Location

Location Location Location...they say it's everything

So let's let the the first post in this forum be where you're from...you could also tell a little about yourself

Personally: My name is William Stensvold I live in Ladysmith (WI of course) Still go to High School and am hoping to pursue Computer Sciences out of high school

now tell me a little about yourselves

Th3_D0ct0R

Well currently, I reside in Richfield, Wisconsin; in Washington county. I'm attending my soon-to-be-finished sophomore year at Slinger High School. My future career is undecided.

I live and work in madison, wisconsin. I went to college at UW-Oshkosh, graduated with Computer Science and a minor in German. I actually went to slinger high school, so seeing the above post was kinda odd.

I live and work in Neenah WI. I went to college at UW-Eau Claire for mathematics and music education. I just finished my second year of teaching mathematics. I switched to Ubuntu in April and I haven't touched my Windows box since (although I have been trying to run things with Wine).

Great to see a LoCo Team started for WI.

Live near LaCrosse WI right now, but i'll at UW Platteville this fall. I got a Dell preinstalled ubuntu notebook for college and I've been 100% ubuntu on my computers since april. REALLY looking foward to some wisconsin loco awesomeness:D

I've been looking for a project to handle some of my free time. I hope a Wisconsin LoCo Team will be just the thing.

My name is Justin Helgerson. I will be starting my junior year at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. I am an Information Systems Major with emphasis on Systems Development.

I currently am living at my parents home which is in Sun Prairie, WI (roughly 5 minutes outside of Madison). I hope to land an internship next summer which will more than likely again bring home near the Madison area, but maybe Eau Claire will provide me with some opportunities.

I have only been using Linux (Ubuntu is my first try at a distribution of Linux) for roughly seven months, but I have really enjoyed my experiences with it. I've gotten three of my friends to switch to Ubuntu during the seven months I have been using it as well. I currently have three computers running Ubuntu.

I look forward to starting some projects.

Edit: Since we have some college aged chaps, I figure this link may prove to be useful as another contact resource: http://www.facebook.com/p/Justin_Helgerson/59505429

I am also a co-admin of the Ubuntu Facebook Group.

Hi Y'all, I live in Ridgeland, WI. We retired to here in 1999. I'm a native of Georgia. Mechanical Engineer from Ga Tech in 1975. MBA from UGA in 1980. Retired in 1999. Our closest big town is Eau Claire. We go there for good groceries and mall shopping. We have 40 acres, 35 of it forest. We're loving the rural peace and quite and the people in this area are very nice. We like seeing the deer, turkeys, bears etc. go through the yard. I started Linux with Fedora 4 in 2005. With time and a DSL, I've downloaded and tried over 20 Distros. Ubuntu is the one I've stuck with. Still I'm trying Mandriva now, did not like PCLinuxOS though which is based on Mandriva. My PC is a Dell-Ubuntu E520N. My first PC with a monitor was a PC-Limited (later changed their name to Dell) with Intel 286 at 8 MHz, with 1MB of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive. Prior to that I had a Commodore 64, 64KB of ram, used the TV for a monitor and an external cassette tape drive to store data. I thought the students might be amused by what the past might have been like before Apple introduced a GUI. I've installed Linux on several other PCs. My Mom (79 yrs old) uses SuSE 10.1, just games. Our church office uses a PC I set up with FedoraCore 4 a couple of years ago. No problems yet with either. My wife uses Ubuntu. I've installed Linux on two other people's PC when I reinstalled WindowsXP for them. Spread Linux. Tell 'em about the Forums.

Porirua, New Zealand here...... www.poriruacity.com has information We both grew up in different parts of Auckland, NZ, and never met. Each of us moved to the Wellington (NZ) area in the 1980s, and met in 1992 in Porirua. We've been together since.

Just the two of us (married, no children)

The computer scene has changed heaps in the more-years-than-I-care-to-remember that I've been using them - thank goodness that most of us don't have to mess around with punched cards or paper tapes these days!

Hi! I live in Howards Grove, which is in Sheboygan County. I am currently finishing the IT-Network Specialist program at Lakeshore Technical College, in Cleveland, which is south of Manitowoc and north of Sheboygan. In December, I will get my associate's degree. I got introduced to Linux by Nadine Schreiter, one of the instructors at that school. During my Linux class, I gave her a bunch of Ubuntu Breezy CDs to pass out, but I still have a lot of them laying in the box they shipped in. Nowadays, she does a custom order of CDs through ShipIt. I'm not going into much detail about my Linux experience, but my current favorite major distros are Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware.

