Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:41:58 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Message-ID: <001b01bffcf4$659d9870$0adf7ad1@beefstew> References: <DBB3921EFE2AD211A81500A0C9B5FE760579452C@msg04.scana.com> <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <016801bffcbb$68385770$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <002b01bffce2$f414de40$0adf7ad1@beefstew> <025001bffcf1$e03e4b40$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER>
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Are you sure you want a "Union". How about a consortium? What's a consortium? What shape should the tables be? I say semi-circular. I also want to be the treasurer - there's this nice ABIT dual celeron mobo I've been hankering for - we need this for research. I also want a wet bar. ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 10:23 PM Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view > > I had to use instructions from five web sites and piece it together when I > > attempted my first install some months ago plus fill in the blanks from > the > > mail and newsgroups. > > Seems thats the way things are done in open source circles .... maybe if > enough > of us newbie types made a lot more noise someone might listen. Hey you've > just > given me an idea .... what say we form a "FreeBSD Newbie Union" to press the > "powers that be" for better working conditions ?? > > This has been the pattern for learning how to do most > > things. In a mission critical situation ( and of course I can only tread > > water re FreeBSD at this point ) I would say use the brilliantly > documented > > stuff all things being equal. > > I come across a heap of associates in general business consulting circles > who are, like me, quite impressed with the way FreeBSD systems just running > with nary an illegal act / fatal exception / GPF / BSOD / etc, but as soon > as some unfamiliar application is required the typical difficulty in > figuring it out plus the time pressures involved in most businesses tends to > force a move to some other O/S, usually a product of our comrades from > Redmond. Thankfully I've got a fairly loyal & open-minded mob of clients who > manage to muddle by for whatever time it takes me to sort some solution out > in FreeBSD, but not everyone has this luxury. > > > > I have found - and I feel "funny" saying this, but, many ( SOME ) > brilliant > > Unix admins. - they are....individualists. Some are hard for me to deal > > with. Even the ones in official teaching positions sometimes are > eccentric. > > But I unabashedly pick their brains if I can. > > I think eccentricity is part of geekship, and even more so in academia. We > can probably live with that as long as the aforesaid eccentric ones refrain > from writing stuff in whatever weird language they learned on their home > planet and stuck to "proper" english (like what regular folk use). Better > still, the "FreeBSD Newbies Union" should insist that ALL documentation be > prepared by one of their members. > > > > > 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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