Who is everyone?

I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
know more details about you.

I am 36, and live with my wife of eight years and two boys in a house
just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My boys are 5 and 2 1/2. I
am a consultant who programs custom reports and applications for law
firms around the country. My boss and other seven other employees work
in an office 10 minutes from here, but I work from my house almost all
the time. Perhaps twice a month, I go downtown to Philadelphia to work
for the day at the law firms. I have done this same work for the past
eight years. I have a BSDI Unix machine in my basement, and dumb
terminals on the first and second floors. My office is in the basement.

Can others tell us about themselves?

--
Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.
>
> I am 36, and live with my wife of eight years and two boys in a house
> just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My boys are 5 and 2 1/2. I
> am a consultant who programs custom reports and applications for law
> firms around the country. My boss and other seven other employees work
> in an office 10 minutes from here, but I work from my house almost all
> the time. Perhaps twice a month, I go downtown to Philadelphia to work
> for the day at the law firms. I have done this same work for the past
> eight years. I have a BSDI Unix machine in my basement, and dumb
> terminals on the first and second floors. My office is in the basement.
>
> Can others tell us about themselves?

I am 29, and live alone in a two bedroom apartment in Wolfville, Nova
Scotia, Canada. I work as Systems Administrator at Acadia University for
the "steady paycheck", and do contract programming and web hosting for the
"real money".

I run FreeBSD sitting in front of my TV so that I don't have to miss any
of the good shows (what few are left), and have 220watt speakers hanging
off of it as my "stereo system" so that I have good sound.

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org

I've just joined and haven't yet done much development, but I hope to
soon! I'm 19 and I work as a programmer and system administrator at
the Speakeasy Cafe (internet cafe) in Seattle. I developed our
accounting system for keeping track of our members (we're an ISP,
essentially), which uses PostgreSQL. As an aside, I just upgraded to
6.2.1 but we had to revert to 1.09 (which has been very stable for
months) due to backend core dumping problems. I didn't report them
because 6.3 was being worked on, but at the same time, my boss doesn't
think it is a good idea to go to 6.3beta for our production system,
especially since we can't compile it on our Alpha (waste of hardware,
yada yada). This is all totally irrelevant to who I am, but I figured
you guys would appreciate knowing all the same.

And I'm a high school dropout who's been using computers since 1st
grade. I'm currently going to community college with plans of
attending a university at some point (which is where cool things like
postgresql get developed). I hope to become actively involved in the
free software community and refine my programming skills.

And, I must say, you guys rock. You've done a great amount of
wonderful work on PostgreSQL, and you deserve recognition (and a whole
lot more).

On Thu, 19 February 1998, at 22:47:20, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.
>
> I am 36, and live with my wife of eight years and two boys in a house
> just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. My boys are 5 and 2 1/2. I
> am a consultant who programs custom reports and applications for law
> firms around the country. My boss and other seven other employees work
> in an office 10 minutes from here, but I work from my house almost all
> the time. Perhaps twice a month, I go downtown to Philadelphia to work
> for the day at the law firms. I have done this same work for the past
> eight years. I have a BSDI Unix machine in my basement, and dumb
> terminals on the first and second floors. My office is in the basement.
>
> Can others tell us about themselves?

> I have been working with many of you for over a year, and would like to
> know more details about you.

I'm 40 (yuck) and live with my wife and two cats near Pasadena, California.
We have five horses; my wife does show jumping and I do some trail riding
and some polo. Used to do a lot of backpacking, cross-country skiing,
whitewater rafting and kayaking, but as we've accumulated horses we spend
most of our time on them nowadays. As you might guess, we don't have
children.

I went to school at Occidental College and Caltech, working part time at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory until out of school, and full time ever
since. My background is in astronomy, and I've worked on VLBI (radio
interferometric) systems in the distant past. More recently, I designed and
built a world-wide network of GPS ground tracking stations, collecting data
back to JPL for distribution to the international geodetic community. We
also used the network for some earth-orbiting spacecraft tracking. Just
changed jobs within JPL to work on optical interferometers, hopefully
leading toward flying one in space to look for planets around other stars.

Oh, and I spend _way_ too much time working on Postgres :)

- Tom

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
>know more details about you.

I am 26, and still live with my parents in Madrid. I work at the
university, in a telecommunications school (the same where I have
studied). I am a systems administrator, network administrator,
programmer, consultant, and almost anything you can think of. I also work
(sometimes) doing systems administration and programming out of the
university. My home computer has Windows 95, NT and FreeBSD installed, and
I really really *HATE* Micro$oft :-). At the university, I administer a
Digital Unix machine and a Windows NT network (it sucks).

