Introduce yourself.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:33 am

opened for easy linking. Existing users can introduce themselves, too. I think people like dkeg, wux, ivanov, rhosey, vic, gekko, pidsley, bacon, bones, DebianJoe, etc etc have never even introduced themselves. Fuck us. ;)

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:38 am

I thought I did! I got the BBQ wiki covering me, though.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:25 pm

Hi I'm Wux - I sysadmin - work on helldesk. Probably won't answer your support questions, apart from in jest.

PS: I don't have a wiki post. :(

Unread post by **vic** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 12:52 pm

Hi people, my name is vic, and I am a barbaquer. Technically I am in the "there is always room for improvment" place when it comes to computers but think it is very fun. Generally I am quite friendly if a bit shy and lack social skills. Sounds familiar? But who cares, the link provided is to my very first post here. Just in case. :)

http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:03 pm

Wiki!

other than that, fuck it. look my profile up on OkCupid if you want to know me better :D

Unread post by **dkeg** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:46 pm

Hi, I am dkeg, I am a human mullet.

Hanging at the BBQ is my hobbey and where my friends are. I spend my time configuring my set up so it looks good. Good colors and consistency. I spend the last years perfecting and automating this process. In 2015 I completed the journey, and now I am left with nothing else to do. I can also help you to trim up that pstree like a bonzai, and can tell you how to remove logsave.

I lurk and sometimes post on /r/uniporn or /r/unixart. The only other forum I'm on is nixers, but I rarely post there. I hang out on our IRC channel mainly on the weekends, to shoot the shit with other bbq'rs or help out those with questions.

I do run BBQ spins, right now on Victory. My current setup is wmutils only, without a wm, raild for my colors. I have an ACER Aspire TimelineX and a Thinkpad X201. I mainly use the ACER. I completed one RYO project - Gruffalo, which was built around Monsterwm.

In RL I'm a BA/PM in IT. I have a lot of kids, a lot of dogs, and a couple cats. I used to skateboard, then mountainbike, both competitively.

FWIW, most of our intro posts were on the other forum.

Unread post by **GekkoP** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:12 pm

Ok, I'll do it as well because I love you all.

I'm GekkoP, from Vicenza (Italy). Emacs devotee for 2 years and Linux lover since the first time I installed Slackware at the end of the 90s. Long ago I was an ugly Java developer, now I play with Lisp dialects and LaTeX as I bloat up my Emacs setup day after day. I gained enough confidence to do a bunch of talks about Linux and Emacs, but since all of them failed horribly I gave up and decided that silence is golden.

I distro-hopped quite a bit before landing here at the grill and learning how the real dudes do it. If I know anything about CLI, it's all because of the BBQ.

I have my own language school, founded back in 2013 with my wife. She is actually in charge, I just set up the classrooms with Linux and flirt with nice teachers and students in the vain attempt to be a good receptionist.

I've been a film and music lover since I was born. Jazz and Exotica are my main sounds but I listen to every good record I can put my ears on. Same goes with films, as you can easily tell by my viewings. In the past I used to write about music and cinema for various Italian websites.

Since 2014 I am in charge of Festival Alto Vicentino, hopelessly trying to bring good short and feature films right in the town where I now live in.

A little dog completes this lovely picture.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 2:20 pm

^^ That's right, actually 'the other forum' was #!

So, I'm the baconator, born 75, working in the music industry, and still living in the 80s, computerwise :D I love fixed width, plain text, old school terminal applications, whiptails and dialogs.
I am not married to any Linux distro, as long as there is links and mpg123 installed. Those days I started with SuSE, switched to Red Hat, later sidux. I wrote documentation for Ubuntu and sent in translations (de_DE, hu_HU) for several distros, like Ubuntu and AntiX.
I am a tobacco addict, love coffee and tea, and I eat at least one potato a day. I like giving more than taking - voluntary social work, and to some extent I regard our grill as a social platform for volunteers, too. I have a bunch of low-resource laptops with different Linux flavors, but most of the time I use a BBQ spin, at home with spectrwm, at work with tmux and emacs in tty. Oh and I love football (soccer, that is) and I am passionately walking stairs whenever possible. Been living in the PRC since 2006.

That should be enough ;)

Unread post by **dkeg** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:20 pm

We love potatoes here in the dkeg household too. A staple for Colin. And the stairs-me too!

Oh, and not cb, the othe forum, when we had two running concurrently

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 7:54 pm

I am ivanovnegro. I live in Germany, in Bavaria to be more precise. The land of beer, sausages and meat. Though I am not German. I originate from a country that no longer exists from a very mountainous region. But everybody here thinks I am Spanish and sometimes some other Southern European country. I am like a chameleon and maybe I worked for some secret service because my Deutsch is perfect too.

