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Paul Lindner
 

Early Google - Linux restricts

I found my first email to Google. From the year 2000. Since then I've worked through five companies, but Joan Braddi is still here.

And since I'm on the inside now I was able to find the that cl referenced the work I was doing at the time, which was adding search to www.redhat.com. (Or Red hat, as you can see here)

https://critique.corp.google.com/#review/8802/depot/eng/clientwork/CompletedSites.html

I do have to wonder if Red Hat's slow payment of their 5k+ contract fees hurt the early Google, or what might have happened had Google gotten into the RPM search field as I suggested to them way back when...

And for a real blast from the past see the search stats that were emailed out monthly(!)

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/partner-reports/XiVcELeVONc/AtcwCeBS7uYJ

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Paul Lindner
 

Decided to dig deep in my mail archives to see what my first contact was with Google-folk after reading @116509592231017933209 post.

Earliest was search integration on redhat.com (early 2000), back then http://redhat.google.com was a real thing.

Lots of people moved on including Ray Sidney, Samir Kothari, Harry Cheung, Howard Jacobson, Rachael Kutras...

The two still here are @112983450704233067709 and @111898143234484272777









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Upgraded to Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" in-place on the same image I've had since Redhat 6.2.

Upgraded to Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" in-place on the same image I've had since Redhat 6.2.  It was a little more challenging than some upgrades due to moving everything into /usr, but overall it's working well.

And the origin of the name is pretty interesting, check it out:

http://beefymiracle.org/history.html

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Luxxury - "Sweet and Vicious"

Luxxury: "Sweet and Vicious"

Baron von Luxxury is an old co-worker of mine from the Red Hat days selling ads for redhat.com.  Check out the cute kitty in the youtube vid above.

I can't forget the time we accidentally ran run-of-network ads and you found banner ads for Dennys and some online Hair-Net website running next to Linux content.

Or the wonderful partnership with Keen.com to provide amateur linux support over the phone.  I hear that they're mostly psychics and phone sex these days.

In any case check out Luxxury when you can get the chance.  They play all over the Bay Area at times.

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