[olug] Newbie stuff

[Jonathan Warren]

geek (gk)
n. Slang 

1. a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy. 
   b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. 
2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken. 

I think 1.b is close to describing what I think a geek is.  Wonder why a geek must be socially inept though.  Doesn't really seem fair.

-Jon W

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:24:05AM -0500, David Walker wrote:
> The poor guy in Portland has been objectified.  No longer an individual he is 
> now known to his friends only as 'unix-geek'.  (I guess that's better than 
> "Pink Booties" or "Neo-Geo")
> 
> On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:36 am, Tanya Loughead wrote:
> > I'm with you, Eric...  But I sure am glad that there are some people in the
> > world who know what the heck is going on with regards to these
> > friend-and-foe  machines of ours!
> >
> > BTW, I e-mailed this string to my 'unix-geek' in Portland, as his specialty
> > is UNIX programming with servers, ftp, etc.... I couldn't possibly respond
> > coherently, but I know he could.
> > As for me, I'm still just trying to get my word processor on Red Hat up and
> > running.  Anyone know if there are footnote and thesaurus plugins  for
> > Abiword yet?  I only heard that they were "on the way."
> > --Tanya
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eric Penne [mailto:epenne at yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:30 AM
> > > To: olug at olug.org
> > > Subject: [olug] Newbie stuff
> > >
> > >
> > > For all of you that didn't understand a single word of what matthew
> > > said except "my white hairs must really be showing" please email me and
> > > tell me i'm not alone.  :)
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > --- "Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm at midwestlinux.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Nate Rotschafer wrote:
> > > > > I know we have several people on here who have probably done this,
> > > > > especially Mr. Marsh.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm - my white hairs must really be showing... ;-} Really - Matthew
> > > > is
> > > > fine.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway - Definitely read Bart's Advanced Routing HowTo (Phil gave the
> > > > link) - ignore most of the Policy Routing stuff (he and I have
> > > > issues...)
> > > > but the TC Traffic Control parts are very well done.
> > > >
> > > > Also I have a kernal patch (part of the PakSecured Master Kernal
> > > > Patch)
> > > > that will allow you to use the u32 filter as a nfmark engine as well
> > > > as
> > > > for Ingress Control. My bet is that you are actually looking for
> > > > Egress
> > > > structures only so that may not be needed. Also if you need only
> > > > simple
> > > > multi-stream filtering (if this is related to the stuff we talked
> > > > about a
> > > > week ago) then definately check out Devik's HTB queue. It is easier
> > > > on the
> > > > configuration and works quite well.
> > > >
> > > > > I want to limit the bandwidth usage on my
> > > > > server...not just apache but FTP and other stuff.  The easiest way
> > > >
> > > > to do
> > > >
> > > > > this I think is some type of policy routing/traffic shaping but I
> > > >
> > > > dunno so
> > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to get some ideas if anyone has some.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the help,
> > > > > Nate Rotschafer
> > > > >
> > > > > P.S.  If any more info is needed just let me know and I will post
> > > >
> > > > it.  The
> > > >
> > > > > site that I want to do this for is http://www.geniussystems.net
> > > >
> > > > btw.
> > > >
> > > > --------------------------------------------------
> > > > Matthew G. Marsh,  President
> > > > Paktronix Systems LLC
> > > > 1506 North 59th Street
> > > > Omaha  NE  68104
> > > > Phone: (402) 932-7250
> > > > Email: mgm at midwestlinux.com
> > > > WWW:  http://www.midwestlinux.com
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