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« on: January 27, 2012, 09:16:11 PM » |
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Hi all,
I'm Andy. I have found PCLOS and am very pleased! First Unix experience was around 1988-1989 as a computer operator in the Oil Seismic Processing industry in Houston, Tx with one of the worlds first Unix based floating point processor systems / FPS, in which that company utilized it to do 3D Migration Stack Processing to find Oil/Gas. It was all command line. Was limited on it then and I'm still pretty limited on the command line today as well. I'm more of a hardware guy than a programmer type, but definately like t-shooting hardware problems.
Later through a friend came to find Red Hat Linux and My first multi-boot install around 1999 or so. Multi-boot has been my way since then. Linux of one form or another installed over the years. Have tried all of the PCLOS versions so far and am still set in my ways with KDE.
Have a new rig in place since mid December, replacing the old single core XP3200. The new rig is very noticeably faster in all aspects. It was time for the upgrade.
New rig is:
Asus M5a97
FX-8150 3.6GHz Bulldozer
Budget H20 processor cooler
8gb 1600 ram
Zotac nvidia GTX 560 2Gb
W/D 500Gb, W/D 3.0Tb
2x W/D 1Tb drives coming from the old rig to the new one soon.
Good to be here and bye for now,
Andy
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djohnston
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 09:24:27 PM » |
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Well, I was born in Oklahoma, but I was too young to remember. My dad moved us around a bit, and we landed in Texas. I spent most of my life there, and now I live in Oklahoma again. Does that count?
Wait. Maybe you meant you're from Texas. Okay. Hello there.
Welcome to the forum!
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andy
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 09:54:05 PM » |
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Thanks djohnston. Maybe I should re-word the topic? That was funny though.
Andy
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« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 09:59:45 PM » |
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Naw, no need to reword. I have my moments. You should check out the Sandbox. Matter of fact, check out all sections of the forum. Being a hardware guy, you'll probably want to check out the Hardware Discussion section. There are three hardware sections in the Help group, too. Enjoy! |
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Bare metal VBox
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual-Core Single core
4GiB RAM 1GiB RAM
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 64MB video
LXDE 32bit KDE 64bit
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Archie
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I will never forget you, uhhh...
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« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 10:01:51 PM » |
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Welcome to the community, andyman. KDE HELL YEAH!  |
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andy
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2012, 10:36:53 PM » |
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@ djohnston,, Yes on the hardware discussion. Found the profile section. Nice that you can have a different logon name than what shows in the forum! Been lurking around here for about 6 months and really see the humanity in the forum here. I'm on one other auto/hotrod forum board where it's based on a very humane and no-nonsense approach. By far this forum/distro and the auto site I frequent, are both second to none. Real folks here from what I've seen so far.
@ Archie,, Thank you Sir!
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2012, 10:48:30 PM » |
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@ djohnston,, Yes on the hardware discussion. Found the profile section. Nice that you can have a different logon name than what shows in the forum! Been lurking around here for about 6 months and really see the humanity in the forum here. I'm on one other auto/hotrod forum board where it's based on a very humane and no-nonsense approach. By far this forum/distro and the auto site I frequent, are both second to none. Real folks here from what I've seen so far.
@ Archie,, Thank you Sir!
Wow ... sounds to me kinda like the two extremes that holds you together.  You're also very welcome, sir ... just wait till the whole welcoming party wakes up. |
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nok
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2012, 10:51:11 PM » |
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Hello andy.
Welcome to the forum from the UK. This is a great community here. You have been lurking for 6 months (as I did,) so just enjoy yourself.
Nok
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"Common sense is the set of prejudices acquired before the age of sixteen."
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2012, 11:05:16 PM » |
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Welcome to PCLOS from an Okie from Muskogee for first 27 years of my life. Been in texas now for 52 years. Retired.
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If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it! If ya cain't fix it, ya gotta stand it. If ya cain't stand it..............Visit the forum and search.
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parnote
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2012, 02:05:34 AM » |
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andy,
Welcome home to PCLinuxOS!
parnote
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« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2012, 03:11:03 AM » |
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andy,
A warm welcome to you, from New Zealand.
You have arrived at the right place.
Jim
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PCLinuxOS 2012.02 KDE (2 desktop computers)
PCLinuxOS 2012.02 KDE, 2012.01 LXDE, 2011.07 XFCE, 2011.08 Open Box all on Asus laptop
Windows free since 2005
Our house has windows: our computers have no Windoze!
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tschommer
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« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2012, 06:19:53 AM » |
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Big welcome from Germany, andy!
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2012, 08:40:44 AM » |
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Hi and Welcome andy from another Andy, from Germany. Have fun in the forum and don't miss an issue of the best distro mag: www.pclosmag.com |
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All that is is good. PCLinuxOS is.
Thinkpad X61 Tablet, Core2Duo 1.66 MHz, 4 GB Ram, Intel onboard Graphics, 160 GB HDD; Thinkpad R61i, Core2Duo 1.66 MHz, 2 GB Ram, Intel onboard graphics, 120 GB HDD
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2012, 11:07:33 AM » |
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Have a nice time using your PCLinuxOS! and welcome to the forum Greetings from Belgium |
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2012, 11:11:06 AM » |
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Welcome aboard Andy! Fáilte from Ireland. |
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MLUs rule the roost!
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