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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 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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 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).
+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 4 Sun boxes running Solaris and different Linuxes (Debian + others I've tried with varying success).
+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).
-I run Oracle VM Virtualbox on my PC to try different Linux disty's, and am keen to have a base Linux m/c.
+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 :)