From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 11:28:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from c014.sfo.cp.net (c014-h001.c014.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBDD137B4CF for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (cpmta 13130 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2000 11:20:12 -0700 Received: from m12hRs4n205.midsouth.rr.com (HELO mike) (24.95.125.205) by smtp.valuedata.net (209.228.12.65) with SMTP; 24 Oct 2000 11:20:12 -0700 X-Sent: 24 Oct 2000 18:20:12 GMT Message-ID: <004501c00df7$d6c9b380$0200000a@mike> From: "Daryl Chance" To: "FreeBSD Newbies" , References: <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01766CC5@exchange.panasonicfa.com> Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:19:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up and running fully". Might draw a couple more people :). Thoughts? PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to post on the site. -------------------------------------------------------- | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | -------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading this, but anyway, > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. And I really got > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux Distribution. But > none of them worked out for me. I tried different distributions, but hey I > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems with Hardware and > some other stuff. > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It changed my whole life. > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first installation of > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to compile kernel > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able configure > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. And as always > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD community. As far as > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 11:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A7937B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id OAA19379; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:47:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma019309; Tue, 24 Oct 00 14:47:01 -0400 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:46:59 -0400 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org'" Cc: "'Daryl Chance'" , "'FreeBSD Newbies'" Subject: RE: My Experience With FreeBSD Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:46:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Great idea! I think newbies would find this very useful and interesting. I know I would have when I was looking at FreeBSD for the first time. Would be nice to have a full advocacy site, with tons of comparison data and users opinions as well 'experience' posts. ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daryl Chance > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:19 PM > To: FreeBSD Newbies; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) > and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) > > It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, > has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link > on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full > on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they > check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are > having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix > at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up > and running fully". > > Might draw a couple more people :). > > Thoughts? > > PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories > in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to > post on the site. > -------------------------------------------------------- > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > -------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM > Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading > this, but anyway, > > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. > And I really got > > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux > Distribution. But > > none of them worked out for me. I tried different > distributions, but hey I > > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems > with Hardware and > > some other stuff. > > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It > changed my whole > life. > > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first > installation of > > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to > compile kernel > > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able > configure > > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. > And as always > > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD > community. As far as > > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 15: 9: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tznet.com (smtp.tznet.com [206.31.5.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54FEA37B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkangel.gothic.com ([205.216.111.110]) by smtp.tznet.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.52/64) id 2865700; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:08:15 -0500 Received: by darkangel.gothic.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0C5874E; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:15:54 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:15:53 -0500 From: Michael Urban To: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001024171553.A332@tznet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from MSILVER@scana.com on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I happen to be working on just such a site.. There is nothing up yet, but the URL will be www.stationbsd.com. Anyone who wants to write a success story or a how-to article for newbies, I am currently open to submissions. Please note, I am primarily interested in promoting FreeBSD as a workstation/desktop OS on this site. There are plenty of sites that already sing the praises of FreeBSD as a server OS. So I am more interested in workstation/desktop articles. Please don't send server how to articles unless you think they are "cross-over" articles (email configuration for example). On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM -0400, SILVER, MICHAEL A wrote: > Great idea! I think newbies would find this very useful and interesting. I > know I would have when I was looking at FreeBSD for the first time. Would > be nice to have a full advocacy site, with tons of comparison data and users > opinions as well 'experience' posts. > > ...Michael... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Daryl Chance > > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:19 PM > > To: FreeBSD Newbies; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > > > cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) > > and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) > > > > It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, > > has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link > > on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full > > on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they > > check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are > > having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix > > at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up > > and running fully". > > > > Might draw a couple more people :). > > > > Thoughts? > > > > PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories > > in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to > > post on the site. