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Introduction

Hello, my name is Clint and I live in Brisbane, Australia.

My first interest in Linux first started with PCLinuxOS 2007, through reading the APC Magazine. You might recall that for a very brief time, PCLinuxOS was more popular than Ubuntu on distro watch.

My first introduction to a personal computer was probably back in 1989, a school friend had some sort of variety of 8-bit Amstrad PC. I recall it took a few minutes to games from 5.25" floppy drives. We finally got a PC at home in my early teenage years - 486 DX2, 66 MHz processor, 8 MB RAM, 300 MB HDD running IBM Dos with IBM Dosshell and then eventually Windows 3.11.

Education

My computer knowledge steadily grew through my own tinkering and in the computer lab in high school, where I also learnt basic programming in Pascal and GUI programming in Delphi Pascal v3. After high school, I decided to study IT rather than music after much discussion and research and did a Diploma of IT - Network Engineering. During the Diploma I did in 2000 was also the year I got my first taste of Linux - Red Hat. It formed only a very small part of the course and was mainly covering the basics using the cli, and trying to get the GUI working. At the time I wasn't really all that impressed by it and didn't it much thought.

Work

After finishing the Diploma I ended up getting a job at a law firm...as a Photocopy Clerk (trust SRJA to get one of their graduates a job not even in their studied field!). It all worked out in the wash though, as I managed to transfer to the IT department (Helpdesk) when an opening arose and have been there ever since (> 10 years now)

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