Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:19:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: mm0202@ispwest.com Cc: "Matthew, Kristina and Ethan" <mcgrawfam@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: to whom it may concern Message-ID: <40B79EC5.3030802@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040528201621.6955.qmail@web41609.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040528201621.6955.qmail@web41609.mail.yahoo.com>
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Matthew, Kristina and Ethan wrote: >I appologize if this email goes astray somewhere it >shouldn't. > >My name is Matthew and I received my BA in English Lit >and Composition. Since college I have had a variety >of jobs; technical writer, tech support, chef, truck >driver... etc. I am also a FreeBSD newbie of about a >year (4.4 on a compaq desktop w/pII 400mhz etc) and I >am all self taught, relying mostly on available >documentation to solve my problems... it has been a >great help to me and I'd like to give something back >to the Doc-Project. > >I am afraid I don't have anything in the way of new >info to add... I'd like to offer my skills as a >proof-reader and editor. I would certainly be atuned >to the "newbie" audience and might be able to re-work >some sections to make them less confusing... anything >along those lines.... > >i don't know if help like this is needed. if not, let >me just say, "Thank you for helping me along. I'm >always available." > > You could start by coming up with patches for typos, bugs, etc, found in the handbook. Here's one you could start with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html See the paragraph that starts with "The utility mdconfig(8) <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdconfig&sektion=8>; is very useful, however it asks many command lines to create a file-backed file system." Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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