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    Hi Richard,<br>
    You sound like an interesting guy.  Your DIY stuff prompted me to
    write, and point you towards another kw group that you may be
    interested in. They have Tuesday Open nights were anyone can come
    and check them out. <a href="http://www.kwartzlab.ca/">http://www.kwartzlab.ca/</a>
    To see a bit of the lab check this out. <a
      href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab</a><br>
    <br>
    <br>
    On 11/17/2010 3:01 PM, Richard Bettridge wrote:
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I recently signed up for this
                  mailing list
                  and wanted to introduce myself.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">My name’s Richard Bettridge, I’m
                  a 26 years old. I’ve been using Linux since around ’97
                  though I
                  probably only started to really ‘get it’ around 2001.
                  I’ve
                  been using Linux in a professional capacity for about
                  that past 7 years. I currently
                  do performance based testing/tuning on infrastructure
                  software.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I had attended LinuxCon for my
                  first time
                  this year back in August. I must say for the low price
                  it was highly
                  entertaining. I’d recommend it. I’ll be going next
                  year.  I
                  found out about the KWLUG by accident while looking
                  for an <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ontario</st1:place></st1:state>
                  based Linux Conference, to which I found
                  Ontario GNU Linux Fest. It wasn’t happening this year
                  but some good came
                  of it is it lead me to stumble upon this local group.
                  Kind of wish I had
                  thought to look sooner.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">My preference has always been
                  Debian and derived
                  distributions. Though I primarily work with Redhat and
                  Suse products at work.
                  So I’m looking forward to the upcoming meeting in
                  which Debian seems to
                  be the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">My interests are primarily
                  media/appliance
                  type applications such as my mediapc’s with XBMC,
                  open/ddwrt, and my
                  recent purchase of a CarPC. I’m a long-time fan of
                  XBMC, been using it
                  since near its inception.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I spend most of my time writing
                  scripts to
                  automate things on my network. Also I’ve always been a
                  big fan of PHP and
                  like to write web-based methods for accessing various
                  services from my home
                  network. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">Recently I’ve started to learn
                  python. I’ve hacked other’s python scripts in the past
                  but now I’ve
                  had reason to actually get fluent with the language. I
                  must say it is not what
                  I’m used to at all. I’m more of a perl/bash kind of
                  guy. So if
                  anyone’s a py-pro…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I also have been very interested
                  in
                  getting my non-savvy friends accustom to using Ubuntu
                  with no complaints or
                  want to head back to Windows (I’d rather help them
                  with a real problem
                  that is worth solving than help them remove malware).
                  So far so good. Just
                  leave them with an ultimatum, try Linux or find
                  another computer guy you can
                  pay in beer. It’s really no different than the
                  learning curve if they
                  switched to a Mac, I tell them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I’d like to think I know a good
                  amount of low-level knowledge on email and http
                  transactions. It has been my
                  primary career focus for the past 5 years. So if
                  anyone is interested in that
                  sort of stuff I’m sure we can leverage each other.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I’m often doing DIY electronic
                  projects, though I know very little about electronic
                  components. I can always
                  use advice in that area.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">I look forward to meeting all of
                  you in
                  December’s meeting. I would have attended November’s
                  Social Night
                  but I thought it would be better to get a first
                  impression of one of the
                  structured meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"
                face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
                  Arial; color: navy;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
                    style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Richard
                    Bettridge<br>
                    Software Testing Specialist<br>
                    BIS-E SV&V Performance<br>
                    <br>
                    <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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