From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 05:38:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01283 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01271 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from desktop-pentium (dialup429.serv.net [207.207.70.30]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA05892; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980619053810.007f8a30@mx.serv.net> X-Sender: fewtch@mx.serv.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 05:38:10 -0700 To: Sue Blake From: Tim Gerchmez Subject: Re: A first encounter with 'vi' Cc: David Wolfskill , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980619193835.65211@welearn.com.au> References: <3.0.5.32.19980619020219.007fc9c0@mx.serv.net> <3.0.5.32.19980618163903.007f6640@mx.serv.net> <199806171941.MAA05868@pau-amma.whistle.com> <3.0.5.32.19980618163903.007f6640@mx.serv.net> <19980619115247.49675@welearn.com.au> <3.0.5.32.19980619020219.007fc9c0@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ohhh... all right... We're all working on becoming professional Unix System Administrators, and our goals are working toward that point. Eventually we'll all be making $100,000+/year administrating large *nix networks for major companies like AT&T, Sprint and IBM. Better? ;-) BTW, just an observation... the more I use BSD, the more I come to like it. I wish there was money to be made writing BSD shareware (alas, most of it is free or something similar can be gotten free, and the user base is small compared to Windows) or I'd consider dumping Win95 and NT and just using FreeBSD - every time I use it is like an adventure discovering something new - it's truly exciting (Yes, I'm finally sick to death of 90's cynicism (the decade is almost over, thank goodness), and am speaking from the heart here). I'm a shareware author and write Win32 shareware, for which there is a huge potential market - so I can't lose Win95/NT, unfortunately, unless I want those checks to stop coming in (and being that I'm currently on disability and receiving $458/month, those extra checks come in real handy). Now, would someone get to work on writing a Win32 emulator that runs any and all Windows 95/NT software so I can dump these OS's? Preferably an ex-MS employee who's been on both the Win95 and NT design teams, was fired from Microsoft for using BSD on his machine at work, and holds a serious grudge ;-) Tim At 07:38 PM 6/19/98 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: >> BTW, who ever said I planned to become a Unix system administrator for >> other people's PC's? It's almost been assumed that's the case during this >> whole discussion. For chrissakes, I'm a newbie playing with a free OS on a >> personal machine at home. Perhaps in a week (although probably not) I'll >> erase it off my hard drive and go try GEOS or FreeDOS or some other OS >> instead, just for kicks and for the learning experience. > >Awww, don't go saying that! We're all using machines sitting in the >family room with a handful of siblings/children/parents queueing to >reboot and use their win95, pretending during our brief moments of >FreeBSD that we're administering the biggest network in the universe. >We know it's like that for the others too, but we can't bring ourselves >to say it out loud because nobody else does. It's comfortable this way. >Now you've gone and blown our cover :-( Can't you at least pretend, >just a little bit, huh? > >-- > >Regards, > -*Sue*- -- My web site starts at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html - lots of goodies for everyone, have a look if you have the time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message