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Unless a newbie has a specific urgent question for which most newbies don't seem to care to search a likely already posted answer, there's no need to rush to post something. Take your time to work through a lot of valuable information in Lauda's topic and summary post.
It's fine when you have registered an account here at bitcointalk.org and not post for the first weeks or months. The sticky posts in many forum sections are there for a purpose and that purpose is not solely decorative! Read and learn, repeat.