On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:12:43 +1200 Gabriella Turek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ah, now I feel more welcome ;-)... Seriously, I thought I'd introduce > myself. Fellow NIWA coworker Roy Britten pointed me to this group, but > unfortunately for now I'll only be able to participate virtually as your > monthly meeting happens at the same time as my caving club meeting... > Anyways, a lot of informative posts... We've just set up a linux laptop > at home and will be playing a bit with it (Ubuntu). So far I have been > impressed how easily we got it all to work including the WIFI bit > (we have an AirPort network at home, our other computers are Powerbooks) > Oh, I've been working on Linux for the past several years, before that > it was Solaris, Irix, etc. I am mostly a Java developer. > Cheers > gaby > -- > *************************************************************** > ** Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** > ** http://www.chimere.org http://walbatross.blogspot.com ** > *************************************************************** Another troglodyte - just what we need... mind you most of us don't like bright lights either (: Welcome. You've got a fair range of skills ( and personalities! ) here, from ancient old g*ts like me 'n Chris who've been using Unix since the 80's upwards. If you need to convert from Solaris ( HP-UX, Irix, etc ), then I can probably help if nobody else can. You might wan to look at X86 Solaris in general, and OpenSolaris in particular... even the desktop's written in Java. Not that you'll ever get Wifi working. Steve
