BSD advocacy at LinuxFest NW, April 30 in Bellingham, Wash. USA

2005-03-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
BSD Users Group BUG mailing list and participating at our monthly meetings. http://www.SeaBUG.org/ Thanks! Jeremy C. Reed Low cost press releases http://www.reedmedia.net/ ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.o

Re: BSD advocacy at LinuxFest NW, April 30 in Bellingham, Wash. USA

2005-03-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
eral pages, one column per page, instead of multiple columns per page. I may retake your text, dump it into passepartout or scribus to generate a US Letter size tri-fold brochure ... Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration

FreeBSD class in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in May

2005-04-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
updating packages), custom kernel configurations, performance and security tuning, understanding the rc.d scripts, periodic tasks, packet filtering, and more. Course information is at http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/freebsd/ . Discounts are available. Jeremy C. Reed

needs quotes/comments about new 5.4 features

2005-04-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
lot for your time, Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Announcement: Task Analysis Survey Launched (fwd)

2005-04-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:50:52 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: bsdcert@lists.nycbug.org Subject: [BSDCert] Announcement: Task Analysis Survey Launched Greetings, The BSD Certification Group is pleased to announce the launch of a Task Analysis Survey. This sur

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
CSS or just created in a graphics editor. Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ons, and so I have also had the great opportunity to assist with installing FreeBSD 5.x on probably over 50 different computer systems -- a wide variety of different hardware. FreeBSD 5.x has installed well and performed well for me going back to January 2003. Jeremy C. R

Re: Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
negative and abusive feedback also. There's always someone who can find fault even if you try to do an honest, thorough and good job. Jeremy C. Reed BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links htt

Task Analysis Survey Report published by The BSD Certification Group

2005-07-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
is an accurate, up-to-date and valid measurement of the skills needed by BSD system administrators, said Jeremy C. Reed, member of the BSD Certification Group. "There were a lot of comments. It was refreshing to read so many different points of view," said Brown. "The communit

BSD Certification Group releases certification program roadmap

2005-08-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
August 25, 2005 -- The BSD Certification Group announced on Thursday the release of their certification program roadmap. This publication introduces the Group's planned BSD system administrator certifications and the construction of the certification program. "The roadmap grew out of the

BSDA exam objectives released (press release)

2005-10-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
BSD Certification Group Publishes BSD Associate Exam Objectives October 6, 2005 -- The BSD Certification Group announced the publication of the exam objectives for the BSD Associate (BSDA) certification exam. The BSDA certification is designed to be an entry-level certification on BSD Unix syste

BSD Certification Group releases Usage Survey Report

2005-10-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
note from the survey results that at least 68,662 systems and maybe more than 177,265 systems are running a BSD operating system," said Jeremy C. Reed, a BSD trainer and member of the BSD Certification Group. The report also provides many comments from survey takers, further explaini

Re: Signatures needed, petition for native Flash player.

2006-01-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
SVG versus Flash". Jeremy C. Reed Media Relations and Publishing Services http://www.reedmedia.net/ ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ad

Re: BSD Mall : to hell

2006-02-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
t; getting richer and richer is good, since he gives a third of his fortune to > charity. Then your alternative is to pay the developers directly instead. Do you use gcc? Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration

Re: BSD Mall : to hell

2006-03-20 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> Not sure about this one but selling BSD/OS could be a good idea too. That operating system has been dead and gone for a few years. (I still have customers that actively use it though in production environments. I also continue to do BSD/OS migrations.) Jeremy C. R

Re: BSD folks position on GPL, Novell, IBM, SCO, and MS...

2006-11-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> PS... ??One more question... ??Being that Linux emulation is available > as a port for the BSDs, I would assume (but haven't taken the time to > research) that GPLd code is used. ??If there comes to be issues with > Linux, what would that mean for BSDs compatibility in regards to > emulation?

Re: Vision impaired software on FreeBSD?

2007-01-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
ased (no curses) front-end to its BSD Installer. Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

need contributors for beginning BSD admin study guide book

2007-01-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/ if you are available to help write or review content. It is a short-term project ending in February. If you have any questions, please let me know. Jeremy C. Reed p.s. Currently there is a writeathon going on now if you want to collaborate via wiki or IRC or email

Re: Status of Freebsd podcasts

2007-02-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
uch. You reached the FreeBSD "advocacy" mailing list. I don't know about that podcast, but you may want to check out "bsdtalk" podcasts: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
And I am sure there are other members of the marketing AT FreeBSD.org that would be willing to help too.) Feel free to forward this email. Jeremy C. Reed ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-a

Re: Media coordinator? [was: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. (fwd)]

2007-04-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
e and resources. Maybe this extends to writing > articles (or finding people to do so), and submitting them to journals or > magazines. > > I'm sure there are other areas of value. The two points above just > spring to mind based on

Re: Article about FreeBSD and GNU/Linux (not vs.).

2007-05-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: > I think the format of this new article may have been a bit of a clone of > articles by Dru Lavigne at ONLamp, the author of O'Reilly's "BSD Hacks" > book. They might be more useful, all things considered. I seem to > recall seeing links to Dru Lavigne's

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ISN] Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use]

2007-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
redictable Releases Many like a consistent schedule for new releases. FreeBSD also has policies on how long to maintain previous releases. Note that FreeBSD base and ports have different update policies. Depending on how FreeBSD updates are done, it can be easy. Jeremy C. Reed ___

New Book: The Best of FreeBSD Basics by Dru Lavigne

2008-01-08 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Dru Lavigne's popular and frequently-recommended column has been updated, improved, and compiled into a new book, The Best of FreeBSD Basics. It is available at Amazon, a few other book stores, and more book stores coming soon. The ISBN is 978-0-9790342-2-0. The book's website is at http://www.

Re: Important update from Microsoft Windows XP/2003 Professional Service Pack 2 (KB946026)

2008-05-23 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Nico Revin wrote: > Everyone receives spam. But I haven't ever seen any in other lists > like [dwm] for example. That may be because this is an open list )no subscription required). I think it was, but don't know any more. And I don't know where that is documented.

Re: Press Release / Case Study Opportunity

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Dan Rowe wrote: > I work at a large e-commerce company that is in the process of moving > our entire web-farm from Windows over to FreeBSD and re-branding in > the process. > > With all the press and news we are going to be pumping out next month > i figured it would be a goo

Re: Press Release / Case Study Opportunity

2011-08-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I just realized this was the public list :) I will reply to you with a different email address. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-un

20 significant FreeBSD events?

2013-01-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
. Please share your thoughts and opinions for this. (I already have a list in progress.) You may email me directly off-list if you'd like. (I may also use this list for further research toward my book on BSD history. See a brief status report here: http://www.reedmedia.net/books/bsd-history/