Hello everyone, I'm new here, and to Ubuntu. Actually, I haven't even loaded it on my computer yet. I'm still reading and learning. I found you all here by total accident, but am glad I did!:p I'm in Appleton, Wi (of course) and was thrilled to find a WI site, much less a forum! Thank You for being here! I'm sure I will need lots of help, since I know just enough about computers to be considered dangerous, hehehe I'm a home user, and all self taught, so there are probably a lot of wholes in my computer education, so please be patient with me, k? (actually my sister is the real geek, I just do what she tells me to do, and have learned a little along the way)

So, this is where I am, I'm hoping you all can help me. Thanks sooooo much, I'm soooo glad you are here! wowie

Greetings Wowie,

Probably this should be in a new thread, not "Location" Just start a new thread in Wisconsin Team with a simple title like "Problem making install CD"

Edited: OK I see you did start another Thread.

Greetings...Name here is Dave and I am located in New Berlin. I graduated from UW-Milwaukee in 1991 with a BBA degree in MIS. Currently, I work as a senior programmer/analyst for a very large telecommunications company. Did mostly mainframe work since college, but a few months ago switch to a different group that uses Java/C++, Unix, and Oracle.

At home I run Ubuntu (Feisty) on a old, 800Mhz computer. Windows is still my main OS :( . When I get around to building my new PC, it will running Ubuntu with Windows running as a VM.

I have gotten several people at work to at least try Ubuntu. Every one of them has been impressed with the ease of installing Ubuntu and how easy it is to work with.

Hey Guys,

My name is Brad and I live in Kaukauna. Working the Electronics department at Sam's Club while I attend UW-Oshkosh (CompSci major). I just joined the Launchpad group, anything else I need to do to officially join the Wisconsin LoCo group?

My name is Daniel. I live in Milwaukee, WI (actually a little suburb south of downtown Milwaukee, ironically the suburb is called South Milwaukee) I have been using Ubuntu for about 2 years. It's been great. I hang around in the forums frequently and answer any and all questions that I can. I would be happy to be part of this LoCo Team. I own my own small business on the side fixing computers that have virus's, spyware, malware, I do upgrades, I build custom pc's, and pretty much anything and everything. I am not a programmer but have been interested in learning Python, Bash, and or Java. I've been promoting Ubuntu to may people but haven't gotten any takers as if it's not Winbloz, people don't think they'll be able to use it which is a shame.

I am heading over to join the launchpad team. Talk to ya'll later.

Im Ryan (or Steebs if you wish) and I am from Edgar, about 15 miles west of Wausau on HWY 29. I am currently going into my Senior year at UWSP with a double major in Computer Information Systems and then Web & Digital Media Development. I had a linux class first semester last year (Fedora Core 5... yuck!), then decided that I would dual boot from then on, and I have actually been running Ubuntu all summer. I plan on working as a network/workstation technician at the local high school, which I have been doing during the summer for the last 4 years. I will be graduating in Dec. of 2008, and I cant wait!!!

Im actually amazed to see this many people from Wisconsin on here :P

My name is Dave and I live in Solon Springs in the northwestern corner of the state. I'm going on my second year of using Ubuntu as main OS at work (I'm an art teacher and technology coordinator), although I cheat a bit and use vmware and terminal services to manage our mostly windows network. I've been playing around with linux for a few years and have tried quite a few different distributions, but have found I really like the stability and package management of the Debian family. I think it's cool to see so many younger people involved with this LoCo team here in Wisconsin.

I'm Chris - I currently live in Whitefish Bay just north of Milwaukee but am moving to Las Vegas on September 1st. For work I install wireless networks in hotels.

I'm Buran. I currently live in the UK, but will be moving back to Madison sometime towards the end of the year. I used to be in IT until my son was born so I am now a stay-at-home dad.

I have been using Ubuntu since April and I am also working with Gentoo. Both are fun and different so it keeps me busy.

I am also looking forward to seeing where the direction of this team is heading. I am currently working on writing a program that will find your wireless card and attempt to install it. It is going to be done in Python or using bash scripting.

I doubt that I will be joining any meetings with the group on IRC until I get back in the US. Being six hours ahead and trying to attend a 9:30 pm meeting kinda interferes with my sleep...

Hi, my name is Jim and I live in Hudson. I looked at the Minnesota forum first since I'm minutes from the Twin Cities but there were no posts. Glad to see some life on the Wisconsin side. I'm glad also to see that there are a lot of noobies like myself to Linux. I'm a carpenter by trade but am currently enrolled at ITT Tech to eventually move inside at least for the winters. My instructor in a computer class is knowledgeable in Linux, and another student had been trying out Ubuntu. I like the option to run something other than Windows so I thought I'd give it a try. After just replacing ME(older vaio, don't laugh) with Win2K, I thought I had a good little system. And it was. But I went ahead and installed Ubuntu (to hell with partitions) and dove in head first. So far I couldn't be happier. With a little tweaking and a small learning curve it does everything Win2K did for me and it's quicker especially with an older unit. I've been downloading other distros and playing, but so far Ubuntu is my choice. Good luck and spread the word!

Ayuthia said: I'm Buran. I currently live in the UK, but will be moving back to Madison sometime towards the end of the year. I used to be in IT until my son was born so I am now a stay-at-home dad.

