Well Rob . I am even further out in the woods . NW of you another 90+ miles in the Perham, Ottertail, New York Mills area. Welcome to the list. I most often lurk and pick up useful tidbits at they come along. Randy _____ From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nesius Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:01 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: [tclug-list] New Arrival Hello, I just joined the list and wanted to introduce myself. I've relocated back to MN after a fourteen year stint on the west coast. I grew up near Detroit Lake where I was an Apple geek since I was 5 years old (go go Apple II!!). My first job out of college was with Apple, where I spent 2 years doing software configuration and release management. Following Apple I fled from the Silicon Valley and its overpriced real estate market to the Silicon Forest in Portland, OR, where I worked within the part of IT @ Intel responsible for maintaining the silicon design and validation environments. What was a very large *NIX (AIX/HP-UX/Solaris) environment became a GNU/Linux environment while I was there. My role was debugging/building/distribution Open Source tools used within the design and validation environments world-wide (across Linux and the commercial flavors I previously mentioned). Quite a lot of interesting problems to solve in an environment like that. Along the way I traded in my Apple enthusiasm for FOSS. With my family mostly in MN, the advent of parenthood made the distance between here and there seem immensely greater. I was afforded a chance to relocate to central MN with my in-laws, and decided to go for it. I'm now in the St. Cloud area, and it seems this LUG is the closest one too me. I was hoping for a LUG in St. Cloud/Central Minnesota - anyone else on the list in my neck of the woods? I'm happy to see there are some kindred spirits here in MN. :) Nice to meet you all! -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090821/050f5a9d/attachment-0001.htm