From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 2 22:11:20 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA03018 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 22:11:20 -0800 Received: from gate.sinica.edu.tw (gate.sinica.edu.tw [140.109.14.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA02964; Thu, 2 Mar 1995 22:05:37 -0800 Received: by gate.sinica.edu.tw (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA01856; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:04:45 --800 Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 13:37:54 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao Subject: Just saying hello... To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1672 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I've finally joined -hackers and -current, now that I have my own functioning address at work. :) Some of you might know me better as "Carmay Lim" (started the threads of PC Hardware Recommendations, had questions about the Aries+NCR PCI combination, plus a myriad of other FreeBSD newbie questions ;-)). She's my boss and I was using her account while the CC people here figured out how to create another one for me. They're all DOS/Novell weenies and Linux dweebs anyway. :-/ ;-) Anyhow, I work at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan as a research assistant and systems administrator (graduated with a B.Sc in cell and molecular biology from University of Toronto last year). All that I know about UNIX, C programming and shell scripting is self-taught through much trial and error. ;-) So far I have two FreeBSD machines here, both of which are in use 16 to 18 hours a day, every day. As we hire more students and assistants (we're just starting up a lab), I plan to add one machine per person. They will act primarily as X terminals to our compute servers (various RS/6000's, SGI's and HP's) as well as handling non-compute tasks such as preparing papers in LaTeX, post-simulation analysis of data, data visualisation, reading mail and news, jumping on IRC, viewing GIF's, etc. ;-) The support I've received from various FreeBSD developers so far has been superb. As I told Stefan Esser and Joerg Wunsch, SGI can't come out with kernel fixes this quickly, and I have to pay my IBM service rep $200/hour before he'll even rlogin to take a look around. :-/ Looking forward to the 2.1 release. :) NRN. - Brian