I have been using Ubuntu since April and I am also working with Gentoo. Both are fun and different so it keeps me busy.

I am also looking forward to seeing where the direction of this team is heading. I am currently working on writing a program that will find your wireless card and attempt to install it. It is going to be done in Python or using bash scripting.

I doubt that I will be joining any meetings with the group on IRC until I get back in the US. Being six hours ahead and trying to attend a 9:30 pm meeting kinda interferes with my sleep...

Welcome! :p

A wireless card script is an excellent idea. A lot of people would be able to make use of something like that. I know when I first installed Ubuntu it was on my laptop, and my first task was getting my wireless card to work. It was an intimidating task, but I eventually got it working. If you hosted it on a webpage you'd definitely be getting a lot of hits on it.

If you wanted to get to a meeting, you could just set your alarm clock... :) Maybe we'll see you when you get back to the States. Welcome aboard.

bonesniddle said: Hi, my name is Jim and I live in Hudson. I looked at the Minnesota forum first since I'm minutes from the Twin Cities but there were no posts. Glad to see some life on the Wisconsin side. I'm glad also to see that there are a lot of noobies like myself to Linux. I'm a carpenter by trade but am currently enrolled at ITT Tech to eventually move inside at least for the winters. My instructor in a computer class is knowledgeable in Linux, and another student had been trying out Ubuntu. I like the option to run something other than Windows so I thought I'd give it a try. After just replacing ME(older vaio, don't laugh) with Win2K, I thought I had a good little system. And it was. But I went ahead and installed Ubuntu (to hell with partitions) and dove in head first. So far I couldn't be happier. With a little tweaking and a small learning curve it does everything Win2K did for me and it's quicker especially with an older unit. I've been downloading other distros and playing, but so far Ubuntu is my choice. Good luck and spread the word!

I drive to the Cities once a month when I am in school. :)

Sometimes diving into a new system is the best way to learn it. If I hadn't gotten rid of everything except Ubuntu I probably wouldn't have learned as much as I have by now.

Always good to have another memeber.

I'm in mourning. My old Vaio died this past week. Everything was working great but I think the PCU took a dump on me as a result of the fan not working properly(it was 8 or so years old). Now I'm looking for a good replacement for cheap since I'm poor right now. Any info on the $150 laptop from Sweden? Edison$ I'd buy it right now if it seemed feasible. Throw Ubuntu on and let's go here. I've been a downloading freak the last week or so with Linux and I still find Ubuntu my fave, so keep it going. Been real, Jim.

Responding to my own post. The Old Vaio is up again at 256 mb of RAM. One of the ram cards died(128mb) and by removing it I'm back off of my vi$ta box. Thanks to somebody at Computer Revolution in Roseville, MN. Didn't catch a name but pointed me in the right direction. No more mourning, as Brian Wilson wrote "Happy days are here again"

Just an fyi, 256MB would put you at the minimum requirements for Ubuntu. Hopefully it isn't running sluggish.

Ryan here...

Madison, WI area...Java/PHP/Rails/Django Web Developer...uber geek minus Star Trek :)

wowie said: Hello everyone,

I'm new here, and to Ubuntu. Actually, I haven't even loaded it on my computer yet. I'm still reading and learning. I found you all here by total accident, but am glad I did!:p I'm in Appleton, Wi (of course) and was thrilled to find a WI site, much less a forum! Thank You for being here! I'm sure I will need lots of help, since I know just enough about computers to be considered dangerous, hehehe I'm a home user, and all self taught, so there are probably a lot of wholes in my computer education, so please be patient with me, k? (actually my sister is the real geek, I just do what she tells me to do, and have learned a little along the way)

So, this is where I am, I'm hoping you all can help me. Thanks sooooo much, I'm soooo glad you are here! wowie

If you are running Windows XP, the easiest way to dual boot Ubuntu and XP is with Wubi. Just download the installer and run it in Windows. It's that easy... no repartitioning your disk, no fuss. I think you need to use "ubuntu" as the username and password the first time, then you can change it afterward. It is a reall install too, not an emulator.

Hello people, am a sophomore Computer Science and Information Systems major at University of Wisconsin, River Falls. I am new to Linux and Ubuntu. I was unable to install Ubuntu on my system with the live CD, but succeeded with a neat Windows-executable installer named Wubi. :guitar: If I could get my printer and mouse to work :confused:, I would probably seldom use XP, but right now I am still using it when I need to print stuff. I would like to promote Ubuntu on campus... but I need to get a better handle on issues like device drivers because I would not feel proud of myself if I left someone with a nonfunctional printer, for example. Let me know if you'd like to collaborate on a UWRF installfest.

well hey rowanrook i did sum quick searching and i came up with a long solution from some guy that might work for you bluetooth but idk seeing as i have no bluetooth(and i didnt even read thro it )

