On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:38:58 -0500 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: <snip> > I had no obviously easy to know where your posting from. > I guess the thing is that your posting to a Greater Toronto Area LUG > from away. > There is no reason why you should not do that, its just the > assumption that your likely local. > I know a lot of people on this list and they are all pretty well > local but for one guy in Africa. > one guy in Africa, I guess this be me.
So anyway, when I subscribed to TLUG I was visiting my Aunt (my mothers sister), a Canadian whom and lived and worked in Toronto for 40+ years (newspaper editor/teacher/writer) and I wanted to connect with the local Linux community in Toronto... I got to know some people in the community and then I guess I just never left, some people on this list are really just very cool people. so, my Aunt passed away, and my Mom a few months ago, the past few years were not great years for me. Anyway, just thought I would put this out here for those that do not know anything about this one guy in Africa :) Andre -- added '--' above so that it 'should' read as a sig and not bug/bother read more about me (if you are bored), so get a coffee and read! === about me in a nutshell: I use Linux for everything. I love Linux. I operate a very small boutique ISP with 60k odd mailboxes and a few thousand websites. I dev my own stuff, my own EPP systems (I am a domain registrar), operate/manage many many DNS servers, many email servers and I totally do my own thing - all on Linux. I have been on the Internet since I switched of my bbs circa 1988 (compuserv) For fun I dev NEW stuff, (initially cult of the dead cow type stuff, much later fyodor (GL - if using google add: nmap) type stuff, and then onto larger things for example, I started making my own Linux in the late 90's I started making my first web application in 2001 (stopped it in 2008) the code, around 500 000 lines of it - is published under the GPL) - made my first mobile phone app in 2007. Started making "AI" in 2010 (stopped ai dev in 2014) I have not done much the past ten years, except maintain a few libraries (lgpl and gpl stuff) and this and that on dnssec, some internet abuse type stuff, a few bind stuff and I am also now doing something else, which I think may have legs, but the jury is still out on that. As a kid, and growing up I went to a farm school, I learned wood working, arc and gas welding and at University an accountant (with computer science at least :) ) in .za we had to do compulsory 'military service' so I was in the Police and I have done so many interesting things, most of which I will not bore you with as much of it is unbelievable anyway. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
