Welcome to the list, and out-of-towners are always welcome in my book, anyways. I hold no say on the decision, but I know we have at least one member that does not reside within Vermont. -- There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who do not. --- David McClellan
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
