[SGVLUG] Intro

[Miguel Hernandez]

It was nice meeting you the other night, Eric. I know the first thing I
google'd when I got home that night was EC2 & S3 as you piqued my curiosity.
I'm new as well, but AWS seems like something that a lot of folks might be
interested to learn more about.

As far as distros go, I use different ones for different things:
Slackware 11 as I try to force myself to re-learn some things I forgot.
Ubuntu 7.04 LiveCD (& derivatives) to "spread the word" to my friends as I'm
trying to get them to "make the move."
Knoppix 5.1.1 in case a friend has a dead hard drive they'd like to retrieve
data from.
Dyne:Bolic & Musix to sate my music production hobby (still using Windows
apps mostly, but Linux is progressing in this field imho).

On 10/12/07, Steve Morin <steve.morin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey if you wanted to give a talk about amazon web services I think that
> would be pretty cool.
> Steve
>
> On 10/12/07, Eric Hammond < ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
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> > Thought I'd introduce myself since last night was my first time at
> > SGVLUG, though I've been in the area and using Linux for a long time.
> > My name is Eric Hammond.  I currently live in Arcadia and work in Santa
> > Monica a few days a week.
> >
> > I've been programming since 1980, using Unix/Linux and the Internet
> > since 1985, the web since 1993, and have been building technology for
> > web startups in Los Angeles since 1996.
> >
> > Startup companies have included: Citysearch.com, Stamps.com, Rent.com,
> > ThisNext.com, and CampusExplorer.com with occasional consulting for
> > friends at other startups.
> >
> > I also run notlong.com which is one of the more popular URL shorteners
> > (though nobody compares to tinyurl in raw traffic).
> >
> > My current learning interest is Amazon EC2 and I've built an Ubuntu AMI
> > if folks are interested in trying it out.
> >
> > I'm not much of a formal speaker, but I would be willing to chat about
> > some of my projects or experiences if there are shorter time slots
> > available than 2 hours.
> >
> > Not to start a religious war, but what Linux flavors are folks using
> > these days?  I went from Slackware? to RedHat to Fedora and switched to
> > Ubuntu in 2005 and am absolutely loving it for both desktop and servers.
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Eric Hammond
> > ehammond at thinksome.com
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