We love to gloat

[clayton rollins]

Hi Sue,

>On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Sue Blake <sue at welearn.com.au> wrote:
>
>Let me put your minds at rest folks:
>
>       Gloating is encouraged here.

Thanks for the encouragement. ;)

>
>The recent threads about achievements setting up FreeBSD and
>infiltrating educational organisations and workplaces as a newbie
>are among the most ON topic posts we've seen here for ages.
>
>So long as it doesn't descend into flames or criticism of other systems,
>every newbie is very welcome to discuss their achievements and setbacks
>here. That includes any essentially related non-BSD matter, such as
>techniques for removing keyboard impressions from the forehead, the
>amount of coffee consumed, or the other-people factors involved.
>Everyone likes to know they're not alone in this.
>

I totally agree. This is the one list where people should share 
forehead-massaging techniques.

(BTW, kona coffee gives me the most bang for the buck.)

>
>I'm tickled pink that I've finally had the courage to set up opie(4)
>after all these years, but I can't gloat here because I'm an oldie.
>(Oops :-)
>

Hey! even oldies can be newbies!

>If I were a newbie, I wouldn't tell you how to do it but
>I might tell you how I _learned_ how to do it, which was by reading
>the tutorial at
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/02/06/FreeBSD_Basics.html
>and then asking freebsd-questions about the parts that confused me.
>

Congrats on the sucessful progress!

>
>So, who else out there is a hero?
>

Oh, I'm still dealing with my last heroic/dumb idea.

After I get a working compat3x library, I might feel more adventurous. ;)
(I probably just need to run a buildworld with compat3x=yes in the 
make.conf; I should've done more research before committing...)

>
>Regards,
>         -*Sue*-
>

Thanks.
Peace,
Clayton

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