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| Software Developer and Free Software advocate. | == About Me == |
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| I am a 30-year-old father of two, Connagh (3) and Callum (1 month), married to Michelle. Currently living and working from home in Derby, with a view to moving to South Africa at some point in the hopefully-not-too-distant future. | ||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Launchpad ID''':||[https://launchpad.net/people/james-tait James Tait]|| ||'''IRC''':||'''jayteeuk''' on ''irc.freenode.net''|| ||'''Email''':||[[MailTo(james DOT tait AT wyrddreams DOT org)]]|| ||'''XMPP''':||jayteeuk@wyrddreams.org|| I am a 30-year-old father of two, Connagh (3) and Callum (1 month), married to Michelle. Currently living and working from home in Derby, with a view to moving to South Africa at some point in the hopefully-not-too-distant future. I am a Java programmer by trade, but I also do some freelance web consultancy work using Free Software (Nvu, Apache, PHP, MySQL), maintain a network of computers at home and am responsible for general systems administration on a network of ten machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, eight of them in an Egenera bladeframe. I have also been known to write C/C++ and a little Perl, and am learning Python as it seems to be used quite a lot in Ubuntu. |
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| I first installed Ubuntu Breezy on my wife's desktop after getting frustrated with Red Hat and being impressed with the package management in Debian, but wanting a distribution oriented towards "normal" users. In February 2006 I bought an [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi] and installed Breezy AMD64 on that, then later edited my {{{/etc/apt/sources.list}}} to follow the changes to Dapper. | I first installed Ubuntu Breezy on my wife's desktop after getting frustrated with Red Hat and being impressed with the package management in Debian, but wanting a distribution oriented towards "normal" users. In February 2006 I bought an [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi] and installed Breezy AMD64 on that, then later edited my {{{/etc/apt/sources.list}}} to follow the changes to Dapper, before following the prescribed process for upgrading to Edgy. |
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| ||'''Launchpad ID''':||[https://launchpad.net/people/james-tait James Tait]|| ||'''IRC''':||'''jayteeuk''' on ''irc.freenode.net''|| ||'''Email''':||james.tait@wyrddreams.org|| ||'''XMPP''':||jayteeuk@wyrddreams.org|| |
== Ubuntu Contributions == * Some testing on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi] * [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/65159 Some] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/53216 help] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/69872 with ] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/heroes/+bug/46771 bugs]. * A member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam UK LoCo team]. |
About Me
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[https://launchpad.net/people/james-tait James Tait] |
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jayteeuk on irc.freenode.net |
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I am a 30-year-old father of two, Connagh (3) and Callum (1 month), married to Michelle. Currently living and working from home in Derby, with a view to moving to South Africa at some point in the hopefully-not-too-distant future. I am a Java programmer by trade, but I also do some freelance web consultancy work using Free Software (Nvu, Apache, PHP, MySQL), maintain a network of computers at home and am responsible for general systems administration on a network of ten machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, eight of them in an Egenera bladeframe. I have also been known to write C/C++ and a little Perl, and am learning Python as it seems to be used quite a lot in Ubuntu.
I started using Slackware Linux (Slackware '96) on an old 486 I got from a skip while I was still at Middlesex University back in 1997, wanting a free Unix-based OS on which to develop a MUD. Eventually it found its way onto my "proper" computer, which went through several hardware upgrades and is now my external web/mail/DNS server. Upon joining South Derbyshire LUG, I was convinced of the merits of switching to Debian, in spite of its reputation as a hacker's distribution, and my external server and my intranet server now both run Debian Sarge.
I first installed Ubuntu Breezy on my wife's desktop after getting frustrated with Red Hat and being impressed with the package management in Debian, but wanting a distribution oriented towards "normal" users. In February 2006 I bought an [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi] and installed Breezy AMD64 on that, then later edited my /etc/apt/sources.list to follow the changes to Dapper, before following the prescribed process for upgrading to Edgy.
Ubuntu Contributions
Some testing on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AcerFerrari4005WLMi Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/65159 Some] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/53216 help] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/69872 with ] [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/heroes/+bug/46771 bugs].
A member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam UK LoCo team].