Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:28:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Jeff Baker <Jeff.Baker@ACADHOTLINE.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Message-ID: <199908271828.NAA24127@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <199908271813.DAA01709@bow.portal.net.au> References: <199908271813.DAA01709@bow.portal.net.au>
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Jeff Baker writes: [elided] This thread probably should be put to bed, but... > > I'm still not sure why I need to adopt a philosphy to use a > technology....but then there's lots I don't understand in the world. > Because if you understand why things are the way they are, and if the things are well designed in the first place, you don't need to know or have read the answer to every little question or problem that comes up. You can hold a dialog with yourself that goes something like this: "The Unix way of doing this" (TM) is foo. Therefore, since foo implies fum, I should connect the frasmus to the serial port and it should work. And more times than not it does. On Unix. [more elided] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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