Linux

[windsor]

I am shocked (shocked I tell you) that none of our historians/linguists have pointed out that the term geek originally referred to circus/carnival performers who had grotesque acts (like biting the heads of chickens) .

When y'all pulled out "geek" in response to my original "Nerds" pic post in this thread, I set about looking for a pic of somebody biting a chicken's head. I didn't immediately find anything, and then I got bored. And scared.

I am not disappointed by the lack of a photograph. Yuck.

Power to the Geeks!

[Jesus_hurley]

I've had either standalone Linux boxen or dual-boot boxen going back to 1998 or so. Red Hat 5 or 6 IIRC is where I started. Right now, my only set up is Ubuntu on VMWare on my Win Vista Quad Core Dell.

Same here - except Windows 7 not Vista - the Mr Windosr and My daughter plus my laptop that I do work on from time to time are Vista, my desktops are all Linux - server is Microsoft because it is easier to run Exchange that way.

I'm tying in my Evolution mail to my exchange server now. Took a little while to get the authentication correct, but it's downloading my mailbox now.

Evolution (the mail client) is evil. It basically scrapes OWA for mail and calendar info. Calendaring is a little funky - you have to be careful that you are using your Exchange calendar and not the local calendar. And once it is working don't make any changes or odds are you'll have to remove the .evolution folder from your home dir and re-setup Evolution with the changes you wanted to make. I normally open up IMAP on my exchange servers and use thunderbird for mail and owa for calendaring.

I run Ubuntu (9.04 now) on my laptop and Centos 5.2 on my server