On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest:
1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again.
2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting.
3. Don't use closed-source (or commercial) software. I don't
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but
important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in
console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++
and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
All this that I described above, and even more, I can do in Emacs or vim.
Using the system vi(1) on Solaris isn't a problem either, but I don't push
myself to use *THAT* editor if I don't have to. I stopped using vi(1) on
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 08:57, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-10-04 21:54, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I developed a few rules and techniques for keeping the interest:
1. Avoid doing the same thing over and over again.
2. Do bigger projects as well as some playful experimenting.
On 2004-10-05 20:27, Daniela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But when I feel that I like watching TV more than playing with ASM, I
quickly switch to the monochrome terminal emulator, deactivate the
mouse, emulate the destructive hardware cursor, pull out a primitive
hexeditor (or TECO) and enter raw
Having looked at the list, honesty - it's not nearly as much as it
looks like. Seriously. It's well within your ken to learn ALL of
that. Easily. Just do this - get a few machines. Throw FreeBSD on
them. Hell, throw Open or Net on one or two, RedHat or Gentoo or
Debian on another.
Now plug
Robert Dormer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having looked at the list, honesty - it's not nearly as much as it
looks like. Seriously. It's well within your ken to learn ALL of
that. Easily. Just do this - get a few machines. Throw FreeBSD on
them. Hell, throw Open or Net on one or two, RedHat
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:46:06PM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
snip
Well, I can only tell you about my own experience, but perhaps it will
help. I have always been a techie, getting my first computer at the age
of 14 - an Apple IIe. Learned some Basic, some peeks and pokes and even
some
On Sunday 03 October 2004 03:50, Dave Vollenweider wrote:
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more of a
request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear with me.
I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using
Unix-like operating
I think what you are going through is something people go through no
matter what their career path is. I would say when you reach that
point is when you have to decide is this something I want to do for
the next n years.
The first part of my life I was a musician and did all sorts of gigs
from
On Saturday 02 October 2004 08:50 pm, Dave Vollenweider
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more
of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear
with me.
I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My
bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of..
..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know
many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money? Apparently the
US government has worked with
bsdfsse said the following on 10/3/2004 3:12 AM:
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My
bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of..
MuchSnippage
Hear Hear!!
..of Linux distributions with fatal flaws. I went on a giant search
to pick the perfect Linux
Ted Mittelstaedt [Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0700]:
As an analogy - there's lots of people that know how to pull into
a service station and add air to their car tires. But out of all
those people that have learned how to do this only a tenth of them
know that tire pressure rises when
Hi,
I had a glance at that list you refer to and the article it refers to.
Don't worry, you don't need to know and learn all that: copy files to
and from a floppy disk?? I don't even remember when I had a computer
with a floppy drive.
On the other hand, the vi editor? Well, I have known people
On 10/2/2004 at 10:50 PM Dave Vollenweider wrote:
| I came across this page:
| http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and
| I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain.
=
That page is ridiculous. You do not need to know all those items. You
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 01:57:11PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
I have found that the most valuable skill a good SA has is LAZINESS!
Yup, but beware, there are two kinds: You can be lazy in the sence that
you only do what is absolutely necessary and postpone it as much as
posible - this is the
Some Advice,
There are many things in life that seem like daunting tasks, some of them
worthwhile, some not. But its the goal beyond the task that should be the
deciding factor. Learning unix is not a reason. Its like saying you want to
have children just for the sake of having them. Why do you
On Oct 2, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Dave Vollenweider wrote:
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's more
of a request for moral support. This may seem disjointed, so bear
with me.
Alt.sysadmin.recovery? :-)
I've been using FreeBSD for over six months now, but I've been using
On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:12 AM, bsdfsse wrote:
Ironically, I'm switching to FreeBSD because I'm already tired. My
bones are aching from years of abuse. I'm tired of..
..being told what I can and can't do with my computers. Did you know
many scanners and photocopiers cannot reproduce money?
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can see no
formal education is required to be an SA)
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in charge of counterfiting now? (as you can
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004, Mike Jeays wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 17:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/3/04 4:31:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Excuse me while I shred it before the Secret Service comes knocking on
my door...
Is the secret service in
it was said:
As a purely theoretical question - is it possible to be guilty of an
offence by being in possession of a digital image of a currency bill?
At what resolution does it become an offence?
Hello,
This exactly answers your questions:
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Vollenweider
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To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: When Unix Stops Being Fun
This has nothing to do with technical problems, but rather it's
more of a
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