User:Ixo

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Born Nov 26 2007
(C2/MP) Build 650 (rev latest)
See Uruguay

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Top wiki pages

Weekly zine, OLPC:Wiki News, OLPC:News, Hardware Specs, Keyboard shortcuts,

Top Volunteer pages

Curators_and_coordinators, OLPC_volunteers_portal, Support_meetings,

Wiki Projects

Glossary, Site map, Content stamping, OLPC:Wiki News , Sugar_Control_Panel --- Wiki Page Restructuring Common Room, Wiki cleanup

Top offsite

XO Map , Roadmap, OSUOSL.org, Stumbleupon, Nepal, Learning Org

My notes

XO laptop, TODO, User:IainD/Triage, scripts, Presentation, or using rsync for backup. Builds, 7,

Other
  • Some wiki Templates I've added: {{:RightTOC}}
  • G1G1: Seeding Mongolia (10K), Haiti (1K), Rwanda (1K), Ethiopia (1K), Cambodia (1K), and Afghanistan (1K).

My Background

(Picture from Second Life)
(Picture from Lego World)
(Picture taken on XO)
(Picture Real-Life)
(Real-Life #2)

Summary Details

  • Name: Iain D
  • Location: Bellingham, WA, USA
    • (Pacific Northwest: between Vancouver, BC, Canada and Seattle, Washington State)
  • Proud owner of a Nov 12th, G1G1 OLPC - XO-1 Laptop (MP) - arrived Dec 20th 2007.
    • (also purchased another one for local relative, 2 laptops were dontated via G1G1 program)

Experience

  • IT Manager and Consultant: 20+ years
  • Server/Services Management: 15+ years
  • Volunteer with local non-profits organizations: 10+ years.
  • Web 2.0 / Website development: 8+ years
  • Wiki management / user: 7+ years
  • Linux 'sysAdmin'/User experience: Debian, RedHat, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, OpenSuSE

Equipment working, available for testing

  • i386/i586: PI 166, PII 400, PIII 800/1G, P4 1.8/2.4/2.6
  • Mac Plus, iMac 350/500

Odd factoid

  • Has Museum of Technology: 3 rooms filled with historical and unique technology.
    • Examples: IBM PC (286/386), Tandy 1000, Apple IIe/MacPlus/MacSE/MacIIcs/IIe,
    • Commodore C64/Amiga/Pet, Atari 2600/7800, iPortal, Vectrex, etc .

Further details

Offsite linkages


XO Sightings

By iainD, Jan 21-27th, 2008. Costa Rica travels.

By Iain, Jan 21, 2008 By Iain, Jan 22, 2008 By Iain, Jan 25, 2008

Descriptions:

  • Arenal Volcano, from Arenal Hotel, Costa-Rica
  • Lake Arenal (with windmills on montain edge), Costa-Rica
  • Monteverde, Costa-Rica (contential divide, 1,500 m altitude) 40 mph winds


Approach

Very open minded, and always interested in hearing ideas or feedback. Please leave a message on my talk page or just start up a conversation.

Preferred sharing license:

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