Greetings from not-so-afar

[James McDonald]

When I saw the word "Calderians" it prompted a memory of me buying a box
set of Caldera Open Linux 2.4 CD's in London in '98-'99.

Since Unity prompted a move away from Ubuntu I have used Fedora (with the
default gnome shell) at home and Redhat 5.x, CentOS 6.x & Debian at work
but in a Windows Centric environment.




On 27 November 2013 07:11, Jay Nugent <jjn at nuge.com> wrote:

> 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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