From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 12:55:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B573C16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay-8.adobe.com (smtp-relay-8.adobe.com [192.150.22.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDD543D2D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rolnif@mac.com) Received: from inner-relay-1.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-1 [153.32.1.51]) i1NKsi6P009584; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from calsj-dev (mailsj [153.32.1.239])i1NKsh3m027541; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.8.54.213] (at-54-213.corp.adobe.com [10.8.54.213]) by mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HTK00J0W237M8@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com>; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:54:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:54:56 -0800 From: John Martinez In-reply-to: <20040223183758.70781f8d.krylon@gmx.net> To: Benjamin Walkenhorst Message-id: <89166D51-6642-11D8-8C8C-000A959A1868@mac.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <001501c3f99e$1083d4d0$9446a8c0@owner> <20040223183758.70781f8d.krylon@gmx.net> cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Greetings and salutaions.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:55:07 -0000 On Feb 23, 2004, at 9:37 AM, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > ... I prefer the command-line for many tasks, since it's often faster. > Or I am > faster via command-line, anyway, since I'm a very good typist. =) And you don't have to be a very good typist to be good at it, either. ;) Seriously, the water's fine, come on in. I've been around this UNIX thing for quite a while and have enjoyed most minutes of it. I took my formative years not as frustration, but as a "learning" experience. It helped, too, that I had a really anal SOB for a teacher when I first started learning. We spent weeks doing nothing but Regular Expressions in vi and sed. Nothing regular about them! I didn't have the "pleasure" of learning computers on a Windows system, so UNIX (and Macs) seems more natural to me than anything coming out of Redmond. Windows, now *that's* frustrating! -john