Re: A new year with a lot of memories

2009-01-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hey Enrique, Thanks for your encouraging feedback. It's always nice to hear such reports > PS: My only gripe is that I used to bring people to the LFS page and show > them how the different penguin icons matched the different stages of the > book. It ripped lots of smiles. > Pleasure gone...

Re: A new year with a lot of memories

2009-01-24 Thread lists
Gerard, you will never know how many lives you have touched how... I went all the way to the bottom of the pit after September 11/2001, when I got laid off from my M$ C++ developer role. Back then, I had had some brief incursions with UNIX, and I was running my little WEB server off of a server

A new year with a lot of memories

2009-01-18 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hi guys, You all know that saying "time flies when you're having fun," right? The idea behind LFS first came to be in the first few months of 1999. The exact date has since been lost so I've taken to assume January for convenience reasons. This means that with a 2-3 month margin of error we ha