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Gave my two weeks notice to Winstar today. It sucks to have to leave such a great set of coworkers...but the department they were moving me to just wasn't what I wanted.
Now I have to give back all the toys I've had "signed out" for the past year...ah well.
November 10th will be my last day. On November 13th, I begin work as a Unix Admin and programmer for Mitretek. Should be fun.

Got a job offer from a company I interviewed with last Monday. Should get the offer letter tomorrow (They are FedEx'ing it overnight). Should be good <tm>.
Details to follow.

Things do not look good on the work front. Seems like everyone I know has been having job issues...now I've been bitten, too.
So now it's time to start start looking.
More to follow.

Zaitcev: What kind of laptop? I wrote a mini-HOWTO for internal use at our company on how to set up our toshiba satellite 4080XCDTs to work with our Palm Vx's...it's nice being able to sync/backup over IR. If you want, I could get it to you next week...course, you'll probably have figured it out by then :)

John Terpstra of SAMBA fame is coming to speak at my department (the Linux geeks :) today. Ueberspiffy.

*microphone feedback*

*ahem*
If I vanish before October 2001, it's because planning a wedding in the Washington DC area either a) killed me or b) drove me insane.

Thank you for your attention. *click*

Fear my grabs for power. Mowhahaha.

[inside joke. don't worry if you don't get it.]

Dacta: I worked in a VB shop at my last job. You're going to burn in hell for that comment :-)
In actuality, VB does what it was designed for very well - Rapid application development. If you need a quick demo of a concept it's really simple to whip something up in about 5 minutes. However, go beyond that, and it becomes an ungodly horror. I much preferred Borland's C++ Builder (probably would have liked Delphi too but never got a chance to use it) when forced to do windows coding. Now I don't have to worry about any of that since I have a geek linux job :)

funny, aaronl...didn't know that the Debian sawfish package linked with gnome:

bma@kalgan [~]: apt-cache search sawfish
sawfish - a highly configurable window manager for X11
sawfish-gnome - GNOME components for Sawfish

bma@kalgan [~]: grep-available -F Package -s Package,Depends sawfish

Package: sawfish-gnome
Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8), libart2 (>= 1.2.0), libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libcapplet0 (>= 1.2.0), libdb2 (>= 1:2.4.14-7), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.0), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.0), libgnomeui32 (>= 1.2.0), libgnorba27 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.0), liborbit0 (>= 0.5.0), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), sawfish (= 0.30.3-helix7)

Package: sawfish
Depends: imlib1 (>= 1.9.8), libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgmp2, libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libjpeg62, libncurses5, libpng2, libreadline4 (>= 4.1), librep9, libtiff3g, libungif3g (>= 3.0-2) | giflib3g (>= 3.0-5.2), xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), librep9 (>= 0.12.1), rep (>= 0.12.1), rep-gtk (>= 0.11)

Don't see any GNOME stuff there... except in the OPTIONAL gnome components package...do you?

Forking stuff like this is such a waste of time and effort... why not try to deal with it maturely by corresponding with the maintainer?

Attended LWE the past week. I spent more time at the Debian booth than any other place at the conference, even though I wasn't techinically working it...I just had more fun there. Went schwag hunting for my coworkers. Attended a few conference sessions, but many were too suit-oriented...I guess what do you expect at a conference geared for businesses. People loved the G3 powerbook I brought to the show...a shame that we didn't have any debian ppc cds to hand out. Surfing on the airport/wavelan was kickass until thursday, when the andover people apparently cut almost everyone off it (but that was ok, because debian had a wavelan base station in the booth :) Food was expensive, no real restaurants around the hotel and room service was so-so. Ate at a place called original joe's on wednesday for lunch, expensive for rather mediocre food (I ordered steak medium, it got to me well done :/ ...). Went to the Debian release party at the Usual wednesday night...free beer, woohoo. Linus showed up as I was near the door...felt sorry for him being asked for autographs ... let the man enjoy his beer and the party. Didn't get too trashed...I stopped after four or five beers. Shaleh, calc, and neuro partook in "Irish carbombs". After a bit neuro, calc, and I headed over to the gnome party across the street which was so-so...then went over to the pool hall and shot some pool. Linus was playing pool with some people, I thought that was neat. Took the light rail back to the hotel around 11:30ish.

It was fun hanging out with the debian crew (shaleh, joey, drow, calc, lilo, myth, o-o, wichert, jim, tausq, dave), meeting the enlightenment/#e crowd (raster, mandrake, keebler, teletron, term, hakker, gnea, demonishi, kainx, fusion94, nettwerk), the stormix people, peter teichman from helixcode, and many others that I may have forgotten to mention. Did a bunch of GPG keysigning last night.

I am moving departments in my company, from systems architecture to operations, due to reorganizations after my boss passed away. My new boss appears to be clueful to linux and open to ideas, so that is good. I hope things go well. I will be moving to another floor towards the end of september, leaving the other linux geeks :( But I will come back up to pester them now and then, since I am basically going to be implementing what projects they come up with...

Going on a cruise this coming week. Yes, right in the middle of hurricane season...I hope to have a good time. I have done/will have done more flying in the past two weeks than I have in my entire life. Strange. Coache decidedly sucks. In the future, I'll probably shell out the extra bucks for coach if possible.

School starts the monday after I get back from the cruise. Lovely. Retaking the two math classes I failed in the spring, along with a CS course and a digital electronics course...should be interesting. At least there won't be anymore 3 hour trips to go visit my fiancee every week.

My brother and sister go to college a week from today. That will leave only my parents, my youngest brother, and I. It will be strange having the house so quiet.

No one probably cares about this, just typing thoughts as they come to my mind...but oh well, no one's forcing you to read this :) I think one day in the near future I will move my advogato diary entries to my personal page and use advogato only for discussion of free software stuff, as it was intended...

Zzzzzz.....