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 dormiant for me, for around two years until I took CNS classes and I chose that as my Username. When I joined Ubuntu it 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 Accessability 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 offical diagnoses was at 2 years old. Things get rought 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 feburary 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). Emma is connected to IRC almost 24/7 under the name CB_Desktop. Emma is also running 11.04 which I am testing to see if I can break it.

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. Elizabeth is the current 'flagship' so that means she gets wield the 'CensoredBiscuit' name on IRC. 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 highschool) 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.

My Involvement with the Ubuntu Community

Teams

Teams I show an active intreast in

• Beginners-Team
• Documentation
• Ubuntu Youth
• Accessability
• Testing
• News

IRC

• #Ubuntu
• #Ubuntu-offtopic
• #Ubuntu-Beginners
• #Ubuntu-Beginners-Team
• #lubuntu-offtopic
• #Ubuntu-Youth
• #Ubuntu-Testing
• #ubuntu-speechcontrol
• #Ubuntu-News
• #Ubuntu-doc

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

IRC names

CensoredBiscuit

The name CensoredBiscuit is the one actively used by me. If I'm on Freenode this is the name I'm actively using. It will be used most actively on Elizabeth but It really just depends were I'm at.

CB_Desktop

Since I am unable to figure a way to use CensoredBiscuit on two computers, CB_Desktop works as a place holder for Emma to use to log on channels when I'm not using IRC on that computer. If you need me you can message CB_Desktop as it like CensoredBiscuit is registered to me.

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