Greetings all. I am a prospective new member of the Dorset LUG. This is to introduce myself.
My introduction to Unix was in the early 1980s, when I put together a couple of device drivers for SCO. In those days I was working for a computer manufacturer that had developed a sort-of clone of the IBM PC, and got SCO running without difficulty. I still have a vivid memory of talking to SCO tech support from a 'phone box somewhere on the Southampton University campus, chiding them about their handling of interrupts. Cut 30 years, during which I used Concurrent CP/M, MSDOS and OS/2, and finally (as of about 1999) Windows. My wife was having serious trouble with her Windows box, which was getting slower and slower. So I put a new box together for her and (since it had a 64-bit CPU) in my naivety I bought a copy of XP-64 and tried to install it. Everything worked except the network adapter. Annoyed, I thought I would try Gnu/Linux; so I installed Ubuntu (8.04). Everything worked - like a charm. So much so, that I decided to go that way myself. Today, I still run a Windows (XP) box for a few legacy applications; but my principal work machine and my laptop now run GNU/Linux - currently Ubuntu 10.10. I have solved a number of friends' or family members' problems by installing Linux (seven to date) on their aging hardware - and have so far chalked up seven delighted converts to the cause! As regards my working life, after a decade in biometric software I'm currently working on a new system to combat identity fraud. It's a web-based social network solution. (Ask me about it, and/or visit http://idangels.net .) So I'm managing a couple of web servers running apache 2.2, mysql and postfix under Ubuntu. I also manage a test server running CentOS. Regards to all, CPKS -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
