-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone,
My name is Brian Morris and I recently relocated here from the DFW area of north Texas. My wife is from Reno and has a lot of family here, and as the allergies she developed in Texas became worse over the years she developed a strong desire to return here. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, so here I am. I found work here much more quickly than I anticipated and will begin in my new position this coming Monday, 10/10/2005. It's a purely *nix position, but currently it is much more Solaris than Linux. I'll work on that. ;) Over the years I have had many titles, but the one that seems to fit the best and most frequently is "Network & Systems Engineer". I tend to specialize in enterprise architecture/implementation/management, cross-platform integrations and Linux conversions, whether from other Nix's, Windows or even other flavors/distro levels of Linux. I have a sometimes-annoying knack for making stuff work together that was never intended to do so. I've been involved with Linux since around 1998 and have been using it as a serving platform since 1999. I converted my workstations to pure Linux in 2002 and have never looked back. My current favorite distro is Kubuntu, and I even have my wife and her parents running on it now. I like to give feedback to OSS developers (I'm still trying to get Aaron Seigo to bring back my "zooming icons" in KDE... aiming for tiny icons at high resolution is like trying to thread a needle - heh), and I also tend to create GPL'd scripts/apps for automation and niche needs that I find. One example of this is when I couldn't find a parser for a particular format of Cisco PIX logging. I had a need to evaluate some logs for a client (about 40GB of them) so I wrote my own parser for it: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=132742 This is not to infer, by any means, that I am a developer. It's just a hobby I have and I tend to play around with all kinds of languages for my own purposes... kind of a "jack of all trades, master of none" setting. For hobbies we game (my wife is still playing WoW, I'm currently messing around in UT2004 (again), HL2 (again) and NWN (again)), fish, water ski, rollerblade with our dogs (I'm dying to hit Rock Park - I just have to find it again - lol) and like to hit a show every now and then (I'm hoping Cirque du Soleil extends their "O" show at Bally's in Vegas so we can catch them in December, once things have calmed down a bit for us). I look forward to being an active member of RLUG, and I hope to meet many of you at the October meeting. Thank you, Brian Morris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRsQ88iwHek1OcGYRAgmCAJ4sVqnIu0ttdjTDQOLwiyIowf8yiQCffbbH OcmUiIpJNk00+V2o6LUZ/sU= =tCtn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
