From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Apr 18 14:58:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.190.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1323714CBF for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 14:58:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peterv@vma.verio.net) Received: from smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.22]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10YzW0-0003dW-00; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:54:12 -0400 Received: from nessie.lan.intr.net (nessie.lan.intr.net [207.32.92.13]) by smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA13615; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:55:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <371A551F.B4FC1EFB@vma.verio.net> Received: from iipc245.intr.net by nessie.lan.intr.net via smtpd (for mail.clark.net [168.143.0.10]) with SMTP; 19 Apr 1999 01:01:24 UT Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:56:47 -0400 From: Pete Vanderburgh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brett G. Castleberry" Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary - how to guides References: <19990406205551.QXQP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> <020501be80ae$fd1aa800$8620c992@s1o3q0> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------F762400D69846AB801D21105" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --------------F762400D69846AB801D21105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote: > How much is too much? Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is over > my head and almost discouraging. Agreed! > I've been a bookman all my life, a > pressman, a bookseller, and for the last ten years, a librarian. When I > returned to school for a masters degree a couple of years ago, my program > was called "Library Science". Now it's called "Information Studies", and IT > students (along with their tuition fees) are pouring in, at this point > outnumbering LS students. Those of us who are dedicated to providing public > access to useful information are scrambling to learn how to find and use > digital resources. In addition, as I've become acquainted with unix I have > realized that our own library automation system operates on top of unix. I am curious about what you mean exactly by 'on top of UNIX'. I too, am *quite* the newbie in regard to UNIX and FreeBSD. I'm also curious to hear more, as I myself was a librarian; not professionally, but in college. From 1988-1993 I learned a wide variety of electronic resources used for reference and cataloguing (we had these new-fangled "CD-ROM"s. Oooh!). And then, I graduated, just as the internet, in it's 'mainstream' form began to emerge. Very frustrating! > > So, I want FreeBSD to play and learn with. Perhaps I can connect my > FreeBSD 486 to my Win98 box and learn about networking too. I sense in your > free OS project a spirit akin to that of the public librarian, and I salute > you. That's how I understand it to. Freedom of information! > > > Brett Castleberry > bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- ===================================== Pete Vanderburgh Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. (703)749-7955 x1306 peterv@verio.net ===================================== --------------F762400D69846AB801D21105 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote:
How much is too much?  Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is over
my head and almost discouraging.


Agreed!
 

I've been a bookman all my life, a
pressman, a bookseller, and for the last ten years, a librarian.  When I
returned to school for a masters degree a couple of years ago, my program
was called "Library Science".  Now it's called "Information Studies", and IT
students (along with their tuition fees) are pouring in, at this point
outnumbering LS students.  Those of us who are dedicated to providing public
access to useful information are scrambling to learn how to find and use
digital resources.  In addition, as I've become acquainted with unix I have
realized that our own library automation system operates on top of unix.


I am curious about what you mean exactly by 'on top of UNIX'.  I too, am *quite* the newbie in regard to UNIX and FreeBSD.

I'm also curious to hear more, as I myself was a librarian; not professionally, but in college.  From 1988-1993 I learned a wide variety of electronic resources used for reference and cataloguing (we had these new-fangled "CD-ROM"s.  Oooh!).

And then, I graduated, just as the internet, in it's 'mainstream' form began to emerge.  Very frustrating!

 
So, I want FreeBSD to play and learn with.  Perhaps I can connect  my
FreeBSD 486 to my Win98 box and learn about networking too.  I sense in your
free OS project a spirit akin to that of the public librarian, and I salute
you.


That's how I understand it to.  Freedom of information!

 
 
Brett Castleberry
bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

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