[ALUG] A Convert

[Chris G]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:27:28PM +0100, Kevin Ridgeon wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm Kev an ancient wannabee geek who used to work in electronics and then IT
> doing application support and a little bit of development of software/web
> development.
> 
Vaguely similar to my background, I started in electronics development
but after a very short time I moved into software development but
often closely associated with electronic instrumentation etc.


> Had to leave the tech side and in fact stopped work for a while to look after
> my wife who suffered with a long time kidney problem before passing away in
> January this year.
> 
Sorry to hear that, you must be finding life difficult now.


> In the past when my brain worked I was MCSE qualified but feel better now.
> 
:-), I've never really got involved (work or play) with Microsoft
except for a short interval.  I went Commodore 64, MS-DOS, OS/2, a
short bit of NT and then Linux.


> Had a passing interest in linux since the early Red Hat distro's but not had
> time to do anything serious.
> 
> Since the advent of Gutsy have had a linux box around and now use a Hardy as my
> main box.
> 
> As I theoretically have more time on my hands I will be trying to learn Linux
> seriously but am currently at the stage where a little knowledge is dangerous,
> so expect the normal really stupid noob questions/comments for a while.
> 
Well half the population here think I'm a stupid non-noob!  :-)


> I am in the process of kick starting the tech/geek side of my brain by running
> a Hardy server as a dev box while I teach myself new IT skills such as linux
> administration, programming (java, python etc.), and web design (xhtml, css,
> php).
> 
> The eventual goal will be to actually make fortune so I can give it away.
> 
> Currently based in Thetford.
> 
Well that's a good start, you're in the right place!

Welcome.

-- 
Chris Green