About Me

Hello, I'm Daniel. I am a CCNA student at my local high school. I have been helping other in my local community and introducing other to Ubuntu for the past 5 months. I'm a padawan of phillw and have am working on learning to help others via IRC and keeping the wiki up to date. I also am interested in Accessability, where I've been trying out different tools that might help out those in need. I know HTML almost fluently althought without stong knowledge of PHP most of my websites are web 1.0 (functional, not pretty.)

Why So Censored?

I get this question a lot, Why is my name CensoredBiscuit? In all honesty I have no cool story or anything, what happened was two or three years ago I had an xbox live gamertag of censoredbiscuit and one of the cool things about this name is the fact that its never taken anywhere. So the name went dormant for me, for around two years until I took CNS classes and I used that Username. When I joined Ubuntu it felt just like the name that I should use. If you have trouble spelling it you could always just call me Daniel (or use the friggin tab key on IRC)

My Medical Problems

One big reason of my interest in Accessibility is because since I was two I was diagnosed with Mild Cerebral Palsy which affects my left side (armib and leg.) I am going on surgery #10 this upcoming month. I've had surgeries since I was 2 months old and my official diagnoses was at 2 years old. Things get rough but I think I cope well. Especially considering I started using a computer about when I learned to walk.

My Machines

What User wiki page would be complete without a little bit about my machines. I have had many laptops and desktops in the past so to keep them all seperate (both for me and the network) I can no longer name machines Daniel-laptop or Daniel-PC. So I go creative and started naming my machines a girls name that starts with an 'E'. The two nodes that I have right now are named 'Emma' and 'Elizabeth'

Emma

Emma is the oldest node of the two. Emma is a Desktop HP Pavillion that came complete with a monitor and ps/2 keyboard/mouse(that still work to this day). I purchase her in February 2008. Worked with Ubuntu straight from the box without much trouble. Since the purchasing of Elizabeth, Emma handles mainly home server jobs that a laptop would overheat doing (lengthy downloads, samba shares and whatever else have you). Although the role of Emma recently has changed quite a bit. When I first bought Elizabeth, Emma was upgraded to 11.04, but it recently bored me so I decided to make it into a full blown server with headless operation. She still handles around the same things as she used to but she is now a teaching tool so I can learn the ins and outs of Ubuntu Server 10.10, SSH and other assorted items

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is my newest node which I bought just the 29th of December. Elizabeth is a Sony Vaio laptop which I actively do my work on. Elizabeth was a little harder to get Ubuntu running on then Emma, I had to update grub more specifically I had change one line to read GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop" (and update grub) 
The speculated reason for this update to grub is because the Sony Vaio bios/configuration recoginize the touchpad as a ps/2. After that she worked with no problem. As this is the machine I'm actively using, Elizabeth does have an active apache server that I plan on hosting a flash games launcher on (That I designed in high school) So that My friends can play flash games while connected to the same network my laptops on. Elizabeth has a manual redundancy of all the information stored on EMMA. So that if one computer crashes I won't lose my information.

Reaching me

If you need to contact me, you can use the email above (Daniel {at} lmail {dt} us) or memoserv me on IRC. You can always PM me or otherwise. I'm pretty much open to any means of communication that won't put me in harms way.

My Involvement with the Ubuntu Community

Teams

Teams I show an active interest in

• Beginners-Team
• Documentation
• Ubuntu Youth

• SpeechControl

• Wintermute
• Testing
• News

SpeechControl

One of the projects that I mostly concerned with is Ubuntu Speech Control, as a person with Cerebral palsy accessibility is a big issue. I know what its like not to be able to do some things that others can.. I feel it is my duty to the community who has helped me come so far, to make sure that everyone can use a computer. I accomplish my role on speech control by keeping the wiki up-to-date and keeping the admin work under wraps to keep the developers doing what the do best. Developing.

WinterMute

One project I am really excited about being able to help with is Wintermute. Which is a side project of the speechcontrol team. We are working to build the first AI with ties into a users operating system. I'm so far involved with two points of this team, the website and wintermute Psychology.

SII Website

I am a lead in the SII website team. I'm mostly dealing with the organization of the content writers. All members of the website team will be selectively chosen due to the amount of permissions that they are given. I'm excited to see how this will turn out.

Ubuntu Youth

I am a member of the Ubuntu Youth team/community. I mostly serve this team, by being a youth (that uses ubuntu). I often talk about ubuntu and my friends ask me for CDs and install it on their machines (and that makes me happy.) Recently I have been voted on the Ubuntu Youth Council. Its nice to be able to finally give back to the awesome community that has helped me grow so much.

IRC

• #Ubuntu
• #Ubuntu-offtopic
• #Ubuntu-Beginners
• #Ubuntu-Beginners-Team
• #lubuntu-offtopic
• #Ubuntu-Youth
• #Ubuntu-Youth-Council
• #sii-psych
• #Ubuntu-Testing
• #ubuntu-speechcontrol
• #ubuntu-speechcontrol-devs (I translate things into english (from Klingon) for the rest of the world)
• #ubuntu-speechcontrol-inferno
• #Ubuntu-News
• #Ubuntu-doc

To name a few (You might see me lurking in other channels)

Testimonials

If you wish to describe any of my contributions to the Ubuntu Community, please feel free to do so below. Thank You.

Ubuntu Beginners Team

Daniel, well what can I say? He has shown himself to be a wonderful guy, who oozes ubuntu out of his pores. Chairing a meeting of developers for the speechcontrol team (or any developer meeting) is not the faint of heart. He did an outstanding job. His commitment to the ubuntu ethos ubuntu ethos and helping others and advocacy is beyond doubt. I am proud to have had him as my padawan and that already his compassion, knowledge, admin and wiki skills are being passed on across several teams and to other padawans. He is certainly worthy of full UBT membership.phillw 28th Feb 2011

Daniel is a great guy. Certainly a welcome addition for ubuntu accessibility. And a great colleague in SpeechControl. I think he is ready to become a UBT member.
-- UndiFineD 2011-02-12

I've got to know CensoredBiscuit from #ubuntu-beginners-team and #lubuntu-offtopic where he became phillw's padawan. It was through him that he joined SpeechControl to take care of the wiki and launchpad pages. CensoredBiscuit is a friendly young man who is eager to help and is swift in gathering the required information. I've also seen him help on #lubuntu, #lubuntu-offtopic, #ubuntu-beginners & #ubuntu-beginners-team
-- hajour 13 febr. 2011

At first, I thought of Daniel as the kind of person you'd met, give a o/, and just engage in casual conversation whenever need be. Daniel's ability to man a meeting makes me feel as if we're building the device that implement cheap travelling in the fabric of time-space. He's an amazingly bright guy and really easy to talk to; no reason to lock up around this guy. I've enjoyed my time on SpeechControl with Daniel, and now with the Wintermute project that we've taken up; he's proven again his ability to get work on. I got a new e-mail because of this guy!
-- Jacky 19 Feb. 2011

Hmmm....Daniel who? ^_ Just joking, Daniel is AWESOME! I've known him for a while now and he's been a great help to not only Lubuntu, but also Ubuntu Youth and the BT as well. His ongoing project with accessibility has just been phenomenal as well and I can't wait to see more from him in that area as well. He is proving to be one of the Ubuntu Community's bright stars! Just don't burn out Daniel!!! He's got my full support for his BT application, Ubuntu Membership (If/when he goes for it.) and any other endeavor. zkriesse Zach Kriesse 2011-02-25 03:43:15

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