From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jul 4 03:11:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12168 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 03:11:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zeus.netdirect.net.uk (zeus.netdirect.net.uk [195.7.224.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12057 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 03:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ian.ofriel@ndirect.co.uk) Received: from default (th-pm01-24.ndirect.co.uk [195.7.225.88]) by zeus.netdirect.net.uk (8.8.5/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03534; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 11:10:38 +0100 Message-ID: <00b801bc8862$55b30760$58e107c3@default> Reply-To: "Ian O'Friel" From: "Ian O'Friel" To: "Chris Browning" , "newbie" , Subject: Re: What do people on the list use FreeBSD for? Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 23:10:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Try searching the FreeBSD-Newbies archive, not remember a very long-winded thread going a while back......... Ian -----Original Message----- From: Chris Browning To: newbie ; 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