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stan deese wrote:

> Be forewarned this may be the first chapter of a book.

And what an exciting book it will be! I'm really glad you said this
upfront otherwise I would have assumed that you were railing against the
evils of BSD :-)

> Now, to this point in time one month has passed since I first started
> to "headbang" with FreeBSD. Have I learned anything? Probably not, but
> it's like having a new Apple all over again. My laser printer will now
> feed blank pages at will. I haven't even started trying to get the
> modem going. Mammy wants to know why her hard drive is so much
> "louder" than it used to be. I have Netscape on the desktop, but alas,
> all the text is in Japanese, and I really don't feel well enough to
> start on that too.............

I'm glad you're having fun. I wouldn't have had that much patience,
which is why I took at the broad and well paved highways instead of the
narrow and bramble-choked ruts you took! Of course, I'm used to
alternate systems (DRDOS, Geos, OS/2, Linux), so I always made sure of
my hardware and never trusted the computer salesmen.

A hint for your printer: check out apsfilter. If your modem isn't a
winmodem, it should be a snap as well.

David


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