On a terminal type:

sudo apt-get install gnome-bluetooth bluez-gnome python-bluez python-libbtctl bluez-utils bluez-gnome Now "Bluetooth File sharing" will appear under Applications->Accesories, once activated a new icon will appear near the clock to identify it. To execute it automatically at startup, go to System->Preferences->Session-> Startup Programs, click on new and type gnome-obex-server. Restart your computer. (Maybe doing something else this won't be needed) You will also have under System->Preferences->Bluetooth preferences some extra configuration to play with to make you cellphone, etc work. To search for bluetooth devices: Make the device discoverable (look for a "Connect" button on many keyboards and mice or look in the device's manual) and then search for the device with this command: sudo hidd --search If that command doesn't work, try this one: hcitool scan Hint: If no devices are being shown and you are using Edgy Eft (6.10), you may try sudo hciconfig hci0 inqmode 0 See bug [[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...th/+bug/70718]](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...th/+bug/70718]) #70718. If this helps, you may add the hciconfig command (without "sudo") to your /etc/rc.local file for a permanent workaround. To change the location that files are saved to when using bluetooth transfers gconf-editor Then navigate to /apps/gnome-obex-server where you can specify the save directory and also turn off that annoying dialogue box!

and if that doesnt work you could always wait for gutsy which will have better bluetooth support

Th3 D0ct0R

Fallen_62 said: Im Ryan (or Steebs if you wish) and I am from Edgar, about 15 miles west of Wausau on HWY 29. I am currently going into my Senior year at UWSP with a double major in Computer Information Systems and then Web & Digital Media Development. I had a linux class first semester last year (Fedora Core 5... yuck!), then decided that I would dual boot from then on, and I have actually been running Ubuntu all summer. I plan on working as a network/workstation technician at the local high school, which I have been doing during the summer for the last 4 years. I will be graduating in Dec. of 2008, and I cant wait!!!

Im actually amazed to see this many people from Wisconsin on here :P

From someone who grew up in Edgar, I can say that I'm amazed someone from my hometown is actually on here! :)

Greetings, My name is Aaron and i am from Madison. I have Ubuntu running strictly on my system, but still have windows running on my laptop and the wife's system.She is not ready to use linux since yet, and I do not want to force her, because I know that would only scare her away. Have been using linux myself on and off trying different distros for about 3 years before I finally settled on ubuntu completely for my system.

herteljt said: I live and work in Neenah WI. I went to college at UW-Eau Claire for mathematics and music education. I just finished my second year of teaching mathematics. I switched to Ubuntu in April and I haven't touched my Windows box since (although I have been trying to run things with Wine).

Great to see a LoCo Team started for WI.

Hey herteljt and wowie! I work in Neenah! I live in Manitowoc and hope to move to Appleton soon. Also, hey MethodOne! I graduated from LTC in 2002 and I had Nadine Schreiter as well. I was already a Linux user, but I had her for some classes.

Mike Putnam

Welcome aboard, sanjito. :)

mikeputnam said: Hey herteljt and wowie! I work in Neenah! I live in Manitowoc and hope to move to Appleton soon. Also, hey MethodOne! I graduated from LTC in 2002 and I had Nadine Schreiter as well. I was already a Linux user, but I had her for some classes.

Mike Putnam

Hi Mike, Glad to hear we have some more interested users in the area :)

Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I am a native to there and I am going to CVTC.

gnuman said: From someone who grew up in Edgar, I can say that I'm amazed someone from my hometown is actually on here!

:)

I aim to impress ;) PM me with your name and stuff, I wanna see if I know you :P

I live in Baraboo, and it would be nice to assume, you all being from Wisconsin, that you know where that is. I'm a senior in high school. I've been exposed to Linux ever since I was a little kid complaining that my brother prevented me from playing games because of that one "redhat" thing. Now I finally understand why Linux is great!

I live in Madison, WI and am running Ubuntu on an original ibook, a Sony Vaio, and I have a flash drive boot I carry with me at all times. I'm a relative novice, but am proficient enough to have been able to get Ubuntu up and running with a few different hard drive issues. Loving the forums for that.

Michael here.

I live and work in La Crosse. I'm a physician here at Franciscan Skemp.

I'm running Fiesty Fawn on a recent dual core pentium that I bought from Dell in July. I'm running 6.06 on an older AMD machine. I have Suse 10.1 on another machine, Xandros on another machine. I've loaded Debian at least once, ran Red Hat a number of years ago on some really old machines and played with Mandrake 8.1 for awhile.

I started on IBM 360 mainframes .. and I see only a few of us are old enough to know what those are. I actually programmed in COBOL years ago and ran programs on an IBM 1620 that had be cold-started with a deck of cards for nearly every program. My first personal computer was a Trash-80.

I also have two windows boxes and a Mac laptop.

My biggest gripe about ubuntu is the absence of a SU file manager GUI function. When I'm playing with trying to manage a web page, and numerous other functions, it's a real nuisance to have to go into terminal mode with sudo.

I'm struggling with apache2 virtual hosting and have made a couple of posts so ar.

