<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2010 16:11, Peter Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dick_turpin@archlinux.us">dick_turpin@archlinux.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 29/04/10 22:01, Richard Barker wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> I've been lurking here for a fair while and thought I'd best introduce<br>
> myself. I'm Richard, I've been using Linux on and off for a few years<br>
> now and I'm hoping to get a little more involved if I can, I feel that<br>
> I'd like to give something back.<br>
<br>
</div>Why what have you taken?<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I started with RedHat 6.2 and SuSE. I tried Mandrake 10 and when Ubuntu<br>
> started, I switched to that for a while. I had some grief with acpi<br>
> that led me to CentOS for a while and after a little meandering, I'm<br>
> running my laptop on Debian stable and dual booting my desktop between<br>
> debian stable and Vista.<br>
<br>
</div>Top man I started out on RH 6.1 or 2 it all seems so long ago now.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I've got some experience with PHP on LAMP, having attended one of Jono<br>
> Bacon's courses at OpenAdvantage<br>
<br>
</div>Well thats you buggered then.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> and used what I learned to build a<br>
> couple of systems for previous employer a few years ago. More recently,<br>
> I put together a Python meditation timer and a web based equivalent at<br>
> <a href="http://sitquietly.quietwatercourse.co.uk" target="_blank">http://sitquietly.quietwatercourse.co.uk</a>.<br>
><br>
> Rich.<br>
> --<br>
> <a href="http://quietwatercourse.co.uk" target="_blank">http://quietwatercourse.co.uk</a><br>
<br>
</div>Excellent.<br>
<br>
P.S. Dont believe anything anyone says about me I'm a fluffy kitten and<br>
never say anything horrid, and I have the patience of a saint.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I only took the things that weren't nailed down. Honest guv. ;-)<br><br>The training course was a good thing TBH, I'd been learning from the PHP manual and Google, but actually having some formal training made a great deal of difference. I've been enjoying watching Linux grow over the years, it's great that it's now at the point that I can put it on a second hand laptop with minimum fuss for my Dad to use, and he gets on with it fine.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br><a href="http://quietwatercourse.co.uk">http://quietwatercourse.co.uk</a><br>