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 ===== Terry Coles =====
-{{ terry.jpg?75}} I'm an engineering manager and consultant for [[http://www.eads-tes.com/|Cassidian Test Engineering Services Ltd]] at Ferndown (formerly Racal Instruments).  I don't use Linux at work (apart from the fact that some of our servers run Linux) but we'd like to; we just need a safe migration path for our years and years of legacy Excel Custom Functions :-(.  I live in Corfe Mullen and subject my family to plenty of Linux around the home, with all but one of our five computers running Linux (mine exclusively).  (The holdout is my daughter who has to have MS Office for College).
+{{ terry.jpg?75}} I'm a retired engineering manager and consultant who spent most of his career (32 years of it anyway) at a company that was originally called Racal Instruments but ended up as Spherea after around 9 name changes and buyouts.  I didn't use Linux at work but have used various 'alternative' operating systems for years; starting with Amiga OS in 1993ish and graduating to Linux around 2000.  I live in Corfe Mullen.
-I've included a snap of me so that you know what I look like at the Meetings.  (I can never work out who everyone is, and I've been going for years :-) ).
+I've included a snap of me so that you know what I look like at the Meetings.  (I can never work out who everyone is, and I've been going for about 25 years :-) ).
 ===== Peter Collins =====
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 I'm among the group's yonger linux users (at 15) but what does that matter? :-). i used linux on and off with windows for about 3 years and recently went all out 100% linux. I currently use ubuntu, but have used many a distro in the past. i enjoy taking things apart and hardware modding. i also like a bit of web design every now and then and also Animation in flash/hand-drawn/stop-motion. I do like a little programing and have been learning python :-). You will usualy find me on irc (under the name of RioCunliffe... Duhh...)
-===== Bernie Day =====
-I Live in Bournemouth and frequent as many pubs as I possibly can within a 50 mile radius, so this looks a winner to me.
-Been working with Linux within a production environment for 9 years and still know didley squat about it, due to much beer drinking I believe.
 ===== Chris Dennis =====
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 I'm obsessed with engineering/cars/metalwork and I'm trying to get a linux CNC machine built using EMC2 but progress is slow. I'm known as scm1hewf or Hugh on the IRC channel.
+===== Graeme Gemmill =====
+I had slight exposure to Unix in my professional life (IBM’s AIX), but my interest started with Andrew Tanenbaum’s book on Minix and Maurice Bach’s book on the design of Unix (my copy dated to August 1989!)
+Since then I have followed the Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia distros and make use of Python to automate some aspects of my home life and support my involvement in the National Coastwatch institution.
+I've followed this user group for a number of years, and actually attended a meeting when it was held in Dorchester.
 ===== Sean Gibbins =====
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 {{ http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6805/deathgh9.jpg}}Yes, you will usually find me wandering around the lug IRC channel in a daze as DEATH. I use kubuntu, debian, ipcop and a bit of freebsd on the side. I have hardware ranging from 386's up to core2duo, but nothing especially exotic.I do a bit of shell hosting on the side, but thats not epic at the moment as the server requires a UPS. Thats basicly me. Oh yeah, [[http://last.fm/user/ldanto|My Last.fm profile,]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1065930878&ref=profile|Facebook,]] if you like that kind of thing.
 ===== Glenn Korbey =====
-Hello. I've recently joined the group (as of Apr 2008) after finally switching to Linux fulltime (again!)
+I’ve been using Linux on and off since 1997 or 1998 I forget, but I’ve used computers in one form or another pretty much all my life.
-I'm no novice to Linux, having used it for about 10 years or more, but never as my sole OS, I always had my main PC as windows as I was an avid gamer, and I also used it for music production.  Now that I don't play so many games and my music software will either run fine under WINE or there are decent Linux apps to replace them, I decided to make the switch.
+The first computer I actually owned myself was an old dead flesh ZX Spectrum 48k, which cost me £60 second hand when I was 10 or so (I’d saved up birthday and xmas money for 2 years for it!!)
-Currently running Ubuntu Hardy Heron.  I used to work at the same place as Brian Masterman below, though I am not sure if he remembers me.
+I was a great fan of the Amiga and AmigaDOS/Workbench and continued to use them for many years even after the death of Commodore and then Escom..in fact I think my old accelerated A1200 is still in my mum’s loft :D
-I used to be a member of HantsLUG, but as I changed email addresses some time ago and forgot to unsubscribe they no doubt removed me. May sign up again, as well as this one, as I am sort of on the Dorset/Hampshire border :)
+Eventually I switched to windows, going through the Dos/Win 3.1 days onwards up until Windows 7, though from 97/98 I also messed with Linux a lot too.  As of 2008 I switched to Linux as my primary OS and only had a small Windows install for games, however even that is gone nowadays.   My current preferred distribution is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which is a rolling release.   I have also been toying with Linux Mint Debian Edition on my laptop, but so far it doesn’t offer me anything more than OpenSUSE Tumbleweed aside from a larger package repository.
+I'm on both DorsetLUG and HantsLUG as I am pretty much dead on the border.
+---Updated 07 April 2012
+===== Phil Lane =====
+Hi all and I am new to the group. I am a UNIX administrator, having got into sys admin when at Racal Inst (with Terry Coles ((hi Terry)). The firm were good enough to buy us some Apollo Domain stations to run CAD & CAE on, and later we had SGI m/c's for the CAD & a Sun station for my Visula Schematics,PCB & ISQL. no-one new how to administer SunOS (yes, that far back), so I jumped in, took the right courses and have never looked back.
+I've worked since for NEC (mobile telecomms), Cypress Semiconductor, Desktop Engineering & Data Robotics as an IT Systems Administrator specialising in CAD/CAE/PLM tools on various flavours of UNIX - Solaris, AIX, HP_UX and a little SGI-IRIX. I have done the whole IT thing with EMC & Netapps RAID, networking, Jukeboxes etc.
+I now have my own company and am experimenting in energy related projects. Hope to be adding to the grid soon.
+I am more hardware orientated and am not a programmer (Terry will verify that - lol) apart from keeping my HTML up.
+My interest in Linux is partly professional and partly to rid myself of microsoft (yay! I hear you all go). I do run Open Office on all of my platforms.
+I have 2 pc's at home and a laptop running Win variants. I also have 5 Sun boxes running Solaris and different Linuxes (Debian, + others I've tried with varying success).
+Other Interests are Internet Security/UNIX hardening. I have done some interesting work with SATAN which I can't publish here, but can whisper to you.
+I run Oracle VM Virtualbox on my PC to try different Linux disty's - Mandriva, CentOS, UBUNTU, and am keen to have a base Linux m/c. I haven't decided which yet.
+Glad to be part of an interesting and local tech group :)
+---Updated 15 June 2012
 ===== Peter Linehan =====