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[Joel Hammer]

Well, I am still working (not in IT, never was. I work in health care.)
but I still use linux (now ubuntu and mint) everyday. Was using gnuplot
today to emulate immunosubtraction  immunotyping graphs, trying to
understand how to read them things. (Yes, I am a freak.) Mathematical
modelling seems to be the only way to go on those, but the company
inexplicably hasn't done it.

I was really helped by the Caldera user group. That's when I learned
almost everything I know about computer software (web page design,
apache, TK, html, javascript, DNS, sendmail, email,networking, vim, sed,
I have forgotten what else. Oh, yes. Bash.) I still do web page stuff
for work, which requires me to keep up my skills in javascript, HTML,
sed, bash, and starbasic (now libreoffice basic.) 

Since linux has gotten so user friendly, I hardly ever look under the
hood anymore. Things just work (mostly!)

I am 67. Plan on retiring in a couple of years. Then, get a camper and
explore the lower 48.

Joel





On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 08:20 -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> 
> I'm still here.  New $DAYJOB (since Jan) is SysAdmin at Rice
> University for the Computer Science Department.  Academia is
> different, but admin'ing Linux is, well, admin'ing Linux.  Most of the
> folks here want/like Ubuntu (which I support for them), the University
> "standard" however is RHEL as the IT department invested in a
> Satellite server (what a waste of money).
> 
> 
> I am retired once -- in another 10 years (targetting 70) I will retire
> two more times.  Three retirement checks should allow me enough income
> to relax.  But I'm not really looking forward to it.  Retirement just
> sounds boring.
> 
> 
> David A. Bandel
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:48 PM, John C. Voigt <jcvoigt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On 07/15/2014 01:19 PM, Lonni J Friedman eloquently noted:
>         
>         > Where are all you folks working these days?
>         >
>         
>         
>         <snip>
>         
>         State of IN - 17 yrs to go...maybe ;-)
>         
>         Doing (coal) mine reclamation planning/reviewing/permitting
>         and field
>         inspections. I mostly only do IT stuff for my Mrs' small
>         business and
>         friends now, and some PC support and minor network stuff at
>         work, so I'm
>         back in the field.
>         
>         Everything in state IT was "centralized" and I didn't want to
>         move, and
>         put up with their $*xt (not to mention the 75mi drive if I
>         didn't move)
>         so....
>         
>         Still have a copy of OpenLinux 1.2, maybe I should see if I
>         can get it
>         to work on an old box. I'd love to try CND 1.0 again if I had
>         one. Lost
>         my original in a basement flood in 2008.
>         
>         Good to "hear" from y'all again.
>         
>         L8R,
>         
>         JV
>         --
>         _/- John Voigt - K9GBO - Registered Linux User #38558
>         _/- System Administrator - Valley Technology
>         _/- jcvoigt at gmail.com - Terre Haute, IN
>         
>         To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.
>                 -- Benjamin Franklin
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