Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:10:47 +0100 From: "Ian O'Friel" <ian.ofriel@ndirect.co.uk> To: "Chris Browning" <brownicm@netunlimited.net>, "newbie" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Message-ID: <00b801bc8862$55b30760$58e107c3@default>
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Try searching the FreeBSD-Newbies archive, not remember a very long-winded thread going a while back......... Ian -----Original Message----- From: Chris Browning <brownicm@netunlimited.net> To: newbie <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>; tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk <tim.parkinson@ccr.ntu.ac.uk> Date: 01 July 1998 22:28 Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? >I'm switching carrers at 42 from professional chef to >programmer. Restaurants not very family-friendly. My wife >does Novell/NT/Win programming/sysadmin and she said I was a >smart fella, I oughta try it. Did the quickie two-year >curriculum. Lots of Windows-Visual Basic and whatnot. COBOL >fer cryin' out loud. C++, ouch- a real language for a >change. IBM assembly language, which I liked. RPG on an >AS/400--never, ever, ever as long as I live; I'll go back to >cooking first. And one lonely little course in UNIX. I was >hooked. Jeez, DOS with teeth. The instructor was this >ancient retired AT&T guy who'd been doing it since the >mid-70's. I've had one box or another running freebsd for a >couple years, but no time. Taught myself Visual FoxPro for >my senior project, which I just finished. I don't have to go >back to work till this fall so I'm furiously doing all the >UNIX and C I can. I'll do FoxPro if I absolutely have to but >people in the business tell me that given the labor market >in this area (North Carolina US), even a greenhorn like me >can just about pick the shop I want. It most likely won't be >a FreeBSD shop but it will be a UNIX shop. Even if it's Y2K >to start. I'm never going back. UNIX is too cool. Anyone who >wants to do that M$ API black-box .dll >who-knows-what's-in-there stuff is welcome to it. No thanks. >And I look forward to the day when I may be able to >contribute to the FreeBSD project. I owe the folks who have >brought it this far. Thanks. Pardon my soapbox. > >And, newbie that I am, if I ever send someone undesired >personal email, I hope they will let me know how I screwed >up and how to fix it so it never, ever happens again. Now >I'm terrified. > >Chris Browning >brownicm@netunlimited.net > > >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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