that the Ontario Hurd group might be my closest. It takes me about an hour to haul
the tomatoes through the mountains until I hit Buffalo and its mega traffic from then
on. I love where I live, little PA town in the heart of the Allegheney National Forest,
yet a stones throw from Erie, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo.
I wouldn't mind visiting someday if I can. I have to work now that I finally made
Mechanical Engineer, and I have major college loans, but I try to spend some of my
free time hacking on Debian since it's my OS of choice.
Bit of Bio:
I just upgraded my Debian/Linux to "Woody", and am very impressed. It is so
nice it blows away windoze any day. My Hurd is currently somewhat broken, yet
still boots, and I have a HP9000 915/80 which also runs PA-RISC Debian. I wanted
to use HP9000 as a debugger to help Roland fix SMP OSKit-Mach but to my great
amazement the hppa port of Debian doesn't have GDB precompiled, so that project
has crashed and burned for the meantime.
I admit my time is limited. I am an engineer grad and I spend a lot of my brainpower
now at work to try and keep the welders and assemblers cranking on the company's
accelerated growth plan. When I get home I am lucky if I even play a Quake level
or two to kick back.
I'm not a Hurd ( or Debian ) developer, but rather a user / helper. Someday I would
like to be a developer but so far I am happy to be a user. I managed to get Hurd running
with few problems. but I'm very used to Debian.
At work, I have a Linux buddy, he is into RedHat because thats all he knows, and he
is kind of my boss. Our project is to develop real-time industrial controller software for
our equipment for like in-house testers and such. His bent is c++ and Motif, whereas I
tend to favor Ada95 and GTK+. No doubt I would easily win except I don't want to
have to teach him Ada and GTK and I can already use c++ and Motif. I think that Hurd running under a real-time Mach microkernel is the industrialist's
dream! That is why I want to help be a OSKit-Mach kernel hacker... the business
potential is enormous for the engineer!
Thimk about it :-)
- Doug
Ryan Golbeck wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:51:35PM -0400, B. Douglas Hilton wrote:
Where exactly is Kingston Ontario? I live in Bradford Pennsylvania and I can get to Toronto in like 3 hours of 120kph bumper to bumper driving on six lanes on the QEW. I love visiting Canada. Last time I was there I saw the Cure at the Molson Ampitheatre and it was awesome. Some dude passed me a er.. cigarette, I had a great time!
Kingston is an hour and a half or so passed Toronto from where you're coming from. Kitchener is just a little bit closer than driving straight to TO just a little out of the way you would be come up.
