Greetings from not-so-afar

[Collins Richey]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I'm coming up on 9 years with Echostar now. Various RH variants and some
Solaris (uggh), but mostly $$$ backup and storage systems. We had a rorg
about a year ago, and my group wound up with a second-level manager who is
the best in the company, so I feel like I've died and gone to heaven.

At home I still run PCLinuxOS on my systems, although I did have to put up
Mint on my homebrew box. None of the others can grok the onboard RAID
setup. Haven't ever tried Fedora. Can't stand the frequent changes. PCLOS
is an install once, update forever system.

I haven't ever touched an Apple system, but everyone I know just loves
them.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>wrote:

> 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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>>
>>    Averaging at least 3 days of MTBWTF!?!?!?
>>   The solution for long term Internet growth is IPv6.
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>> |
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-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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