Brian, Welcome to Reno! Welcome to RLUG! It will be great to have such an experienced *nix user join our group.
I'll be sending out the meeting anouncement this weekend. If you have any questions please send them to the list. I look forward to meeting you. - Sebastian On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Brian Morris wrote: > -----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 > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