Yes, I am travelling a lot through Europe and never live in one place for longer than three years, OK, sometimes more.
I love, lived and fuck with Spain and will move back there one day, probably the reason why I speak Spanish like a native from Valencia.

Here at the grill I try to warn users about sid breakages and put them into grill form if they do not listen to advise given from the high court of grillers.

I am a total music addict, that is why you will see sometimes screenshots with never heard artists in my mpd ncmpcpp config. We have already Gekko covering all the movies but I also love them and I am a serious junkie.

In real life I am a researcher in geography and a project manager in the development aid field.

Unread post by **elixir** » Mon Feb 29, 2016 9:41 am

Good thread. It is great to know more about all of you. I did introduce myself 2 years ago but it was never proper.

My name is Zac, but I go by the alias elixir. I currently live in the USA in Arizona. I am a 21 year old college student who is happily married to a wonderful, loving wife. I spend most of my time trying to expand my knowledge with anything and everything (most of the time computers) when I should be doing my homework.

My mission of coming here was to be able to use my entire system from a TTY. I have accomplished this goal, but still use some nice, bloated applications such as iceweasel and libreoffice.

Other than computers, I enjoy reading, learning, and family. I also love to talk to people. There are so many great people in the world who have valuable lessons to teach. I wish to someday impact the people around me in a positive way.

If any of you ever want to talk about life, love, computers, anything, I am always someone who will listen. :)

Unread post by **archvortex** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 6:12 am

I have an introduction thread and welcome back thread already but I'll put a blurb here. I'm Stan and I'm originally from Vancouver, Canada. Besides Canada, I've lived or worked in Barbados, Los Angeles (USC on a football scholarship), London, Yokohama, Seoul, French Polynesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau, and Indonesia. I've played rugby internationally for my country of birth and helped start the rugby program in Macau. I used to do powerlifting and highland games back when I was in my 20's and early 30's. I have an M.Ed and an M.Th and am supposed to be retired ( former director of an English school in Jakarta) due to health reasons and a motorcycle crash due to stupid drivers. I've probably forgotten more than I can remember about Linux due to the crash but am here at the Grill because of this Forum and the Grill team and users. No better place to learn and share about everything.

Unread post by **aaah** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:27 am

Not one for introducing myself normally but I see that it's expected here.
Just an old fart who was less than impressed with windows and decided on a whim to give linux a weeks trial abt 2 years ago. I have never used windows since! at least not on my machine. I do help a friend who is even more ancient than me with his windows issues.
I only have an old laptop, single core celron with 1.5gb ram but it's plenty powerful enough for linux :) I have been trying to move away from bloated apps with some success. Mutt is great from email and cmus for music but I am stuck on Chromium as the smaller browsers seem either unstable or don't have a form filler and I am not good at remembering loads of passwords without lastpass!
Apart from computers I like nature and photography, boy this is so fucking boring! that's it, anything else ask!

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 11:56 am

^ welcome
You will find a warm welcome here if you can read the odd man page and ask sensible questions :)
we have a photography section, if you feel like posting some work.
Don't think we have a nature thread as such.

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:16 pm

welcome aaah :)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:19 pm

Welcome to the grill, keep it nice and smooth ;)

Unread post by **vic** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:45 pm

Yez, aaah cheerz!

Unread post by **pidsley** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:23 pm

Welcome to the grill, aaah. We like old machines (and old farts) here.

Unread post by **pidsley** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 4:32 pm

My intro: I am pidsley. My main interest right now is building minimal systems; mostly to show how simple Linux can be, and to show that all distros are basically the same underneath minor differences like init systems and configuration, that any distro can be unbloated, and that distro wars are stupid.

I have tried just about every distro I could find, and just about every window manager out there, so I know a little bit about everything, and a lot about nothing. I collect and use older machines, and I have several test machines with several distros running. I write bash scripts to do things I want done, and I am happy to share them, but I don't care if they don't cover your obscure edge case or how you would "improve" them. It is easy to be a critic; write your own scripts and share those instead.

I learn a lot by answering questions, so if you ask an intelligent question I will try to help, especially if it means I need to install something I have not tried before and learn something in the process. On the other hand, if you are a whiny asshat, I will ignore you or tell you to STFU and GTFO.

I believe in the BBQ philosophy, especially "give obscure shit a chance" "try the untried" and "stop whining."

Unread post by **franksinistra** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 5:02 pm

^ with a humble intro like that and still someone dare to call him 'childish dick' .... Unthinkable

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