Whoa whoa whoa....
That went preeetty fast into flames
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("flames" as in the irc slang flaming somebody, not as the flames of hell, that might carry some religious connotations
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lol
I'll be perfectly honest with you, take it as it is or dont:
First and foremost:
I am aware that I am the newcomer here, in the sense, that I just subscribed to this forum, I barely posted anything, this is amongst my first posts, I do not know nothing about this community, but nor do you know anything about me.
I consider myself a polite person, I dont want stomp on anyones beliefs, and I dont want to breach any forum etiquette or cause any kind of disruption.
If you consider (forum admin, the community, whatever) that my post is inappropriate, and I do not belong here, than I'll respect that, (because I am that polite), you dont even have to ban me, I will voluntarily leave and never ever return.
In the spirit of lets not waste each others time, you mine, and I yours.
So as good manners demand, let me introduce myself.
My name is Várhelyi Áron. I was born in Romania in 1981 and still live there. As ethnicity I am hungarian (or better said secler). As some of you may know (or dont) in Romania in the Carpathian basin do live a group of o people called seclers (székely in hungarian) who are the biggest ethnic minority in romania. We speak hungarian, but we consider ourselves seclers (székelyek), think of it as an ancient hungarian tribe, we are not the same as people who live in Hungary, but we are like close brothers, we do speak a kind of dialect, but the difference is so slight, we can understand each other perfectly.
The common stereotype about seclers is that they are laconic people, who speak few words, they are wise and cunning, they value most of all freedom, (our most venered three values are: freedom,honor,and decency) not only as freedom of speech, but freedom of the individual, they are very tolerant, they will tolerate every belief and anything as long as it dont cuts into our freedom and humanity. Also we are very stubborn people, the good thing is we are also tolerant, so we can tolerate each others stubborness. We have a strong sense of nationality, we defend our own culture and language to the last blood, but we dont impose it on no one. We do believe in God, thou we dont follow any religion, we had a shamanic type belief system, of course nowadays we all are christians or reformats.
On the other side we are warriors, we were the poeple who in lead of our king Attila raided europe on horseback, with arches, all of europe feard us, hence the saying "may god save us from the arrows of Attilla the hun".
Bruhh...man, I had yapped enough about history and all..
I said all that just to ilustrate what kind of background do I come from, not to shine or polish myself (although I forgot to mention that we are also proud
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Haha haha
) and I am very modest too... (pinky swear)
My father was programmer, I myself am a programmer. I worked mainly with databases, SQL server, Access, VB, and as a C#, C++ programmer, I dabbled shortly with Objective C and iPhone programming.
My true love is C and perhaps C++, but I also like python.
As a matter of OSes I grew up on DOS, then I used every version of Windows (my favorite among them was win2k, along with winNT), than later on I have tried most any flavor of Linux, begun with Red Hat (back then it was free, and the main flavor), then Debian, Slack, Arch, and many more, (not to forget FreeBSD, even back then I felt atracted to it, I dont know why) I even had a Macbook, and of course iPhone (the first version) it was fun...
So the reason I told you the whole story about seclers, is that I am true secler.
I am stubborn as hell, but also tolerant. I prefer to walk away, rather then fight over nothing, or cause harm.
I will defend my truth and freedom, but only if there is whom to talk. (meaning only if I see hope that the other side will understand.)
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I think Woody Allan once said: "There is no point about argueing with idiots, they will only bring you down to their level, and beat you with their routine"
So, with all that said. Yes its true, I am stubborn, but also open minded. I may come across as a bit harsh, but I'm only speaking from my sincere mind, I have no bad intentions, I dont want hurt anybodies feelings.
And to finish it up, here are my 2 cents:
When I started this thread, I was under the illusion that I started it in the "Miscellaneous/Off-Topic" section, where the motto is "chit chat about anything" maybe not about any other OSes technicalities . Well with all honesty, I do have a strange love for FreeBSD, maybe the kind of where even I cant reasonably argue why, as I said I tried many OS -es, I cant honestly say which one is better, Linux is pretty stable, so is FreeBSD, both have about the same principles, the same qualities, same programs available. So I guess is upto personal taste, maybe the logo (the little beastie) caught me, maybe that it has the word "free" in its name, all I know that I returned many times to FreeBSD (not necessarily for any rational reasons). I also think that it deserves more popularity, because it is up to par with any Linux distro, it is an operating system that can serve any user as a valid Desktop OS, as mutch as any Linux distro, yet I feel is mutch less used as such.
To return to me, among the many virtues I posess, right after modesty and humbleness, beneath intelligence and below abstract thinking I also have a good sense humor.
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Back to chit chat about everything.
Let me just ask you:
How afraid are you of religious terms?
May I mention the word "God" in any post?
Do I have to be a certified atheist to dare to write here?
is the phrase "oh, my God! I knew I forgot something!" offending someone here?
Or is the term "Evangelist" somehow offending that I dont know of?
Or may I presume you are not familiar with and/or considering offending the figure of speach "it is a holy war" describing a situation when two parties are argueing about two brands of essentialy the same quality, yet they are defending as if theirs where better, more original,"way cooler", or "the only true way".
As a non native english speaker do I really have to explain the somewhat abstract meaning of the word "Evangelist" as to mean "someone who is standing up spreading the word and popularizing an idea, with the intention of convicing others"
Or was I offending just yet as I said these?...
Well let just quietly add impulsiveness to my list of "virtues".
As usual no one is forced to agree with me, feel free to say so if I or my attitude is not wellcome here...
