Hey Everyone, Art Wilton has made us an offer to use some of his office space for our meetings. From what I've gathered from the conversation I had with him, he has a 100MB switch connected to the Internet and a number of old PCs that he's been trying to get Linux on. I forgot to ask him about whether he has a projector available for presentations during the meeting. Art could you clarify this for us?
So I'd like the group to discuss this and come up with a decision as to whether we'd like to keep meeting at the library or meet at his office which is based in Hightstown. Wayne, you mentioned a couple of things in regard to this. Would you send it to the list for consideration. Thanks. Let the discussion begin. Jeff >From: art wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:23:58 -0500 > >Jeff, > > I found out about HAMLUG through a bunch of Internet searches. >Recently I subscribed to your mailing list and had every intention of >attending my first HAMLUG meeting this month. >However, being a new father, my 2 week old daughter had other plans for me. >:) >So since I have now recovered from a totally sleepless night, I just wanted >to follow up and let you know how disappointed I am having missed the >meeting. I would also like to tell you a little about myself. > >I am 30 years old, and have been working with PC's for a LONG LONG time. >My father works for Avaya and has been in their R&D facility since the >company was called Western Electric. (that's about 31 years) >So suffice it to say, I was born and bread to be a geek. My first use of a >computer was with one of those OLD thermal printer terminals with an >acoustic coupler for a modem, which dialed into a super computer about the >size of a city block housed at AT&T in Holmdel NJ. >This system ran the original UNIX System x developed for AT&T by AT&T. >I then graduated up to an actual dumb terminal with a 300 bps modem (yeah >no more running out of paper wi\hile playing dungeon games) >from there I moved on to an Osborne II running CPM and I still didn't have >a command to clear the screen! So I had to learn how to program. >Just as I was getting used to writing macros to get the box to do what I >wanted along came Bill Gates and another company called Compaq and I got to >run MS-Dos 1.0 on an suitcase sized Intel based computer. Still no hard >drive. >From there I moved up to AT&T PC 6300 >A HP box running win 3.1 >then the fun began. I started building my own.... > >Gave up on college in 92 (was studying Poli Sci at Monmouth College) and >joined the Marine Corps. >This is where I learned about useless programming languages such as ADA and >also learned that the old terminal based AT&T super computer I was using >years earlier didn't die, it got sold to the military. (Yes even in the >military I was assigned to be a data dink) >After struggling with windows 3.x and getting it to work with Banyan Vines >(another system 5 derivative) I learned about this wonderful OS called >FreeBSD (those guys at Berkley are my heros) > >After the military, I went to work consulting for PSE&G in their IT >department where I learned about neat things like Cisco Routers and TIS >firewall and such. > >Two years later I was offered a position with First National Funding to >head up their IT dept. I was in charge of all the tech needs of the >corporate office and 30 branch offices nationwide. After learning about fun >stuff like P&L statements and budgeting, and other management functions, as >well as building on kick ass network (pardon my lack of modesty) they >decided to thank me for all of my work by closing up shop. > >Swearing never to fall victim to this again, I started 3rd Floor >Communications. Based in Hightstown, It provides basic ISP and Hosting >Services as well as attempts to meet all IT and Communications needs of >small companies. In the two years, we have become an IBM business partner, >an Avaya Business partner and we are currently working with Nokia to deploy >a wireless broadband solution in the area. >(Sorry, don't mean to make this sound like and advertisement) > >So here I am still loving Linux. Running Redhat 7.x on my boxes. > >I have been reading the messages coming across the mailing list, and >noticed that most members of the group prefer practical application type >meetings as opposed to lecture based meetings. therefore I would like to >extend to the group the use of my office space here in Hightstown for it's >meetings. > >Please feel free to contact me for more information on my offer or for >anything else related to the group. > > Sincerely, > > Art Wilton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 609-371-9444 ext 13 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
