Hi! I've been lurking for a few days, and figured it would be polite to introduce myself. I'm a long-term Linux user, having started back in '93/'94 -- and a Unix dabbler before then (Coherent, SCO, Eunice, a smattering of SunOS). I've used most major distributions (and a fair number of Unices) at one point or another, but went pretty hard for Debian around 2001, and Ubuntu some four years ago. In my day job, I've worked as a *nix/'doze SysAdmin (in one guise or another) since '85 at places as varied as a weekly newspaper, a bakery, UPS' IS HQ, Cisco, and my current employer, Segway.
While I'm not actually a resident of Vermont (I live in Merrimack, NH), I've always really enjoyed the state, and even got married there. What bring my attention westward now, though, is the fact that my daughter starts school at Champlain College come August. I've participated, on and off again, with the GNHLUG over here, but have had to put active participation on the back burner with the birth of daughter 2.0 some three years ago. My current feat is to see whether or not I can wrap my head around Python: never having delved into OOP before, I admit that some of the concepts are not entirely intuitive. But I've been using Perl for too long, and it's feeling an awful lot like "When all you use is Perl, everything begins to look like a nail," if you will. Anyway, that 'bout sums it up, in altogether too many words. Greetings from the Granite State! -Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
