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1. Re: [HACKERS] Who is everyone?

   Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 1998-02-20T19:18:03Z

   Bruce Momjian wrote:
     >I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.
   
   Yes, and I suppose I'm another one.
   
   I'm 46 with a dog, three cats, a wife and five children, and we live
   here on the Isle of Wight (Britain) and have done since 1996.  The
   children range from 20 down to 13, and only three are now at home all
   the time. My prime leisure activity (apart from computers...) is singing,
   mainly in church.
   
   I started my working life as an accountant, but then, as the ad says,
   I discovered computers. For a number of years I worked with the PICK
   database and one of its Unix copies, UniVerse.  Now I'm doing sufficient
   consultancy to keep all the menagerie fed and housed, and doing my best
   to promote Open Source software (note the new advertisement-speak for
   free software!).
   
   I maintain the PostgreSQL package for Debian GNU/Linux, but haven't
   really found my way into the real meat of the source code yet. I am
   just starting the design of a system for a pharmaceutical supplies
   manufacturer, to replace his existing UniVerse-based one.
   
   
   -- 
   Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
   Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
   
   PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1
   
   
   
   

2. Re: [HACKERS] Who is everyone?

   Brian E Gallew <geek+@cmu.edu> — 1998-02-20T19:46:01Z

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   Then Bruce Momjian wrote:
   > I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.
   
   I guess I'm sorta one, too (I'm just too allergic to actually keep
   them at my own house).
   
   I'm a 31 year old father of two (a third is due 29Mar).  I recently
   finished my BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie
   Mellon University, located in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.  As it happens,
   I've been a full-time employee here for the last five years, doing
   system administration.  Currently, I'm riding herd on a coupld of
   HP9000s, a Sequent, two DG AViiONs, a VAXcluster, and an SP/2.  My
   only real project in PostgreSQL was actually written against 4.2 in
   QUEL (a helpdesk app that is still listed on the PostgreSQL home page
   in spite of the fact that it hasn't been updated to keep it even
   functional.  NOTE TO MYSELF: do something about that!).  I ride horse,
   and watch fish.  Since the allergies started, I've had to stop playing
   with the dogs and cats.
   
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