[ale] Fwd: [freeside] It's Official: Atlanta Maker Faire (Not Mini!)

[Derek Atkins]

"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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