Re: [9fans] Boyd

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[YAMANASHI Takeshi]

It's a really sad news to hear.  I liked Boyd.
I will have a glass of red and chorizo this evening.
-- 

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Adrian Tritschler]

YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote:
> It's a really sad news to hear.  I liked Boyd.
> I will have a glass of red and chorizo this evening.

Oddly, last night I bought chorizo to make risotto for dinner tonight. 
Then today I read this.  Red wine and chorizo for me too.

I didn't know boyd well, I hardly knew him at all. Two weeks ago we 
briefly/tersely exchanged email on the evils of windows boot files. 
I'll miss him.

	Adrian

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Adrian Tritschler                          mailto:ajft@ajft.org
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Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Dave Lukes]

> YAMANASHI Takeshi wrote:
>> It's a really sad news to hear.  I liked Boyd.
>> I will have a glass of red and chorizo this evening.
>
> Oddly, last night I bought chorizo to make risotto for dinner tonight. 
> Then today I read this.  Red wine and chorizo for me too.

Strange coincidences abound:
did anyone ever notice Boyd's resemblance to the late Raoul Duke who 
died earlier this year?

DaveL

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[George Michaelson]

I'm sure Boyd did. After all, he went out of his way to re-inforce the
resemblance at every possible opportunity.

Nil nisi bonum and all that, but I think Boyd was fundamentally honest,
and would have realized that 'warts and all' sometimes means the warts
are as big as the all..

I think when he punctured my ego, it was overwhelmingly deserved. I
don't regret the bottle of jack daniels which got me my favour (ultrix
kernel code, ?3 instructions?) nor the abusive emails we traded one
bit: 

salty nuts are the best kind.


-george

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Andy Newman]

Dave Lukes wrote:
> did anyone ever notice Boyd's resemblance to the late Raoul Duke who 
> died earlier this year?

Boyd certainly did.  He got us thrown out of a restaurant one night
because they wouldn't sell him heroin.

RIP "good man".

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Bruce Ellis]

No.  Boyd was boyd.  We had a fucking ball in Paris and
he was looking forward to returning to oz.

brucee

On 7/13/05, Andy Newman <andy@silverbrookresearch.com> wrote:
> Dave Lukes wrote:
> > did anyone ever notice Boyd's resemblance to the late Raoul Duke who
> > died earlier this year?
> 
> Boyd certainly did.  He got us thrown out of a restaurant one night
> because they wouldn't sell him heroin.
> 
> RIP "good man".

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[geoff]

I knew Boyd (and David Hogan).  I'm surprised and saddened by his
death.  I mostly saw him at Usenixes and at Bell Labs.  I think we
started corresponding after his `BIG BATS!' Usenet posting (reproduced
below; my copy of the message lacks a Message-ID and Google Groups
doesn't find it nor the referenced parent message), though I could be
mistaken; he was certainly visible in other groups, notably
unix-[wlg]izards.

There were some things I never understood about Boyd, such as why he
was happier in France than in Australia.

Perhaps someone can save a copy of the insultant.net web site before
his ISP shuts it down for non-payment?  I know software exists to copy
web sites, but I don't have it.

As brucee said in another context, `it made me smile':
---
From: boyd@inset.UUCP (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Personal druge use
References: <1613@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Organization: The Instruction Set ltd., London, UK.
Keywords: drugs
Summary: BIG BATS!
Date:  8 Apr 1986 0755-EST (Tuesday)

I'm not scare of no mass-spectrometer sifting through my
excretions.  I get worried when the boss catches me under my desk,
killing bats with my ruler.

Black bats... bats... black bats... big hairy black bats...

BIG BATS!

But then again, after a few good hits of ether I'm someone else.


Boyd Roberts

+++
+   ...!mcvax!ukc!inset!boyd
+   boyd@inset.co.uk
+   boyd@basser.oz
+
+++ "Isn't that kind of severe?"
---

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Sascha Retzki]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:46:07PM -0700, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Perhaps someone can save a copy of the insultant.net web site before
> his ISP shuts it down for non-payment?  I know software exists to copy
> web sites, but I don't have it.
> 

I don't have any webspace, but I have a unix-box with wget, so I downloaded
it using the --mirror switch. I personally never trusted this switch that much,
but it looks ok.

This httpd runs on my host, and it is ADSL with ~20 kB/s upload. It is
a dynamic IP, so it is just for the sake if nobody of you has a unix-box
with wget or alike. If anybody could download that and put it somewhere,
thanks.

http://84.135.113.55/


Mfg,


Sascha Retzki

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Bruce Ellis]

i stayed with boyd at Rue St Martin for the first two weeks of june.
we had a great time - carrying on like fools and terrorizing the locals.

we even did some coding and RF stuff.

He Da Man.

