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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>
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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>
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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>
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<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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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Richard
Bettridge<br>
Software Testing Specialist<br>
BIS-E SV&V Performance<br>
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