[Geek/Blog] Humanity to others
Oct. 20th, 2004 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenWhat links Africa and the Isle of Man?
Well, Mark Shuttleworth, the first African in space, a multimillionaire due to selling his startup Thawte to Veritas. He spend some of the money on a trip up to orbit and a bit more setting up Canonical at 1 Circular Road, Douglas, Isle of Man.
And me.
Because 1 Circular Road is very close indeed to the Allen Bank, Circular Road, location of my first ever job, at CSL Delta.
I am not African - but I spent much of my childhood there.
Odd things, coincidences. [Link gacked from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ukskeptic.]
Canonical make Ubuntu Linux, a streamlined user-friendly Debian-based desktop Linux. And it's free. As in beer.
Been catching up on LJ a little on the pretence of playing around with Ubuntu a bit. So far, I'm impressed. It's clean, elegant, fast and works extremely well. I had to copy my X config over from my (dead) SuSE installation, as Debian's X config failed to handle my 2-screen Xinerama setup, but then, most distros do. Only SuSE and Xandros have coped. Looks good. Recommended.
Well, Mark Shuttleworth, the first African in space, a multimillionaire due to selling his startup Thawte to Veritas. He spend some of the money on a trip up to orbit and a bit more setting up Canonical at 1 Circular Road, Douglas, Isle of Man.
And me.
Because 1 Circular Road is very close indeed to the Allen Bank, Circular Road, location of my first ever job, at CSL Delta.
I am not African - but I spent much of my childhood there.
Odd things, coincidences. [Link gacked from
ukskeptic.]Canonical make Ubuntu Linux, a streamlined user-friendly Debian-based desktop Linux. And it's free. As in beer.
Been catching up on LJ a little on the pretence of playing around with Ubuntu a bit. So far, I'm impressed. It's clean, elegant, fast and works extremely well. I had to copy my X config over from my (dead) SuSE installation, as Debian's X config failed to handle my 2-screen Xinerama setup, but then, most distros do. Only SuSE and Xandros have coped. Looks good. Recommended.
