Now, how shall I start, history or interest, disinterest or hosiery, confounding interest or hijacking ...
Historical details : Bjorn - sometime in the last century on a small planet called RANRL located temporarily near (actually on) Rushcutters Bay, mother PDP 1120, pater GT40, schooling: mainly startrek, lunar lander and a strangely absorbing little diversion called "adventure". But, seriously, I mean it, s-e-r-i-o-u-s-l-y, supposedly writing A2D fourier transforms for the sonar group. Bread - still in the prior generation, at a small campus in a disused sheep paddock that someone had given the name "ANU" to. Taught me all I needed to know for a career in IT. In retrospect, it should have taken them 15 minutes. Notwithstanding, a higher calling presented itself - the DOD, unfortunately I only lasted 3 days until a MUCH higher calling anounced itself with much heralding and a phone call even. Kneaded - cutting COBOL 70 real time (oh, ok, ok, ""online"") systems for the Victorian Cytology Service (read Pap smear, patient record system, 196K, 300Mb Eagle drive, and an operating system officially called Vortex but colloqually known as Whirlpool in that it sucked everyone in). Raised - normal cutter, sysanl, architech, projekt mismanager, banking, wanking, dividend franking etc etc. Knocked down (1991) - bugger, I "knew" 8086 was gunna be big, but I stuck to my mismanagement aspirations and became a - gasp - consultant. Strategy, politic, smategy and politik. Finally, the big day came ... "your sacked". Rested, re-raised and baked - I have spent the last ten years having a great deal of joy in destroying the dreams and aspirations of designers and coders. In other words I am a tester. And its fun. Howsoever, why do write this coredump. Agha! If you've got this far then here comes the interest.... Currently, (could change tomorrow) I've got ... small private lan with 7 P-II/III/IV series Intels running Mandriva, PClinuxOS and liveboots coyote firewall in front of the lot on a diskless, headless and handless (ogh Gawdknows, its been running for 4 years? probably a "MX" something) most, if not all the workboxes are going to go to PCLOS (I am impressed!) but what I want to know is this................ Has anyone interest in VirtualBox? I have so much fun with it today that - oh damn I've run out of ex-whatitsnames, its' sooooooooo gooooooooood! But then again there's always questions. Has anyone surgically played with this? -- regards bruce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
