From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 14 20:19:38 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA08193 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:19:38 -0800 Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA08186 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:19:31 -0800 Received: from spr.awod.com (ppps04.awod.com [198.81.225.84]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA08214; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 23:17:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 23:17:17 -0500 Message-Id: <199511150417.XAA08214@sumter.awod.com> X-Sender: srob@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: "Sean P. Robertson" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The following is a tribute to the work that is being done at FreeBSD.org. Please be kind. I am little more than a curious user on the sidelines, but my obsession is your obsession as much as it can be. Thanks Guys. Sean P. Robertson The Citadel - Charleston, SC USA & Sales Manager - awod.com Make the Daemon The hacker to the detriment of all else, Knows the machine. Its language and temperament and ability, He knows better than all others. He feels the weight of his lack of that knowledge; though, and it Drives him on. While others sleep, he fights; his fingers navigating the crude Tactile input device designed to transfer his brilliance to the Console. In spastic bursts of revelation, processes spawn other processes Until the operating system and the machine and the wizard, the hacker, bring the cumbersome code to life. ENTER. At the speed of light, the fiber optic propels the bytes of Lifeblood to his fellow junkies, traversing a world mapped by Routers, taking them, in packet formation, to .COMs and .EDUs and .NETs and .ORGs. as famed mariners, seeking the White Whale, Stormed the seven seas. Sean P. Robertson