[Bradford] Introduction :-)

[Philip Wyett]

Hi Nick,

Children and 3 girls will certainly keep you busy and on your toes.

You say you use Ubuntu. How do you find unity?

Regards

Phil

On Friday 01 Feb 2013 21:22:20 Nick Rhodes wrote:
> 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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