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.
<br><br>As far as distros go, I use different ones for different things:<br>Slackware 11 as I try to force myself to re-learn some things I forgot.<br>Ubuntu 7.04 LiveCD (& derivatives) to "spread the word" to my friends as I'm trying to get them to "make the move."
<br>Knoppix 5.1.1 in case a friend has a dead hard drive they'd like to retrieve data from.<br>Dyne:Bolic & Musix to sate my music production hobby (still using Windows apps mostly, but Linux is progressing in this field imho).
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Morin</b> <<a href="mailto:steve.morin@gmail.com">steve.morin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey if you wanted to give a talk about amazon web services I think that would be pretty cool.<br><span class="sg">Steve</span><div><span class="e" id="q_11597409842ba9b8_2"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Eric Hammond</b> <<a href="mailto:ehammond@thinksome.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<br><br><br>Thought I'd introduce myself since last night was my first time at<br>SGVLUG, though I've been in the area and using Linux for a long time.<br>My name is Eric Hammond. I currently live in Arcadia and work in Santa
<br>Monica a few days a week.<br><br>I've been programming since 1980, using Unix/Linux and the Internet<br>since 1985, the web since 1993, and have been building technology for<br>web startups in Los Angeles since 1996.
<br><br>Startup companies have included: <a href="http://Citysearch.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Citysearch.com</a>, <a href="http://Stamps.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Stamps.com</a>, <a href="http://Rent.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Rent.com</a>,<br>ThisNext.com, and CampusExplorer.com with occasional consulting for
<br>friends at other startups.<br><br>I also run <a href="http://notlong.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">notlong.com</a> which is one of the more popular URL shorteners<br>(though nobody compares to tinyurl in raw traffic).
<br><br>My current learning interest is Amazon EC2 and I've built an Ubuntu AMI
<br>if folks are interested in trying it out.<br><br>I'm not much of a formal speaker, but I would be willing to chat about<br>some of my projects or experiences if there are shorter time slots<br>available than 2 hours.
<br><br>Not to start a religious war, but what Linux flavors are folks using<br>these days? I went from Slackware? to RedHat to Fedora and switched to<br>Ubuntu in 2005 and am absolutely loving it for both desktop and servers.
<br><br>- --<br>Eric Hammond<br><a href="mailto:ehammond@thinksome.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ehammond@thinksome.com</a><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG
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