RE: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-08 Thread Ted Roche
maddog: Thanks for an on-topic post! I think you've asked some great questions. I look forward to the discussion. I'm the guy who showed up in Durham two years ago and suggested that New User night would be a good idea. I haven't made it back to a meeting since. It's a long story. I'll try har

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-04 Thread Chris
004/02/03 Tue PM 08:51:21 EST > > To: Greater NH Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?! > > > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What do you look for

Re: Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-04 Thread paul.cour1
who can present a "Front running topic" -pc > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2004/02/03 Tue PM 08:51:21 EST > To: Greater NH Linux User Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?! > > On Thu, 2

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-03 Thread bscott
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, at 5:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you look for in GNHLUG? Everything that you and others have said: Community, camaraderie, knowledge-sharing with peers, interesting presentations. > What brings you to a meeting? My car. ;-) Seriously, I go to meetings ma

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-02 Thread Richard Soule
Michael ODonnell wrote: What an opportunity to embarrass yourself! Might also be good preparation for a job interview... More or less, this is how I got my job at Oracle. An Oracle sales consulting director came to UNH to help troubleshoot an Oracle issue on a machine. I think it was something a

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-02 Thread bmcculley
>> Something that might be kind of fun would be to 'sort of break' >> a linux installation (mis-configure something, 'degrade' a needed >> library, etc.) and then have folks 'try to figure it out'. >> Just the experience of watching folks go through the various >> possibilities and applying their

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Something that might be kind of fun would be to 'sort of break' > a linux installation (mis-configure something, 'degrade' a needed > library, etc.) and then have folks 'try to figure it out'. > Just the experience of watching folks go through the various > possibilities and applying their tro

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-02-02 Thread Richard Soule
Paul's email got me thinking... His commment about 'figuring something out' really hit home because recently I've run into situations where consultants have 'solved the wrong problem' for some big clients. We often see two kinds of 'good' consultants out there: 1) The kind with great experience an

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:41:00 EST Jon maddog Hall said: >What do you look for in GNHLUG? Community:good people to share time, experiences, beer with. Activity: regularly scheduled meetings with good topics/speakers Education/Knowledge: people to learn new

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > What do you look for in GNHLUG? > Advice and assistance with linux. (Like fixing the sound on my laptop.) > What brings you to a meeting? > Either a good topic or a good speaker. (Like fixing the sound on my laptop.) > What drives you away from a

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-01-30 Thread brian
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 17:41, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > What do you look for in GNHLUG? A generally good cross-section of linux users, and linux-related-technology users (perl, Apache, embedded linux, etc) > What brings you to a meeting? Interest in meeting other local geeks and learning new thing

Re: [ON Topic] How 'bout them Linux? Ain't they somethin?!

2004-01-29 Thread bmcculley
To quote a popular phrase from my racing days "I'm only here for the beer" :-) I tend to agree with the market analysis, but think you've overly discriminated. Seems to me that (a) and (b) are similar, the main difference being that group (a) wants to gather at some pub to quaff and palaver f