Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:29:18 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Robert Dormer <rdormer@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun Message-ID: <20041004102918.23be38a9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3174add604100407232e148ebe@mail.gmail.com> References: <9d.4fabdbb7.2e91c892@aol.com> <1096843093.30508.48.camel@chaucer> <20041004001123.GA94274@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <3174add604100407232e148ebe@mail.gmail.com>
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Robert Dormer <rdormer@gmail.com> wrote: > Having looked at the list, honesty - it's not nearly as much as it > looks like. Seriously. It's well within your ken to learn ALL of > that. Easily. Just do this - get a few machines. Throw FreeBSD on > them. Hell, throw Open or Net on one or two, RedHat or Gentoo or > Debian on another. > > Now plug them all into a hub. Get them to play nicely together. > Shouldn't take more than a few weeks of messing around. By the end of > that you should know just about everything on that list. Not have it > commited to memory, but hey - who does? > > I mean - why do you think they invented man pages? > > > Believe in yourself. If I can do it, anyone can. I want to second this wholeheartedly. However, take Robert's advice to heart. I think if you try to learn this stuff without a experimental network to try things out on, you'll either drive yourself mad, or simply fail. If you're serious about doing this, it's worth the $$$ to invest in 4 or 5 used computers to learn on. You really need more than one if you're going to understand how things interact across a network, and you want to have at least 1 computer that you _don't_ experiment with, so it's always reliable to use for email or searching for docs on the 'net. And I agree with Robert, that if you're serious about wanting to do this, you CAN accomplish it. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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