[Cialug] Another introduction

chris rheinherren c.rheinherren at gmail.com
Mon Jul 22 21:09:02 CDT 2013


Welcome Nicholas

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Nicholas Olson
<nicholas.olson83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since Aaron took the time to introduce himself, as another CIALug noob I
> thought it would be a good idea to do the same. My name is Nick, and I
> recently relocated to the Des Moines area to start my career after
> graduating from the Computer Science department at UNI.  I've been a member
> of CedarLUG for the past few years, as well as the head of UNI's Computer
> Club and a member of the cyber defense team. Prior to college, I spent 7
> years in the military as a satellite communications network controller.
> I've been interested in *nix for over a decade now, but only since my
> second year in college did I ever really go beyond just basic use. Now
> after 3 years of regular use, thanks to everything that Linux can do,
> rarely a day goes by where I don't recognize my knowledge base as still
> being severely deficient in some way.
>
> I'm really looking forward to getting more involved in the community in the
> coming months. I did come to the meeting last week, and was that quiet
> [possible fed?] at the end just listening to everyone's stories. I am
> limited in what I can do yet, as I'm still getting settled and trying to
> find a permanent residence. The African missionaries who own condos and
> homes in DSM and are trying to rent them out on Craigslist are making that
> difficult. As a person who had 20+ computer systems in his spare bedroom
> and countless VM's, being limited to a couple laptops on spotty hotel wifi
> for the last 4 weeks is diving me nuts.
>
> Nick
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