NewDude
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Joined: Feb. 2006 |
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Posted: April 14 2006,14:11 |
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Idaho must be nice... I have been there a few times when I was younger. I always enjoyed Idaho, Montana and Wy...
People are more freedom minded up there. California outdoors stuff is great, but the state government here is really f*&$ed up.
I have a smalll computer business on the side. It started off doing PC repairs then my friend and I entered the world of networking. We have a few contracts with other small businesses that we support. So far we have only built Windoze networks with OS/2 clients now and then. But I have been trying to get my skills up on Linux. I am wanting to get away from doing the Windoze thing and try to push people into the OpenSource relm. Here in the next 6 months, my friend and I should be up to speed on Linux and will be able to maybe start migrating a couple of the businesses we support away from using Windoze. I figure if we can do at least the server part on Linux, the company would save a lot of cash.
I was thinking of pushing DSL on a few of their work stations with OpenOffice as a test to see how well your average user can change over. So far, it has worked at home. My wife uses DSL since I nuked windoze on our PC, she didn't have any problem learning the frontend. But she just surfs the net and uses OpenOffice. My kids still want Windows because of their games. But that is ok, I had 6 Windoze machines and open Linux machine 7 months ago, now I have 6 DSL machines, 1 Ubuntu machine and 1 Windoze.... Total change over.
So you might jump on your 40th? I got 35 combat load jumps (Jumping with weapon, rucksack, gear, etc) out of C130's, C141's, UH-1H and Chinooks, I have no reason to jump anymore. I never really enjoyed it, it always scared the hell out of me. But I don't like to quit what I start, so I stayed with it. I was stationed at a small Airborne Infantry unit in Alaska. We were the only Artic Airborne unit in AK. We got to do some cool stuff, plus all the special ops people would come up there and train with us. I got my British Jumps wings because we jumped British Royal Marines C130's. It was great, SAS was jumping with us to, we trained with them for 3 weeks. What a bunch of interesting dudes. Got to go to pre-Ranger School and a ton of survival schools along with (of course) Airborne School and Airassult School.
Fun tour, but very physical.
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