Greetings from not-so-afar

[C M Reinehr]

Ditto on the Happy Thanksgiving! Whether we are giving thanks to surviving a 
harrowing sea voyage to a safe landing in a new colony, thanks for a bountiful 
harvest, or thanks for victory in battle, we have much to be thankful for and, 
for one day at least, can put aside our differences.

This list has slowed considerably since those Caldera days, but I'm still 
here. Still using Debian -- Squeeze for now, but soon Wheezy. Debian Stable is 
just that, stable, so few problems any more. Stable used to be somewhat behind 
but, these days, it does everything I need to do and there's no reason to 
suffer the bleeding edge.

Being self-employed I'm happy to report that I'm still in business & still 
self-employed -- and still doing my own systems administration. Hasn't seen 
much of a recovery yet from the "great recession" of 2009, but things 
gradually are getting better. Maybe next year ... ;-)

Cheers!

cmr


On Thu 28 November 2013 11:06:15 am Collins Richey wrote:
> 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
> >>          
> >>          () ascii ribbon campaign in
> >>          /\ support of plain text e-mail
> >>    
> >>    Averaging at least 3 days of MTBWTF!?!?!?
> >>   
> >>   The solution for long term Internet growth is IPv6.
> >> 
> >> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> -+
> >> 
> >> | Jay Nugent   jjn at nuge.com    (734)484-5105    (734)649-0850/Cell
> >> | 
> >> |   Nugent Telecommunications  [www.nuge.com]
> >> |   
> >> |   Internet Consulting/Linux SysAdmin/Engineering & Design             
> >> |   |
> >> | 
> >> | ISP Monitoring [www.ispmonitor.org] ISP & Modem Performance Monitoring
> >> 
> >> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> -+
> >> 
> >>   14:01:01 up 4 days, 20:18,  2 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.43, 0.49
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Linux-users mailing list
> >> Linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> >> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Linux-users mailing list
> > Linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> > http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

-- 
Debian "Squeeze" Registered Linux User #241964
----
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." -- 
Benjamin Franklin
------