I use PostgreSQL for a database that contains all the information about
our students. Currently, I am programming an account management system to
keep accounts in sync in Digital Unix and NT. The system contains a daemon
in DU, a service in NT and a front-end written in Java, and it uses
PostgreSQL to store the account data.

My contributions to PostgreSQL have been very small (just a few patches to
get a clean compile in DU), but it's better than nothing :-) I'd like go
get more involved when time permits. Anyway, the PostgreSQL team is doing
a *great* job. We have already a great DBMS, and it is getting better day
by day.

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Centro de Cálculo Fax: +34 1 331 92 29
EUIT Telecomunicación - UPM e-mail: pjlobo(at)euitt(dot)upm(dot)es

> I have been working with many of you for over a year, and would like to
> know more details about you.

Well, I am 47 and have been playing with computers for years. I own
a company that does contract software as well as running an ISP.
I wrote my first program in Fortran IV in 1969 and have been published
in a book on C programming. I ride a motorcycle for fun and I play
guitar. My wife and I are foster parents for cats.

More on my web page if you are interested.

--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(at){druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on
+1 416 424 2871 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.

>
> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.

I'm 33 and live with my wife and two boys aged 8 and 9 in
Hamburg, Germany. In april our house will get finished and
we'll live then in Harsefeld (small town of about 17000
people 50km from Hamburg). I like beer, scotch and any hot
and spicy meal. I'm driving Vespa and when the damn
hack/compile/regress/hack cycle never seems to end I play
some backgammon matches on FIBS.com (telnet on port 4321).

I work for 8 years now as an SAP base consultant, programmer
and administrator.

I'm using and hacking on Postgres since the good old version
4.2 days. That was the last UCB release prior to Postgres95
with the good old postquel query language where many of the
newbe-confusing terms like tuples, attributes, append and
retrieve come from. I still have such a dino running :-).

Until later, Jan

--

#======================================================================#
# It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #
# Let's break this rule - forgive me. #
#======================================== jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) #

>
> Oh, and I spend _way_ too much time working on Postgres :)
>

Many of us fit into that category. Problem is, PostgreSQL is way more
interesting than my day job. Not that my day work is boring, but
PostgreSQL is very interesting for me. I am learning so much, almost
like a Comp Sci masters degree.

--
Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us

> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.

Ok,

I haven't contributed to Postgres much, but here goes.

I'm 26, live with my mom and little brother in the Netherlands.
And ehm... I'm still single <grmph!>.

About 12 years ago I started programming on a TRS-80, after that
I bought me a MSX (the M from Micros*ft, little did I know...).
Then, in 1989, I did informatics and got familiar with Unix
and Internet. The next thing I did, was installing a Unix-clone
(MiNT OS + GNU software) on my Atari-ST, which I had then. I graduated
in 1995 and started working at the university hospital in Rotterdam.

After 1-2 years I managed to convince the people at my department to
go completely freeware. We run an archiving system for patient studies
(images from gamma camera's), which is built on a Linux PC that runs
Postgres. PHP/FI is used to access Postgres' data from a
WWW-browser. Apache is used as WWW-server. The browser is usually
Netscape. We also experiment with Java, using JDK from Sun and Peter Mount's
JDBC driver. Using a callback facility doctors can view images at home,
in case of an emergency/urgent call. I wrote the PHP/FI-scripts, the Java
program's and the C-program's to access the database, to update it
automatically, to convert proprierty format images to, for example, GIF,
to adjust the colors, contrast etc...

Other hobby's I have, besides computers, are electronics, making music
with MIDI, riding a bicycle, but best of all: just doing nothing (besides
listening to music) on a sunny day... It's just that I haven't much spare
time left to do so. And of course you need to have good weather...

Cheers,
Ronald

Hi:

I'm D. Jay Newman (the "D." is silent) :).

I'm 40, I earn money as a Research Programmer for Penn State, and
thow money away by running Sprucegrove Internet Marketing, Inc.
(a general web/net consulting firm).

My wife and I live in State College, PA, USA, with two dogs (Chaos and
Amber), and a parrot (Random).

I use PostgreSQL for as much of my Penn State work as possible (I'm
working on a communications package <http://projects.cac.psu.edu/ct/> called
CourseTalk; this package uses PostgreSQL to store all of the information,
which makes my life easier.

