[Bradford] Introduction :-)

[Nick Rhodes]

My gaming days are over. 3 little daughters make sure I don't get the 
time :)

Cheers, Nick

On 01/02/13 21:16, Philip Wyett wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Nice intro. It is good that you are going full time Linux etc. You maybe a
> good man to know as things like web, php are not my strong area - Lets just
> say that. I like things that start class or struct. :-)
>
> After your uni days. Do you still game a bit?
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
> On Friday 01 Feb 2013 21:06:18 Nick Rhodes wrote:
>> Cheers Phil.
>>
>> Maybe every one could think about introducing themselves on this list. I
>> speak to many people and don't know much about their backgrounds ?
>>
>> I am Nick Rhodes. A 35 year old family guy and Software Developer with
>> 15+ years commercial experience, mostly with MS asp.net do web based
>> business systems. In a few weeks I am swapping departments to be a full
>> time Linux/PHP/Python dev.
>>
>> Been a Linux user for around 5 years thanks to the influence of another
>> long time Linux dev/user that some of you may know, Martyn (/me waves) .
>> My first exposure to Linux was at Uni where we used a mix of
>> Linux/Windows and OS9 machines.
>> My first distro was Slackware, used to install a Quakeworld server for
>> our Uni house LAN gaming sessions. I use Ubuntu generally as it usually
>> works the best of the box for what I need.
>>
>> I have in the past contributed lots code to an obscure PHP CMS project
>> and a steady flow of bug reports, work arounds and suggested fixes/code
>> to the various software [projects] I have used from Drupal CMS modules
>> to Ubuntu udev rules for USB wifi devices. I tend to prefer to help with
>> support than code (as my day job is coding), helping out on various
>> forums (generally smaller community ones) and Wiki when I have the time.
>>
>> Cheers, Nick.
>>
>> On 01/02/13 19:46, Philip Wyett wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Here is my introduction.
>>>
>>> I am Phil Wyett; 39 year old former soldier and over a decade as a Linux
>>> user and developer. I have been a developer of the OSS Crystal Space 3D
>>> game engine, CEL project for over a decade and still am plus the release
>>> manager. I have also been a contributing dev to Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu
>>> and Redhat for years, plus many upstream projects.
>>>
>>> My production systems are Kubuntu and for server Ubuntu. If you ask
>>> nicely,
>>> you can get access to my semi public AMD 8x  CPU 32 Gb RAM 4TB SSD
>>> (kubuntu
>>> 12.4.x) system or my AMD 6x 12 Gb RAM 2TB SATA (kubuntu 12.04.x) system.
>>>
>>> I have some bits to give away (many cpu's ( many single cores and some
>>> dual
>>> and triple cores, over 300 Gb of RAM of varying speeds (16 Gb is Corsair
>>> DDR 3 @ 2000 MHz), new PSU's, etc.) but as I mentioned it on twitter - So
>>> Dick get first refusal on them (I did say to you I would catalogue it all
>>> ;-))- it's only right. You all can have what's left. ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>
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