[Tfug] Hello

[Jude Nelson]

Hi Jeff,

Welcome to TFUG!

The "meetings" you see on the website are the BYOB (bring your own box)
meetings, and as of late they have been very aperiodic (in part due to the
fact that Linux has, as you experienced, become a lot better at detecting
hardware out of the box and installing properly, thus eliminating the
immediate need).  Some of us meet every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at
Buddy's Grill, on Grant and Swan, mostly to socialize, talk shop, and (if
needed) assist in hardware or software-related issues.  As far as computing
goes, some of us bring Linux laptops, or Linux-based PDAs (we have yet to
see an ipod running Linux), but the emphasis is mostly on the
socialization.  We don't meet in the bar; usually we reserve a longer table
in the dining area.  It's pretty informal, but lots of fun :)

You'll get an e-mail from the listserv with the exact details when the 1st
Thursday of October approaches.

Again, glad to have you here.

Kind regards,
Jude Nelson

On 9/21/07, Jeffry Johnston <tfug at kidsquid.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I suppose I should introduce myself :)  I found this list while searching
> for Linux groups (for a friend that I got started on all this crazy
> stuff).
> I always meant to search one out but never seemed to remember at the right
> times.
>
> I've lived in and around Tucson for 17 years, pretty soon our family is
> moving to Rita Ranch, a community on the southeast side.  I'm a software
> engineer with IBM, working on one of their zSeries mainframe z/OS storage
> software products.
>
> As far as computers, we got our first computer (an IBM PC-XT clone (with
> Turbo!), 20MB hard disk, 360k floppy) around 1989.  At one point I traded
> my
> 4 wheeler for an additional 20mb hard drive and 2400bps modem.  With this
> I
> was twice as fast on BBSes as most of those "slow" 1200bps guys ;).  I
> even
> ran a BBS during the evening for a while.. I'm surprised my parents put up
> with that.  My first introduction to UNIX was in high school when a friend
> of the family offered to let me use a spare University of Arizona shell
> account.  I did not understand much anything of UNIX at that time, but I
> enjoyed going to FTP sites, reading newsgroups, and chatting on IRC.  Fast
> forwarding, I've had shell accounts wherever I could get them since
> (Starnet, Primenet,  and some I shopped around for online), and tried
> various Linuxes but never really stuck with them because of various driver
> issues (no sound, crashing at boot, etc).  So I was running Windows 98 SE
> during this time.  I have a severe dislike of Windows XP.   They butchered
> the command line!
>
> While I was participating in a programming research project at the U of A
> (that was being developed entirely on Redhat Linux) I decided to check out
> the modern state of Linux to see if it had gotten any better; I knew I was
> on a sinking ship with Windows 98.  So, I tried Ubuntu (Warty), and kept
> expecting to have to switch back, but never did!  All my hardware worked,
> I
> was able to be productive, and I even liked it better than Windows.  I was
> hooked.  And I guess I would have converted sooner or later anyways, as I
> am
> an avid Slashdot reader.  The only application I need to run in emulation
> is
> Personal Ancestral File.  Wine can't quite handle it right yet.... but
> Windows 95 on qemu is fast.
>
> Throughout the releases of Ubuntu, I finally realized that Gnome was going
> in the opposite direction that I wanted (they kept stripping out
> features),
> so I tried KDE (hesitantly, because it used to be pretty bad), and I love
> it.  I put Linux on my IPOD (and used a translation dictionary I wrote
> during a recent vacation to Mexico).  Recently, I decided to drop my shell
> account and run my website wikis ( kidsquid.com and qemu.kidsquid.com)
> from
> a machine at home, running Debian stable.  I am not a beginner anymore,
> but
> definitely am not any kind of Linux expert either.  I'd say I'm somewhere
> in
> between novice and intermediate.
>
> You can find me on IRC, freenode: #esoteric and #ipodlinux.  Or during the
> day: jeffryjohnston on Yahoo Messenger.
>
> When will the next meeting be?  I didn't see any scheduled on the
> website...
> I don't really fit into the whole bar scene.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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