From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 23 21:10:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19585 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19483 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely.concentric.net [207.155.184.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id AAA08789; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:09:35 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from mlduke (ts003d05.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.65]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.8.8) id AAA02629; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:09:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35907D08.4883@concentric.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 22:14:00 -0600 From: ML Duke Reply-To: mlduke@concentric.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Gerchmez CC: "Michael P. Sale" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbies - "Handle me with care?" References: <3.0.5.32.19980623183037.00806670@mx.serv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Gerchmez wrote: Its interesting. Most of your posts I delete without the thought of comment. The one others seemed to object to most--I liked. Perhaps because philosophy--a thing people deny knowing anything about even as they practice their own--is my first appreciation in life and the reason Unix came through so clear. Unix _is_ a philosophy. You and Sue were both right. Nothing productive--meaning buy groceries--to do within the system, learn to your hearts content and make every mistake in the book and learn from it which will definitely pay in the long run. Trying to switch directly is a high curve. Could it be done over again, I'd get three hard drives. A grocery drive, a transition drive and the fun one--experimental. Duke > At 11:30 AM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote: > > >>I'm open to discussion, and closed to creating opponents. I don't want a > >>fight with anyone, I want an on-topic discussion on how newbies should > >>approach FreeBSD. > > > >Tim, you seem to thrive on conflict AND opposition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message