From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 27 11:15:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7CA37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4FD7; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:15:09 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <17X6DRXJ>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:13:52 -0800 Received: from acuson.com (bull.acuson.com [157.226.46.72]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id CJVDJNYN; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:04:49 -0800 From: Johnson David To: TheUaRT Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3C7D3037.83811619@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:15:03 -0800 Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org TheUaRT wrote: > > I am a newbie to FreeBSD (2nd attempt) but not to computers. > I've always stood for people helping others learn current/new > technologies to it's maximum potential... But it seems now > a days that people keep telling you to RTFM. What a concept. > It would be nice if people weren't so arrogant. Specially on IRC. Mr. Arrogant here. Have you actually read the FM? It's a wonderful FM. It won't answer all your questions, but it's a very good start. I wasn't always arrogant. Once I was a loving person who volunteered 23 hours out of each day to volunteer answering FreeBSD questions. But my lack of sleep and lagging productivity meant that I needed another solution besides answering every question that came my way. So I decided to perform a grand and noble gesture for the newbies. I wrote a Handbook, a FAQ, and the best set of man pages for any OS yet seen. And what happened? I kept getting a thousand questions a day asking about a topics in the Handbook and FAQ. Questions like "how do I use ports?" and "how do I mount my Windows partition?" I couldn't help myself. Like the Grinch, my heart shrivelled up and I became a crusty old arrogant bastard. There is a cure for my condition. Start reading the documentation. Mr. Arrogant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message