This talk is scheduled for the same time as the Tech Brewpub, next
Thursday. Too bad, it might have been fun.
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:02:12 -0700
Subject: [linux] Unix in a Linux Generation (Linux Discussion)
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Hello-
ACM and OSLUG have collected resources, and are having Jon Steinhart
come to chat with anyone who is interested. This will be a high level
informal talk about UNIX, Linux, philosophy, the government, open source
software, and alike.
Who: Jon Steinhart (More info below)
What: Unix in a Linux Generation (Unix/Linux Discussion)
Where: Owen 101
When: Thursday May 27th, 5pm
More info on Jon:
Jon Steinhart was born a nerd. His dad says that Jon had an
imaginary switch that he would use to turn on the swings before
using them, and he would turn them off when he was done. Jon
took apart everything that he could to find out how it worked.
He's old enough that things had visible parts; maybe they still
do and it's just his eyesight that's faded. One of the great
things about growing up a long time ago as a nerd in New Jersey
is that America still believed in the value of research into
things that didn't involve killing other people. And New Jersey
was the home of Bell Laboratories, the former Taj Mahal of
research. Jon lucked out by getting a series of summer jobs at
Bell, and it was so cool that he spent every free minute there.
Late at night he discovered this room up on the sixth floor of
building 2 next to the candy machines where a bunch of strange
people were working on this thing called UNIX. Jon went on to
get a degree in Electrical Engineering, and to get real jobs
doing stuff like designing instrumentation and user interfaces
and graphics systems, etc. He eventually discovered working for
himself as a consultant and has been doing it since, with a few
interruptions for things like farming. Pretty much everything
that he's done has involved some UNIX variant. So he's a got a
head full of UNIX history and gossip.
See you there!
Alex
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