Dear friends,
I have just taken delivery of my box of /The Book of PF/[1]
author's
copies, and I'm finding I'm a bit at a loss for words when
it comes to
describing the feeling. The thing exists. And it feels
great to
finally see the thing for real. (OK, I cheated a bit and had
five
copies printed locally for OpenCON[2], but these are the
real ones,
slightly different binding)
We didn't manage to release the book the same date as
OpenBSD 4.2
(yes, that was the original plan), but the thing has been
written,
printed and should be on its way to all those who preordred
as well as
to better bookshops everywhere. I'm not directly involved
in
distribution and can not make any guarantees about when
you'll get
yours (a slightly more experienced author has written an
explanation
of that[3] - only this one was printed in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA),
but even if it's late for the holidays I hope you'll enjoy
your copy
and find the book useful.
Now of course the usual factors interfered even with the
author
copies. There is a thing about courier companies and 18th
century
buildings. Even faced with a relatively small one such as
the one I
live in, DHL managed to make two attempts at delivery at the
disused
entrance clearly marked 'deliveries at the other door
please', so the
delivery finally happened at my office - also located in a
18th
century building, but at least one where the DHL people have
been
before. But it finally arrived and life's good 
One interesting factoid (fsvo) is that this happened within
hours of
the twenty-five thousandth unique visitor (since EuroBSDCon
2006 that
is) hitting the book's predecessor, the online PF
tutorial[4].
So happy hacking holidays everyone,
[1] http://nostarch.com/pf.htm
, also see http://www
.bsdly.net/~peter/freshbooks.jpg
or (slightly faster) http://home
.nuug.no/~peter/freshbooks.jpg
[2] http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&
sid=20071207191612
- that's me completely obscured at the back to the right
in
the third picture (ok, I'm in a few others ;))
[3] http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=10572396651
6199&w=2
[4] http://home.nuug.no/~p
eter/pf/
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149
implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/
http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network
traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after
42673 seconds.
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