[Tfug] specialties

[Steve Davis]

I used to be a real geek. Now I guess I'm a "suit" (oh, the shame of it all...). I used to program - in Pascal mostly, but also in FORTRAN, Icon, LISP and Prolog. For 
the last 12 years, I've been doing project management. Spent the first half of the 90's as an OS/2 advocate/specialist (I've even got a spiffy statue from IBM 
Germany, officially designating me as an "OS/2 Ambassador"), designing and implementing large scale OS/2 networks (mostly Token Ring, all with 3270 emulation) for 
Banks, Insurance Companies, Retailers and a couple of Newspapers. Mid-90's I helped a large Newspaper couple their pre-press system and the internet. Now I work 
for the systems arm of Europe's largest Telco, leading and managing projects around all kinds of stuff - Systems Management for the German ESA partner, Internet 
access for a couple of large Insurance Co.'s, Software Projects for some Government Offices, and lately, I'm defining the interoperability, marketing, testing and 
production processes for international B2B platforms. I'm pretty impressed with OSS, particularly Linux which I first played with in 1996 ( i guess that makes me a 
newbie), and have managed to get it into some places where it would otherwise have taken a lot longer to penetrate.

At home I've got an old IBM PS/2 Model 95 running SuSE 6.2 as a mail and news server, and its been crunching SETI@home WU's for the last 4 years (18235 hours 
33:012 min, albeit at the rate of about 1 WU every 22 days...), a 6 year old Compaq running my PPPoE gateway and FW, and Gentoo 1.2/Win XP on my main box. My Mac 
(8100/80) is currently in the basement, been there since I lost interest (along with everyone else, it seems) in mkLinux. My pride and joy, though is a working apple ][ 
europlus - with a Nec Amber Mono-monitor, z80/cpm card and a toggle-switch modified keyboard-prom that can actually (woohoo!) do lowercase - i'm waiting for the 
availability of the planned a2+ ethernet card to see if I can get it into my network somehow...

I was born and raised in Tucson, btw. which explains the interest in this list, i guess...

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:13:22 -0800, Judy Hayes wrote:

>I was trying to get a feel for what everyone does/is good at...
>What is everyone's specialties here (web development, gaming, hardware,
>building antennas out of cans etc..) and what distros is everyone running?
>server/client?
> ~jlh~
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Steve Davis
muaddib@arrakis.franken.de

-- If you don't know what it is, call it a system.