hi...[new poster...maybe]

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

Evening :)

Having been browsing randomly for a couple of nights, I have stumbled upon 
this quaint list that offers discussions about linux and simiar for those 
around the area known as 'Sheffield', so I hearby declare my interest as an 
interested party, and will drop into more sensible speech in the next 
paragraph.

Reet...quick intro...hopefully, i'll be more a help to newbies than owt else, 
having been hacking about with some form of Linux for about 4 years (I 
remember kernel 2.0.0 :-) The name's Chris Johnson, currently out in the 
suburbs of Elsecar, but soon to be back in Sheff centre (moving house to get 
back into civilisation...there's life out here in Elsecar, Jim, but not as we 
know it). I started off with the humble OS back in the Summer of '96, when at 
University (Hallam Uni), a server decided to plonk itself on the network as 
part of the cis-soc. I got involved with it early on, admin'd it, hacked it 
about, threw out sendmail (= dog) in favour of qmail (= easy), hacked a bit 
more, threw up a firewall, and probably made it one of the more secure 
computers on the Uni network (mostly to keep computer services happy at the 
time).

My own linux box (which is 99% linux...only has a 2GB Win95 partition for the 
times I need it -- rare) is only a P200MMX, but with nice hardware (Adaptec 
SCSI interface, SCSI CD Writer (Yamaha) and reader (Plextor), bttv-based TV 
card, about 30GB of disk (2GB Windows, 28GB Linux)), all networked with large 
firewall rules on it (you'd be suprised how much traffic tries to get into a 
machine...recently threw logging on...it's a nasty world out there I've found 
out). I run SuSE 6.2, which I've ran for about 6 months now, previously had 
Slackware 3.<summat> on, dated from about August '97...it'd been hacked about 
so much, it was a bastardisation of all dists going, plus my own stuff.

Favourite apps of the moment: gogo (an MP3 encoder based on Lame...*damn* 
quick...can do real time encoding on my machine), exmh (mail), trn (news), 
licq (ICQ), gtk-napster (mp3 stuff), gphoto (for me digital camera), 
WindowMaker (as the WM for X...staying clear of both Gnome and KDE for the 
time being), XMMS (to play mp3's), StarOffice & Netscape (anyone not know of 
these?)

Other hardware front: I have two Sparc IPC's, one running OpenBSD, the other 
is planned to have Solaris, once I find (or buy) the memory for it (if anyone 
knows where I can get 9chip 30pin 4MB SIMM's, I'd be grateful, short of 
buying them straight from Kingston as new...which is damn expensive).

Other computer stuff: claim to fame: got my name into UNIX Unleashed 2nd 
edition as a contributing author (which was quite cool). Where I work: 
Servelec, in sunny Eckington, hacking about on whatever is involved in 
whatever project I'm working on at the time (anything from NT to UNIX, 
writing in whatever is needed).

Hmm...that about covers all the relavent computing stuff...if anyone *really* 
wants to know more, then say so :) I think this has gone long enough for the 
time being though :)

Chris...


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