== John Ford ===About Me==I am a student in Seneca's BSD program. I have been using open technology for a very long time. I started using computers back when a 386 with 1mb of ram was considered to be good. My introduction to open technologies occurred when I was at a book store with my mother. I found a box for Red Hat Linux 5.2. I found it really interesting, especially since I had just been given an old 486 to play around with. I read the accompanying book and got my system up and running. It ran FVWM and had a beta for GNOME that I never ended up trying. I stayed with Red Hat for a few versions until version 9 when they changed from having one product to having a Fedora project and Red Hat Enterprise product. I tried and disliked Fedora Core 1 and moved on to Mandrake. I played around with Mandrake for their 9 releases and moved on to SuSE 9.1. I liked SuSE at the time, but it was a hassle to use sometimes. I heard about Ubuntu Linux on some forums, and after hearing good things about their 4.10 release, I installed 5.04 when it came out. I felt like I had finally found a distribution I could stick with. I stayed with Ubuntu but increasingly became dissatisfied with their general direction. They focused only on the here and now, they didn't seem to worry about the future and they didn't seem to care strongly about being Free and Open Source. I decided that I would try Fedora once more when I found out that my new sound card was not supported in the ancient alsa drivers included in 8.04. I downloaded Fedora 8 and installed it, noticing that my sound worked out of the box! After a while I began to really like Fedora and realised that it had changed significantly from when I last used it.
====Who I Am====I am Fedora had adopted a second year BSD Studentmore community based development approach and has benefited tremendously from it. I have been a long time computer junkie, but my programming fascination is pretty recent. My first dabble with Linux was in 1999 using Red Hate Linux 5.2 on a 486decided to switch to Fedora once I began to understand the reasons they do things they way that they do. I have also done a lot Virtual Machine installations of building of computersmany Linux distributions, which but I taught myselfonly seriously use Fedora.
====What I Am==Equipment==BiologicallyDesktop:*Scientific classificationAsus P6T with Intel X58 and ICH10R** Domain: Eukaryota** Kingdom: AnimaliaIntel Core i7 920 (2.66GHz)** Phylum: Chordata6GB DDR3 Ram** Class: Mammalia** Order: Primates** Family: Hominidae** Genus: Homo** Species: H2. sapiens75TB Storage** Subspecies: H. s. sapiensVista x64 + Fedora 10
TechnologicallyNew Laptop:*Desktop** AMD Opteron 165** Asus A8N32SLI** ATI X1800XT** OCZ 2GB** Creative X-Fi Platnium** Dell 20.Late 2008 Macbook (5, 1" LCD)** Other fun stuff** 840gb of full hard drives :rolleyes:*Server** Pentium 4 Core 2 Duo 2.6C4GHz** Asus P4P800SE2GB DDR3 Ram** GeForce 5200FX250GB Storage + 250GB Time Machine** 1GB Generic DDR*Sound**Sony THX/DTS Amp**Yorkville studio monitors**Sony Powered Sub**5.1Mac OS X Leopard + Windows XP (Bootcamp) + Fedora 10 (VMWare Fusion)
Ps, People who have large user pages must be cool, right?Old Laptop:*HP DV2727CA 14.1" Screen*Intel GM965/X3100*Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz*3GB Ram*320GB Storage*Windows XP
==Assignments==Where I Am====I live in Toronto, the west end. I have a 2.5h trip each way. GRR! ====When I Am====Well, that doesnt make sense, but I was born December 2, 1986. ====Why I Am====Why am I not? ====How I Am====Good right now, but that may change ==My Projects=====Code Indexer===I am working on a implementing a replacement code indexer for Mozilla right now.[[Code Indexer]] ==My Firefox ======Settings====browser.tabs.autoHide false <br />browser.tabs.closeButtons 0 <br />====Addons====Since i *hate* parts of the new FF theme (2.0 Beta2 was much nicer) I am using GrayModern <br />I use:* IETab - Use IE to render some pages* FasterFox - Speed up Firefox, you need to hack it for 2.0 compatibility* UnPlug - Get embedded media off the web, better than VideoDownloader* FEBE - Save your settings, rebuild your themes into Jars and your extensions to XPI's for backup* infoRSS - Neat RSS Reader thing* PDF Downloader - Intercept PDF's* NoScript - Whitelist JavaScript sources* AdBlock Pro - No more ads, i use the EasyNet subscription* ErrorZilla - special error pages, really useful* Web Developer - Useful for the people in the name [httpUser:John64//kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries Neat about:config referenceFSOSS_Paper]]
