I admin Microsoft Windows servers hating windows 2008 where everything is in a different place and none of the existing scripts and remote tools work.

Worked for about 6 years as a data center tech; building/racking/cabling servers.
Lost my job, so now I'm back at school going for a BS in Computer Information Systems, as a GED just doesn't get you very far professionally. :redface:

Independent Consultant doing Linux work for Law Enforcement
Currently working on a Dual Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering degree

I am a PhD student in Meteorology and operational weather forecaster. I use Slackware both at home and in the office.

Software engineer working mostly with java and related technologies.

Programmer,write ASP.NET with VB. (Forced to be a ASP.NET developer as the environment requires it.)

Hate the language from head to toe.

Just another Windows server admin who's happy he doesn't have to deal with Windows at home.

I was joking earlier. But really, a grad student in math. Started using Slackware back in my teens, in Russia. Incidentally, it was the first GNU/Linux distribution I laid my hands on, and still remains the favorite.

System administrator in medium size ISP. (I've become sys admin 10x to Slackware!)

M$ admin, having 3 Slack babysitters looking over 60 mentally challenged Win* kids in order to keep them safe, sane and healthy.
:D

I run a pizza delivery joint ...

I don't own it; That would be almost half-way respectable.

I have switched my profession to professional job hunter. Really, I am a system admin (windows/linux mix) for a really small software company.

Interesting thread. Nice to meet all of you guys! Season greatings to everyone

Until a couple of months ago, I was a full-time professional software developer and part-time amateur musician.

By chance and choice (thank Heaven or the FSM), I'm now a full-time professional musician and (mostly) retired software developer.

Slackware has been (and will continue to be) a dear friend.

I am just a farmer :)

I am a mathematician.

I'm an economist working in the telecommunications industry.

Managed Services Project Manager & Sales Engineer............also retired USMC.

Don't say just a farmer. Without farmers, a vast majority of the would would be dead. Everyone can say what they want, but a farmers life demands more than most would ever want to give.

I am a horse trainer. I confess however, that I wrote software for a while in the 1980's. Have used slack since version 7.

Same here. :)

You marry my sister, I sell her you - she strong like bull, pull plow...

Seriously though, I suppose I could say I'm a biochemist who graduated from UCSD, but instead of pursuing my dream of counting Opisthobranchs as a biological oceanographer from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I went right back into the IT (we used to call it Data Processing) industry following life at the university - something I've been doing since I was 15 years old.

I could also say that I'm a retired federal firearms dealer, since I owned and operated a gun store for a little over three years when I thought that I was burned out on IT - but I wasn't burned out on IT (as it turned out), and instead, got burned out on selling guns to whack jobs.

My FFL expires in February and I have no intentions of renewing it.

I can be found here: http://Linkedin.com/in/bradleythornton

I KNOW I'm a Slacker, though :)

Kindest regards,

Web developer here usually using PHP (websites, web apps, system apps development, etc). I sometimes do C#.NET and MS SQL Server, actually anything that the job requires.

Unfortunately I can't make my Wireless (prepaid) internet to work on Slack (maybe because of series of updates) so I have to run Windows just for internet at home (but that's another story :D)

I'm an IT in the broadest possible way.
My Job is IBM z/OS analytic (yes - the big old iron!) for HP.
I use Slack for everything - my main notebook, my primary web/mail server, my main network firewall.

I've been using Slackware since version 9 ... I still remember my first tries to convert to Slackware ... it was a disaster ... can you imagine back than I was unable to start proper X ... and the horror on nVidia drivers ... but I have been using it never the less ...

Occupation = Retired. I've been involved with computers in one form or another since the late sixties. It's my hobby now.

Traffic Management Specialist for the State of Texas. Programming traffic signal coordination and so on. :)

I'm a Former mechanic but I'm to curious how stuff works so I started studying. I started with electrical engineering, but changed to physics. I might be starting my masters degree in micro electronics this summer and hopefully my thesis will be programming of some sort. (Aspiring kernel hacker? ;))

In the weekends I work as a security guard, but will probably try to get a new job as a lab technician for undergraduates eventually.

I'm a software developer currently working with Java on Win$ XP.
We have Linux servers at job but I'm not an administrator of these boxes.
I use Linux at home for my personal stuffs and to improve my knowledges and Slackware is perfect for that.

