[ubuntu-us-mi] Hello World

[Jeff Hanson]

Location:  Usually near Alpena (49707) and occasionally South Lyon (48178)

Good OS:  Mandriva originally - now K/X/Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy, Puppy,
DeLi, IPCop

Bad OS:  Windows 286 - Vista, Server 2003

Early years:  Apple IIe DOS 3.3, IBM PC-DOS 3.3 (PS/2 Model 30)

Systems:  Cyrix  6x86-P166+, ... , AMD Phenom 9550, PowerPC Mac Mini,
TI-99/4A, some other 68K Macs that might work someday.

Profession:  PCB Design, etc.  Too many to list, check my blog profile:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02954133518928245196

Local:  Supporting various local Linux users, mostly friends & family
(with the usual service discount of 100% off)

Community:  Filing rants disguised as bug reports about problems with
hardware that nobody cares about anymore.  Help out n00bs on Wine user
mailing list.

Current activities:  debmirror, LUKS/dm-crypt, LVM, MD-RAID, PXELinux
(network booting), pam_mount

Favorite bugs:
Intel video driver with 855GME chipsets (freezing, video corruption)
Sound (faulty openal configs, low volume with Intel HDA/RealTek audio devices)
Installer support for DM-RAID setups (just needs to be rewritten from scratch)
ACPI (non-working fan on a Panasonic Toughbook CF-51 causing overheating)

Favorite aggravating app:  Wine