I hope to meet some of you.

Michael

MJWhiteDerm said: Michael here.

I live and work in La Crosse. I'm a physician here at Franciscan Skemp.

I'm running Fiesty Fawn on a recent dual core pentium that I bought from Dell in July. I'm running 6.06 on an older AMD machine. I have Suse 10.1 on another machine, Xandros on another machine. I've loaded Debian at least once, ran Red Hat a number of years ago on some really old machines and played with Mandrake 8.1 for awhile.

I started on IBM 360 mainframes .. and I see only a few of us are old enough to know what those are. I actually programmed in COBOL years ago and ran programs on an IBM 1620 that had be cold-started with a deck of cards for nearly every program. My first personal computer was a Trash-80.

I also have two windows boxes and a Mac laptop.

My biggest gripe about ubuntu is the absence of a SU file manager GUI function. When I'm playing with trying to manage a web page, and numerous other functions, it's a real nuisance to have to go into terminal mode with sudo.

I'm struggling with apache2 virtual hosting and have made a couple of posts so ar.

I hope to meet some of you.

Michael

You can run nautilus as root. :)

Good to see some fresh new faces on the forum.

You can also create a menu item for nautilus as root. I made menu items for both root terminal and root nautilus in "System Tools" It's just command "gksudo nautilus" I added it as a menu item, then copied it to the panel. I use it often enough to like the single click to launch it.

Was a Trash-80 a TI or a Tandy? I remember my first C program was on a System-36 using vi with a text only terminal.

One thing I like about Linux is I'm still a student, even though I'm retired.

I'm struggling with apache2 virtual hosting and have made a couple of posts so ar.

I work with apache every day man, lemme know if I can help out :)

Madison here by the way...but I believe I said that in this thread a while back....

--Ryan

ridgeland said: Was a Trash-80 a TI or a Tandy? I remember my first C program was on a System-36 using vi with a text only terminal.

The Trash-80 was a Tandy. My dad had a model 3 and 4. If I recall correctly, they had 48k and 64k of RAM...

hi all, i believe i am the newest member of the family. my name is jay,i am 34 yrs of age and am located on loyal,wi. my father is a unix/linux programmer for a major corperation,so i have been playing with this stuff for quite some time. but i decided that ubuntu is my choice of operating system about a year ago. i decided to join the group cuz i wanna learn more,and try to combat windows operating system users. (loyal wi is 45min east of eauclaire 25 min nw of marshfield) thnks -JAY

Welcome Jay

debianjay said: hi all,

i believe i am the newest member of the family. my name is jay,i am 34 yrs of age and am located on loyal,wi. my father is a unix/linux programmer for a major corperation,so i have been playing with this stuff for quite some time. but i decided that ubuntu is my choice of operating system about a year ago. i decided to join the group cuz i wanna learn more,and try to combat windows operating system users. (loyal wi is 45min east of eauclaire 25 min nw of marshfield) thnks -JAY

If you ever need help, don't hesitate to ask here. It hasn't been active lately, but I still check the forums every day.

Welcome. :)

Likewise, i try to check the forums out daily...

Just helped one of our users get apache configured the other day... :)

Just found this thread. My name is Jim I live in Rhinelander. Have been using linux since fedora5. Currently we have three systems all running linux. The wifes system with Fedora8, laptop dual booting windows and Fedora6 (going to change that one of these days) and my system dual booting Fedora8 and Ubuntu 7-10. So far I am really liking what I'm seeing with Ubuntu. It was a lot easer to set up than Fedora was, just have to get used to the sutal differences.

jtravnick said: Just found this thread. My name is Jim I live in Rhinelander. Have been using linux since fedora5. Currently we have three systems all running linux. The wifes system with Fedora8, laptop dual booting windows and Fedora6 (going to change that one of these days) and my system dual booting Fedora8 and Ubuntu 7-10. So far I am really liking what I'm seeing with Ubuntu. It was a lot easer to set up than Fedora was, just have to get used to the sutal differences.

From my experience the way Ubuntu separates itself from distributions like Fedora is the repository. I liked Fedora, it always looks more polished, some of the Menu navigation makes more sense, but being able to install such an abundant amount of software immediately after installing Ubuntu makes it a breeze.

Hello, I'm Nate and I'm from South Milwaukee, WI. I originally started with Ubuntu 2 or 3 years ago but got bored with it. Now I'm back and have Ubuntu running as a server and as a desktop pc (on the same one). I'm really surprised at how well the pc is working considering it is older, has 256 MB of RAM and one of the fans is broken/coming off.

Welcome Nate, Just curious. Are you using Ubuntu 6.06, or Xubuntu or iceBuntu? I'm using 7.04, tried 7.10 and stayed with 7.04, playing with 8.04 alpha 6 now. I like XFCE on low RAM PCs. Good to see this thread did not die. Had a slow spell for a while.

uberushaximus said: Well currently, I reside in Richfield, Wisconsin; in Washington county. I'm attending my soon-to-be-finished sophomore year at Slinger High School. My future career is undecided.