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM > > Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > > > > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading > > this, but anyway, > > > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > > > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. > > And I really got > > > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux > > Distribution. But > > > none of them worked out for me. I tried different > > distributions, but hey I > > > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems > > with Hardware and > > > some other stuff. > > > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It > > changed my whole > > life. > > > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first > > installation of > > > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to > > compile kernel > > > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > > > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > > > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able > > configure > > > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > > > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. > > And as always > > > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > > > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD > > community. As far as > > > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > > > > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Oct 24 22:24:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C32237B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 0455611; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vnode.vmunix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC76049A13; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:24:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Coleman To: Daryl Chance Cc: FreeBSD Newbies , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <004501c00df7$d6c9b380$0200000a@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daemon News has an ongoing column called "Adventures in BSD" which publishes success stories of people using BSD. Please feel free to submit your articles to it. articles@daemonnews.org Chris Coleman Daemon News http://www.daemonnews.org Bringing BSD together On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Daryl Chance wrote: > cross posting to Advocacy (hope this is the right thing to do) > and I guess the thread can continue on there or stick in newbies... :) > > It seems lately we get about 1 or 2 of these every month or so, > has anyone thought about putting up a "success stories" link > on the freebsd.org site? Could post these emails in full > on the site and that way if someone happens upon it they > check it out and see "hmm, heres all these people that are > having problems installing linux, or don't know much about *nix > at all and are having little to no problems getting FreeBSD up > and running fully". > > Might draw a couple more people :). > > Thoughts? > > PS: If needed, I could do searches and find the success stories > in the archive and send them to whomever would want them to > post on the site. > -------------------------------------------------------- > | Daryl Chance | I have made this letter longer then | > | Valuedata, LLC | usual because I lacked the time to | > | Memphis, TN | make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal | > -------------------------------------------------------- > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Zaitsau, Andrei" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:33 PM > Subject: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > I am not sure if someone would be interested in reading this, but anyway, > > here is the story of me and FreeBSD. > > Two years ago I heard about Unix, Linux and other stuff. And I really got > > interested in it. So I tried to install couple of Linux Distribution. But > > none of them worked out for me. I tried different distributions, but hey I > > was not able to install it properly. I ran into problems with Hardware and > > some other stuff. > > But in March of 2000 I have heard about FreeBSD, It changed my whole > life. > > I Bought FreeBSD 3.4 CD set, and hey From very first installation of > > FreeBSD I succeeded. Two months later I learned how to compile kernel > > properly and other stuff. I got ADSL in May, ran into configuration > > problems, but here we go again, people from mailing lists of FreeBSD > > community were not aggressive and very helpful to me so I was able > configure > > everything I wanted. Now I am running my FreeBSD as a Gateway, and 4 > > computers are connected to it, sharing my ADSL connection. And as always > > continuing learning FreeBSD. :) > > I just want to say Thanks to whole friendly FreeBSD community. As far as > > you guys alive FreeBSD will be alive, and will move on ! > > > > Andrei Zaitsau. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 4:14:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3554537B4C5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:14:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9RAkpR01736; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:46:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:46:51 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi guys, Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but apparently he stopped in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat incredulous tones said Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of mind to hand him a pair before he started. . . N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 6: 6: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DD737B4CF; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9RD66826696; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:06:06 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001027060606.W28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:46:51AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Nik Clayton [001027 04:14] wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. > > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. > > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. > > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but apparently he stopped > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat > incredulous tones said > > Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? > > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. > > I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of mind to hand him > a pair before he started. . . What percentage of the audiance/conferece were wearing the horns? Just wonderdering how much of a presense we had. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 9: 7:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from gblon1imr2.wcom.co.uk (mailhost2.wcom.co.uk [193.131.254.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE3137B4CF; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:07:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Internal-ID: 39F84EEF000072C5 Received: from gblon1imr3.wcom.co.uk (170.127.78.123) by gblon1imr2.wcom.co.uk (NPlex 3.0.036); Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:08:12 +0100 Received: from gblon1imr3.wcom.co.uk (170.127.78.123) by gblon1imr3.wcom.co.uk (NPlex 5.0.038) id 39F88B7900005FE9; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:00:36 +0100 Received: from gblon1gwi1.wcom.co.uk (gblon1gwi1.wcom.co.uk [170.127.34.16]) by gblon1imr3.wcom.co.uk with SMTP (MailShield v1.5); Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:00:35 -0000 Received: by gblon1gwi1.wcom.