From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 23 15:14:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E97D516A400 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:14:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2697043D46 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:14:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@stringsutils.com) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (localhost.natserv.net [127.0.0.1]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786B3B849; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:14:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from zoraida.natserv.net (zoraida.natserv.net [66.114.65.147]) by zoraida.natserv.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6BFB830; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:14:58 -0400 (EDT) References: <444B13FF.3020808@bitfreak.org> Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: Francisco Reyes To: Darren Pilgrim Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:14:58 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD Chat List Subject: Re: Anyone ever tried experts-exchange for freebsd questions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:15:00 -0000 Darren Pilgrim writes: > The second because unlike certain other OSes, 99.99% of the > documentation I need is either in Google's database or not in existence. Although I do find a large number of questions answered online, ever since I became a FreeBSD system admin July 05 I find myself in a different situation than in all previous time using open source. 1- The company I work for is willing to pay for a consultant if I recommend it. Likewise I am sure I could get the fee for services like experts-exchange paid by the company. 2- Although I actually bill the time I spend researching on issues, if I find a way to get something done faster and cheaper than spending time researching I talk to the boss and often times he agress to pay whoever can do the work quicker. > In 8 years of using FreeBSD as a hobbyist and professional, I've only > had one technical issue that was never resolved. Often times it is not if it will get resolved, but how long it will take and what projects will get delayed while you hunt down the solution to a particular problem.