An Introduction

[Lord Illidan]

First of all, I would like to apologise for taking so long to start up this forum..
I'm doing lots of exams right now, and apart from short breaks, I couldn't catch up much with this forum. However, in Summer I'll be 100% available and ready to rock!

First, I'd like to reiterate that this Forum is a place to discuss the teams goal,and how they can go about helping users with hardware issues, not a support forum. You have a problem with your hardware, go : http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=135 and you can find help there.

I will now proceed to introduce myself.

I am Jean Azzopardi (in RL, if such a thing exists ;) ), 17.9 years old - birthday in April...feel free to send me a new pc as a present :lolflag: and I am a Computer Science student, hoping to enter University this year and continue my studies there. I've been using Linux since Fedora Core 1 came out...and I've been using a lot of distros over the years, finally settling down with Ubuntu.

I encourage people to experiment with various distros, and I do so myself, but Ubuntu always remains in a high position, especially with this forum around.

I love computers, and I like helping people out with them, which is why I continued being on this forum in the first place.

[apjone]

Hello, not sure if this is a good place to post this but...

I am Anthony Jones (AJ for short). I am 21 and work as a IT Techie. I have been into Linux for just over a year and tried several different distros and found Ubuntu to just work. I help spread Ubuntu by recommending it to friends and family.

I have a few servers running 6.06, one is web server and one is proxy server with ldap (A/D) authentication.

I am currently developing my php/mysql abilities and looking to start learning c.

I am surgically attached to a computer and enjoy helping people (also i am the only techie guy in the family....... grrrrrr , didnt even get xmas day off cause of my aunt). I see participation in Ubuntu forums as a way to increase my knowledge and help others.

Also although English is my first language , I can not spell to save my life. SO please excuse and spelling errors.

[Lord Illidan]

Welcome to the hw forum, Apjone..and don't worry about your spelling..Firefox has a spellchecker, btw.

[rufius]

Well this looks fun and exciting so I figure I'll give it a shot :).

My name's Zac Brown, just Zac is fine though most of the time people either see me as 'rufius' or 'zbrown.' I'm 19 years old and am a student at the University of Miami. I'm double majoring in Math and Computer Science. From that you can obviously tell I'm big on computers and science lol.

I've been using GNU/Linux for 6 years now, going on 7 in August. I started using Ubuntu during the first release, and before that I bounced around between Redhat/Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, and Debian. I do a fair bit of programming, mostly scientific; mainly working in C, Haskell, and Java. I've also got some experience in Python.

I too am surgically attached to my computer, and my girlfriend gets jealous that I spend so much time with it. Often times she has to bribe me or hide my computer to get me to talk to her if I'm working on a problem ;).