From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 5 6:44: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E207114DA7 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 06:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09946 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:45:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907051345.IAA09946@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 5 Jul 99 08:43:43 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 5 Jul 99 08:43:42 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 08:43:34 -0500 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: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com References: <19990705113309.11732@ns.int.ftf.net> In-reply-to: <19990705093023.YIXL282564.mta1-rme@wocker> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Jul 99, at 21:27, Dan Langille wrote: > 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. Of course, I still wonder how you can read the monitors, and how appliances work, when they are upside down! Mike P.S. - It was just a joke... PLEASE don't explain it to me (unless your explanation is amusing...) Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: CPU: (n.) acronym for Central Purging Unit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message