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BillyJones

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Hello everyone!

My name is Billy Jones and I live out in Sugar Land, Texas, USA. I am an old man at 47 years old and I work in Houston, Texas as a Electronic Technician working to administer and maintain electronic security equipment such as Lenel OnGuard, analog and digital (IPPOE) cameras, X-Ray machines, CEIA metal detectors, card readers, etc. I work closely with our IT/CDSU department since everything is networked these days. I recently took on training for a Physical Security Network Associates certification and I passed so now I am a "PSNA"! Thinking about passing the CCNA next...

Being a classic nerd, I was very interested in electronics when I was young and I built a shortwave radio from a kit when I was about ten. I took electronics classes and PC repair classes in school and I am also a General Class amateur radio "ham" operator. I have always loved computers and networking I began to learn about all this back in the late 70’s spending time with Apple II machines and BBS systems. I got on the Internet around 1991 running on a Unix at the office I used to use elm for email back then. The net was so much faster when it was all text based I found and began running Red Hat Linux back about 2003/2004 and I remember it being on about 10 floppies and having to take my PC apart to identify hardware prior to installation! Things have gotten so much better!

I found Ubuntu around 2005 with version 5.04 and I think I found the perfect O/S. These days I usually run on Kubuntu 8.04 and OpenSUSE 11 on my big house PC and my Panasonic Toughbooks) and Linux is my favorite operating system in the world. I consider myself much more of a hardware guy than a software guy but I am trying to learn a little scripting and I would like to learn Python but so far programming tough and not for me ;( However I do try to learn about things I have problems with using the most excellent Ubuntu and Kubuntu forums frequently.

Thanks to all, I have learned so much and I try to help out when I can.

Politically I am a Libertarian and I find our all present Presidential choices less than desirable. We should put "none of the above" on the ballot

This page is always a work in progress and comments are welcome. Thanks to all in the Ubuntu / Kubuntu communities for all the help and patience!

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