I am [primarily] a System Administrator by trade. I passed the Sun Certified Solaris Administrator tests I and II, with an average of 90%. I also delve into programming(C++, java, sockets, ...).
I've been fiddling with computers since I was about 8 years old. I started on a cute little Timex Sinclair, or as they were known in England, a ZX81. From there, I moved through through Tandy "Color Computers", Apple IIs, and DOS machines.
[ I actually got an article published about Color Computers, in "Rainbow Magazine". May 88, perhaps? It was a how-to on using shared memory and inter-process communication, under Basic09. At the time, shared memory was relatively new. Using it under basic, was almost unbelievable.]
After the interesting backroads of computing, all roads lead to UNIX (as Bill Gates has found out). I eventually got myself a sun 3/60, and took the plunge. I worked my way up to a sparc 10/100(ross cpu) at home. But I finally gave in to the price/performance troll, and bought a dual celeron 400mhzx2 box.
And... it has now passed. SWOOOSH!!!!!
Surprisingly, it's not as dramatic a life-changing event as I had though. I kinda see my wife more than I did before we were married. Then again, she just started teaching full time, right after we were married, so maybe not...
And.. now we have tripplet boys! Just turned 4 last month. Lots of work... and also lots of fun!
Getting from here to there
Now that I'm practically a middle-aged guy, I thought I needed an
appropriate means of transportation. Something understated, and sensible.
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