I went to Slinger, Class of 05. I live between Slinger and Allenton, near 41.

Currently going to school for Network Specialist at Moraine Park in Fond du Lac.

ridgeland said: Welcome Nate,

Just curious. Are you using Ubuntu 6.06, or Xubuntu or iceBuntu? I'm using 7.04, tried 7.10 and stayed with 7.04, playing with 8.04 alpha 6 now. I like XFCE on low RAM PCs. Good to see this thread did not die. Had a slow spell for a while.

I'm using 7.10 right now. I was using 7.04 but I was having some problems with it.

Hello everybody! It's been awhile since anyone has posted to the Wisconsin LoCo forum so I thought I'd better get to it. My name is Todd and I now live in Cambridge, WI. My wife and I and our two kids just moved here over the summer to be closer to my oldest daughter who is in the 1st grade now. After she started school we couldn't handle only seeing her twice a month. We moved from Black River Falls, but I am a graduate of the class of 1999 from Jefferson, WI. I have been with Ubuntu for over a year now and love every minute of it. I will never go back, my wife though, she's coming along slowly. I switched when I bought a laptop with Vista on it. I hated it, I tried going back to XP but nothing would work so I tried a couple of different live cd's and I really like Ubuntu. I tried Red Hat when I was in high school but it didn't stay long. We only had one pc for the whole family so you can see how that went. I've used Fedora too. I really like the Debian Family. I am currently going to MATC for Networking Specialist and am going to be taking my final for CCNA3 tomorrow, I can't wait. I was going to Westerntc in LaCrosse before we moved. I loved it there but I really like how much more MATC is with hands on stuff. Who wouldn't love having there own stack of 4 switches, 2 of them being layer 3, and 4 routers to play with at my leisure (for the most part). MATC also offers a lot more in the VoIP are and I've been kinda steering towards maybe wanting to that route. I also like to write my own web pages. I know that that isn't really programming but it's still code. Over the summer I taught myself CSS, that was fun. I've learned JavaScript in school and am learning PERL in school right now. Wow, this has to be my longest post ever. I better get to studying and maybe now we can get some fresh post on here. We don't have to have issues just to start a thread. l8r people!

Liv3dN8as said: Hello everybody! It's been awhile since anyone has posted to the Wisconsin LoCo forum so I thought I'd better get to it.

My name is Todd and I now live in Cambridge, WI. My wife and I and our two kids just moved here over the summer to be closer to my oldest daughter who is in the 1st grade now. After she started school we couldn't handle only seeing her twice a month. We moved from Black River Falls, but I am a graduate of the class of 1999 from Jefferson, WI. I have been with Ubuntu for over a year now and love every minute of it. I will never go back, my wife though, she's coming along slowly. I switched when I bought a laptop with Vista on it. I hated it, I tried going back to XP but nothing would work so I tried a couple of different live cd's and I really like Ubuntu. I tried Red Hat when I was in high school but it didn't stay long. We only had one pc for the whole family so you can see how that went. I've used Fedora too. I really like the Debian Family. I am currently going to MATC for Networking Specialist and am going to be taking my final for CCNA3 tomorrow, I can't wait. I was going to Westerntc in LaCrosse before we moved. I loved it there but I really like how much more MATC is with hands on stuff. Who wouldn't love having there own stack of 4 switches, 2 of them being layer 3, and 4 routers to play with at my leisure (for the most part). MATC also offers a lot more in the VoIP are and I've been kinda steering towards maybe wanting to that route. I also like to write my own web pages. I know that that isn't really programming but it's still code. Over the summer I taught myself CSS, that was fun. I've learned JavaScript in school and am learning PERL in school right now. Wow, this has to be my longest post ever. I better get to studying and maybe now we can get some fresh post on here. We don't have to have issues just to start a thread. l8r people! Welcome to the group! I recall trying out Linux a long time ago. I just remember that I was using X Windows without any kind of desktop manager. It was fun, but it was not anything like the GUI environment of Windows or Apple/Mac. Now I am using Arch and Ubuntu and enjoying the experience. So much changes on a regular basis just like the programming world.

We have been a little quiet lately, but I am hoping that we can get things going again. It is fun to spread ideas and pass the enjoyment around.

Liv3dN8as said: Hello everybody! It's been awhile since anyone has posted to the Wisconsin LoCo forum so I thought I'd better get to it.

