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Hi guys,<br><br>it is very quiet around here, but i cannot complain as i joined the forum and didnt get a chance to be an active member and meet or comment much due to other commitments.<br><br>originally when i joined the forum i was an network and voice engineer for a company in luton, i got introduced to linux at university when we were asked to do a project with sugarcrm and asterisk together to see if we could get some functions to work automatically between them both.<br><br>now im a little far away to do any meetups, ive recently move to Cologne in germany and am now working as a senior voice engineer at a cisco gold partner in bonn.<br><br>well it was nice seeing some emails from the mailing list, to be honest i forgot i was actually a member ;)<br><br>Good luck all with anouther meeting, tell me if your ever in germany around the cologne area for a beer or so<br><br>Adam<br><br>> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:43:57 +0100<br>> From: linux@hyborian.demon.co.uk<br>> To: lust@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> Subject: Re: [Lust] Introduction<br>> <br>> Hi Alec,<br>> <br>> It is very quiet here ...<br>> <br>> There were some meetings arranged a year or two ago, mostly in pubs in<br>> or around Luton iirc. I had other commitments at the time (I think they<br>> always chose Tuesdays or Thursdays) so was unable to attend.<br>> <br>> Brief personal introduction: I live in Hemel. I'm an IT professional.<br>> I started my IT career in 1993 while working for the Civil Service,<br>> looking after DOS PCs, soon moved onto Windows 3, 3.1, 3.11 (Windows for<br>> Workgroups!) using NetWare for file and print services and WordPerfect<br>> Office for e-mail.<br>> <br>> Then in 1998 our Unix sysadmin left, and being "the guy who knew about<br>> computers" (managers, eh?), I was thrust kicking and screaming into the<br>> world of Solaris (version 2.5.1), and the Unix command line. Soon came<br>> to appreciate just how powerful this new environment was! I was quickly<br>> into RedHat 5, then 6, then Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Crux. I finally<br>> settled on Arch Linux. My family (wife and kids) and I (including my<br>> mother-in-law and Dad) all use Arch. I have one Debian server,<br>> internet-facing, for web and mail services, but all other workstations,<br>> laptops and my one server at home run Arch.<br>> <br>> I currently work for an outsourcing company as a Solaris and Linux<br>> SysAdmin.<br>> <br>> Welcome to the Luton/St Albans Linux user group.<br>> <br>> Would be interested to hear how others "got into" GNU/Linux ...<br>> <br>> Regards,<br>> <br>> Rob<br>> <br>> <br>> * Alec Wright (alecjw@member.fsf.org) wrote:<br>> > Hi there, I signed up to this mailing list a little while ago, and it<br>> > seems quite quiet, so I suppose I should introduce myself.<br>> > <br>> > I'm Alec, I'm from Hatfield and I go to St. Albans school. I've been<br>> > using GNU/linux almost exclusively for about 4 years, perhaps a bit<br>> > more. I started with ubuntu dapper, and nowadays I use GNU/linux quite a<br>> > lot, I have:<br>> > A laptop (novatech i3) running gentoo<br>> > A netbook (eepc 701) running debian testing<br>> > A phenom server running FreeBSD8.1<br>> > An xbox running debian sarge<br>> > A wii running gentoo<br>> > <br>> > As you can probably tell from my email address, I'm a free software<br>> > supporter: my laptop runs exclusively free software. My kernel's<br>> > deblobbed, I don't use flash player etc. Unlike the rest of the world, I<br>> > don't have an iphone, and nor do I want to, because of its treatment of<br>> > users as prisoners. I'm saving up my pocket money for a nokia N900<br>> > instead :)<br>> > <br>> > I'm not much of a coder (although I know a bit of C/python2/php), but I<br>> > contribute to free software projects wherever I can, mostly in hardware<br>> > testing, documentation and advocacy.<br>> > <br>> > So, tell me about yourselves and your [G]LUG :) Who are you? When/where<br>> > do you meet up?<br>> > <br>> > -- <br>> > Alec Wright<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Lust mailing list<br>> > Lust@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lust<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Lust mailing list<br>> Lust@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lust<br> </body>
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