From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 3 0:19:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4AF1507B for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 00:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA06874; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 01:18:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <377DB95C.448E4227@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:18:52 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , haodongpan@netease.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:17:59AM -0700, haodongpan@netease.com wrote: > > > I know the basic admin knowledge of UNIX,perl,cgi,c > > > how to become a hacker? > > > > You either are a hacker, or you are not. It is not something someone else > > can teach you. > > This deserves a FAQ entry. What an awesome response. But it's certainly NOT something that you just are, either. You have to have talent, but you also have to have experience. This is most often done by a mentor. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message