Intro (was Re: Who to buy from ? Replying to my own post.)

Welcome sir or ma'am (Leslie is such a perfect non-gender-specific name).

But be careful - you can learn a lot from the list, but we will suck YOUR
knowledge out of you too ::grin::

On Saturday 20 July 2002 08:37, you wrote:
> KevinO wrote:
> > It has been brought to my attention that I just totally blew off the
> > person that first brought bookpool to our attention, as well as the
> > work performed getting the math right.
>
> I hope it didn't sound like I was making a big deal out of it - hence
> the winkey-smiley! Lest you all think I'm a shill for
> buy.com/bookpool.com since 2 out of the 3 times I've posted (I've been
> lurking since January) it's been about them, let me briefly introduce
> myself.
>
> I'm an unemployed Unix sysadmin - formerly employed by Intel doing
> mostly Solaris, MP-RAS, and HP-UX administration. I took "voluntary
> separation" and was compensated quite nicely, so I've been taking
> advantage of this opportunity to do other things, and haven't really
> been actively looking for work. I've also been a little scared off by
> the horror stories about the job market. Are things really that bad?
>
> I've been playing with Linux for about six years. In May I took the
> plunge and made it my primary desktop (Mandrake 8.2/KDE3/Mozilla Mail on
> a home-grown box) and am on my way to living the Microsoft-free
> lifestyle - I rarely even boot my Win2k box, but there are a few apps I
> haven't found replacements for - I'm going to try to see if I can get
> them working with Wine. I've installed Slackware, RedHat, Debian, and
> SuSE in the past, but Mandrake was effortless to install so I've kept it
> on my main system.
>
> This list has been very helpful to me. I plan to become a more active
> participant and I hope to be able to be contribute more than just where
> to find cheap books!
>
> -Leslie
>
>
>
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Jim

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