Howdy all. I'm Melkor. You may have seen me in such films as "Blood In Middle Earth" and "Hot Orc On Elf ACTION".
Anyway, I'm not really a newbie to Linux or Unix, but I thought this place would be a good forum to get to know because I do occasionally run into things that I need some advice on.
begin background info
I worked for several years in the IT and Data Processing departments of a call center. We had five autodialers, one was a really outdated CRDS (Charles Rivers Data Systems) dialer running a Unix ripoff OS called
UNOS, two of them were DEC System 7000 dialers running a Unix variant called
Ultrix, and one was a SKY dialer that ran something that was a hybrid mix of UNOS and Ultrix that never worked very well and needed lots of babying. Our other dialer was a CPS dialer running SCO Unix (with a FoxPro 2.6 for SCO Unix back end for data).
So I'm no stranger to the *nix world, but I've only been using Linux at home for a couple of years now. My experience in that is limited to
Red Hat 7.2,
Mandrake 9.1, and more recently
Slackware 9.1.
Currently the only distro I'm running at home is Slackware; I'm dual booting that and Windows 2000, with a separate physical 30 gig FAT32 hard drive used as a mutual data drive, and that seems to be working pretty well. Stable as a rock, so far.
I work at the moment as a Visual FoxPro application programmer and Network Admin for a software company. I don't develop hardly at all... my primary job duties are well after clients have their modifications completed and are in "support mode". Most of the time my job involves fixing peoples' screwed up data from crashes, program bugs, errors, and what not. I'm also part of our IT department internally here, so I do a lot of networking and hardware work in-house as well.
I wear a lot of hats.
Anyway, I just thought I'd say "hi" before nosing around the rest of this huge forum and throwing my $0.02 at any threads.
EDIT to fiks mi bad speling
Introduction only... no questions quite yet
