Introduce yourself

[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 .

[phlembob]

Hi,
My handle is phlembob. I live in Belleview near Ocala, NorthCentralFlorida a hour from Orlando and a 50+ minute drive to Gainesville. I have tried Pigen but it doesn't seem to have people on our talk channel at the same time, if I'm using it correctly. I have played with 3 versions of Ubuntu, and I wish to make it my primary OS now. I'm trying to stimulate a Ubuntu move so I wrote this: http://www.computersight.com/Operati...-System.116798 --- I think you will need to copy and paste it if you wish to read it.

I'm an ex-tech wishing to get into the programming side. I would like to start a driver builder group for Ubuntu and Debian. Windows has been good but it has always been a disappointment. It was made for ease which keeps people ignorant, to maintain operators only.

I have built my own desktops for at least 15 years now. Gateway is good, but I have repaired some Gateways. All in all, even though the price for computers have drop, I can still put computer products together that are slightly cheaper and better than most manufactures.

I have very little experience with Unix, but some. I worked both in real-time communication and radar, and weapons systems, and---and---and etc. My attempt at a little humor! Sorry

[C!oud]

Yay! the forum is alive!

[SloridaBSD]

My name is Porter. I from the age of years old i lived in Seattle , Wa then due to the nature of my fathers job we moved out east to Tenafly,NJ, For the last 10 months I have resided down here in the sunshine state. My first and most educational experience with linux was he headlong dive into configuring a Samba server for my father network naturally the first server I ran was with Suse linux Pro 9,0 (pre Novel). Every subsequent sever I have configured has either been Ubuntu or another Debian off shoot.

bradwilliamson I'm not lacking in the social skills, fortunately, but I know my way around a network like it's my second home.

You can also find me on Linuxquestions as Linux-hawk and on Daemon Forums and macrumors forums as FloridaBSD.

The User name is supposed to be the one mentioned for daemon-forums. ^^

[triamber86]

hello ppl, i m an absolute beginner to ubuntu.. and i guess i m facing a big trouble( as i havnt fount the solution to my problem yet)

i m running ubuntu 7.10 on my XP by virtual box.

and once my PC hanged.. so restarted the system...when ubuntu was running on the virtual machine.

and now when i restarted the virtual machine i cant use the synaptic package manager.

when i run the synaptic
i get

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

and i have to close

when i tried dpkg --configure -a in terminal it says..

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0025' near line 1:
newline in field name `#padding'

now when i tried the gedit to chk the file 0025.... it has got all lines

#padding
#padding
#padding
#padding

..... like that.. is there a problem?

and i tried the similar post regarding the error message...

i have tried the following commands, but problem is still there

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo dpkg --clear-avail && sudo apt-get update

sudo mv status status.broken
sudo cp status-old status


will have to perform the installation second time.???
please help me..
thanks in advance

and sorry for posting this thing here..because i dont know how to post a new message or thred????

[C!oud]

Did you try re-installing synaptic?

[Dksgirl]

Hi all..
My name is Nancy. I am a computer lab teacher in NC. I have some training in Windows networking, but none in Linux. I recently just got the school network upgraded to Win Server 2003. We are in process of migrating my 20 lab computers onto the big school computer.

Currently the 20 pcs are connected to a small Window 2000 network. However, on my own whim, I have installed Edubuntu 7.10 on all of them with dual boot, i'm in the process of upgrading them all to 8.04. we are a small private school and cannot afford to constantly buy educational software.

However, of course, the upgrade has NOT gone 100% smoothly, and I have had several issues as my forum questions have proved.

Thank you to all you geniuses and those of you who are simply willing to help me think through the process of problem solving. Its important to me, and to all the children in our small school and we appreciate all the help we can get!!
Nancy

[Florida Cracker]

Hello, My name is Don and I live in the Fort Myers area. I decided to try Lenix after reading/hearing about it for years. Ubuntu was the first of several distro's I tried that works with all the hardware in the computer I wanted it on. Been using it for about a week now and so far I really like. I'm not a Windows hater but I don't like being forced to pay more money for an OS because the current OS is no longer supported. Plus I frequently reformat and move the OS to other computers I have. I currently have 14 computers (my hobby) running Vista, XP, 98, 95, and now Ubuntu. I have given Mr. Gates way to much money over the years. I am in the learning process of integrating Ubuntu into my home network...but thats the fun part.

Don

[MianoSM]

Steven Miano checking in!

I didn't know about the launchpad teams or forum section for the Florida team. I've been on the Florida-Mailing List now for a couple of months though.

I come from a background of working on HP-UX systems for the military, and while working around people in that field, they turned me on to Caldera way back when, which then led me to Red Hat, and now finally Ubuntu.

With eight years of system administrating experience (at home and professionally) I still have a large amount to learn about the kernel mainly and also some other items of interest to me.

I can script half-way decently, using SH, BASH, or KSH. I am hoping over the next couple of years to start working on Perl and Python next.

Hope I haven't gone on too much here, and will try to be a more active member in the community for sure! = )

[ekalfal]

Hello my name is Alan I joined the Florida LoCo a couple of days ago. I also joined the marketing team.
I am new to linux but am a true believer. As a writer I moved to ubuntu because it just works and that is what I need.
I live in Ocala and retired from the nuclear industry 8 years ago. I am sure everyone here knows more about linux than I, but that is good... I can only learn.