Build Your Own BSD Beer Brewing Control System

gnuguru writes "Here's a great use for some of your old hardware, a BSD beer brewing kit! Components: one 486, FreeBSD, a temperature logger kit, a relay board, some odds and ends from the useful box, and some time. Summer's just around the corner, so get to work gang!" You'll have to use this recipe, naturally.

Cool

[ikkibr]

Finally I found an use for my Old Pentium 100!
Now I can make my own beer and spend my money on geek things and not in beer anymore!

BSD

[Anonymous Coward]

BSD: The Beer Service Device.

Summer?

[BladeMelbourne]

Summer's just around the corner, so get to work gang!

Being the 15th of January, it is exactly half way through Melbourne's 3 month summer season now. You self centered US folk :p

Hey...

[FuturePastNow]

The first time I read that headline, I thought it said "BSD Beer Brewing System."

Oh, wait...

Free, as in?

[Ghostgate]

This brings new meaning to the phrase: "Free(BSD) as in beer."

Let me see if I've got this straight....

[trs9000]

So, now, I can make beer that's free as in speech? I'm confused.

Great for work

[nizo]

The fun part is explaining to your boss why you need a fridge for the new computer "disk pack".

Re:Hey...

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

The first time I read your post, I thought it was an overused joke that was lame to begain with.

Oh wait...

Time to remove

[Anonymous Coward]

The software produces output in a number of formats. The most obvious one is a text display of the temperatures on a screen. You can also get up-to-date information about the current temperatures by contacting my machine.

[...]

It's possible that somebody will try to compromise this system via telnet. They won't succeed, but if they bombard me with enough traffic, it'll be expensive anyway. If this happens, I'll remove the facility.

bombard with traffic? why we would never!

Open Source Beer?

[kingjosh]

As with any open source project . . . we'll need a lot of testing. Any volunteers?

Coincidence?

[nuxx]

Wow, what a weird post to read right now... I'm actually brewing beer as I type this. There's about 52 minutes left in the boil. Unfortunately I'm doing it the old analog method.

If anyone is interested in reading the recipe for the beer I'm making, look here [nuxx.net].

BSD eh?

[digitalgimpus]

Beer Software Distribution

Should have known.

A distro dedicated to beer...how wonderful.

So when will we see Windows XP "Hard Lemonade" Edition?

So will this be free?

[bennomatic]

As in beer?

Re:How long until...

[Stevyn]

What does the Coors brewing company have to do with beer?

Free as in beer

[Eric Giguere]

Yet another misinterpretation Richard Stallman's manifesto [gnu.org]! It must drive him bonkers.

Eric
JavaScript is not Java [ericgiguere.com]

Re:Coincidence?

[molnarcs]

I know you're joking, but just for clarity's sake: the BSD licence does allow to put another label on your beer, but it doesn't allow you to claim it is your own.

Basically, the BSD licence is similar to PHK's (another FreeBSD developer) Beer-Ware Licence [freebsd.org]

* "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
* <[e-mail]> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you
* can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think
* this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Poul-Henning Kamp

I wonder how many have adopted this licence :)))

ps. Now this" [lemis.com] is really funny! :)))))

Re:Accessories?

[G-funk]

He said beer, not guiness.... Why anybody would want to drink vegemite instead of just putting it on toast is still a mystery to me of course.