Greetings from not-so-afar

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings fellow Calderians,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> Wow,
>
> I totally forgot that I had messages automatically filed into the list 
> folder for this group. How the heck is everyone? Brought back a lot of 
> good memories to find this folder and 422 unread messages.
>
> Me, I'm still running mostly Kubuntu boxen, and having to deal with 
> CentOS and Windows 7/Windows8/Server* at work.
>
> Hope you are all healthy, well-employed, and well.
>
> Matt


    Consulting work has diminished greatly, and so has web hosting.  Hard 
to compete with $9/mo services.  So for the past 6 years I have been 
teaching UNIX/Linux System Administration for the local Community College. 
Two class, one is an Intro and the other is Intermediate.  Occasionally I 
pick up a UNIX/Linux Intro class when the other instructors schedule gets 
overloaded and he needs to punt a calls over to me.  We don't teach much 
GUI and stick to the command line.  Funny how that class always has a 
reverse bell curve - 8 or 9 A's, a B, a C, and 4 or 5 F's.  Seems with 
these MickySoft kids, they either get it or they don't !!!

    In the classroom we were using Fedora, until the snot-nosed 
pimply-faced kids wrecked it and turned it into the "worst Red Hat distro 
ever" (feel free to Google which famous kernel writer coined that 
comment).  We have since switched to Centos, which I find much 'cleaner' 
with the exception of them not loading Flash by default.

    I've been running a mixture of Centos on my servers and was running 
Fedora on my workstation, but have since switched to Centos to stay 
current with my classroom.  Also been teaching a lot of IPv6 despite the 
campus IT folk not having a clue and still not having deployed a v6 
network.  This *IS* a production protocol and needs to be taught to these 
stoodies NOW!  But the IT guys don't see any need, so I make certain that 
at least my stoodies know what it is and how to deploy it.

    Still VERY active in Amateur Radio and EMCOMM.  Got engaged to a sweet 
gal (also a Ham - W8VWY) and we have spent the last year+ refurbishing her 
4 bedroom house to sell.  She's been living here with me for the past year 
and a half, but once her house has sold we will no longer have any 
mortgages!!!   Nice way to enter our semi-retirement years :)

    All in all things are good :)


       --- Jay Nugent   WB8TKL
           Ypsilanti, Michigan

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