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linuxgirlie · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:41 am Post subject: Top Trumps

Sitting here doing not much I thought we could all do a similar thing to the LXF Trumps section that comes with the interviews. So I'll start first:

Name: Jo Harris (linuxgirlie)
Age:21
Nationality:British (or English, just to narrow it down)
Years using Linux: 5 years and 2 months
Programming Languages: 2
Number of PCs: 6 PC's, 3 Laptops
Daily coffee intake: 0 (Iហ hate coffee Sad

)
Sandals owned: 0
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jjmac · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:22 am Post subject: RE: Top Trumps

Trumps ? (i must be a bit out of touch,,, ) -=- um hmmm --==-- colour of hair ? (grin) xxx Smile

:eink:

alloydog · LXF regular Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:32 pm Posts: 600

Age... no way! but I will admit to filling in punchcards that got sent off to the mainframe at Cambridge...

linuxgirlie · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: RE: Top Trumps

awwww come on Wink

join in

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Lejon · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject:

Uhmm.. oki then.

Name: Joni Larsen-Haikarainen
Age: 23
Nationality: Thats IS a tough question! Swedish/Finnish/Dannish. Pick one.
Residence: Sweden (Southwest part)
Started using Linux: Sometime 1996-1997.
Languages: Swedish, English, Python, HTML.. And weakly: Norwegian, Dannish, Finnish, Hungarian, Basic(forgot most of it), C/C++, PHP, PLC(forgot the name of the language, and most of it).
Number of Computers: 5; C64, Amiga 2000, 80486, Laptop P4, and an realy old "dumb terminal".
Daily Coffe Intake: Way to much. 1-3 Metric Liters. (Strong)
Sandals owned(pair): Not realy sure actuly. one, maby two, maby ten?
Favorit Linux Distribution: 1) Gentoo, 2) Slackware.
Ok lets not go over kill here...
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Gordon · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:39 pm Post subject:

Name: Gordon Murgatroyd
Age: 45
Nationality: Yorkshireman
Residence: Yorkshire
Years Using Linux: 10 (approx)
Programming Languages: C/C++
Number Of Computers: 6 (Dragon32, Amiga1200, 486 DX2 66, Pentium 166, Pentium III 800, Athlon 64)
Daily Coffee intake: None (tea drinker)
No Sandals
Linux Distro: Sextuple booting SUSE 32 bit, SUSE 64 bit, Slackware 10.1, Linux From Scratch (x2), Mandriva 2005 LE

First experience of computers was a digital CNC machining centre and the only semiconductors it had were transistors and diodes. The control cabinets (6 of them I think) were 3 feet wide, 6 feet tall, and about 1 to 1.5 feet deep. Programmes were loaded by punched paper tape.
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duff · Joined: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:50 pm Posts: 43

Name: Iain Gallagher
Age: 37
Nationality: Scottish
Years using Linux: 4
Programming Languages: none (trying tho - when i can find the time and I can use R the statistical language!)
No. of Computers: 2 laptops (1 SUSE 9.3 (About to be 10.0), 1 XP), 2 Macs (OS 10.3), 1 PC SUSE 9.3
Daily Coffee Intake: 2 - 3 mugs (1 in morning and 1 - 2 in afternoon)
Sandals: None (we could have a DM's category here - 1pr)
Distro: Currently SUSE
Currently Listening to: Mogwai and Sigur Ros

bigbee · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject:

Name: Bart De Jong
Age: 25
Nationality: Belgian
Years using Linux: 4
Programming Languages: Many; C++, C, php...
No. of Computers: 7-8 (2x2600xp+, 2xp1, 1x2500xp+, 1xCelerong 266, 1xpowerbook G3) (and a laptop at work)
Daily Coffee Intake: 6 cups
Sandals: none
Distro: Suse for desktop, debian and slackware for everything else
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M0PHP · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:15 pm Post subject:

Name: Craig Rodway
Age: 18
Nationality: British
Years using Linux: On/off for 5 years
Programming Languages: PHP, HTML, CSS
Number of PCs: 7
Daily coffee intake: 4/5 large mugs (White, 2x sugars, gotta be bad for me)
Sandals owned: 0
Distros: CentOS/Fedora (server) and Ubuntu (desktop)

Andy · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject:

Name: Andy Hudson
Age:27
Nationality:British
Years using Linux: Just over 7 years
Programming Languages: 2
Number of PCs: 3 Laptops, 1 Mac mini and a desktop machine with VMware. Trying to sneak a further Mac mini in under the nose of SWMBO
Daily coffee intake: at least 4
Sandals owned: 1 pair

linuxgirlie · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:04 pm Post subject:

SWMBO?!?!
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject:

She Who Must Be Obeyed. Choice of references: H Rider Haggard, or Rumpole of the Bailey Smile

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jdtate101 · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

Name: James Tate
Age:30
Nationality:British
Years using Linux:6 yrs
Programming Languages: 3
Number of PCs: 2 Laptops, 1 windows games machine ,1 linux server (see below)
Daily coffee intake: none...can't stand the stuff!!
Sandals owned: 1
Distro: SuSE 9.3
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Penguin · Joined: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:20 pm Posts: 1

Name: Joe (Penguin)
Age:35
Nationality:Italian and English (I'm a Mut Laughing

)
Residence: New Mexico, USA
Years using Linux: ~6 years
Linux Distro(s): Red Hat, Mandrake (Now Mandriva), Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Arch
Programming Languages: HTML, Some PHP, very little C/C++, Shell Scripting
Number of PCs: 4 pc's, 1 laptop, 1 PDA (Sharp Zaurus)
Daily coffee intake: 0 (Have to watch my cholesterol Wink

)
Sandals owned: 1 pair (However, not sure why that is relevent Shocked

)

CJLL · LXF regular Joined: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:22 pm Posts: 193

Name: CJ
Age: 33
Nationality:English - just so people don't confuse me with Jocks and Taffs :p
Years using Linux: Since PC Plus first cover mounted Suse
Programming Languages: 6 or there abouts
Number of PCs: 3
Daily coffee intake: ~6 travel mugs of decafe
Sandals owned: 2
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