Interview with Farmy by iCE Staff for iCE PACK 9/2002
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iCE: for starters, please tell us about yourself. first name, age,
occupation, hobbies
Farmy: My name is Scott. Im a busy dancer. Im unemployed and I live
with my parents. My hobbies include minimalism, and lying during
interviews
iCE: How did you come up with the nick name Farmy?
Farmy: Well I lie and tell people now that its short for Franklin L. Army,
but I think I got it originally when creating a character for
Tradewars 2002 in 1989
iCE: That was a long time ago. How long have you been following the art
scene?
Farmy: since early 1993, when I ran my first bulletin board
iCE: Would we have heard of it?
Farmy: It was first called the Texas School Book Depository, and later on
The Pantheon, which was where I first got involved with ice in an
official capacity, as the pantheon was an iCE BBS
iCE: Did you ever draw ansis for your BBS?
Farmy: Yeah I did a couple, the only one I ever liked was for another guys
board. I have no talent for digital artwork sadly.
iCE: How long have you been a member of ice?
Farmy: I joined iCE in 1996 or so, I think because of my White House
security job at the time.
iCE: What the hell do you do for the group anyway?
Farmy: I run everything
iCE: Like God?
Farmy: yes
iCE: Can you be a little more specific please?
Farmy: I host and run the ice servers, and handle everything related to
that from account management, to the occasional subpoena we get. I
also deal with all the emergencies, like when Verizon in their
infinite wisdom so completely fucked our T1 in the ear that its not
going to work for 4 weeks. And thats if they rush it. Youve got
to be some kind of extra special dumbass if you can screw up
something that bad, but hey, only the best for iCE huh? In the end
I had to pack up all our servers and move them upstream to our ISP.
I can recall another time when one of our original servers got sent
to us from New Jersey, well someone took one of the ethernet cards
out and left it inside the box to rattle around needless to say,
when I finally got it, there were a great many loose parts
scattered about inside the server. You know, like the CPU, RAM,
misc. transistors, wires etc. That box went right in the trash.
Another time we got a subpoena for our logs from a DA in Ohio. They
sent it to Rick force ten, who sent it to me. The fun part was
that they wanted it printed out and sent to their office when I
informed them that it would be over 50,000 pages, would use 9 toner
cartridges, and weigh in excess of 450lbs they were kind enough to
let me send it to them in electronic format.
iCE: What software do you use for work/the group/and pleasure?
Farmy: Im a Unix guy, so I run gentoo and redhat pretty exclusively. In
addition to that, Ive written my own attack tools for security
work, one called Black Helicopter, and the other I call the
Interociter. Ive also put together some neat defensive stuff on
the ice server that I dont have a name for, but its neat, really,
and I mean that.
iCE: If you could punch any famous person in the face, who would it be?
Farmy: hmm, Chris the Fat kid from the first few episodes of CHiPs
iCE: You often come up with interesting names for your boxes. Could we
have some example with explanations where needed?
Farmy: I name laptops after bug spray, Raid, Black-Flag, and Decon. And
for iCE we use fruit names, because iCE is a pretty fruity group,
lemon, lime, and the new one mango my current laptop is named
winona, which isnt bug spray, but thats because I sleep with her
iCE: Do you name a lot of machines after women?
Farmy: only the ones I sleep with
iCE: 2. What is your alcohol or substance of choice?
Farmy: My alcohol of choice is vodka, as I work with a bunch of Russians.
Its good stuff once you get past the fact that it tastes like
Windex
iCE: What do you do in your free time?
Farmy: besides two chicks at the same time?
iCE: Yes.
Farmy: At the moment Im involved with a non-profit group in California
that runs a collocation facility, where were hosting all kinds of
neat free speech related projects, soon to include iCE. California
Community Collocation Project is the main group, its a non-profit
focused on providing collocation services for other free and non-
profit groups. Right now I handle the virtual web server part of
CCCP.
iCE: What would you be doing if computers didnt exist?
Farmy: Besides doing two chicks at the same time, Id be a full-time
archeologist.
iCE: Is there anything about the digital art scene that bothers you?
Farmy: when people ask for shell accounts
iCE: Can I have a shell account?
Farmy: Well Ill say yes you can have one, but then Ill pretend I
forgot you asked and not do it for a few weeks
iCE: Bachelor 2... if you were a dessert, what would you be?
Farmy: on fire
iCE: Anything you want to say to your adoring public?
Farmy: Do not ask me for a shell account, really, and I mean that. Also,
youre all useless eaters of my bandwidth, you never say thanks, and
you never help me pay the bills. I hate you all, very, very much.