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youbuntu
March 15th, 2011, 04:36 AM
THis is me - "Iron Man" LOL!

http://a1.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/42/f732cbd63cf1e18092f426914aa844ce/l.jpg


Hello guys. My name is Matt, and I am a long time GNU/Linux user, a British chap and a Christian. I am no Richard Stallman (one of my Heroes) but I am extremely adept with many aspects of technology, especially GNU/Linux, particularly our dear Ubuntu.

I just want to help out if I can, and give to people in need. I am currently unemployed, but consider myself a kind and generous person. I have a few bits and bobs laying around doing nothing at home, and a MASSIVE mine of mental information and valuable advice regarding electronics, technology, computers... and Ubuntu! :D

I feel my skills are wasted - I want to help people like you, and give back to this wonderful life which God has blessed me with. Please, if you need any help, I will certainly try my best - please ask me directly, and if I cannot help you, I can maybe point you in the right direction, or calm your fears of confusion and/or failure.

I love GNU/Linux & Ubuntu - I love this community.

God bless you all and be with you today :)

Matt.

NightwishFan
March 15th, 2011, 04:40 AM
Hi, and welcome to the community. :) Why not check out this page for different resources! http://www.ubuntu.com/community

Glad to meet you and please have fun with Ubuntu and open source.

youbuntu
March 15th, 2011, 04:43 AM
Hi, and welcome to the community. :) Why not check out this page for different resources! http://www.ubuntu.com/community

Glad to meet you and please have fun with Ubuntu and open source.

Wow, that's VERY official a welcome :D - check my join date!

Thank you! :D

wojox
March 15th, 2011, 04:53 AM
I think you need to go over here and offer your services Ubuntu Christian Edition (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=168).

disabledaccount
March 15th, 2011, 10:10 AM
THis is me - "Iron Man" LOL!
+1000000 :)


I have a few bits and bobs laying around doing nothing at home, and a MASSIVE mine of mental information and valuable advice regarding electronics, technology, computers... and Ubuntu! :DAre You good in C/C++ ? Do you know specs of AVR core?
I'm planing to start new project - open source version of AVR studio - although it runs quite good in wine, there are many bugs and features missing (lack of peripherials simulation and good I/O signals tracking is the main problem). I have not much time (I'm working almost 24h/day :) ) so your help could be very precious.

cguy
March 15th, 2011, 12:07 PM
@ tomazzi: how do you run AVR Studio in Wine? Mine always crashed at different stages.
Which version of Wine do you use?

disabledaccount
March 15th, 2011, 12:26 PM
I'm always compiling wine from source. Currently it's 1.3.6 version, 64bit
AVR studio just works, without any speciall tricks. However You'll propably experience flickering of toolbars icons - solution is to change theme. I've obsereved that adding uxtheme.dll can help also.

Have You saved crash reports from WINE?

Here You have my desktop :)

Tristam Green
March 15th, 2011, 02:13 PM
hey, i remember you. i await new glossy goodness with bated breath.

pbpersson
March 15th, 2011, 03:18 PM
Tell us what sorts of things you can help with.

Writing software in Java, Perl, C++, C# in Mono?

Recompiling code in Ubuntu?

Building a Linux system from the kernel on up?

Modifying and compiling the kernel in Ubuntu or other distros?

BHEJU
March 15th, 2011, 04:42 PM
I would appreciate it if you could implement the Fingerprint reader drivers for linux. Linux supports many but there are many more which are not supported.
There are wiki pages for the information. Let me know if you are interested / willing.. I will send the links.

Cheers,

unknownPoster
March 15th, 2011, 08:30 PM
Oh this guy is great at everything Software "engineering" & software "science" is total fiction (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649981)

I had a good laugh for a couple of days over that rant. :P

Where have you been at some Christian Cult Camp in the mean time? :P

Exactly, because Computer Science and Software Engineering is all black voodoo magic right? :P

They say that fear of something stems from lack of understanding, I'm pretty sure that's what is going on.

disabledaccount
March 15th, 2011, 09:01 PM
Oh this guy is great at everything Software "engineering" & software "science" is total fiction (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649981)

I had a good laugh for a couple of days over that rant. :P

Software is stack of abstraction layers, just like modern quantum physics... but software abstraction layer usually works as expected while abstraction in physics is often just another step to create another abstraction :)

KiwiNZ
March 15th, 2011, 09:05 PM
Lets not bring back past disputes and closed threads. Let bygones be bygones and move on.

I will close this and thus facilitate the moving on.