From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Nov 11 13:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAFD337B416 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 13:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsdprophet.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fABLghua053450; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:42:43 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3BEEF012.5020106@bsdprophet.org> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:39:30 -0600 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011025 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Phil Webb Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Howdy! References: <002f01c16af0$85410250$6401a8c0@phils> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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