Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:48:16 -0800 From: James S Blankenship <dragoninterrupted@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" (5150) Message-ID: <4400D0A0.4030005@yahoo.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020106050200050006020100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Another note of thanks for The Complete FreeBSD. I first bought the third edition published by Walnut Creek CDROM. In fact, it's sitting on my desk now. It's the book that kept me at FreeBSD when I was most frustrated. I'm still relatively new at this, but I love learning all I can about the OS of all OSes ^_^ Regards, James --------------020106050200050006020100 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Re: 10 years of \"The Complete FreeBSD\" (5150)" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re: 10 years of \"The Complete FreeBSD\" (5150)" X-Apparently-To: dragoninterrupted@yahoo.com via 68.142.200.89; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:38:33 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [216.136.204.119] Authentication-Results: mta282.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=daleco.biz; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 216.136.204.119 (EHLO mx2.freebsd.org) (216.136.204.119) by mta282.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:38:32 -0800 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284D259165; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:38:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADA216A43B; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:38:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B879C16A420 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:37:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7774D43D45 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1PHaiNT068191; Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:37:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <440095A2.7030205@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:36:34 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> References: <20060224010027.GF65002@wantadilla.lemis.com> <f2c91f770602232044s41476556ke6678759c6603204@mail.gmail.com> <20060224062029.GJ49368@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20060224121059.GC1411@flame.pc> <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602241504520.10773@liam.billschoolcraft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602241504520.10773@liam.billschoolcraft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10 years of "The Complete FreeBSD" (5150) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Bill Schoolcraft wrote: >Greg, > >I want to thank you for you help in making FreeBSD what it is today. > >I first met Greg on a fluke and a weird one that that too. > >While working in techsupport at Linuxcare, and the only one to my >knowledge doing so running FreeBSD, I was sitting there one day and >this fellow comes in, scans the room and makes a bee-line to my work >area. I at the time was the only techsupport with my personal >library of Unix/Linux tech books. Having just left the Machinist >Union for the 'dot-com' I was alway one for self help. > >This guy, with the scraggly beard reaches over me, grabs the first >FreeBSD book written by Greg Lehey and opens it. > >At that time in San Francisco we were having alot of homeless people >getting into the office building and sometimes wandering the halls >on drugs, drunk or whatever. > >When I asked him "Hey..., can I help you?" He said, "I wrote this >book!" > >At that time I was sure he was "5150" (the penal code for being >nuts) and I was about to get up and escort him out when one of my >co-workers, knowing my background as an ex-steelworker at the San >Francisco waterfront "quickly" jumped in and introduced "Greg Lehey" >to me, I then realized it was not a joke, Greg was not a homeless >person, and I've felt honored ever since to have been a co-worker of >his, briefly sharing the same domain name in our work's email >address. > >A few weeks later Richard Stallman came through the office... I >had the exact same inkling this time but jumped up pre-emptively and >again my co-worker came to the rescue. > >I could write a book of the stuff that I've experienced, maybe call >it "From the Shipyards to Silicon Valley" or something.... > >The one thing I've learned (besides FreeBSD kicks ass) is that in >this industry you can NEVER, EVER judge a book by it's cover! > > Fine story; and demonstrates a point: something to the effect of, "Free software is *real* software, made for use by people, *real* people, by people, *real* people, who at least have the courage to care about **something** and want to make the world a better place with the skills they have." So, kudos to Grog for this move, and for his advocacy, authorship, coding, community participation ... and whatever else; I'm sure there's been lots of stuff (and also that you can probably read about lots of it in his diary). And to the rest of the hackers. It's said that "you can't get something for nothing", but, in the case of FreeBSD, we've almost proved that the saying isn't true - at least for those willing to not judge an OS by its "cover" .... Kevin Kinsey -- I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. -- Will Rogers _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --------------020106050200050006020100--
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