[Malvern] Introduction

Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore stuart at sslaxx.demon.co.uk
Fri Sep 29 10:47:22 BST 2006


Stuart Parkington wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> After loitering on the mail list for several months, I thought I should 
> introduce myself and maybe join in occasionally. I should say, reading 
> the list has been both informative and amusing. I'm Stuart, from 
> Worcester, but please don't hold that against me! :) I've been a Linux 
> user since about 1999, starting with Red Hat, then moving through 
> various versions of Mandrake, Coral and Debian to where I am today - 
> Ubuntu.
> 
> I currently run a small in-house network of:
> 1 x Compaq SFF, PII 500 running SmoothWall Express 2.0
> 1 x Compaq SFF, PII 500 running Mandrake 10 CE, acting as my 
> F&P/DNS/DHCP server. It has two 250GB USB drives and two USB printers 
> hanging off it. I export NFS and CIFS shares.
> 1 x Thinkpad P4 laptop running Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06, wireless 
> connected.
> 1 x Dell P3 old desktop in the office which I use for work/additional 
> work machine (I'm an IT Consultant).
> 1 x Sharp Windows XP Home laptop - the 'Significant Other's, but I'm 
> trying to 'encourage' her to upgrade!
> 1 x HP P4 Windows Pro laptop - Work supplied (which dual boots to 
> Dapper, but don't tell desktop support!)
> 
> I'm keen to participate in LUG meetings and events and hop to be able to 
> get to some meets in the coming months, if 'Worcesterites' are 
> tolerated!! :D
> 
> Think that is about all I have to say right now.

Welcome!

Nice sounding network, there! Using Ubuntu here, too (living on the Edgy 
right now). Hope to see you Tuesday!

-- 
Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore
http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/



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