From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 11 12:36:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from stinger-dsl-81.wvi.com (stinger-dsl-81.wvi.com [204.119.3.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DCE37B417 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from phils (dsl-95.adweb.net [208.152.19.65]) by stinger-dsl-81.wvi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A89426E1E for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: "Phil Webb" To: Subject: Howdy! Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:36:19 -0800 Message-ID: <002f01c16af0$85410250$6401a8c0@phils> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just poppin' in to say hi, so "HI"! There, I'm done with it! :) I have been piddling with FreeBSD since 4.0 but now am getting "serious" with it. I work for a large office supply chain selling computers etc. and occaisonally folks come in with *nix questions so I suppose I should have a reasonable grasp of it eh? I am pretty familiar with Windows (even got XP to dual boot with FreeBSD 4.4 on this machine) and run FreeBSD on 2 machines at home. That way if I screw one up, I have something to compare to! At any rate, I am now starting to actually get around fairly well and am even getting dangerous. To Wit: re-compiled the kernel and got my onboard sound working (Oh happy day!) and walked around with a swolen head for a couple of days. I have Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" and have Annelise Andersons book on order (waiting impatiently I might add!:) ). Nothing beats the printed word for untangling messes. Now my goals are to get the CD drives to play music CD's as well as burn (on the burner of course), get SAMBA working so The Wife can print across our little network and get my own dadgum printer working. Unfortunately my HP 932c, while a great little printer doesn't support Postscript. :( As I saw in another thread, *nix does require one to pay attention to details, so thats good exercise too! To that end I suppose I'd better learn to type well. At the moment the backspace key seems to be my best friend in KDE. Once I start with vi I'm really gonna be in trouble! :) Anyway, just a word of encouragement to the frustrated and thanks to those who help. Have Fun! phil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message