I'm also working on a (very different) communications package for
Sprucegrove, which is designed for interactive fiction/gaming.

I'm also trying to be an author of technical books. We'll see how that
goes.
--
D. Jay Newman ! For the pleasure and the profit it derives
jay(at)sprucegrove(dot)com ! I arrange things, like furniture, and
http://www.sprucegrove.com/~jay/ ! daffodils, and ...lives. -- Hello Dolly

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> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.

Well, unlike most of the others who have responded, I haven't
done a blessed thing for the project. At least, not yet. I'm
hoping that will change, hence my introduction now.

I'm currently a programmer/SysAdmin/webmaster/release
engineer/etc/etc/etc "on consignment" on Ford Motor Company, just
outside of Detroit, Michigan. Our project involves "webifying"
some of Ford's CAE tools, specifically the simulation of the
stamping of body parts. I do some of the programming, and most
of the admin work on our IBM RS/6000's and Sun Ultra 30's

My use of PostgreSQL has been limited to a couple of small "in
house" projects at the company who actually employs me, MIKA
Systems, plus a project or two I'm doing on my own, on DEC Alpha
and Ultrix boxes, and a PC running Linux.

On the personal side, I'm 37, married, with one child, a
daughter, who's 8 years old. In my free time, I work at training
my dogs (collies) for obedience competitions. (We're just
starting out, so we haven't earned any titles yet.) Also, from
my .sig, you may be able to deduce that I'm a fan of Monty
Python.

- --
Dwayne Bailey + WHAT is your name? Sir Galahad
MIKA Systems, Bingham Farms, MI + WHAT is your quest? I Seek the Holy Grail
dwayne(at)mika(dot)com + What is your favorite color?
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> On the personal side, I'm 37, married, with one child, a
> daughter, who's 8 years old. In my free time, I work at training
> my dogs (collies) for obedience competitions. (We're just
> starting out, so we haven't earned any titles yet.) Also, from
> my .sig, you may be able to deduce that I'm a fan of Monty
> Python.

I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.

--
Bruce Momjian
maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us

On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On the personal side, I'm 37, married, with one child, a
> > daughter, who's 8 years old. In my free time, I work at training
> > my dogs (collies) for obedience competitions. (We're just
> > starting out, so we haven't earned any titles yet.) Also, from
> > my .sig, you may be able to deduce that I'm a fan of Monty
> > Python.
>
> I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.

We have to get our affections somewhere, since SO's don't handle
our long hours very well? :)

Hi, Although I do not contribute to code writting, im there in spirte.
I am a jack of all trades. I have done Unix Admin and DBA consulting before
I joined my current employer. I currently am working for a company that
does work for the NFL. So my interests in postgres are for a fanasty football
database, amongst other things. I have been working on/in/with Linux since
Dec 93, and Postgress for about a year and a half now. Keep up the good work
guys. I am currently trying to start a DBA consulting company, based on
my Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and Msql expertise. Oh ya, Im married and I have
one son(Andrew 2yrs old) and a little girl is on the way. My son, also likes
linux( especially xfishtank)!!!

j.heil
--
Joseph A. Heil, Jr.

SuperStat, Inc. email: heilja(at)superstat(dot)com
7500 Market Place Drive voice: 612-943-8400
Eden Prairie, MN 55344 fax: 612-943-8300

Key fingerprint = 95 FC 3A F4 8A 10 05 85 3F 53 01 86 AD DB DB 51

I wasn't going to join this thread, until Bruce wrote:

> I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.

I've noticed that as well, with pleasure. My wife and I have six cats
living with us (and a seventh sort of living in our yard, being an old
homeless stray). Might a fondness for animals be another trait shared
by computer oriented people?

-tih
--
Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity. --Niles Crane, "Frasier"

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.

Ok, I haven't done a whole lot to help out pgsql, just some
support/encouragment for the Linux/alpha port and a few patches, but...
I am 21 years old, and a undergrad college student at a small,
christian, engineering university called LeTourneau University in
Longview, TX. I am originally from Boulder, Colorado (a much more
interesting town than Longview). I spend most of my time doing homework,
and the rest hacking around on one of my four Linux boxes (P100, 386, UDB
Alpha, 486 Thinkpad) or trying to convince the school's information
technology department to install a Linux server for academic student use.
For some reason they think Novell & Microsoft are God, and Unix is evil!
But I am winning, slowly but surely. I do web page design, C++ programing,
perl programming, web/cgi programming, system admin, and I find myself
doing more and more database programming as well (hence my like of pgsql).
I also have an electrical engineering side, where I play with circuits and
see how many different ways I can blow them up! :) Between computers and
electronics (not to mention Linux), I keep quite busy. If you want to know
more, visit my web page. Thanks.