My name is Todd and I now live in Cambridge, WI. My wife and I and our two kids just moved here over the summer to be closer to my oldest daughter who is in the 1st grade now. After she started school we couldn't handle only seeing her twice a month. We moved from Black River Falls, but I am a graduate of the class of 1999 from Jefferson, WI. I have been with Ubuntu for over a year now and love every minute of it. I will never go back, my wife though, she's coming along slowly. I switched when I bought a laptop with Vista on it. I hated it, I tried going back to XP but nothing would work so I tried a couple of different live cd's and I really like Ubuntu. I tried Red Hat when I was in high school but it didn't stay long. We only had one pc for the whole family so you can see how that went. I've used Fedora too. I really like the Debian Family. I am currently going to MATC for Networking Specialist and am going to be taking my final for CCNA3 tomorrow, I can't wait. I was going to Westerntc in LaCrosse before we moved. I loved it there but I really like how much more MATC is with hands on stuff. Who wouldn't love having there own stack of 4 switches, 2 of them being layer 3, and 4 routers to play with at my leisure (for the most part). MATC also offers a lot more in the VoIP are and I've been kinda steering towards maybe wanting to that route. I also like to write my own web pages. I know that that isn't really programming but it's still code. Over the summer I taught myself CSS, that was fun. I've learned JavaScript in school and am learning PERL in school right now. Wow, this has to be my longest post ever. I better get to studying and maybe now we can get some fresh post on here. We don't have to have issues just to start a thread. l8r people!

Welcome Todd. :)

One of close friends here in Eau Claire is from Cambridge.

Things haven't been active around here much these days. We had a nice push going about two Summers ago, but since then we have died down. If some more activity starts one of these days I am all for planning some sort of Wisconsin event. :)

Ek0nomik said: Welcome Todd. :)

One of close friends here in Eau Claire is from Cambridge.

Things haven't been active around here much these days. We had a nice push going about two Summers ago, but since then we have died down. If some more activity starts one of these days I am all for planning some sort of Wisconsin event. :)

Maybe we can do some kind of get together in the Madison area during your winter break (if you are in town). It would be nice to see some faces and also see what people have done with their computers. We could even take a look at the alpha version of Jaunty.

I'm still checking the forum, but I've moved down to Normal, IL for grad school. So I'm not technically in WI, but I plan on returning when I'm done :)

La Crosse, WI!!!

Started out in high school with a TRS80 Model 3 with tape drive, couldn't afford the 8inch floppy drive!

Still have guts to make a working 8086/8088! Was a Network Specialist for the State of Arizona when I lived out there but being that I am born and raised in Wisconsin I am back as of 6 years ago.

Been playing with linux off and on for 10 years and have switched to full linux particularly Ubuntu for just over a year now. Testing Jaunty on this new laptop since it was the only distro to install for me and on an older dying laptop I have LTS 8.04. Trying to get as many converted as I can since Ubuntu is so much more friendly than windblows... Especially that Vista version!

Few of us from work are using Ubuntu at home and try to promote it when we can...

Hello, I'm Anthony and I'm from Cameron which is just south of Rice Lake.

I Graduated from HS at Eleva-Strum in 1997 and went to college at UW-Platteville studying EE. Now I work for Jack Links Beef Jerky as a corporate pilot.

My first computer was a commodore 64 and from there I got an A500 then A1200 with a..... *80mb Hard drive*!!! It's still a sweet machine that I occasionally fire up to do some web browsing - just to prove that it's still not obsolete.

I've been using linux as my primary OS since 2004(ish) when I installed knoppmyth on an old machine for fun. The harddrive has changed on that machine a few times, the memory upgraded, and it's now running mythbuntu, but it's still doing a great job of keeping my wifes recordings up to date on that old hardware!

One of my main focuses lately is trying to get the evolution-mapi plugin working because my company just switched to exchange server 2007.

Hi doudar, Good to see other Ubuntu-ers here in the Chibardun world! And a fellow Commodore 64 user. But did you finish HS in 1997 or was it 1967? :) Maybe we can get Chibardun to add Linux to their monthly how-to. At least they mention Firefox.

de pere cheesemaker by profession been using ubuntu for about 2 years got frustrated with vista one night and totally wipe out and went with linux. currently jj testing. hey dbuster thanks for your input on the firefox video problem i had but figured it out,finally!!

ridgeland said: Hi doudar,

Good to see other Ubuntu-ers here in the Chibardun world! And a fellow Commodore 64 user. But did you finish HS in 1997 or was it 1967? :) Maybe we can get Chibardun to add Linux to their monthly how-to. At least they mention Firefox.

Out of some freak of nature I'm actually served by Citizens out of New Auburn. There are 3 houses on the dirt road I live on, all serviced by Citizens, however the main road, "M" which is only a 1/4 mile from me is served by Chibardun in both directions. Therefore this area is an "island" with very poor DSL as our only land based internet option and very little interest by them to upgrade anything. I suppose I could make an arrangement with one of the neighbors on the main road.........

Hi doudar,

I have DSL even though I'm about 3 miles from Ridgeland. The "cities" get all the good stuff though. Its funny that Chibardun left Dallas to move to Cameron and yet they don't even serve all of Cameron. Go figure. If you want to see your DSL speed you can still use: http://speedtest.chibardun.net/ My chibardun line hits about 520.

