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Mr. Johansson: For whatever it is worth, a very good basketball coach from North Carolina State, USA, wrote a book, after it was learned he had contacted cancer and after his team in the 198x had won the national collegiate basketball championship on a last second shot. It was during his publicized battle with cancer that he wrote this book, which was about his life and the championship year his team had had and the other struggles that each of us encounter during our lifetime. The name of his book was "Don't give up......don't ever give up" I viewed this book as one of the best self-help books I had ever read. I received from it the encouragement to continue on, no matter.........! I'm still trying to learn Linux and I have quite a ways to go. I still consider myself a newbie, which I am, but I continue on, inspite of some of some of the road blocks I encounter on a daily basis. Its from people like yourself that I receive encouragement to carry on in my daily life to learn. Its called "passion". I have a passion, now, to learn all I can about Linux and to become good at it and to be able to help others in their quest for knowledge.
From all the accolades I have read it seems you have had a passion these last several years and this passion appears to have caught on with others you have helped. That, sir, is a result of your loving what you are doing and that is giving of yourself to help others and the appreciation is coming back 10 fold.
In a couple of months I will be 67 years old and those words of Jim Valvano still ring in my ears........"Don't give up.......don't ever give up!" David M. Parson