Hi, Single white male, 33, systems admin at a small financial services company here in the island Republic of Cyprus in the Eastern Medirerranean.
About to complete the process of moving most services and networking at my workplace to Debian GNU/Linux, with office users on Windoze accessing a Samba server. Would be over the moon with joy if I could get some office application under Linux to read M$ Word and Excel files written in Greek characters, because then I could flush M$ completely out of the company and have done with viruses, crashes and users installing silly software. I am in the happy position of being able to take most decisions in my area (OS/network) myself, and have the support of the company's financial controller who is tech-aware and now also a Debian fan. I bet that makes most of the sysadmins on the list envious... Absolutely delighted with Debian, and love the mailing lists too. Nothing easier than keeping a Debian machine current with all the security updates and stability patches. I keep everything on stable, with the exception of my personal workstation which runs testing. My bosses also love the stability and performance improvement of our systems since the switch to Debian. Hated computers until doing my B.Sc. in Physics at Imperial College in London in '91-'95, where I found a cluster of DEC Alphas running mostly GNU software in the second year lab. Heve been a GNU addict since. Eventually Linux saved me from the drudgery of earning my living by teaching Physics to rude teenagers who hate learning in general and learning Physics in particular. Have written some half-decent ISDN setup scripts and ipchains firewalling scripts, but generally can't program to save my life. I have no interest at all in computer games. Own four Alfa Romeos from '96 to '79, one in very nice condition, one being restored to even nicer condition, one long-term restoration project (read disaster area) and one complete but immobile, with a questionmark hanging over its future. Have a big record (LP, not CD) collection, mostly classical. Latest read: Cliff Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" (am I the last person on the list to read this?). Mess about with antique/high end audio: turntables, valve (I think you call them tubes in the States) amplifiers, reel-to-reel tape decks (big fan of Revoxes), electrostatic loudspeakers and the like. Best regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., | | tel: +357 99 68 08 86 Strovolos, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, | | web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus | | | | Please note Cyprus telephone area codes have changed; see above. | -------------------------------------------------------------------- On 19 Dec 2001, Matt wrote: > Forget support and distro discussion for a second.. > > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. I > know this is sort of an impossible thing to answer, but it'd be > interesting to explore in vague terms who uses Debian, at least compared > to those who don't. > > Crushing realities like, "Am I typical? Does using Debian separate me > from the rest?" > > Controversial questions like, "Will I ever meet more than 1 or 2 female > Debian users who are active on mailing lists? Am I a Microsoft-branded > pinko 'cause I like open-source?" > > IT? Artsy? Young? Old? Bitter? Socialist or CrewCut? Utopian or realist? > > I'll try to break the ice a bit: white male, 22, Canada, FineArts ex-pat > turned CompSci near-grad, downtempo and raregroove on the weekends, > csound, php and java development on the weekdays. Left-leaning (Harpers, > not New Republic), piano-playing, community-oriented, social. Curious > why so many people use RedHat. > > (Just an experiment) > > cheers, > Matt > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
