[Tfug] specialties

[Steve Davis]

oops. forgot something - my gateway is running Mandrake 7.2. At work, we mostly recommend SuSE Enterprise Server - we're in Germany, after all...

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 23:23:48 +0200, Steve Davis wrote:

>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.
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>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 ]
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>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...
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>I was born and raised in Tucson, btw. which explains the interest in this list, i guess...
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>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:13:22 -0800, Judy Hayes wrote:
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>>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
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>-- If you don't know what it is, call it a system.
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Steve Davis
muaddib@arrakis.franken.de

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