[ale] Introduction
Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org
Tue Nov 30 21:31:51 EST 2004
Geoffrey wrote:
> Welcome. What part of town do you live in? You do know that we have
> three meetings a month, but the best one is the NW meeting...
I live in Sandy Springs, a bit north of Roswell Rd & Abernathy. I saw
the 3 meetings a month. Initially I had planned on attending the just
the Central meeting, but based on your comment, I think I'll make the NW
meeting as well. :)
>> Then I got a job that required me to learn unix programming and my
>> interest in Linux took off. In the last 5 years, I've used all the
>> mainstream distros and have settled on liking Gentoo the best with
>> Debian being a close second. :)
>
> Well, there's still room to educate you then. :) SuSE and Mandrake
> here. I use Red Hat on one box because my client says so. I've just
> finished installing Release 2 of the Sun Java Desktop and must say, I'm
> not impressed.
Heh, room to educate. I'm all about learning, so bring it on. :) I have
a serious dislike for any of the rpm based distros that comes from a
dislike for the whole rpm system. Alot of my unix experience actually
comes from FreeBSD, and during my time having to admin bsd boxes, I fell
in love with the ports tree. That's probably one reason I enjoy Gentoo
so much. :) On the Linux front though, I've been really impressed with
Debian and the dpkg system.
>> I'm currently a software engineer for Earthlink, doing mainly C and
>> Java development with a little Perl thrown in to annoy me. :)
>
> The dream job! You're confused though, it's the Java that is annoying
> you. I mean come on, try subtracting a character from a character in
> order to get the numeric difference. C ? yes, Java, I don't think so..
Heh. I've done so much Perl for Earthlink, and seen/dealt with sooooo
many of it's quirks that I wish I could torch the whole thing. :) While
there are quite a few quirks with Java, I haven't run into any that've
required as many hours of bashing my head into my monitor to work around.
>> In my
>> spare time, I'm learning C++ and Python, and tinkering with writing a
>> toy OS.
>
>
> C++ and Python? Son, we need to talk...
lol. I really like the parts of C++ I've seen so far, and as for Python,
its a scripting language that actually forces the program to code in a
semi-clean/sane way, unlike another scripting language I dispise. :)
> Welcome again. Have you ever seen snow? How about the Rose Bowl? The
> game, not the building.
I ran into plenty of snow on the drive out here a couple weeks ago. :)
As for the Rose Bowl, I've been to one, and in Pasadena, I lived a 1/2
mile from the Rose Parade route. Saw that a couple years as well.
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Jason Fritcher
jkf at wolfnet.org
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