Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:37:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What doyou use your box for? (was: what tipped the scale] Message-ID: <199807301537.IAA16831@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980730004330.11457.qmail@www08.netaddress.usa.net>
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>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:43:30 >From: gekk0 <gekk0@usa.net> >What do you consider "real work"? It depends on why you obtained a (set of) computer(s) in the first place. >I'm just curious as to what other people use thier machines for. At home? Mail; some news-reading. House-remodeling plans (with xfig). Writing letters (groff, with some custom macros that I wrote). Web browsing. Eventually, I hope to get HylaFAX running. Oh, yeah -- a bit of scanning, now that we bought a scanner. Main reason for buying the home machine(s), though, was for my professional education -- bought my first machine back when I was still in the IBM mainframe world, and there's no way the companies I worked for would be encouraging much use of my time to learn UNIX (though one of them did want to make use of that knowledge later...), and there's no way I could afford to try to take a job in a UNIX environment, since I had no experience in said environment. So I also bring over freely-redistributable software & build it. I try to provide feedback to authors, though that's getting progressively harder (because of a lack of time on my part). I cobble up Perl scripts.... :-} Hardly write any more C.... And part of the email stuff is professional contacts; that's fairly critical. Here (at work), it depends on which machine -- some are desktops; there's a machine dedicated to maintaining the Whistle copy of the CVS repository (some of the folks who contribute to FreeBSD are some of the engineers I support). There's a dedicated news server; a dedicated NIS server.... But the whole assembly is for doing software development, primarily (which helps explain why there's a dedicated machine for doing "builds"). >I'd love to have a sparc at home, but I'll have to be happing running Solaris 2.6, HP-UX 10.20, some version of AIX at work, and FreeBSD at home. >hrm...now if I can just get them to port our app to fbsd, all will be cool :) :-) I still find it interesting that I'm using Solaris & SunOS at home, and FreeBSD (with a tiny bit of Solaris) at work.... Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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