[TriLUG] re: do it

[Marty Ferguson]

Hello, all

I hope that my posting here is not the death knell for Jim's venture.
So ofttimes it seems that whenever I toss in my 2 cents, the topic is 
quashed.

I first met Jim about 10 years ago, in early 1997.  Jim didn't know how to
pronounce  "Liiiiii nooks" at the time.  We met while my father and I were
running an OSS booth at the old [now pulverized] downtown Raleigh
Convention Center (...where outside the Acorn dropped each new years' eve
for First Night Raleigh...) ...but I digress.

He's  "The B-52's" of the Linux world here in the triangle.  That's 
where it's at:- bring your jukebox money.

Jim is a truly mighty person.  When he showed up at our "We are Linux 
Entrepenuers"
booth, my dad (a BSD dude) and I were running  back in 1997, Jim was 
wearing a
"Whirled Peas" custom silkscreened T-shirt.
(.... get it... "world peace" ... the  [.*\@{,99}]#&% regex hippie)

Within a month after that, the RAT came to another dad and I  ran, 
effervescing over
about the fact that he had purchased an open-source (Beastie-ish) 
published CD-ROM
for 0$0.98 less than we  were selling.... when the other table was junk 
chattle, and we were
quite obviously open-source professionals.   Oh, yeah, by the way, rat:  
...xyz you and the
ninety-eight-cent horse you rode in on, cowboy.  We !still! have no 
competition.

Over these past 10 years, each of us have gone our own direction.  I 
have suffered
as a classroom trainer in UNIX/Linux Systems, and Jim and suffered as a 
Systems Integrator
for Unix/Windows connectivity.
(a noble tilting of windmills, Don Q. Jim!, showing bad boys how to play 
nice)
But throughout it all, both he and I have perservered: doing, promoting, 
and singing praise.

>From any perspective,  these pat many years have have been a  "long row 
to how." 
Jim has gone begging for good beer (no aluminium, no screw-cap bottles)  
just as much as I. 

For some people, Linux is an avocation; a hobby or sideline. 
For others, such as Jim and I, it is a passion with real meaning, 
substance,and  life experiences, 
- Like saving a customer a bucket of money through innovative integration.
- Like fully indoctraiting/brainwashing a classroom student into the 
UNIX way.
- Like being inexplicably  thrilled to meet Linus' wife and kid, baby 
stroller and all.

It's all about the liberalization of technology.  So for those of you who
truly care about a future for each and every one of us, I would 
wholeheartedly
suggest that you move forward.  Hitch your wagon with Jim.  He will 
never be an
uber-techno-geek  (nor ever will I.)  But he understands that 89 % of 
the iceburg is
submerged; and that, my friends is where the Titanic dies, and the real 
wisdom lies. 

My Best,
Marty



Jim Ray wrote:

>I was counting on the folks interested in coming to the party define the
>focus since I don't have one.
>
>Our group actually started out several years ago as a TriLUG Red Hot
>Certified Engineer study group hosted at my house that was a pure hands-on
>gathering that drank beer and ate chocolate.
>
>Matt Frye was kinda the ring leader back in the day (at least I'll blame it
>on him).  We're more interested in doing things than in hearing people speak
>about things.
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>Lots of our members work with Winders on our day jobs yet love to learn and
>to implement open source solutions because we can.
>
>Regards,
> 
>Jim
> 
>Jim Ray, President
>Neuse River Networks
>tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
>http://www.Neuse.Net
> 
>Connecting You to the World since 1997
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
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>Behalf Of Robert
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>>Dale
>>Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:05 AM
>>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Triangle Open Source Lab - Do it. Don't just talk
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>aboutit.
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>>On 4/7/07, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
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>>>Here's our new web site:
>>>http://www.triangleopensource.org
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>>>I wouldn't mind picking up where we left off with good ole basic load up
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>a box with
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>>Ubuntu and move into Samba to replace Winders Active Directory et al.  I
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>have a notebook
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>>PC I can donate to use as a unit under test so we won't have to cart
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>around a monster big
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>>iron server.  I haven't ask permission from my boss (wife) yet might be
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>able to host if we
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>>limit the crowd to half a dozen folks.  Otherwise, we can ask Tim if
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>Exploris is still an
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>>option.
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>>For the folks who weren't here a year ago, what's the focus of this group?
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>>Robert Dale
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        The global oil production peak 
        is not a cult theory, it's a fact. 
        The earth does not have a creamy 
        nougat center of petroleum.  -- James Howard Kunstler