From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 05:41:25 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 60EC71065680 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:41:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9BA8FC1C for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:41:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2672475fgg.35 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=dsA8mq/q/rhsaMIKkpMqhvcQYQqdlD4vYhnnjE61yUk=; b=usg2JN/xN1snXUsyOpXxCMcHNMXdT0PxY/S7YP1c1D7LzZVLIIbQ3e0z2ttqoINpD2hJ4cGG1e/EKJdMfOw1WthoCZmfDqsYPHA/X0CndioGknb5UUgsZP97d1yAefbLz9ecZpSm+9KWQu/9uLZg2dUSXhvN2vycw3Sscug5oeM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=w5LD5PrHKXLBqdPVEPk/o3+BGZmA4DrLvuVeAQfFfCz/ieL1bbf1HwvkuN8CxnAp1oZFjPz0D5TevXaDU615J0GkTOx/prIbUwmItlvUXgiWvR1cy4itk6zfoN3csDP02Iu0Pt9R42Koexbs0azfqPAS/HDM5VJtuYPvRoi9c9k= Received: by 10.86.51.2 with SMTP id y2mr2333508fgy.50.1208929283861; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.86.26.8 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0804222241q4cf9b0d7t5e673023fc7fe1ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:23 -0700 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: James , hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: 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: Re: 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 05:41:25 -0000 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM, James wrote: > 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 Congratulations James and welcome onboard :). -Garrett