I am landscape ecology graduater, now bank officer :-) who very like Slackware. I never study computer science, I use Linux only for 1 year and 3 months (Slackware cca 9 months). Slackware can really people learn what is linux about.

Interesting that there really aren't that many ITs here, I thought for sure there would be more.

As for me: MD student.

Hi. I was always very interested in "smart traffic control systems" (theoretically). Can you recommend a commercial company to a developing east european city to build up a clever traffic system? Sorry for off-topic.

QA and testing for Opera Software

I'm a software engineer working in the process control field. I write C and C++ software for a line of programmable embedded control processors. My experience is mainly in operating systems, drivers, network communication and redundancy.

I write some Windows applications and system services.

Slackware is not my primary OS but it has proven to be quite valuable. I have used Slackware in situations where Windows is not real-time enough or when I don't want to spend extra money on the operating system. I am especially impressed with SAMBA and have found that it is often more reliable than the Server service built into Windows. Due to the increasingly secret nature of most chip information I have found Linux drivers an excellent source of detailed information about hardware for designing special drivers for embedded operating systems.

I've used many different operating systems in the past (I started programming in 1978). I use whatever gets the job done and am always looking for more than one solution. Slackware is frequently as good a solution as Windows, and sometimes a better solution. KDE4 has been a bit disappointing because of the bugs and still unimplemented functions. I'm using XFCE4 at the moment but I hope to move back to KDE soon.

Finished my PhD in Electrical Engineering in September and now I'm working with the USAF designing scientific instruments for satellites. To most of my friends I'm a rocket scientist... but I suspect that with all the intelligent sounding people here I probably wont be able to get away with calling myself that! lol :)

US Army Retired (Communications Electronics Repair Supervisor)
Currently Broadcast Engineer

I in IT for now, hope i can change careers.

I got Slackware since it's 4th version, but i was short on time to set it up, i was in college, when i finished, i ran redhat, mandriva, and now back to Slackware in it's 9th version, since then i run Slackware on my pcs.

Power Electronics engineer working totally with Slackware based notebooks.

Test Manager here. Started off in electrical engineering nearly 30 years ago, then spent several years working for the emergency services in disaster management. I get to have Slackware on desktops and servers at work (along with a bunch of non-Slackware OSs) and Slackware at home. IT-wise I'm pretty lucky.

Test (Match) Manager's are much in demand in Australia at the moment I reckon...

;)

Latest definition of an optimist. Buying a fifth day ticket and expecting a full days play.

OK - You will probably go home 3-1 up. Last time round you went home 0-5 down.

Long live the battle for the Ashes!

I think the floods further North of me in Queensland were arranged to take our attention off the cricket...

My hat off to you sir for buying that ticket; sounds like very few Aussies turned up. Anyways yes a great series for us, but you know it won't be long before the tide turns again - I can't see an Australian side staying this poor for long. Roll on 2013..

Hope the barmy army don't keep too much of the country awake tonight.

(apologies to all non English or Australian Slackers - probably best not to ask..)

I work in a factory.

Pathologist.

Now if the NHS ran on slackware it would be a good thing. Since the ending of the NHS agreement with Microsoft, hospitals have to pay an extra £200-400 on each PC deployed. They could at least make a start by ditching MS Office.

But they won't.

I always enjoy these threads - I'm a Special Ed teacher working with behavior disorders. I'm 45 and have sprayed lawns, worked at pawnshops, as a jewelry store manager, insurance adjuster, run termite spray lines, been a head hunter, mental health counselor, ran fast food restaurants geez I make my self tired looking at all the junk I've done lol. I love Arch linux and Slack but I have to admit I'm always frustrated with wireless on both - other than that no complaints ;)

Oil & Gas controls engineer, ChaCha guide, freelance author. Was a line cook in a previous life.

Currently Linux/UNIX Systems Administrator at Rice U. Consultant on my free time.

Seems like about every 10 years I change jobs for one reason or another. Once an electronics tech working on black boxes and the computer controlled test equipment for the boxes in the military. Next maintenance tech for chicken plant fixing electronic weigh scales. Now I run the shop for a metal roofing company bending up metal trim all day. Once in a while I get to play IT tech when someone has a computer problem in the office. Well guess what, 10 years is up, maybe I'll break the pattern this time, jobs are hard to find now.

Electonics Technician

Desktop support Tech in the windows world for a large health care company.