From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 00:16:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87916106564A for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from optimus.centralmiss.com (ns.centralmiss.com [206.156.254.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BDA8FC27 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (adsl-098-068-101-027.sip.jan.bellsouth.net [98.68.101.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by optimus.centralmiss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA1428B3A; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:46:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3BFDC61C41; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:46:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:46:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: soralx@cydem.org Message-ID: <20080330234637.GR85553@over-yonder.net> References: <20080326183554.3f5f43b1.skeptikos@gmail.com> <328844.97931.qm@web35606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080328230311.2d396c4c@soralx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080328230311.2d396c4c@soralx> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17-fullermd.4 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, passiveprofits@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support 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: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:16:37 -0000 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:03:11PM -0700 I heard the voice of soralx@cydem.org, and lo! it spake thus: > > Few small things have changed since the time of that article, but > the ideas there still seem to be up-to-date (and hopefully will stay > that way). The whole point of focusing on ideas rather than details is so it [hopefully] /will/ stay up to date, without having to go update it every other week when one OS develops something new or duplicates something old. Laziness is a virtue. 8-} -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.