Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Russell Senior wrote:


It is important to understand, when judging his behavior, that Karl had
some mental health challenges. It's probably wise and charitable to have
flexible expectations.


Thank you Russell for explaining this.

Rich

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Russell Senior 
It is important to understand, when judging his behavior, that Karl
had some mental health challenges. It's probably wise and charitable
to have flexible expectations.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:58 PM Michael Dexter  wrote:
>
> On 8/18/21 3:04 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > If I had to use one word to describe Karl, it would be earnest.
>
> RIP Karl :-(
>
> As Zot lovingly joked about him, "Debian! What was the question?"
>
> Karl represented my first exposure to the Debian community and yep,
> that's how they role and the world is a better place for it.
>
> Stay safe.
>
> Michael

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Michael Dexter 

On 8/18/21 3:04 PM, Galen Seitz wrote:

If I had to use one word to describe Karl, it would be earnest.


RIP Karl :-(

As Zot lovingly joked about him, "Debian! What was the question?"

Karl represented my first exposure to the Debian community and yep, 
that's how they role and the world is a better place for it.


Stay safe.

Michael

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Ben Koenig 
It would be nice to take some time to remember the past. Lately it feels like 
there is too much emphasis on the future.

Someone had to build all these tools and without them I wouldnt be where I am 
today.
-Ben

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 Original Message 
On Aug 25, 2021, 9:34 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Galen Seitz wrote:
>
>> Someday we should organize a reunion of sorts.
>
> Don't forget Eric Harrison.
>
> Rich

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, Galen Seitz wrote:


Someday we should organize a reunion of sorts.


Don't forget Eric Harrison.

Rich

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Galen Seitz 

On 8/25/21 8:51 AM, Dan Young wrote:

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Galen Seitz  wrote:


If you have some time to waste, scroll through some of the messages from
2002 and reminisce about long lost members.  Wil, Carla, Geoff, Dan,
etc., where are you now?




Reading some of those old messages is a trip! Thanks for sharing that Galen.

I'm still around, but have regretfully not been participating in the list
much. I've somehow managed to hold onto a job at New Relic for the last
seven years.

Hope you are all well. Cheers,



Great to hear that you are still around.  Someday we should organize a 
reunion of sorts.


In other old-timey news, it was thirty years ago today that Linus posted 
his famous message.




galen
--
Galen Seitz
gal...@seitzassoc.com

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-25 Thread Dan Young 
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Galen Seitz  wrote:

> If you have some time to waste, scroll through some of the messages from
> 2002 and reminisce about long lost members.  Wil, Carla, Geoff, Dan,
> etc., where are you now?
> 


Reading some of those old messages is a trip! Thanks for sharing that Galen.

I'm still around, but have regretfully not been participating in the list
much. I've somehow managed to hold onto a job at New Relic for the last
seven years.

Hope you are all well. Cheers,

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-18 Thread Russell Senior 
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 3:04 PM Galen Seitz  wrote:
>

> [...]

> If you have some time to waste, scroll through some of the messages from
> 2002 and reminisce about long lost members.  Wil, Carla, Geoff, Dan,
> etc., where are you now?
> 

Wil Cooley is at PSU still, afaik. I see Dan Haskell on Twitter.

>
> One other thing I noticed while scrolling through this is that Greg K-H
> was once on the plug list.  I guess I didn't recognize the name at the time.

I went to a PLUG talk Greg K-H gave, although I don't recall the
topic. My records from January 2001 says it was an Advanced Topics
talk on Immunix. Or maybe Linux Hotplugging in June 2001. Or both.

Immunix was bought by Novell, and I recall spotting Greg walking
through the Salt Lake City on one of my infrequent plane trips.

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-18 Thread Galen Seitz 

On 8/15/21 10:09 PM, Russell Senior wrote:

I have a vague memory that someone spotted this before, but in case
that is a false memory, someone else mentioned this on an IRC channel
this evening, and given his connection to PLUG in the early days, I
thought it was worth a (nother) mention here:

   https://www.wiscombememorial.com/obituaries/Karl-Hegbloom/#!/Obituary

I remember Karl as an enthusiastic Debian guy. If there was a problem,
Debian was likely to be the answer. As a person on the .deb side of
the planet, I couldn't help but find that endearing. I spotted his
name on the OpenWrt git log and had a brief email conversation with
him in 2013. I think he was living in Salt Lake City by then.


Sorry to hear this news.  He was a very active participant in the group 
for many years.  IIRC, he was the list maintainer at one point.


If I had to use one word to describe Karl, it would be earnest.  I'll 
never forget when Karl berated me for posting the whole man page for tac 
response to question from Richard(?) titled "A linux tool to invert a 
file?".  My email consisted of the output of "man tac | tac".  Well, at 
least *I* thought it was funny.  I'm not sure if he ever noticed the man 
page was reversed.


If you have some time to waste, scroll through some of the messages from 
2002 and reminisce about long lost members.  Wil, Carla, Geoff, Dan, 
etc., where are you now?



One other thing I noticed while scrolling through this is that Greg K-H 
was once on the plug list.  I guess I didn't recognize the name at the time.


galen
--
Galen Seitz
gal...@seitzassoc.com

Re: [PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-16 Thread Paul Heinlein 

On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Russell Senior wrote:


 https://www.wiscombememorial.com/obituaries/Karl-Hegbloom/#!/Obituary

I remember Karl as an enthusiastic Debian guy. If there was a problem,
Debian was likely to be the answer. As a person on the .deb side of
the planet, I couldn't help but find that endearing. I spotted his
name on the OpenWrt git log and had a brief email conversation with
him in 2013. I think he was living in Salt Lake City by then.


I only met Karl once or twice, back in the late 90s. He was the first 
to show me the Ctrl-R (reverse search) function in bash, which I had 
never seen before. He was definitely a Debian guy and full-throated 
advocate of fully free, GPL-licensed software.


--
Paul Heinlein
heinl...@madboa.com
45.38° N, 122.59° W

[PLUG] Belated RIP for former PLUGer, Karl Hegbloom

2021-08-15 Thread Russell Senior 
I have a vague memory that someone spotted this before, but in case
that is a false memory, someone else mentioned this on an IRC channel
this evening, and given his connection to PLUG in the early days, I
thought it was worth a (nother) mention here:

  https://www.wiscombememorial.com/obituaries/Karl-Hegbloom/#!/Obituary

I remember Karl as an enthusiastic Debian guy. If there was a problem,
Debian was likely to be the answer. As a person on the .deb side of
the planet, I couldn't help but find that endearing. I spotted his
name on the OpenWrt git log and had a brief email conversation with
him in 2013. I think he was living in Salt Lake City by then.

-- 
Russell Senior
russ...@personaltelco.net