I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Whenever I use KDE, I look for a Qt based application for my webcam. Kopete and Skype allow me to see if it recognizes the webcam but cannot do much without installing Cheese.
I've picked up so many older systems, partially because people know I can take and re-use some older systems, that I am in the process of trying to purge everything that is single-core (except for the Raspberry Pi) that isn't already re-purposed (such as my IBM Thinkpad network bridge). I got rid of my last PIII last year and am working on the P4s!
Sometimes I wish I could get a brand-new system, but the advantage with the older systems is I have no guilt ripping out the proprietary OS and replacing it with Linux.