From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 5 2:27: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (unknown [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C0014C3D for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 02:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.59]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990705093023.YIXL282564.mta1-rme@wocker>; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:30:23 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Phil Regnauld Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 21:27:01 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990705113309.11732@ns.int.ftf.net> References: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:14:16AM +0200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990705093023.YIXL282564.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Jul 99, at 11:33, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > > "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: > > > Yes. I remember in my early teens fantasizing about marrying Gagarin's > > > youngest daughter. :-) [For the sake of the younger generation here: > > > Gagarin was the first man in space.] > > > > Come on, give the younger generation *some* credit. > > I agree with G. Adam's cautiousness -- when I first moved > to the US in 1983, the teacher (this was 4th grade :-) introduced > me to the class, and asked if anybody wanted to point out > France (where I'm from) on the globe. > > A kid volunteered, and put his finger on Russia. > > That _was_ before they asked me if we had electricity > and refrigerators "over there". I get that question often when travelling. And strangely enough, it doesn't matter if they first learn I'm Canadian first or I live in New Zealand. They wonder the same thing. Mind you, both countries have come a long way since they installed electricity a few months ago. Next year we should get telephones. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message