Hello Andy,
Thanks for your presentation!
And for sure welcome (back) ... in the group of active members!
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Jean
 Ubuntu Belgium Events Team
Andy Airey a écrit :
Hi,
As some of you may know I've been around on this mailing list for a
while (late 2007) ... Though I never found the time to actively
communicate/help out with you guys and thus never made an official
introduction to the mailing list. I did follow the mailinglist whenever
I could.
So here goes ...
I'm 21 years old and I live near Mechelen. I study Applied Informatics
("Toegepaste Informatica") at the Leuven University College (KHLeuven -
former REGA)[2]. I used to be in the steering committee of several
student organisations up till now (so that's why I have more spare
time). More info about my interests on facebook[2] or linkedin[3].
Some history of my linux usage:
I first started with Ubuntu (6.10) in april 2007, just before Feisty
(7.04), they had some free CD's at school so I tried the live CD of
Ubuntu 6.10 on my home PC (Dell inspiron 2100 or so). I did not like
the loading times so a bit later I tried the 7.04 live CD on my home
made PC. I quite liked it so I went with a dual boot together with XP.
The first year I was mainly just customising (Beryl just came out :P -
more into minimal now ... ) and trying some basic commands we would
also learn at school (grep, cut, du, ...). But it was also fun getting
flash to work on AMD64 and my wireless card through ndiswrapper :P And
you know, the basic fiddling around and discovering new stuff.
I started to get the hang of it and decided to become a support point
to share this wonderful feeling of using free software which just works
terrificly. This is also the point where I joined the mailing list.
Later in february 2008, I got some new hardware (quadcore, 4GB ram,
...) and was running 7.10. As time went on I only needed Windows for
gaming and MS Office (I sometimes program in VBA for some company).
I was waiting 'till april 2008 for the LTS release to make a complete
switch (well, leaving Windows on it for some games but I hardly boot in
Windows, only when I have some friends around to game with :P). Now I
run MS Office in virtualbox and have no need for Windows anymore as a
workstation.
So now I'm still running 8.04 LTS, and Xubuntu 8.04 LTS on my laptop
(which I'm writing from right now). And of course I also converted some
friends to Ubuntu :)
So that's it, I'll try and share my opinion in the mailings and on
#ubuntu-be more often, and try and visit the events ubuntu-be will be
attending.
I'm more like setting my status from Passive -> Active then new to
this mailinglist, so no need to say welcome (maybe welcome back is more
in it's place).
If you read this, thanks for your time :P
Andy Airey
[1] http://www.leuvenuniversitycollege.be/
[2] http://www.facebook.com/andy.airey
[3] http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyairey
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