Phoenix Network Forums

by **ncfisher** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:29 pm

Hello, I'm new today and looking forward to participating.

I am a senior unix administrator in atlanta georgia. I am a contractor for Sun Professional Services.

One of my interests in coming here is my years of providing technical unix training, but having students who did not have access to unix systems.

With linux this is helped a lot, but when they first start, they still don't want to manage a server and they have no idea what to do to start with...

I started the unix_training group in yahoo groups some time ago, and now am looking for some good free shell providers to recommend to others. The group has been inactive of late, but we'll see how that goes.

Not much else to say at the moment. I look forward to contributing where I can.

by **pimpdawny** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:44 pm

Heya. I'm a newbie myself. I've been talking to these people for a few days now...and from what I've read and conversed back and forth with them... they seem to be a nice group. Smile

by **zogo** on Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:28 pm

Second person from Georgia to join in a week!
Welcome aboard.

by **mm_freak** on Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:24 am

Welcome to the forums. I don't like Yahoo a lot and I guess you won't find such people there. IRC, mailing lists and forums are better places for that. =)

by **ncfisher** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:06 pm

yes, my yahoo group has not had much traffic, and I have not really attempted to promote it as of yet. (limited time), so if you were to create a group these days for unix training, which forum provider is the best option.

This one seems to work pretty nicely, is it a package, or home grown?

by **krod** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:01 pm

hey, i am from atlanta also Smile

we may be able to hook you up with some forum hosting if you are non-profit..

by **mm_freak** on Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:10 pm

I like mailing lists much more than forums. No additional passwords, you can use your favorite email client and you have authenticity (GPG). I don't know why, but newbies don't like them, even though it's easier. They rather like to use the same password everywhere. =)

by **ncfisher** on Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:29 pm

Jared, which part of atlanta are you in? what's your background?

by **ncfisher** on Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:45 am

I've been away for a while. I was hoping to get to my quota of posts pretty quickly through participation, but I wanted to at least post an update for my absence in case anyone was looking for me.

I've had to deal with some serious surgery that my wife is having, so my participation anywhere has been limited.

It will take her about 8 weeks to recover. so, I will still be limited for a while. I hope to get back to it soon though.

by **dexxa9** on Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:16 pm

him welcome to the site.

have a good time
Regards

Phoenix Network Forums

Hello from a new forum member.

Hello from a new forum member.

Where would you host a training forum.

hey what part of atlanta?

I'm back. Had a little hiccup, my wife had to have surgery.

Who is online