaning. No linux
at all (until I hack in an auto-water shutoff system to make sure my
cleaning bucket doesn't overflow).
-derek
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