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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> I have been working with many of you for over a hear, and would like to
> know more details about you.

I'm 27, single :-( , and currently live with my parents just outside
Maidstone, Kent in England.

I work for the Maidstone Borough Council (local government), officially as
first line support for our users. However, I tend to second line support
and development most of my time. (I'm currently trying to get my home
network connected to the works network).

I've setup part of our Intranet (based around two Linux boxes), setup
secure dial up for the Mainframe & Unix boxes (again using Linux). Also,
the authorities web site is currently down to me.

I'm using PostgreSQL at work currently to hold our purchase ordering, and
details on the 400+ PC's we currently have.

At home I write Astronomical utilities mainly in Java, sometimes in C or
Perl. Postgres is used to store Astronomical data (mainly catalogues at
the moment, but soon images as well), research on the Vikings, and to
develop the JDBC driver.

I also lurk on the TASS list, where they are using Postgresql to store
observations made by CCD cameras from around the world.

I have networked here a Linux box (P133, 48Mb ram), a Windows 95 machine,
a 486 Laptop and a A1200 Amiga. A second linux box is being planned to
handle postgres & cdr work.

Other pastimes include being a member of CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale),
sampling various real ales, and being a trainee Viking Warrior (basically
going all over the country, dressing up in tenth century costume, and
having large battles - and no the weapons are not foam ;-) )

--
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Page me via SMS on: http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/misc/sms.html
Main Homepage: http://www.demon.co.uk/finder
Work Homepage: http://www.maidstone.gov.uk Work EMail: peter(at)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk

Thus spake Tom I Helbekkmo
> > I am noticing a lot of animal lovers in the group.
> I've noticed that as well, with pleasure. My wife and I have six cats
> living with us (and a seventh sort of living in our yard, being an old
> homeless stray). Might a fondness for animals be another trait shared
> by computer oriented people?

Could be. Over the last two years we have had over 50 cats in our
house and we can name each one of them. We have had as many as 10
at one time. We foster them for a local group that rescues them
from lab research.

See http://www.druid.net/cats/ for details.

--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(at){druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on
+1 416 424 2871 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.

I am 35, and live in the very north of Sweden in a small village
called Jukkasjrvi, 25 km outside the mining town of Kiruna.
This is about 200 km north of the arctic circle.

I am currently (more or less) single in my little house near the Torne river
and enjoys sauna, skiing, fishing and dancing (especially tango).

I work as development and system engineer and in a small outfit
as ours it means doing all sort of things. Our main business is
on-line image databases, tied to the mother companies printing
and prepress shops.
http://www.bildbasen.se/
http://www.jms-gruppen.com/

My main areas of knowledges is
unix and communication,
C and perl programming.

We are slowly shutting down our old DG/Aviion/Informix-system and
porting our software to linux/pgsql.
I am responsable for the new unix socket code in 6.3 and hope to
help out some more on the following releases.

regards,
--
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Gran Thyni, sysadm, JMS Bildbasen, Kiruna

hi everybody,

a couple of days ago i stopped receiveing mail from {questions,hackers}
lists. i resubscribed, but no answer at all. i did it several times, my
mailer reported the email reached destination, but no efffect.

what can i do?

i remeber this is the second or even third time i got this problem, but
never so radical and persistent.

Costin

On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, PostgreSQL wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> a couple of days ago i stopped receiveing mail from {questions,hackers}
> lists. i resubscribed, but no answer at all. i did it several times, my
> mailer reported the email reached destination, but no efffect.
>
> what can i do?
>
> i remeber this is the second or even third time i got this problem, but
> never so radical and persistent.

This mail won't reach you either, most likely:

Mar 11 16:15:28 hub sendmail[8151]: QAA08125: \
to=postgres(at)linux(dot)tpd(dot)deuroconsult(dot)ro, delay=00:00:01, \
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, relay=linux.tpd.deuroconsult.ro, \
stat=Host unknown (Name server: linux.tpd.deuroconsult.ro: host \
not found)

# nslookup linux.tpd.deuroconsult.ro
Server: hub.org
Address: 209.47.148.200

*** hub.org can't find linux.tpd.deuroconsult.ro: Non-existent host/domain