[Tfug] Hello

[Jim March]

I generally bring a portable WiFi hotspot :).

So far nobody's spilled coke on THAT :D.

(Inside joke, my laptop's internal WiFi card was killed to death by
"coke overdose" at Buddy's by somebody un[coughJUDEcough]named...it's
all good though, I ended up swapping to Intel from Atheros and damned
if it doesn't have double the range now...)

Jim March

On 9/21/07, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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