Hi My Name is Richard and I have been to a few meetings when it was at Mark Roger's Unit a couple of years back, I think back then we put a 50p in a pot or something for the coffee.
I haven't been to a meeting for sometime as I am a busy boy these days and not familiar with the new venues. I also lost my laptop to a sledgehammer when it finally annoyed me (it was at least 12 years old) so I had no portable computer to bring along. I didnt want to rock along with my hands in my pockets so I stopped coming for that reason. I have a new Dell laptop running Windows 7, I havent yet got round to dual booting it so i may com back soon. I use ubuntu linux on and off. I'm a gamer so I do like my Windows 7, although I have dabbled with Cedega on Linux, for some titles I play I found the performance not as good as on native Windows. That said I'm a linux lover, and I'm studying for my Linux+ exam and also regularly work on CentOS and AIX unix at work. I digressed a bit but yes I do agree that we should have a speaker every now and then but I also liked the chilled out space to be able to hang out with other Linux Peeps and talk bash awk and grep with like minded "hashbang-slashbin-slashbash-ers". Its a good thing that was mentioned and I suppose I proved it earlier, but yes its true we ae Linux lovers but interestingly we know its place and are not necessarily Anti Microsoft or Anti Apple (in fact someone may correct me here but I heard Apple OS is built on top of BSD Unix so Apples are in fact more linux-like than meets the eye). At work too I use Win XP and Windows 7 and you can get "unixutils" which give me things like ls, rm, tail etc as I am always typing ls instead of dir at a windows command prompt! I also liked seeing at the meetings, all the new and emerging technologies I remember being blown away by the "Cube" desktop when CompizFusion was new tech! One thing I'm quite keen on learning in a kind of step by step process is compiling a new kernel, how to do it and why you would do it, as its not covered in the Linux+ objectives other than how to add the new kernel into GRUB or LILO configs. If anyone has a link to a good HOWTO I can follow I'd really appreciate it. Thats all I really had to say really hope everyones OK and might see you all again soon. Regards Richard
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