I have an hour movie of "brucee and boyd visit shand" but I think
chunder will spew at me if i put it there.  600MB.  offers?

shand has the 12GB original D-7 if you are keen.

brucee

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[geoff]

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I've put the snapshot that Sascha took of insultant.net up as
http://collyer.net/~boyd.  I don't think I can get away with hosting
the movie though.  CD-R?

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From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boyd
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:30:43 +1000
Message-ID: <775b8d1905071200302e00f6c7@mail.gmail.com>

i stayed with boyd at Rue St Martin for the first two weeks of june.
we had a great time - carrying on like fools and terrorizing the locals.

we even did some coding and RF stuff.

He Da Man.

I have an hour movie of "brucee and boyd visit shand" but I think
chunder will spew at me if i put it there.  600MB.  offers?

shand has the 12GB original D-7 if you are keen.

brucee

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Bruce Ellis]

no problem. e-mail with mailing address please.
it's a special thing i think.

brucee

On 7/12/05, geoff@collyer.net <geoff@collyer.net> wrote:
> I've put the snapshot that Sascha took of insultant.net up as
> http://collyer.net/~boyd.  I don't think I can get away with hosting
> the movie though.  CD-R?

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Vester Thacker]

On 7/12/05, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have an hour movie of "brucee and boyd visit shand" but I think
> chunder will spew at me if i put it there.  600MB.  offers?
> 
> shand has the 12GB original D-7 if you are keen.

I can host or mirror Boyd's website and movies as well. I'll bring up
a web and dns server over the weekend.

--vester

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Dave Lukes]

When Boyd left The Instruction Set he gave me a ruler inscribed with 
the words "Bat Killer"
and a large bat earring (which I still have).

For those who don't recognise the bats reference,
it's from Raoul Duke in Doonesbury who always saw bats when he'd had 
too much tequila and coke.

Dave.

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Harri Haataja]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:46:07PM -0700, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Perhaps someone can save a copy of the insultant.net web site before
> his ISP shuts it down for non-payment?  I know software exists to copy
> web sites, but I don't have it.

WBM/archive.org seems to have one snapshot. Those are not always very
complete, though.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040922193607/insultant.net/

-- 
"C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes 
that are permitted to see each other's private parts."
		-- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Design with Applications"

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Devon H. O'Dell]

Harri Haataja wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:46:07PM -0700, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> 
>>Perhaps someone can save a copy of the insultant.net web site before
>>his ISP shuts it down for non-payment?  I know software exists to copy
>>web sites, but I don't have it.

I made a copy yesterday; it's at 
http://www.sitetronics.com/www.insultant.net/

RE: Film, I'd be glad to see and host it, though I only have my office's 
T1 to do this on at the moment. I'd certainly love to see it. If you can 
hook me up with this, Bruce, I'll see if I can also find some other 
high-bandwidth places to have it mirrored as well.

Bashing his head in,

Devon

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[William Josephson]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:10:27AM -0700, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> RE: Film, I'd be glad to see and host it, though I only have my office's 
> T1 to do this on at the moment. I'd certainly love to see it. If you can 
> hook me up with this, Bruce, I'll see if I can also find some other 
> high-bandwidth places to have it mirrored as well.

If people are starved for bandwidth, I can put it up on Internet 2
and behind a pair of T3s until someone screams at me...

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Fco. J. Ballesteros]

Our university in not famous for its good connectivity to the
rest of the internet, but in any case, if no better place is available,
I can host any stuff here, just let me know what to put in our fs.

[9fans] Boyd

[Dave Lukes]

Nemo suggests a wiki page in memoriam: I concur.

Since I'm only a 9fan and not yet a 9user, could someone else maybe 
start it up?

I've got a couple of quotes that should go in there:
" 'Your consultants are very direct' " (from the customer to our boss 
after Boyd and I had worked on a project together),
"How many schooners did it take to rewrite exec()?" (asked as an 
authentication question to ??).

More later.

Dave.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
> Date: 11 July 2005 12:37:47 BST
> To: davel@anvil.com
>
> Perhaps a page in the wiki or somewhere
> would be appropriate. I did not meet boyd, but
> thought this suggestion could help.
>
> best regards

[9fans] Boyd

[Dave Lukes]

There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.

Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.

His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.

Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police 
who broke in and found him dead.

Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to 
say this kind of thing.

A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.

DaveL.

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Vester Thacker]

I'm very much in shock. It's hard to believe that a good friend is
gone. Boyd will be sorely missed to say the least. My condolences to
his family.

--Vester Thacker

On 7/11/05, Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com> wrote:
> There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.
> 
> Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.
> 
> His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.
> 
> Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police
> who broke in and found him dead.
> 
> Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to
> say this kind of thing.
> 
> A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
> 
> DaveL.
> 
>

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[David Leimbach]

I'm very sorry to hear this...  Boyd and I had a bit of a rough start
chatting on IRC but we were beginning to really hit it off... He gave
me lots of useful advice and I'll not forget the guy ever.

