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.