[hblug] Introducing myself

[Ralph Slooten]

Thanks for the tips Nevyn & Don ... will look into it.

-- Ralph

Don Gould wrote:
> I would also recommend the CLUG List....
> 
> It's by far the busist in the country! :)
> 
> Cheers Don from Christchurch
> 
> Nevyn wrote:
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> It might also be worthwhile checking out the NZLUG. Hawkes Bay LUG is
>> cool and funky but you get abit of a cross section of all the other
>> LUGs in NZ by hanging around the NZLUG scene.
>>
>> On 9/18/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there people.
>>>
>>> I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the latest
>>> member of your small Hawke's Bay Linux community. My wife and I just
>>> moved from The Netherlands to New Zealand. Officially we are here for a
>>> 1-year working holiday, however we do plan on staying if we can get
>>> settled in this time.
>>>
>>> My family (parents and 2 brothers) moved here 3 years ago, and while
>>> looking for a place to host my website I was introduced by my youngest
>>> brother to Daniel Faulknor who linked me up to this list/group and has
>>> invited me to your monthly get-together (hope you don't mind ;-) ).
>>>
>>> Back in Holland I was working for a small company doing sales, support
>>> and system administration. Our (the company's) main function was the
>>> sales & support of the Pervasive SQL database (http://www.pervasive.com)
>>> which basically a direct competitor of the "famous" Microsoft SQL. I was
>>> employed at the company for my Linux knowledge and experience, as the
>>> Pervasive database software also runs on Linux. Anther "side-project" of
>>> the company was the selling, installation and support of a Dutch Linux
>>> distribution based on SuSE called "NetServer"
>>> (http://www.connectux.com). I was in charge of this branch as well as
>>> our internal servers (SuSE & Gentoo) at the company.
>>>
>>> I have been using Linux now for about 8 years now, and after going
>>> through the more "standard" distributions (RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake,
>>> Debian) I finally settled on Gentoo as it was the only one I could mold
>>> to my specific needs and design the way I wanted.
>>>
>>> Linux is of course also my hobby which is how I got first involved with
>>> it, and I have been involved in many software projects over the years.
>>> Although I don't program (C/C++), I do a lot of beta-testing and
>>> scripting as well as websites, databases etc.
>>>
>>> Anyway, now we have just arrived in Napier and are planing of soon
>>> finding a job (if you have any ideas please let me know), and of course
>>> a place to stay (an almost-30-year-old with wife living with parents
>>> just isn't that cool now is it ;-) )..
>>>
>>> I look forward to hearing and meeting some of you.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Ralph
>>>
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