Good luck Karl... We will miss you. --Bill
-----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Karl Pearson Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:29 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Saying Goodbye... I'm not sure if most, or any, of you actually know me, but here's what amounts to my swan song. For the past 18+ years I've been a decent UV DBA. I took classes from Mark Baldridge and later Joel Yates way back when to learn how to manually repair corrupt files, and was proficient before uniVerse became so stable that corrupt files happened infrequently and fixtool worked. But during that time, I've maintained a personal email and web server, running Majordomo v1.94.5, etc. and have learned a bit about the LAMP stack in so doing. I've been a layed-off DBA, for a small retail company, for the past 22 months, consulting my previous employer because they got rid of me so they could have salary cap to hire a different type of IT manager and move off UV to Profit21, which failed after $250,000 lost. They are back on UV and will stay now. I, however, have to move on because I've received the proverbial offer one can't refuse ($5000US signing bonus and the option for 5000 shares of company stock), plus no one in the 'PICK' world has offered me anything, though there may be a few things still in the works, which will now go quietly away. I will be working in the LAMP world now, making a living doing my hobby, so to speak. (FYI: LAMP = Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or Perl, depending on who you listen to) I may hang around on the list for a bit, but will eventually have to unsubscribe as my life moves farther and father away from a field I have grown to respect and enjoy. Best wishes to all of you, and like others before me, I'm sure I'll miss the group association you've provided, though I'm mostly just a quiet observer. Thanks and I'll never forget this group of intelligent, insightful, thought-provoking and often entertaining, professionals. --- Karl Pearson ka...@ourldsfamily.com Owner/Administrator of the sites at http://ourldsfamily.com --- "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." --- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. --Benjamin Franklin --- Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. --- _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
