Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:57:15 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 Install Message-ID: <20050116133237.G802@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501162312110.6644@dave.horsfall.org> References: <000601c4fb96$79575810$640aa8c0@XPH01> <A2A43E56-67A0-11D9-8D05-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <Pine.BSI.4.61.0501162312110.6644@dave.horsfall.org>
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On Jan 16 at 23:14, Dave Horsfall launched this into the bitstream: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> [RHETORICAL_MODE=ON] >> Where, I wonder, are all these folks suddenly coming from? >> [SUPREME_IRONY_MODE=ON] >> Well anyway, it's nice to know I'm a grizzled old graybeard unix admin. > > I'll bet my beard's greyer than yours! Edition 5, on a PDP-11/40, in > 1975. Done, you win. Unconditionally! I've only been *nix'ing (?) for a few years. I first *saw* a Unix server in 1994..and that was a BSD oddly enough. IIRC I *think* it was BSDI. I thought it was some form of black magic. I had no contact whatsoever from an admin point of view for a number of years, except as a shell account user which was handy enough to learn the basics (and become addicted to shell). Then around '99 I started periodically installing some Linux or BSD version on a Frankenputer occasionally to see what was what. I got serious about BSD in 2003 when a colleague installed it on a shared datacenter based server. Then recently I installed 5.3 at home and that's it...I'm hooked...there's no going back now :) Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One 1:57PM up 4 days, 2:45, 8 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00
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