On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:35 AM, J W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.w.bulk@gmail.com">jeff.w.bulk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all, my name is Jeff Welling.<br>I'm moving to the Kitchener Waterloo area, and since I'm a linux geek I thought I should touch base with the local LUG. I write free software in my free time, mostly in Ruby though I'd like to get back to working with C and am trying to help with one in Python. One of my projects is designed to help track of and control your bandwidth, another project I'm working on is called Ticgit which I've become the maintainer of, and I'm trying to help out with OpenHatch.org though I'm having to learn Python at the same time in order to do that.<br>
<br>Any other local developers?<br></blockquote><div><br>I am one, if you consider PHP a language that is ;-) Specifically, Drupal, the<br>Content Management System.<br><br>Also did C and some C++ (and Bourne Shell, COBOL and BASIC too!)<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Any suggestions on local watering holes?<br>Local geeking hot spots?<br></blockquote>
<div><br>You reached perhaps the largest techie/geek/open-source group in Southern<br>
Ontario. The KWLUG is the right place to start, as it is the largest and the most<br>
diverse in coverage of projects/technology.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Tips about ISPs? <br>Which do you use, whats your opinion of them, who do you think I should avoid and why?<br>
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I'm coming from Vancouver and I've been on Shaw cable who are the best around. The alternative is Telus DSL. <br>Telus complains if you go over on your usage and forwards DMCA complaints, Shaw never complained on any of the occasions when I went over my bandwidth allotment even when it was a significant overage (200-400%), and has yet to forward a DMCA complaint.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>For ISPs, I am with Rogers, simply due to inertia, and the fact that I already have<br>
their cable TV service. If I take only one of them, the price goes up on the other.<br>
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Their speed is unmatched by anyone else (10 Mbps) for residential. The bad part <br>
is that they cap you to 60GB, which is enough for usual usage, but occasionally <br>
we go over it.<br><br>Here is an overview of their packages:
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p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; </style><a href="http://is.gd/f1HXf">http://is.gd/f1HXf</a><br><br>My (and Raul?) are on the Express package.<br><br>I looked into Yak a couple of months ago, and they were very promising, but<br>
wanted to take over my long distance too, which I am with a company that<br>gives good rates for USA/Canada as well as specific overseas countries.<br>So that was the deal breaker for me.<br><br>TekSavvy and others who piggyback on Bell are throttled at the CO because<br>
the CRTC is to weak to take action on that.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Any other things I neglected to ask?<br></blockquote><div><br>42 ...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I'll be busy moving in this weekend but hopefully I'll see some of you at some meetings :)<br>
*waves* Nice to meet everyone.<br><br>Looking forward to geeking with you,<br>
Jeff.<br></blockquote></div><br>One group I am involved with is the Drupal Users Group for Waterloo Region.<br><a href="http://groups.drupal.org/waterloo-region">http://groups.drupal.org/waterloo-region</a><br><br>We meet monthly and attendance varies from 12 to 20 depending on the time<br>
of year and topic.<br><br>Although the group is Drupal centric, occasionally we cover non Drupal specific<br>topics, such as a recent talk about Git, and an upcoming talk on SEO. <br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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