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Hullo. I'm the quiet, scruffy looking guy that was at the meeting last night, (Sept 9th, for those of you who are indeed not clairvoyant). I didn't take the opportunity to introduce myself, so I will now. My name is Bryan, I am 28, live in Eugene, and am a technology enthusiast. I work in the office for an HVAC (heating and air conditioning company), and my responsibilities include dispatch, network admin, gen. office duties, as well as any number of projects. At the moment my assignment is rewriting the dispatch application that we use, which is proprietary, extremely outdated, and extremely overpriced. It would cost us several thousand dollars to update, and the tech support (via phone) is something like $30 a *minute*, (which is necessary, as the producers of this software purposely include no documentation, and have made the layout and design, as well as the administration of this application as cryptic and archaic as possible...). Anyways, I am doing the dispatch system with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic for Applications. Eventually, I am going to start work on converting the whole system to L.A.M.P., as almost all of the machines on our network are running old and abused installs of Windows 98. My coworkers are open to giving *nix a go, but as I am the only one who knows what's going on, I don't want to jump into that. So easy does it is the plan. By the way, we can't update our workstations with any other operating system, as the dispatch application we currently use requires Windows 98, and we don't know how to reinstall the application, and can't afford the $30 a minute phone support. But I digress... I was wondering if any of you, (I know that Linux folk always have extra hardware, I know I do...) have an extra 17" or larger monitor to either trade for (hardware) or sell. I can't afford a new one, and I have a couple of web sites I need to design, and can't on an 800*600 resolution. I have a lot of older hardware to offer for trade, including a few switches, a could of PII complete PC's, a few smallish HDDs (between 2-8G), quite a few PCI cards, as well as a few AGP vid cards, etc... Please get back to me via the list, or my email address (email address preferred). My email address is listed below; just replace the words with the correct characters. (I know this is getting pretty common, formatting email addresses like this in public forums, but for the few who haven't yet seen this, the email address is given this way to avoid being detected and harvested by programs that search the internet for email addresses on forum and mailing list posts, public profiles, web pages, etc... So just replace the <at> with @, and the <dot> with .) And last but not least, I just got a few more Gmail invites, if anybody would like to try it. Just email me with your first and last name, and email address, and I will send you a Gmail invitation. Thanks everybody, and I look forward to being involved with your group. Bryan daddyb<at>gmail<dot>com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
