[Preston] Hello

[Andrew King]

Hi all,

I'm a bit new too (was here ages ago). I'm 20, live in Preston, and work 
in a local high school running their computer network for them (now 135 
workstations, 36 laptops, 33 printers, 10 switches, 4 servers and a 
power supply), which is great fun and but keeps me busy. The plan for 
this year is to find another job somewhere and escape to somewhere miles 
away, so I'll let you all know when the job becomes available, since if 
I don't recommend someone they'll take on a complete idiot who'll insist 
on "upgrading" everything that's not on win2k right away to 2k or 
something worse.  The pay isn't exactly great (~£12k) but it's probably 
a way to better things.  I have started the assimilation process for you 
and leave as much clear documentation as time allows me to write.

Been using Linux for 4 and a half years now, as well as FreeBSD/OpenBSD 
a bit.  I got rid of Windows off everything I own years ago (2000 I 
think), and don't look back at all - much better off without it.  Why 
you lot all insist on having these dual boot setups I'll never know, but 
I'm sure you've all got your reasons... (remember to send flames 
directly to me and not to the list...).  I'll admit though to running 
Windows on a work laptop with a legit copy of VC++, since there's 
potential income there, and it's useful for work.

As far as computers go, I'm just interested in making them as useful and 
fun as possible. Have probably concentrated on C, Perl, networking and 
programming graphics/guis under Unix, although I'm still at a fairly 
early stage with all of it.

I'm eager to help people make the switch, so please feel free to give me 
a shout if you live in/around Preston and want some help.

To anyone who's not been to one of the PLUG meetings (which were always 
in pubs this time last year), they're great - come along. Anyone any 
idea what's happening next?

Databug said that Caroline said:

>>Hi All..
>>
>>I'm new, too. I'm a student at the uni here and have been dabbling with
>>Linux for the past year or so. I'm at the stage where I can possibly name
>>1/2 a dozen distros. Hmm.
>>I'm in the middle of a re-build and planning to make my desktop machine
>>tri-boot (?) with win 98, 2000 and Suse 8.1. It's an experience.
> 
> Try boot eh that sounds like fun. But why with win2000? winXP is much better. 

Each to their own I guess :) I prefer to stick with NT wherever possible 
- bit more efficient and stuff.

Caroline - I have known people with similar tri-boot setups - with any 
luck it shouldn't be too difficult.

Andrew