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11-23-15 | 09:37 AM

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Jim from Boston

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Originally Posted by ptempel

Linux Admin geekazoids unite! Have been doing the same for almost 20 years. Got root?

FYA, way back on post #110 (1/10/15), I wrote, in reply to these posts:

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Originally Posted by noglider

Linux System Administrator at a private college in the Bronx, which happens to be called Manhattan College.

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Originally Posted by Eds0123

Not to be high jacking this thread, but using and running Linux is so much in line with spirit of bicycle commuting, self reliance, community cooperation, in earlier days you relied on your own capabilities to set up your own and run your own software the way you wanted etc, how did you get started being linux sysadmin Tom?

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Originally Posted by Andy_K

Running Linux used to be like building your own bike out of a mixed bin full of unlabeled old French and Italian parts without Sheldon Brown's site to use as a reference...

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Originally Posted by noglider

Yes I like your analogy.

I went to college for computer science and worked as a programmer initially. Then I fell into Unix system administration.

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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

I’m not in the High Tech field, but I will bring this runaway sideband discussion gently back on track with the OP:

I searched for Linux on Wikipedia, and as I suspected, “Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system…” Now it so happens that I went to college with Rich Stevens, who as I understand, is the virtual Unix equivalent of Sheldon Brown…Guru of the Unix gurus” on Salon.com.

He even has an entry on Wikipedia. He is likely the most famous person I knew in college, though I did lose track of him over the years. (If he is indeed so famous and well-known, and if interested. I have an amusing (IMO) anecdote about him, FYA).

Anyways, Rich knew me well enough to give me the nickname “Doc,” because I was in pre-med. I did go to Medical School and became a pathologist…

11-23-15 | 11:50 AM

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noglider

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I know of Richard Stevens, and I might have read portions of his books. Please do tell the anecdote.

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11-24-15 | 03:34 AM

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jeffpoulin

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Another Linux sysadmin here (actually, that's only part of what I do, but I've been doing it since the mid-90s).

Rich Steven's TCP/IP book was used as one of my networking class textbooks back in my grad school days. Like Sheldon Brown, he died too young, but left a great legacy and is deeply missed by those who knew his work.

11-24-15 | 08:10 AM

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11-24-15 | 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

FYA, way back on post #110 (1/10/15), I wrote, in reply to these posts: (about Richard Stevens)

Ah missed that. Yes, he's one of the Unix gurus and I used to have his Unix Network Programming book (maybe still do?). But he's more known for the TCP/IP or Network Programming one I guess.

https://www.amazon.com/W.-Richard-Stevens/e/B000AP9GV4

Early on, I was more into operating systems so Edsger Dijkstra (THE); Andrew Tanenbaum (Minix, Amoeba); Rob Pike, Dennis Ritchie at al (Plan 9), Bill and Lynn Jolitz (386BSD), Jochen Liedtke (L3, L4), and others were some of my heroes. Would have been nice to have met one or more of them. What was Mr. Stevens like?

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11-24-15 | 09:44 AM

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Academic. In-office bike parking. My colleagues all think it is weird, but some weirdness is expected in this business.

11-24-15 | 03:27 PM

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Vipon

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11-24-15 | 04:07 PM

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noglider

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[MENTION=25132]ptempel[/MENTION], I worked at Bell Labs and overlapped with Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, Pike, and Aho. In fact, Aho was my boss's boss for a while, so I had lunch with him and stuff.

11-25-15 | 02:54 PM

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Oh cool! I heard that Aho was chair on the comp sci department at Columbia. I wonder if he's still there. He's the "a" in awk scripting language. It was named after Aho Weinberger and Kernighan.

11-25-15 | 03:56 PM

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Have worked in bike shops, mail-order, for wholesale distributors, 15 years with GT Bicycles and the last 15 years with Hollywood Racks.

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11-25-15 | 03:59 PM

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Oh cool! I heard that Aho was chair on the comp sci department at Columbia. I wonder if he's still there. He's the "a" in awk scripting language. It was named after Aho Weinberger and Kernighan.

My initials are AWK. Some of my nerdier co-workers used to think that was cool. Now it's all about perl and python.

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11-26-15 | 08:33 AM

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noglider

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Originally Posted by ptempel

Oh cool! I heard that Aho was chair on the comp sci department at Columbia. I wonder if he's still there. He's the "a" in awk scripting language. It was named after Aho Weinberger and Kernighan.

Last I heard, Aho is still at Columbia.

I'm a big fan of awk and still use it. Email me at the address below for a funny story about it.

11-26-15 | 01:49 PM

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12-01-15 | 08:16 PM

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Mortgage processor for one of the largest mortgage companies in the world...although recent gov't regulations that took effect 10/3 make me want to gouge my eyes out every day and quit my job.

12-04-15 | 06:09 PM

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12-04-15 | 08:18 PM

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IT infrastructure admin. My main job is VMware but also backups, storage, hardware and covering for the Windows guy. On top of that I have a working knowledge of JunOS Pulse SSL VPN, network switching and Aruba kit since I work in an external DMZ gig and used to do labs for a large technology company.
In a previous life I was mechanic working on construction equipment and power tools so I'm good with a wrench.