From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 10:13:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61AFC14BCE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:13:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@criterion-group.com) Received: from criterion-group.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990811171346.ICVG7447.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@criterion-group.com> for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:13:46 -0700 Message-ID: <37B1B029.51C09A83@criterion-group.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:17:29 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Questions List FreeBSD.org" Subject: Idiot seeks brain. Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E71782FA227A754A48E2EC7C" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E71782FA227A754A48E2EC7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Damn ... I've read just about every message that's gone through for the past 3 weeks or so (since I joined the list), and basically I wish I could borrow one of your brains for just a little bit while I figure out how to back-up/restore your UNIX/*BSD experience into my poor, Micro$haft-muddled brain. Where do I go to start *at the beginning*? I need to better understand the background/culture/norms of the *BSD community. I see these notes going back and forth discussing "motif" and "ssh" and "tsk" and other similar (programs?) and I feel like a blind man in a room full of expensive, breakable objects that everyone else can see and understand. Hey, I'm a pretty smart guy (taught myself how to configure a Cisco 4000-series router; 3 interfaces) ... who's feeling REALLY dumb. Please help me out. I'm pretty thorough too; read through about 10% of the ports list so far (freebsd.org/ports). Is the book "The UNIX Administrator's Handbook" (did I get the title right?) what I'm looking for? Is there somewhere on the Web that I can go to? Thanks in advance for your help. RAB --------------E71782FA227A754A48E2EC7C Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------E71782FA227A754A48E2EC7C-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message