introductions

[Art Wildman]

Hya Guys,

Art Wildman, 'IT Custodian' for National Weather Service Office JAX...

 From Coast Guard ET, to a computer tech, broke my magic screwdriver and 
converted to SysAdmin, now an ITO ...early 80's NASA terminals, PCs, 
Macs, late 80's Sun and VAX/VMS. Early 90's Chief ET aboard NOAA ships 
managing DAQ uVAX systems, sidescan Sonar, Radars, Radios, GPS and 
Macs/PCs in support of Hydrography/Bathymetry and marine research. '94 
Began working for NWS & supported more DAQ systems including Doppler 
Radar, Weather Radio, Satellite imagery, Climate, Model Data over a 4800 
baud serial network... which we modernized over the past 10 years to 
HPUX, and now Linux.

In the good old days @95 we installed the Texas A&M Slackware 1.x & 
managed our first system with tar balls, boot/root floppy disks and much 
pulling of the teeth. When we discovered RedHat 2.x and RPM/Installers, 
we thought they were a godsend. Around '97 I became heavily involved in 
Linux advocacy with the help of some friends at http://Moongroup.com and 
worked hard to establish http://www.JaxLUG.org. Nowadays I get to play 
with 3-head AWIPS linux workstations and even a small cluster running a 
LAPS/WRF <http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov> weather model.

Interests: Art/graphics, watersports, home repairs, sleep and an 
occasional game of quake3/farcry which may interfere with the latter.

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Art Wildman/ITO - art.wildman at noaa.gov
National Weather Service Office (WFO-JAX)
13701 FANG Dr., Jacksonville, FL. 32218
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jax 
"Open Source: The difference between trust and antitrust"