<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 07:11, Jay Nugent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjn@nuge.com" target="_blank">jjn@nuge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings fellow Calderians,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Matthew Carpenter wrote:<br>
<br>
> Wow,<br>
><br>
> I totally forgot that I had messages automatically filed into the list<br>
> folder for this group. How the heck is everyone? Brought back a lot of<br>
> good memories to find this folder and 422 unread messages.<br>
><br>
> Me, I'm still running mostly Kubuntu boxen, and having to deal with<br>
> CentOS and Windows 7/Windows8/Server* at work.<br>
><br>
> Hope you are all healthy, well-employed, and well.<br>
><br>
> Matt<br>
<br>
<br>
</div> Consulting work has diminished greatly, and so has web hosting. Hard<br>
to compete with $9/mo services. So for the past 6 years I have been<br>
teaching UNIX/Linux System Administration for the local Community College.<br>
Two class, one is an Intro and the other is Intermediate. Occasionally I<br>
pick up a UNIX/Linux Intro class when the other instructors schedule gets<br>
overloaded and he needs to punt a calls over to me. We don't teach much<br>
GUI and stick to the command line. Funny how that class always has a<br>
reverse bell curve - 8 or 9 A's, a B, a C, and 4 or 5 F's. Seems with<br>
these MickySoft kids, they either get it or they don't !!!<br>
<br>
In the classroom we were using Fedora, until the snot-nosed<br>
pimply-faced kids wrecked it and turned it into the "worst Red Hat distro<br>
ever" (feel free to Google which famous kernel writer coined that<br>
comment). We have since switched to Centos, which I find much 'cleaner'<br>
with the exception of them not loading Flash by default.<br>
<br>
I've been running a mixture of Centos on my servers and was running<br>
Fedora on my workstation, but have since switched to Centos to stay<br>
current with my classroom. Also been teaching a lot of IPv6 despite the<br>
campus IT folk not having a clue and still not having deployed a v6<br>
network. This *IS* a production protocol and needs to be taught to these<br>
stoodies NOW! But the IT guys don't see any need, so I make certain that<br>
at least my stoodies know what it is and how to deploy it.<br>
<br>
Still VERY active in Amateur Radio and EMCOMM. Got engaged to a sweet<br>
gal (also a Ham - W8VWY) and we have spent the last year+ refurbishing her<br>
4 bedroom house to sell. She's been living here with me for the past year<br>
and a half, but once her house has sold we will no longer have any<br>
mortgages!!! Nice way to enter our semi-retirement years :)<br>
<br>
All in all things are good :)<br>
<br>
<br>
--- Jay Nugent WB8TKL<br>
Ypsilanti, Michigan<br>
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/\ support of plain text e-mail<br>
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Averaging at least 3 days of MTBWTF!?!?!?<br>
The solution for long term Internet growth is IPv6.<br>
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