About
I have been many things in my life: USAF enlisted man, apprentice optician, truck driver, bus driver/transportation coordinator, and latest draftsman (AutoCAD). Now retired.
My wife an I came to Arizona in 2004 from Batavia, New York (halfway between Buffalo and Rochester). We won’t go back. We both discovered that we really didn’t want to go through any more western New York winters, and that the Sonora desert was actually beautiful.
I was first introduced to UNIX in the mid-90’s on a SUN Sparc Workstation 1+. I read the manuals - all five feet of the manuals. When Linux began making an appearance on the world I started playing around with it as a dual-boot, first with Red Hat, then Fedora Core, and then (when FC would no longer install properly because of the NVidia card on my computer) Ubuntu. By 2004 I was strictly on Ubuntu, and now I don’t do windows. My last computer was a P-III/750MHz running Feisty Faun, and running it quite well, as long as I didn’t go for a lot of eye-candy. Now, I’ve got a Dell Inspiron 530 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed. Upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon 7.10. Works great.
I’ve been handing out copies of Ubuntu to individuals for some time now. Whether or not people have actually taken advantage of them, I don’t know. I’ve also been a member of the Groklaw.net blog, that has been examining the SCO Group vs IBM and the SCO Group vs Novell court cases (among other things)
Now I am an Ubuntu member, a member of the Ubuntu-Arizona LoCo Team, the Ubuntu News Team and the Ubuntu Marketing Team, engaged in scribe-like activities. I am also active on irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-us-az with the nick of tyche.
BE AWARE: Recently, this site has been “trolled” by individuals with nothing intelligent to add to a discussion. Since this is my site I reserve the right to delete comments which are off topic, FUD, troll, obscene, or which add nothing to the discussion at hand. I have recently initiated the administration of comments, rather than just letting anyone post a comment. I dislike having to do that, but feel I must in order to control those who are unable to control themselves. I DO welcome comments that are on-topic or pertinent to the discussion, even if they happen to disagree with something I’ve said.
