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The Wave of the Future - from The Great Wave of Kanegawa
This has been in my office for over twenty years.
I gather that copies can no longer be found.

Long time network operator at RAINet, Verio, NTT, etc.

Senior Research Scientist at Internet Initiative Japan

Bio sketch

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Miscellaneous Stuff

Here is my PGP key, and it is also on the public keyring.

psg.com is a invited-access FreeBSD system run for friends who need net access. For an account, write to

FreeRAIN was a pro bono low-speed public network a few folk maintained, and may still maintain, around the Portland area. There was a ConneXions article on it as well.

My laptop used to be an IPM ThinkPad T41 running FreeBSD 7.x-current. If it might be of help to you, here is the kernel, XF86Config, dmesg, and /boot/loader.conf.local.

I used to have a Dell Latitude C600. Here is how it was configured. Before I gave up on Sony because of their abysmal support, I had a Sony Vaio 505TX running FreeBSD. I have stashed some configuration hints for it should you be curious.

Though I now have a Treo 650, I used to have a Nokia 8890 GSM phone. Here are some tools and hacks for it. I also bought a Sony-Ericsson T68i, but wish I had not. I am trying to accumulate clues for using GPRS with UNIX laptops.

2008.01.07