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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday September 15 2016, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the save-a-buck-fire-a-smart-guy dept.

We've previously mentioned Eric Hameleers AKA alienbob AKA Alien BOB and his run-Slackware-from-removable-media project. He even created an account here to comment on our story about that. (His sole activity here, so far.)

He now blogs

I am being laid off by my employer, IBM. Jobs in the Netherlands move to lower-wage countries like Poland and India, while IBM changes course towards a "cognitive" future in which there is less interest in the traditionally skilled technical IT jobs.

Unparalleled (because forced) job cuts in the Netherlands are the result of that change of focus. Almost 10% of the IBMNL work force is sent away in a "re-balancing" operation and I am out of a job per November 1st.

[...] As long as I still work for IBM (seven weeks), I have access to Safari Books Online where I can freely access and use the available course materials which prepare for the RHCE exam. This will of course affect the time I can spend on Slackware. I commonly spend nearly every after-work hour on packaging, scripting, and assisting people online and via email. That stops now.

[...] I also cannot promise that--when I have found a new job--that I will be able to provide the levels of support that you may have gotten used to.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by justinb_76 on Thursday September 15 2016, @05:09PM

    by justinb_76 (4362) on Thursday September 15 2016, @05:09PM (#402369)

    my current gripe with Xubuntu 16.04 is every time I close the lid on my laptop, I have to do Ctrl+Alt+F1 then F7 to have a visible cursor again. Meh, I'm just used to it now...

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