From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 02:22:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B220D106566B for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:22:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscartheduck@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E488FC30 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:22:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscartheduck@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j40so1037172rnf.12 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:22:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=64P4CMCCaeP2p3aY6gbQFilpbBg+TYu62zjqKxQwNkk=; b=O2xJR+HRg/mYUj6QB52F9EQ4hjkvr9zN2QebwWTaEA8Mz6vkSh/523u8vXOCAFf+lurupT2jyzKc8N3RYexEczhPtih45ib3YgDNmpJTtM5FqAivBFLzSxGQVAS1nVZZXbzpjh4juFT0FdewojP0YQ0sCY3kqjIGPnHFAgKlBa8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=Mgk+fVUiDVy1nTr/wvPbudxkNqT4oE2MoMyaOifNUL2EGlKBbLUaMTDVr1DTrcFRKsT4SVLTbRWdYZDD8iZ8PbtGDQB5mqxE4ERhsPW9+YXbRiAWkWCYEsleRHEd50PChY1tweECnkWGKy7WNDPgGhnX6BFTpEa6CaalyTdNTOM= Received: by 10.142.12.14 with SMTP id 14mr67146wfl.336.1208915713832; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.232.5 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:55:13 -0600 From: James To: hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: introduction X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:22:41 -0000 Hi folks, my name is James Harrison; I'm a computer science student at the University of New Mexico, studying mostly at the Los Alamos branch. I'm also a Unix systems administrator/developer at Los Alamos National Lab, where I've been working with embedded linux for a while. I've been working with FreeBSD for a few years now; a friend introduced me to it as a way to get a wireless card working that was stubbornly refusing to cooperate with any other operating system. After spending six months repeatedly breaking and ignoring the system by mixing packages and ports, I finally knuckled down and started learning how the system works. I'm working on the embedded FreeBSD project; I find embedded development to be difficult and extremely enjoyable. It covers a lot of bases, while also hearkening back to days when there were fewer resources available on any system, so that I feel like I'm working in an environment from the late seventies or early eighties. Which means I feel retro cool without actually being limited in resources in the real world. Best James