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About Me

Myself Karthick, an IT Graduate. I have started using Ubuntu since version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) has released. Ubuntu is just awesome and it is easy for beginners to learn new things quickly.

My Involvement with the Ubuntu Community

The areas that I involve myself with are listed below. If you ever have a query that you are unsure about, please do not hesitate to get in touch; I do not bite. Consider me as a friendly librarian. I may not know the answer immediately, but I can point you to where to find information.

I am one of the active members of AskUbuntu forum,also i am among the top 10 by reputation.

I became Ubuntu Beginners Team member on 12th January 2011.

Advocacy

Creating Awarness Programs on UBUNTU Operating System and distribute Ubuntu CD's to the team.

Conducted a workshop on ubuntu in my college to my juniors.

Code Development

Ubuntu Forums Work

Member of the Ubuntu Forums since August 11th, 2009

I help out mainly in Absolute Beginner Talk,General Talk and Desktop Environments.

My how to:

• How to create an alias for terminal commands

Askubuntu Work

Helping users in askubuntu.com

• NTFS Question - answer accepted

• Installing Mono on Ubuntu Server 10.10 - answer accepted

• Question on Creating a Shortcut - answer accepted

• How to see the squid cache size - answer accepted

• Why there's no usb support on Virtualbox - answer accepted

• Connecting DSL automatically at startup - answer accepted

• Unable to install any packages - answer accepted

• Disabling single mouse click on KDE - answer accepted

• Creating Guest Account - answer accepted

• Creating deb installers from tar balls - answer accepted

• How to run logkeys - answer accepted

• Software to view epub documents - answer accepted

• Best video/audio screen capture program - answer accepted

• How to remove unwanted GRUB entries - answer accepted

• How to cleanup aptitude warnings - answer accepted

• How to save a file without permission - answered

• Saving deb files for offline installation - answer accepted

• Anonymous internet browsing - answer accepted

• What is the best OCR - answer accepted

• How to share files between ubuntu - answer accepted

• Monitoring Squid - answer accepted

• How to download videos from web - answer accepted

• No init start up error - answer accepted

• How to backup/restore system - answer accepted

• Setting default browser from command line - answer accepted

• How to restore missing applets - answer accepted

• How to adjust the volume without pulseaudio? - answer accepted

• How to remove unwanted dependencies - answer accepted

• How to backup/restore host key in ssh server - answer accepted

• Assembly error - answer accepted

• How to remove keyring popup on startup - answer accepted

• How to disable auto play MP3 files? - answer accepted

• How to move lamp server from to another system - answer accepted

• Enabling address bar in nautilus - answer accepted

• How to reboot into windows from ubuntu - answer accepted

• How to open a directory and URL from terminal - answer accepted

• How to get racket in maverick - answer accepted

• How to list the source for a package - answer accepted

• Creating an .xpi file for firefox - answer accepted

• How to use full screen mode on virtual box? - answer accepted

• Right clicking not working in desktop - answer accepted

• How to check available softwares from command line? - answer accepted

IRC(Internet Relay Chat)

My registered IRC nickname is karthick87. I usually present in the following channels to either learn from or help out.

I ensure that I am logged on to #ubuntu-beginners. If you do not yet have your IRC set up then you can click UbuntuBeginners

Future Goals

My goal is to involve growing with ubuntu where I can continue to learn, help people, take on additional responsibilities, and contribute as much as I can. I am planning to conduct an workshop on linux platform to create awarness to show people how linux is secure than windows.

My Hobbies

Hearing songs and Watching TV.

Love to play games in my XBOX.

Surfing internet to get latest technical updates.

Reading & Writing new Linux tutorials for beginners.

Testimonials

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

General Testimonials

Karthick is one of the most industrious answerers on AskUbuntu.com. While posting very many answers indeed, his follow-through and reliability still remain exemplary. He has become a substantial part of the great community support at AskUbuntu.com. — Stefano Palazzo

In the short time I have known Karthick on the Ubuntu Forums, it has been apparent that he is an active and eager participant. His energy and enthusiasm to help other users is a lesson to us all and I, personally, have learned much from him. I wholeheartedly support his application for both Ubuntu and UBT membership. -- Rubi1200

Testimonials for Beginner Team

Seeing karthick's work on multiple places wrt forum related stuff I whole heartedly pitch for him to get UBT membership and ubuntu membership sometime down in a month or so.. great work! keep on rocking! -- bhavi (27th November 2010)

Having got to know Karthick, I fully support his application for UBT. Always helpful, cheerful and knowledgeable, whilst not being afraid to ask questions when unsure as to the best way to help a beginner. An absolute asset to the UBT. Advocacy counts so much for me, explaining that there is "another way" and then supporting it.phillw (6th December 2010).

Testimonials for Ubuntu Membership

+1 for Ubuntu Membership -- I appreciate the attention to detail when helping new users with their problems. -- jorge 2010-12-30 22:33:58

I support Karthick's Ubuntu Membership. He is a gem in our community. He is always ready to help and I have met him a few times on #ubuntu-in. His work on askubuntu.com is fantastic -- manishsinha 2011-02-02 11:55:58