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SPo0n Tux's lil' helper

Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 85 Location: England
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject: What do you do? |
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Ok a few questions for you lot:
What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?
My answers:
Slacking/Looking for a new college course
Programming and games mostly
Quake 3, irssi, kdevelop, anjuta, vim |
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Red Nalie Guru

Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 484 Location: Den Helder - The Netherlands - Europe - Earth - Milky Way - Universe
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do? |
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What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?
Student / Helpdesk Representitive
Desktop
KDE _________________ Many people call me Linux-freak, I just see me as a freak who uses Linux
i'm a little n00bie short and stout, here is my nickname here is my SHOUT!!!1 when i get all flamed up hear me SHOUT!!1 ban me forever, kick me out |
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hook Veteran


Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 1398 Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do? |
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University Student (law) / i work at a opensource cybercafe
Desktop
KDE & fluxbox _________________ tea+free software+law=hook
(deep inside i'm still a tux's little helper) |
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mxskweeb n00b

Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 28 Location: phoenix
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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- Web developer
- Writing PHP, surfing, email, GIMP, mp3's, SAMBA DC and file server (at home - MS shop at work
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- jEdit, MoFirebird, Sylpheed-claws, GIMP, XMMS, SAMBA
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Lovechild Advocate


Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 2858 Location: Århus, Denmark
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Student (Engineering - Information and communications technology)
Desktop
GNOME, Epiphany, xmms, btdownloadheadless.py, xchat. (at the moment) |
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duff Guru


Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Student (CS)
Laptop (stable/work) & Desktop (unstable/testing)
fluxbox, mozilla firebird, gcc/g++, latex, octave, evolution |
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Lycander Guru


Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 468
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Embedded application programmer for a non-profit org. I code in C++ for PocketPC and PalmOS.
I use my Gentoo box for everything I need to do on a computer (at home at least).
I use mostly apps from under the KDE umbrella. |
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hewbert n00b


Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 63 Location: Rapid City, SD
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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- Unemployed / Odd Jobs
- Everything
- Everything |
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razamatan Apprentice


Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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returning to academia for a masters in CSE
firewall/routing, central server, communication, browsing, stereo system, games, development
iptables (snat), dhcpd, samba, cupsd, gaim, irssi, mozilla, xmms, mahjongg, gcc. python, perl, lisp, java, etc. etc... _________________ a razamatan doth speaketh,
"Never attribute to malice, that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" |
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ebrostig Bodhisattva


Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 3152 Location: Orlando, Fl
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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Principal Support Engineer, Advanced Resolution & Escalation Management team, Oracle Corp.
Work
Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Tora, GCC, Kdevelop, JDK, FireBird, Internally developed Applications, Kmail, Gaim, Xchat, Konsole
Erik _________________ 'Yes, Firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.' |
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nrl Guru


Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Glasgow, UK
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do? |
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SPo0n wrote: | Ok a few questions for you lot:
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computing science student
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What do you use your gentoo box for?
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browsing net, email, programming, listen to music, sometimes games
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What apps do you use for the above?
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mozilla firebird, mutt + getmail (run as cron job) + nbsmtp + procmail (for filtering), vim, gnat (ada compiler, not in portage!), xmms, quake3, rtcw, zsnes etc
I also sometimes use gaim, bitchx and latex if I need to write something and mplayer to watch videos |
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idl Retired Dev


Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 1728 Location: Nottingham, UK
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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A Level Student.
Whatever I want.
Whatever tickles my fancy. _________________ a.k.a port001
Found a bug? Please report it: Gentoo Bugzilla |
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Lovechild Advocate


Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 2858 Location: Århus, Denmark
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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port001 wrote: | A Level Student.
Whatever I want.
Whatever tickles my fancy. |
so that would be... porn |
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idl Retired Dev


Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 1728 Location: Nottingham, UK
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Lovechild wrote: | port001 wrote: | A Level Student.
Whatever I want.
Whatever tickles my fancy. |
so that would be... porn |
 _________________ a.k.a port001
Found a bug? Please report it: Gentoo Bugzilla |
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deviljelly Apprentice


Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 193 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a Java on Mainframe performance "expert" for IBM
My main machine and home server (when I get it working) are pure gentoo, as is my work laptop (we even have a Gentoo SIG in IBM!)
eclipse and portage |
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gigel Guru


Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 350 Location: .se/.ro
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Lovechild wrote: |
so that would be... porn |
damn lol!!
student (cs) ,currently unemployed....damn starving
desktop
xmms,mozilla,flluxbox,rezound,audacity,gimp,telnet,echo,grep 
//edit added a few things _________________ $emerge sux

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Estariel Tux's lil' helper

Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 85
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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What's your profession/job/status?
student - physics (2nd semester)
What do you use your gentoo box for?
for my studies: calculations and typesetting my homeworks
for entertainment: music, surfing, games
What apps do you use for the above?
mathematica (bought the student edition.. i really like it), latex, koffice
JuK for my music, Konqueror for browsing, NWN for gaming, SIM for instant messanging
Actually i do lots of other stuff as well, but this is what i do from day to day... |
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Yarrick Bodhisattva


Joined: 05 Jun 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Malmö, Sweden
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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student CS & engineering
studies and hobbies
opera, netscape, mplayer, ickle
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paranode l33t


Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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CS Student/Information Security
Vulnerability assessments , secure web serving, surfing, music, burning, C/C++/PHP programming, plus other normal stuff that desktops do
Nessus, Nmap, Apache, PHP, XMMS, KDE, K3b, Kmplayer, Ogle, GQview, Emacs!, GCC, etc.  _________________ Meh. |
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Beaker n00b


Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Raleigh, NC
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Student (Master of Theology) / employed as help-desk/network admin
I use Gentoo at home for my router/firewall, file server, and laptop OS.
apps: phoenix, evolution, eterm, perl, xmms, KDE, GNOME, fluxbox (I'm fickle)  |
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mabouya n00b


Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Matinik
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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Medecine student (until july... then, I'll start computer science)
I use gentoo for emacs & my fav app seems to be emacs,
eventhough I'm a proud registered Opera user  |
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schmuck n00b


Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 31 Location: sthlm, sweden
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Im a java developer (telecom)
I use my gentoo box to surf pr0n, read mail, hack and chat
The apps i use are mainly xemacs, *term, phoenix and mutt i guess.
Now, if i could just get my arse of this chair i would go out and myself a firewire card to sync my iPod on this gentoo box. that done i'd have G4 Cube for sale! anyone interested?
/jens _________________ rules do not apply to me |
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AngusYoung Retired Dev


Joined: 20 Dec 2002 Posts: 473 Location: Campinas, SP - Brazil
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eryvile Apprentice


Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 234 Location: europe
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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profession
Senior Systems Engineer
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mainly for private use, i.e. browsing, writing, music, coding and last but not least gaming
apps
opera/mozilla, openoffice/kile/scite, soundtracker/rosegarden4 (still causes problems ), anjuta/eclipse/kdevelop, frozen-bubble/chromium, fluxbox/kde and whatever is necessary to run all that stuff
As I usually work at the clients place, their wish is my command which mostly means an MS-environment But things are getting better  |
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gzipped n00b


Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 8
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 12:04 am Post subject: |
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What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?
software developer (sad but for winxx platform), last year of studies
home workstation, playing around, feeling like home:)
q3, flux, e16.5, eclipse, phoenix, mc, postgreSQL for developing |
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