Hi, just joined the forum. Althought i am new to ubuntu, I used to work w/ unix on ATT 3b2's alot. I'm sick of windows so I thought I'd try a linux out and ubuntu seems to be the most recommended. I live in Little Suamico, near GB.

jtravnick said: Just found this thread. My name is Jim I live in Rhinelander.

Greetings Jim! I was born and raised in Rhinelander; I didn't think anyone else was there as far as linux users.

I am currently a Senior at UW Superior getting my degree in Computer Science. I have been looking recently to get involved in the LoCo and get some things going. Perhaps a release party for Karmic Koala somewhere near Superior, WI?

Thanks, hope to hear from some people!

-Anthony Hook

Jim Leinweber, Madison WI; long time Linux user, since 1993 and SLS on floppies. Running Ubuntu at home since Breezy Badger; mostly RedHat at the office.

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Oh hey all! I'm Logan, and I've been a member of the group for a while now, but never did post a hello. I'm from Greenfield, a suburb of Milwaukee. I'm pursuing my Bachelor's in Network Administration.

I've been working with computers for a good majority of my 20 years... I first installed Red Hat back when I was in middle school, but after some time, I made the move to Ubuntu, and haven't regretted it.

Since I'm a gamer, having a Windows box is important. I've also used Slackware and Gentoo.

Hopefully we'll see some more activity in the group. I'm almost always on IRC, so be sure to say hello.

Hello, I'm from the Madison, WI area myself (don't let the Ellensburg fool you.) I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to play DVDs in the future on my Ubuntu distro, as I won't be able to pay for the codecs. Guess I'll just have to save up for a Blu-Ray Player or PS3.

Hello everyone,

I am from Portage, WI. Located between Madison and Wisconsin Dells.

Ubuntu has been fun for me I have been toying around with like since 2000. I remeber the days of Red Hat 7.

But I am now in the Ubuntu landscape and try to offer other a chance to see what else is out there.

Hope to have a fun and interesting time with Loco Wisconsin.

Hello Everybody,

My name is Justin. Im new to Ubuntu, tho Ive used it before, but briefly. Ive now decided to migrate from my XP setup to Ubuntu. Tried with 10.10 but had some errors while installing. I went to 10.04 and the install went smoothly.

Its nice to see a WI team here. Originally born in WI, but I have lived and visited many places around the US. I am currently living in Janesville, WI (just south of Madison).

The hardware I am running on is: Intel 2.8 Core 2 Duo 2 GB Ram Asus P5QSE-R Mobo Nvidia GForce 9500GT video card onboard (Realtek) audio

Ubuntu has its own partition with 9GB of space.

Ok, Ive got a good bit of reading to do, and Im sure Ill have questions in the future. I look forward to learning and sharing here.

Justin

I am not necessarily new to Linux but I have finally been using Ubuntu full time from now on. I have used many other distribution to try out. I live in the Fox Cities (30 southwest of Green Bay). It seems like the group maybe dead but hopefully we can put new light into it.

We're not quite dead, although the forums may be quiet. Please join the mailing list, and check out the IRC channel. More information can be found on our website: ubuntu-wisconsin.org.

My name is JC. I live in Menomonee Falls, and I'm a freshman in high school. I've been using Ubuntu since 8.04, and run Ubuntu on all of my computers and servers. I've taken a liking to Xubuntu since it's update to Xfce 2.8 in natty, however.

I'm the creator and lead developer of the Ubuntu GNOME Remix project, a remix of Ubuntu that aims to show the unique features of GNOME 3 and also have a pure version of classic GNOME.

I've been a member of the group on launchpad for awhile, just have neglected to post here or attend any meetings.

Hi. My name is Eugene. I'm not new to Linux, but this is my first post on this forum. I recently found this. :D I live in Wrightstown, work in Green Bay. Associate degree in Networking and Network Security certificate from NWTC.edu

Hello all,

My name is Andy and I currently live and work in Marshfield, WI as a freelance digital artist. I grew up in Abbotsford (Between Eau Claire and Edgar). Went to Madison Area Tech for Animation and Concept Development and moved back here where I am now.

I think I would consider myself a novice with Ubuntu I have been dual-booting and bug reporting since 8.10, and since have played with most of the Libre Graphics applications available.

I would love to find ways to contribute to the Wisconsin LoCo as well as greater Ubuntu community.

Hey,

My name is Ian. I've been using Ubuntu since 2005. I have lived in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood for 10 years. And I can't move now because my kids would whine too much. I hang out regularly in Brainstorm, helping to mentor people with good ideas onto the road of implementation. I keep a blog of my Linux hobby projects.

I would love to see a LoCo that makes trying new things easy and fun, and helps volunteers develop the skills to contribute usefully to the Ubuntu community.

Madison...though I think I'm about to change it to Concord, New Hampshire. It's been fun!

I'm selling a bunch of stuff as I move, so stay tuned for that post. For now, there's this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dawhitfield/sets/72157622824069363/with/5871210323/