[Chester LUG] Introduction...

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Michael,
Welcome along to the LUG, we have monthly social meets at the Old King's
Head in Chester and we're currently planning some tech days for the near
future.

Hopefully see you at the next meet.

Les


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Michael Crilly <e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>        My name is Michael Crilly. I currently live in Runcorn and I've
> started
> picking up copies of Linux Format which listed this mailing list.
>
> I guess I'll start by outlining my current Linux experience and setup:
>
> My main box is a Pentium-D 940 3.2GHz with 2gB of DDR2 PC5300, an 80gB
> SATA II HDD for the OS and two 320gB SATA II HDDs for storage of media,
> etc. The box also holds an nVidia 8800GTS 320mB which was originally for
> gaming on Windows but then license fees, bugs, updates, etc annoyed me
> so I've moved over to Fedora 8 now; not just for obvious, immediate
> benefits but simply to stay legal (I only have one legal copy of XP). I
> also wrote my first Fedora "specific" bash script for installing, in one
> go, media capabilities onto a clean Fedora 8 installation.
>
> I also have a laptop which runs an AMD Turion with 1gB of RAM and an
> 120gB HDD which also holds an F8 installation.
>
> I've actually been using Linux on and off for a few years. I'm certainly
> no expert - I'd probably say I'm not even an intermediate level user -
> but I can get things done in Linux; add MP3, DVD, basically media
> support; create documents and spreadsheets, etc. I have a few remote
> Linux setups as well in the form of VPS. So, in short, I'm certainly not
> a novice.
>
> I'm currently learning Java and studying for my A+ in an effort to get
> my foot into the IT market (anyone got any jobs going?) I work for
> Vodafone at present as a CSP.
>
> If you have any questions, then please, ask.
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> - MC.
>
>
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