This is a very sad day.

Dave

On 7/11/05, Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very much in shock. It's hard to believe that a good friend is
> gone. Boyd will be sorely missed to say the least. My condolences to
> his family.
> 
> --Vester Thacker
> 
> On 7/11/05, Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com> wrote:
> > There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.
> >
> > Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.
> >
> > His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.
> >
> > Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police
> > who broke in and found him dead.
> >
> > Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to
> > say this kind of thing.
> >
> > A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
> >
> > DaveL.
> >
> >
>

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Devon H. O'Dell]

This is a damn shame :(.

Boyd was really a great guy from what I knew of him. Only meeting him in 
person once and having most of our conversation on IRC, I can't say I 
knew him well. I can say that I'm terribly disturbed and saddened to 
hear this.

I'll miss him.

-D

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Jack Johnson]

For those of us who knew him even less, it's worth looking around
http://www.insultant.net/

-Jack

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Dan Cross]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:27:47PM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote:
> A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.

How awful.  I liked Boyd.  He was quite a character....

Boyd was very into military things; he wore cammies and picked up
various military type gadgets.  He often chose the names of characters
from war movies as his IRC handles (I remember, `Master Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman', a promotion of the crazy Drill Instructor character
played by R. Lee Ermey in Stanley Kubrick's, `Full Metal Jacket': `I am
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor...').

When I was still on active duty in the US Marine Corps, Boyd took a
trip to Normandy for the 60th Anniversary of D-Day.  He sent me a stone
he'd picked up from Omaha Beach.  I was very touched by the gesture.

I believe Bruce saw him recently and spent some time at his flat.
Despite his bravado, which put people off at times, I think he was
fundamentally a good guy.  This is a shame and a big loss.

	- Dan C.

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.

Indeed this is sad news.  I'm sorry to hear that.  My deepest sympathies
are with his family and his friends.

I got the chance to speak with him briefly by phone when brucee was
visiting him in Paris just a short while back.  As recently as Friday
July 1st we had exchanged email about meeting in the Bay Area on his
way to Australia.  Not time enough to really know him, but I
have a feeling that with boyd, what you saw is what you got.
He will be missed.

-Skip

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Steve Simon]

Thats so sad, I liked Boyd, I didn't always agree with
him but I liked the way he would speak his mind.

He will be missed indeed. I think a wake is an
excellent idea and one I believe he would approve of.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[William S.]

My condolences go out to the family and friends of Boyd.


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:27:47PM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote:
> There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.
> 
> Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.
> 
> His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.
> 
> Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police 
> who broke in and found him dead.
> 
> Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to 
> say this kind of thing.
> 
> A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
> 

-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Gorka guardiola]

On 7/12/05, William S. <wstan@remove.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> My condolences go out to the family and friends of Boyd.
> 

Mines too. The list will not be the same without him.

G.

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Federico Benavento]

My deep condolences to family and friends.

On 7/11/05, Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com> wrote:
> There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.
> 
> Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.
> 
> His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.
> 
> Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police
> who broke in and found him dead.
> 
> Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to
> say this kind of thing.
> 
> A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
> 
> DaveL.
> 
> 

-- 
Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[geoff]

wget --mirror of insultant.net and www.insultant.net produce different
results.  The former seems to be a reorganised subset (~3MB) of the
latter, which I'm still fetching, but it's up to 44MB and still going.
I'll sort it out later today.  We may want more bandwidth for a
permanent home for www.insultant.net.

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 geoff@collyer.net wrote:

> permanent home for www.insultant.net.

and somebody ought to be ready to buy the domain.

ron

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Devon H. O'Dell]

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>permanent home for www.insultant.net.
> 
> 
> and somebody ought to be ready to buy the domain.
> 
> ron

Doesn't expire until December. Who wants to grab it? be. I would, but I 
don't really feel like I'm as qualified as others might be. If that 
makes any sense.

-D

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Charles Forsyth]

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if he owned it, it will be part of his estate, so it's probably good to check
arrangements with family (or executor)

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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boyd
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:57:43 -0700
Message-ID: <42D57237.2010400@offmyserver.com>

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>permanent home for www.insultant.net.
> 
> 
> and somebody ought to be ready to buy the domain.
> 
> ron

Doesn't expire until December. Who wants to grab it? be. I would, but I 
don't really feel like I'm as qualified as others might be. If that 
makes any sense.

-D

Re: [9fans] Boyd

[Dave Lukes]

On 13 Jul 2005, at 21:10, Charles Forsyth wrote:

> if he owned it, it will be part of his estate, so it's probably good 
> to check
> arrangements with family (or executor)

Of course.
Also, they may want to keep it.

DaveL.