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New Geeks on the Block / Geek new to the forums.
« on: June 21, 2008, 02:11:25 PM »
Hello. My name is Jason. I am a geek.
I'm an elitist snob that refuses to run Windows operating systems. Ok, that's not true, I actually kind of like Vista Ultimate but wouldn't consider running any Vista other than that.
Right now I'm sitting in my datacenter room in my house mourning the loss of my former favourite forum on the internet, Darkness.com. It used to be a great place to go to, but yesterday the owner (a good friend of mine) redesigned the forum to the point it is pretty much FSCK'd.
I figured I'd get back to a forum that catered to my interests as I'm not really a goth, definitely not a vampire, and totally didn't fit in on that forum. I stuck around long enough to make 20,000 posts but can't justify going there anymore because the more it got redesigned the less I fit in there. It's a shame. I used to throw a convention every year there for the members. That site was a lot of fun, but its time has passed. As I said, I still mourn it.
Anyways, back to geekery. I have three 64 bit servers running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (shiny and new!!), FreeBSD 7.0 Release (shiny and new!!), and FreeNAS. I'm about ready to get rid of the FreeNAS box because there's no need for it now that my file server has 6TB of space on it.
I'm on a 20MBps/20MBps FTTH connection with a Cisco 3660 router daisy chained to.. hahahah... a linksys WRTG54GS wireless router. It was cheaper to do that than buy the wireless module for the 3660.
Also in my house datacenter is four workstations, each running various operating systems depending on the person that computer is owned by. One is a laptop for my brother who lives with me, and it took me several days for him to convince me to let him hook it to the network as he's pretty crap with computers and his computer was infested with viruses and spyware. I didn't want him to infect the other Windows workstations my wife and kids use with a network aware virus.
That's me in a nutshell.
I'm an elitist snob that refuses to run Windows operating systems. Ok, that's not true, I actually kind of like Vista Ultimate but wouldn't consider running any Vista other than that.
Right now I'm sitting in my datacenter room in my house mourning the loss of my former favourite forum on the internet, Darkness.com. It used to be a great place to go to, but yesterday the owner (a good friend of mine) redesigned the forum to the point it is pretty much FSCK'd.
I figured I'd get back to a forum that catered to my interests as I'm not really a goth, definitely not a vampire, and totally didn't fit in on that forum. I stuck around long enough to make 20,000 posts but can't justify going there anymore because the more it got redesigned the less I fit in there. It's a shame. I used to throw a convention every year there for the members. That site was a lot of fun, but its time has passed. As I said, I still mourn it.
Anyways, back to geekery. I have three 64 bit servers running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (shiny and new!!), FreeBSD 7.0 Release (shiny and new!!), and FreeNAS. I'm about ready to get rid of the FreeNAS box because there's no need for it now that my file server has 6TB of space on it.
I'm on a 20MBps/20MBps FTTH connection with a Cisco 3660 router daisy chained to.. hahahah... a linksys WRTG54GS wireless router. It was cheaper to do that than buy the wireless module for the 3660.
Also in my house datacenter is four workstations, each running various operating systems depending on the person that computer is owned by. One is a laptop for my brother who lives with me, and it took me several days for him to convince me to let him hook it to the network as he's pretty crap with computers and his computer was infested with viruses and spyware. I didn't want him to infect the other Windows workstations my wife and kids use with a network aware virus.
That's me in a nutshell.