[Deaf-lug] Greetings

[Fintan Gaughan]

Welcome,

We all had to start somewhere and to be honest Linux brings fun back
into computing :-)

So ask away and pick our brains :-)

Fintan


On 12/02/2008, Paul Johnston <gingerdeafman at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Greetings to you all too.
>
> Like JGJones I'd joined this group today.  As for my Linux experience, I am
> a total novice I have to say <bows my head in shame>
>
> Hopefully I will rectify this soon enough.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: JGJones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com>
> To: deaf-lug <deaf-lug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 12:09:22 PM
> Subject: [Deaf-lug] Greetings
>
> I meant to join ages ago. Forgot to do it. Until Fintan posted the link in
> DUK-Tech again and this time I remembered to join.
>
> I've been using Ubuntu since its very first distro, prior to this I've tried
> multiple flavours such as Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake (before the name
> change), Debian, BSD (I think it was OpenBSD).
>
> At home:
>
> HOBBIT:
> Mythubuntu backend server running:
>
> MythTV server
> NFS server (backup and access videos etc (ie for MythVideo, recent videos is
> season 1 of Heroes all with SubRip files)
> Apache2 (for torrentflux, Gallery2 and
> playaroundprojectthingywhatever)
> Various stuff when I want to try things such as SIP proxy etc
>
> KIDDIES:
> As name say - Sony VAIO P3 computer for the kids running Xubuntu (XFCE
> instead of Gnome) - ideal for school work etc (son increasingly getting
> homework where he have to research on internet) - it've got a SiS graphics,
> meaning it really suck for games which is the idea (ie Flash games) ;-)
>
> ZEUS:
>
> Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 4Mb cache, and 2GB ram laptop with 1680x1050
> res screen (Dell Vostro 1500) - Ubuntu naturally. On this one I also run
> VirtualBox which I run WinXP, Vista, Ubuntu Dapper Drake LTS, Debian Sarge,
> Debian Etch and so on (taking full advantage of VT-x virtualisation
> technology that comes with the chip)
>
> HADES:
>
> 1st generation Macbook - Does have OSX Leopard. Boots into Ubuntu by default
> and that's the way it's staying ;) OSX is kept so kids can learn to use
> different OS (plus it have Comic Life which the son likes)
>
> KATRINA:
>
> Wifey's brand new Macbook Pro (yes brand new...we returned her Macbook pro
> for repairs. They lost it. We have a brand new replacement now and thank
> feck I backed up and wiped the disk before sending for repairs). Fully OSX
> Leopard bah...(she's a photographer and thus use Photoshop CS2 (it'll get
> upgraded to CS3 soon)).
>
> All of the above except KIDDIES comes with MythTV frontend so there's telly
> available everywhere ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> JGJones
>
>
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