Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 13:37:54 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Just saying hello... Message-ID: <Pine.3.87.9503031354.A28838-0100000@gate>
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Hi all,
I've finally joined -hackers and -current, now that I have my own
functioning address at work. :) Some of you might know me better as
"Carmay Lim" (started the threads of PC Hardware Recommendations, had
questions about the Aries+NCR PCI combination, plus a myriad of other
FreeBSD newbie questions ;-)). She's my boss and I was using her account
while the CC people here figured out how to create another one for me.
They're all DOS/Novell weenies and Linux dweebs anyway. :-/ ;-)
Anyhow, I work at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan as a research
assistant and systems administrator (graduated with a B.Sc in cell and
molecular biology from University of Toronto last year). All that I know
about UNIX, C programming and shell scripting is self-taught through much
trial and error. ;-) So far I have two FreeBSD machines here, both of
which are in use 16 to 18 hours a day, every day. As we hire more
students and assistants (we're just starting up a lab), I plan to add one
machine per person. They will act primarily as X terminals to our
compute servers (various RS/6000's, SGI's and HP's) as well as handling
non-compute tasks such as preparing papers in LaTeX, post-simulation
analysis of data, data visualisation, reading mail and news, jumping on
IRC, viewing GIF's, etc. ;-)
The support I've received from various FreeBSD developers so far has
been superb. As I told Stefan Esser and Joerg Wunsch, SGI can't come out
with kernel fixes this quickly, and I have to pay my IBM service rep
$200/hour before he'll even rlogin to take a look around. :-/ Looking
forward to the 2.1 release. :) NRN.
- Brian
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