Re: [Dorset] CPK Smithies (prospective new member)
On 05/04/11 17:38, CPK Smithies wrote: As regards my working life, after a decade in biometric software I'm currently working on a new system to combat identity fraud. It's a web-based social network solution. (Ask me about it, and/or visit http://idangels.net .) Hi, and welcome to the list. I met a couple of people involved in this project at an OpenMIC session in Bath around September or October last year. Can't recall their names, but it sounds like an interesting project! I was in a session with them and the Microsoft Platform Evangelist guy where they were discussing porting things to Windows Phone 7. I was just there because none of the other sessions sounded that good and I wanted to play with WP7 :) -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-05-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
[Dorset] CPK Smithies (prospective new member)
Greetings all. I am a prospective new member of the Dorset LUG. This is to introduce myself. My introduction to Unix was in the early 1980s, when I put together a couple of device drivers for SCO. In those days I was working for a computer manufacturer that had developed a sort-of clone of the IBM PC, and got SCO running without difficulty. I still have a vivid memory of talking to SCO tech support from a 'phone box somewhere on the Southampton University campus, chiding them about their handling of interrupts. Cut 30 years, during which I used Concurrent CP/M, MSDOS and OS/2, and finally (as of about 1999) Windows. My wife was having serious trouble with her Windows box, which was getting slower and slower. So I put a new box together for her and (since it had a 64-bit CPU) in my naivety I bought a copy of XP-64 and tried to install it. Everything worked except the network adapter. Annoyed, I thought I would try Gnu/Linux; so I installed Ubuntu (8.04). Everything worked - like a charm. So much so, that I decided to go that way myself. Today, I still run a Windows (XP) box for a few legacy applications; but my principal work machine and my laptop now run GNU/Linux - currently Ubuntu 10.10. I have solved a number of friends' or family members' problems by installing Linux (seven to date) on their aging hardware - and have so far chalked up seven delighted converts to the cause! As regards my working life, after a decade in biometric software I'm currently working on a new system to combat identity fraud. It's a web-based social network solution. (Ask me about it, and/or visit http://idangels.net .) So I'm managing a couple of web servers running apache 2.2, mysql and postfix under Ubuntu. I also manage a test server running CentOS. Regards to all, CPKS -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] CPK Smithies (prospective new member)
Welcome to the group. I've had a poke around the idAngels website, very interesting concept and sound basis (ie organisations don't know people, people know people). If you come to the meeting tonight, I'll probably ask you a few questions about it... Cheers Natalie -- Dorset Humanists Events ( http://groups.to/dorsethumanists/ ) Humanism and the European Humanist Federation by David Pollock, Saturday 9th April, 2pm, Moordown Community Centre Fair Votes for All?, Wednesday 27th April, 7.30pm, Moordown Community Centre Events are free to attend to everyone - both Dorset Humanists members and non-members - and donations can be made on the door to help Dorset Humanists cover the costs (hiring the venue, speakers expenses). ** Check out Sudoku Way, my Tetris meet Sudoku game for Android at https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cogitas.sudokuway Using Twitter? Check out Find Tweets, my Twitter app client for Android at https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cogitas.findtweets Google Android, programming and web design at http://www.cogitas.net/blog/ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
