[Cialug] Another introduction

[Scott Yates]

We may need a t-shirt saying "I SPOTTED THE FED"

lol


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:44 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Uh, no one that I am aware of currently has encyclopedic knowledge of this
> amorphous, ever-evolving thing we call linux.  I think Linus may have had
> that until around 1992.  You're in good company.
>
> So, you _were_ employed by the federal government?  For the record, I
> called it first at the meeting.
>
> --jim
>  On Jul 22, 2013 8:07 PM, "Nicholas Olson" <nicholas.olson83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Since Aaron took the time to introduce himself, as another CIALug noob I
> > thought it would be a good idea to do the same. My name is Nick, and I
> > recently relocated to the Des Moines area to start my career after
> > graduating from the Computer Science department at UNI.  I've been a
> member
> > of CedarLUG for the past few years, as well as the head of UNI's Computer
> > Club and a member of the cyber defense team. Prior to college, I spent 7
> > years in the military as a satellite communications network controller.
> > I've been interested in *nix for over a decade now, but only since my
> > second year in college did I ever really go beyond just basic use. Now
> > after 3 years of regular use, thanks to everything that Linux can do,
> > rarely a day goes by where I don't recognize my knowledge base as still
> > being severely deficient in some way.
> >
> > I'm really looking forward to getting more involved in the community in
> the
> > coming months. I did come to the meeting last week, and was that quiet
> > [possible fed?] at the end just listening to everyone's stories. I am
> > limited in what I can do yet, as I'm still getting settled and trying to
> > find a permanent residence. The African missionaries who own condos and
> > homes in DSM and are trying to rent them out on Craigslist are making
> that
> > difficult. As a person who had 20+ computer systems in his spare bedroom
> > and countless VM's, being limited to a couple laptops on spotty hotel
> wifi
> > for the last 4 weeks is diving me nuts.
> >
> > Nick
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