From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 17:45:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77616A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:45:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06BD43D31 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:45:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:48:31 -0600 Message-ID: <423F0823.5070102@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:45:07 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francis Whittington References: <000501c52e34$4365a880$6400a8c0@homevwz5ek429r> In-Reply-To: <000501c52e34$4365a880$6400a8c0@homevwz5ek429r> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Mar 2005 17:48:32.0149 (UTC) FILETIME=[32965450:01C52E3E] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: just finished install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:45:12 -0000 Francis Whittington wrote: >Hi Paul, > Just wanted to say that I am reading as much as I can. UNIX books, >freeBSD handbook, websites, manpages, etc. I am 47, have 5 daughters, >and work 2 jobs, none of which have anything to do with computers. I >bought my first computer in 1998(they had no computer classes when i >was in school). I have just gotten interested in learning BSD. Linux >would have been okay too, but I read BSD was better. I came on this >forum to get a little help when I get frustrated. I do not have all >the time in the world for this. Wish i did sometimes. Its >relaxing...LOL! Besides...here is better than getting bitched >at in #freebsdhelp to go read. Thanks for the suggestions though. > > fewjr/Buddy > > > From time to time we've heard about "mean-ness" (if you will) on IRC channels. They aren't official, AAMOF. On the other hand, this list is. This is not to say that you might not occasionally get "gritched at" on this list, but generally (notice all these qualifying words) it's not much of an issue, particularly if you can take the time to do enough research to ask a good question. Eric Raymond wrote a classic tome on this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html BTW, welcome to FreeBSD! Be sure and write back when you have specific questions. Kevin Kinsey