[ale] Introduction and info about myself

[Scott Plante]

I started using Unix in the early '80s. We would use those serial terminals and sometimes the flow control didn't work that well. So the terminal would get all screwed up if you were editing and just held the arrow keys down. That's when I learned to love vi. A lot of people today use vi or vim but they use it much like you would a regular editor. We learned to make use of all the various ways of jumping around a line because of the terminal issues. Of course, after it becomes muscle memory, it's much faster than arrow keys or using the mouse. I only began seriously using an IDE recently, but I still use vim for coding, and I use 'vi mode' when I am using the IDE. I also had a licensed copy of VisiCalc (first spreadsheet and predecessor to Lotus123) running on TRS-DOS. 


I'm primarily a programmer/software developer, not a sysadmin, but I've been on a lot of jobs where either there was no dedicated sysadmin or I was more knowledgeable about Linux than the admins. I have OpenSuSE as my primary desktop, and have had for about 10 years. Before that, my PC was mostly just a vehicle for running Reflection X into a Unix or Linux box. Most of our servers here are CentOS. I haven't done much of anything with the Debian side. I do a lot of stuff with Asterisk, a Linux based telephony platform, and mostly write Java code. 


I've only been on the list and coming to the meetings for a few months. I did come to the Atlanta Linux Showcase shows two or three years back in the late '90s or maybe 2000. I remember hanging out with the User Friendly artists for drinks after one, one of those years. Good times! :-D I wonder if it's time to bring those back? 


Scott Plante 

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