Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:56:47 -0400 From: Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@vma.verio.net> To: "Brett G. Castleberry" <bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Diary - how to guides Message-ID: <371A551F.B4FC1EFB@vma.verio.net> References: <19990406205551.QXQP5752963.mta2-rme@wocker> <020501be80ae$fd1aa800$8620c992@s1o3q0>
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--------------F762400D69846AB801D21105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote: > How much is too much? Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is over > my head and almost discouraging. Agreed! > I've been a bookman all my life, a > pressman, a bookseller, and for the last ten years, a librarian. When I > returned to school for a masters degree a couple of years ago, my program > was called "Library Science". Now it's called "Information Studies", and IT > students (along with their tuition fees) are pouring in, at this point > outnumbering LS students. Those of us who are dedicated to providing public > access to useful information are scrambling to learn how to find and use > digital resources. In addition, as I've become acquainted with unix I have > realized that our own library automation system operates on top of unix. I am curious about what you mean exactly by 'on top of UNIX'. I too, am *quite* the newbie in regard to UNIX and FreeBSD. I'm also curious to hear more, as I myself was a librarian; not professionally, but in college. From 1988-1993 I learned a wide variety of electronic resources used for reference and cataloguing (we had these new-fangled "CD-ROM"s. Oooh!). And then, I graduated, just as the internet, in it's 'mainstream' form began to emerge. Very frustrating! > > So, I want FreeBSD to play and learn with. Perhaps I can connect my > FreeBSD 486 to my Win98 box and learn about networking too. I sense in your > free OS project a spirit akin to that of the public librarian, and I salute > you. That's how I understand it to. Freedom of information! > > > Brett Castleberry > bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- ===================================== Pete Vanderburgh Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. (703)749-7955 x1306 peterv@verio.net ===================================== --------------F762400D69846AB801D21105 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> "Brett G. Castleberry" wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>How much is too much? Most of what I'm seeing on FreeBSD/ Questions is over <br>my head and almost discouraging.</blockquote> <p><br>Agreed! <br> <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I've been a bookman all my life, a <br>pressman, a bookseller, and for the last ten years, a librarian. When I <br>returned to school for a masters degree a couple of years ago, my program <br>was called "Library Science". Now it's called "Information Studies", and IT <br>students (along with their tuition fees) are pouring in, at this point <br>outnumbering LS students. Those of us who are dedicated to providing public <br>access to useful information are scrambling to learn how to find and use <br>digital resources. In addition, as I've become acquainted with unix I have <br>realized that our own library automation system operates on top of unix.</blockquote> <p><br>I am curious about what you mean exactly by 'on top of UNIX'. I too, am *quite* the newbie in regard to UNIX and FreeBSD. <p>I'm also curious to hear more, as I myself was a librarian; not professionally, but in college. From 1988-1993 I learned a wide variety of electronic resources used for reference and cataloguing (we had these new-fangled "CD-ROM"s. Oooh!). <p>And then, I graduated, just as the internet, in it's 'mainstream' form began to emerge. Very frustrating! <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>So, I want FreeBSD to play and learn with. Perhaps I can connect my <br>FreeBSD 486 to my Win98 box and learn about networking too. I sense in your <br>free OS project a spirit akin to that of the public librarian, and I salute <br>you.</blockquote> <p><br>That's how I understand it to. Freedom of information! <blockquote TYPE=CITE> </blockquote> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>Brett Castleberry <br>bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message</blockquote> <pre>-- ===================================== Pete Vanderburgh Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. (703)749-7955 x1306 peterv@verio.net =====================================</pre> </html> --------------F762400D69846AB801D21105-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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