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <4YGJNNG3>; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:07:16 +0100 Message-ID: <1EC8C16BC185D311ACB90008C7C563F3032C9A42@gblon1c3ex1.wcom.co.uk> From: "Dyas, Alex" To: 'Alfred Perlstein' , Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:07:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SMTP-HELO: gblon1gwi1.wcom.co.uk X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: alex.dyas@wcom.co.uk X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: bright@wintelcom.net,nik@FreeBSD.ORG,freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org,advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: gblon1gwi1.wcom.co.uk [170.127.34.16] Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Nik Clayton [001027 04:14] wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. > > > > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London > Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. > > > > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. > > > > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but > apparently he stopped > > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat > > incredulous tones said > > > > Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? > > > > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. > > > > I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of > mind to hand him > > a pair before he started. . . > > What percentage of the audiance/conferece were wearing the > horns? Just > wonderdering how much of a presense we had. > > -Alfred Speaking as someone who had to peer through a set of horns to see Douglas Adams on stage, there were a fair number of them dotted around the audience. Some of them were even flashing, about which he also remarked. BSDi had a booth at the Expo, I think that's were all the horns originated. Very interesting talk by him, and a fantastic conference in general. http://www.apachecon.com/2000/EU/html/speakers.html/ alex.. -- This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), please note that any distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and then destroy any copies of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 15:30:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from binky.demon.co.uk (binky.demon.co.uk [158.152.218.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3F937B4CF; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrot.binky.demon.co.uk (unknown [10.1.1.11]) by binky.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37367A3D; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:37:03 +0100 (BST) Received: by carrot.binky.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BF8C51AB32; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:27:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:27:46 +0100 From: Neil Ford To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001027232746.A900@carrot.binky.demon.co.uk> References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:46:51AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:46:51AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > Hi guys, > > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. > > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. > > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. > > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but apparently he stopped > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat > incredulous tones said > > Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? > > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. > Way to go mu new boss :-) > I'm just kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of mind to hand him > a pair before he started. . . > I'll see what I can do about getting a pair to him. I might even wear mine around the office sometime. -- Neil Ford neil@ourshack.com / neil@binky.demon.co.uk / neilf@h2g2.com http://www.binky.ourshack.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 27 21:17:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4DA37B479; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13pNd8-00007x-00; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:30:06 -0600 Message-ID: <39FA564E.ECE61081@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 22:30:06 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton wrote: > > Hi guys, > > Thought some of you might get a kick out of this. > > We (i.e., BSDi) were at ApacheCon in London Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. > > The keynote speaker on Tuesday night was Douglas Adams. > > I wasn't in the auditorium to witness it myself, but apparently he stopped > in mid-sentence part way through his presentation, and in somewhat > incredulous tones said > > Er, are people wearing *horns* in here? > > which prompted much laughter from the conference goers. He's not used to talking to large halls full of horny people? Too bad he missed the aquarium. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Oct 28 11:20:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9ED37B479; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9SIElN02454; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:14:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:14:46 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001028191445.A2392@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20001027060606.W28123@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001027060606.W28123@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 06:06:06AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 06:06:06AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > What percentage of the audiance/conferece were wearing the horns? Just > wonderdering how much of a presense we had. Dunno what the percentage was. I think ApacheCon had about 1,200 visitors over two days, about 500 or so where there for the technical conference as well. We have away about 300 FreeBSD 4.0 CDs (maybe a bit more than 300, I don't have the figures in front of me). Also, we (BSDi) sponsored the proceedings for the show, which were on CD. This gave us about 250MB of space on the proceedings CD to use, so I put the CVS tree on it (gzip'd, obviously). As for a show presence, we had a 3x3m booth. I don't have pictures on the web yet, but I'll try and sort something out. Oh yeah, we also got horns on the people manning the registration desks, and on all the conference staff who were wandering around handing out drinks and nibbles after the keynotes. People were definitely aware that the daemon was there. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. 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For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Oct 28 16:25:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BAB37B479; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2ED491C41; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:25:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:25:39 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Wes Peters Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Douglas Adams, ApacheCon, and horns aplenty Message-ID: <20001028192539.R37870@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20001027114650.A1717@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <39FA564E.ECE61081@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39FA564E.ECE61081@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:30:06PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:30:06PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > He's not used to talking to large halls full of horny people? Too bad he > missed the aquarium. ... or any college engineering course. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message