From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 8 22:37:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBD79B7 for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 22:37:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa09-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa09-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [173.201.193.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EE6121 for ; Wed, 8 May 2013 22:37:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by p3plsmtpa09-04.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with id Zabj1l00S4XeM0101abkSK; Wed, 08 May 2013 15:35:44 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 15:35:43 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: re who wants thought.org post from last nightt... Message-ID: <20130508223543.GA16673@ethic.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 22:37:23 -0000 guys, I was pleasantly surprised at the responses, so far--obv'ly-- all privately responded to. I'll get back to everybody in the next couple/few days. I am just finishing up my VBC that I plan to give to that OLPC project out of MIT; my shoulder feels like it's falling off, so I thought id send this to those five or so who are interested. first, im hoping that you gents are fairly patient. meaning that altho my hacking daze are winding down and I feel like warmed over dog-do, I'm not quite ready to give up thought.org just yet. for one thing, im not sure what career my daughter will take; and even if she does choose comp-sci, she may have zero interest in messing with my domain. that said, when I do give it up in a few years, I hope to have made a good choice. second, I'm still trying to figure out what the best thing to do =is=. good: the caffeine pills are kicking in:) --about the only thing id ask is that thought.org AKA Thought Unlimited be dedicated to the unix realm. that's unix as in UNIX{TM, C, &c}, every distro of linujx, every distro of BSD ... you get the idea. ---hate to find some very fine print like: "thought.org is a wholly-owned subsidiary of microsoft!" hidden away. I {along with a bunch of other volunteers} spend years answering newbie questions for folk who were interested in the unix paradigm but had no idea where to start. whoever takes over can surely do much more along those lines if he wishes. (a parenthetical note is that when I was sweating my way thru cal, about 30% of the computer classes were female! I keep wondering what ever happened to all the girls! ) what else? oh yeah, cost. no charge. no essays, no "tell me in 25 words or less... ." the one thing I've always appreciated about the freebsd list[s] is the tenor of its membership. same goes for the rest of the Nix groups. I would be much obliged for suggested input. enough for now gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.