Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:39:30 -0600 From: Scott Corey <scott@bsdprophet.org> To: Phil Webb <philwebb@piperain.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howdy! Message-ID: <3BEEF012.5020106@bsdprophet.org> References: <002f01c16af0$85410250$6401a8c0@phils>
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Hi Phil, Nice to hear about you adventures with FreeBSD. I made some suggestions later in this email to maybe help you along the way. Good luck. And remember have fun! That's what it's all about. Scott Phil Webb wrote: >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 > If your sound card is working and you have the patch cord from the cd to the sound card, give it a try it should work. > > >(on the burner of course), > Cdrecord is an excellent burner for scsi or burncd is for IDE's. > 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. :( > You might try aspfilter in the ports tree under sysutils. > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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