Wow. All these people with jobs and stuff.

Makes my very jealous.

I am currently unemployed. Going on 4 1/2 months now...

Mechanical Design Engineer in the UK division of an automotive components supplier, working on audio,nav,comms products etc amongst others. To some extent can claim this to be work related, but post either from home or lunchtimes. So it is mainly my wife looking over my shoulder to see what I am looking at!

Once described by Hugo as "not strictly a geek" hence the nickname...

I am the "Frozen Foods Manager" at a local grocery store!

Hey, at least one food & beverage colleague .

As I'm a landlubber, is that big thing behind the toilet an anchor?

For the last 7 years I've been the IT support manager at the head office of Spar UK (big convenience store chain) in Harrow.

This pretty much means I'm left to my own devices.

So at the moment I' teaching muself Linux, Oracle and vba, and testing the offices new sdsl line with Wolfenstein ET.

is that big thing behind the toilet an anchor?

'Tis indeed. Big sucker too.

There's a running joke in my department that if we can't find server space for something "we can always run it on Mark's car stereo".

Heh, I get this one all the time, too. I wonder how many times this suggestion has been made to an empegger?

I still get weird looks when I tell people it's a computer that runs Linux. There's a running joke in my department that if we can't find server space for something "we can always run it on Mark's car stereo".

I still think we should have done the "My other unix box is a car stereo" T-shirt.

Peter

I'm a Linux Kernel Consultant -- been working on and contributing to the core of Linux since 1992, and making a full-time living as an independent consultant since 1996. I do kernel customizations, device drivers, and develop/deliver training courses.

I also climb a lot of REALLY BIG rocks, and play with sharp woodworking instruments!

Cheers

I'm an electrical contractor licensed in GA, NC, SC, TN, AL and FL. Gadgets, electronics and music have always intrigued me so the empeg only seems natural.

Since I put together estimates for commercial retail type of projects I'm constantly staring at a computer screen and therefore peer into this forum quite often (probably more than I *should*).

Cheers!

I "work" as a tech support grunt supporting HP StorageWorks products. Right now on a call with 3 servers connected into a low level storage box, the MSA1000. Just got training on a new product, but, can't say much about that one yet. Storage products that I will eventually support range from the low end like the MSA1000 (14 to 42 drives) up to the EVA systems (max of 168 drives, fibre channel drives, not SCSI). I also deal a bit with the tape devices, all the way up to robotic systems with 24 drives and 730 tape slots, with robotics to deal with it all. And they can be linked togther if that isn't big enough. I also deal with the fibre network interconnecting all this, and it can be as complex, if not more so, then ethernet networking.

I used to do support for the Proliant servers, but after advancing a few levels there, hit the roof at this site for the most part. Moving to storage gives me the possibility of moving on to the other building, where the actual engineering of fibre specs and such is done. Though my ultimate goal is to be a programmer in the game industry. With the great economy though </sarcasm>, I've been keeping my claws burried here, since it pays the bills.

Heh. Interesting reading everyone else's hobbies. Er, I mean work..

Like a few other here, I work in Tech Support. (Somehow, tho, my duties have grown to include Programming (C, VB, and PHP for web.). I work for a company that makes "Call Center Solutions". A few year back, they would have been called "Predictive Dialers". See, you get 8 T1s, of 24 lines each, plug them into this thing. You hire 24 people to sit on their butts, and wait for their screen to announce they got someone on their hedset. Then they go: "Hello, is Mr. Sm-er.. Smyth there?" Our systems would make a SWAG on how many lines to dial per agent, and start making phone calls. Sad? Maybe, but true..

I'm not on here AS MUCH as others, but I'm always online doing one thing of another. Usually it's because 90% of my calls are along the lines of: "All our lines are going disabled! I re-enable them, but they go right back to being disabled!" "Have you called your T1 vendor?" "No, I thought I'd call you guys first." "Well, it looks like they're all in alarm. Meaning that they got turned off or unplugged. You need to give them a call." "Oh, okay, thanks!"
And the other 10%, well, I don't need to be really paying attention when they describe their problem.

I sit at work, Waldorf in it's lillt Mlord dock up in my cube providing hours and hours of entertainment while I sit on my tush (it's start to show, too. Rrf.) talking to our clients about ID10T errors.

Me.
[Edit: Off of work, I'm an anti-geek. I'll check the board once or twice, but that's it. I'm either out driving, brakeman on a railroad, or out hunting for Benchmarks. (Government versions of Mlord's Caches).]

I'm the alpha network geek...

This is the first time I've heard a bunch of geeks used in reference to a wolf pack.
Cute. It fits sometimes, too..

Me.

brakeman on a railroad? volunteer on a tourist line?

I used to write software for banks to automate their check processing, but now I'm a game developer in training

I "work" as a tech support grunt supporting HP StorageWorks products.

I was going to get your direct number so that you could talk to my SAN guy on the regular basis that he screws something up, but then I realized that I wouldn't sic that numbnuts on my worst tech-support enemy.

Both, actually, now. I started out volunteering for the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway two years ago, and only his winter got certified for official Brakeman. So now I can hop on whenever they need someone to fill in. (Since I work second shift at my 'regular' job. it works out perfect. Wake up real early, show up, do 8 hours or so, then go down and sit on my tush, to talk to slow people.
(That's why so many of my projects, both Empeg and other, have been hurting lately. Ugh.)

Me.

I'm an ISF & HAA certified home theater calibrationist. The only things I can program are remote controls (OK, I've done a little Crestron programming). My network aministration is limited to pointing out that hooking up a high definition cable box to your TV with a single RF cable probably won't yield the desired results...basically I get paid to play with other peoples' toys
After a couple of years of being under-employed as an designer/installer, it's beginning to look like I may actually be able to make a decent living with this gig...so I can buy some new toys for myself!
And maybe this year I'll be able to afford to come to the Ohio meet with our 12th octave RTA in hand and do EQ setting for folks.

Now, that would be a cool toy to bring. I'd love to have that done to my van.

I still think we should have done the "My other unix box is a car stereo" T-shirt.

That would have been a good case badge or sticker

I'm an ISF & HAA certified home theater calibrationist.

Hey, cool. I just got my Mits done. Real happy with the results. Only, I'm not sure if the guy (Craig Miller) was ISF certified or not, but he SURE knew his stuff.

I started out volunteering for the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

I'm a patron of our National Rail Museum here in York, UK, which sounds grand, but only means life member.
Glad to hear that someone else has a real interest, apart from being a Geek!
The only volunteer job I've been offered is running the kids train at the weekend, methinks no-one else wants the job!
By trade I run my own ad. agency, whch specialises in recruitment ads., but I'm down to 3 days a week and retiring next year.

This is the first time I've heard a bunch of geeks used in reference to a wolf pack.

I guess Al Gore was the original alpha network geek - after all, he invented the internet!

-jk

Does everybody realize that the notion that Al Gore said he invented the internet is untrue?

I believe he said:

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

So I can see how it was interpreted that he "invented" the internet.

Does everybody realize that the notion that Al Gore said he invented the internet is untrue?

While Snopes covers it well, it has become part of the cultural lexicon that he "invented the internet". Hence the .

-jk

By illiterates, yeah.

I'm a patron of our National Rail Museum here in York, UK, which sounds grand, but only means life member.

As a PFY I was an S&T engineer at the Avon Valley Railway near Bristol. I think a lot of geeky people are drawn to restored railways as an escape from large scale integration to large scale period.

Rob

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Yes there are days when I feel like hitting things with a very large hammer after work.

I'm a system integrator for a U.S. military contractor... We do healthcare software.