User:Rick DeNatale

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About me

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[edit] Background

I'm a retired IBMer with 30+ years of experience in various aspects of computers and IT. My main activies in IBM were with software development tools and languages, particularly in Object Oriented technologies.

[edit] Linux Experience

I guess I would characterize myself as a Linux adolescent, i.e. I know enough to get me into trouble. My Linux experience has been gained through playing with personal systems and becoming the household IT staff. I started out with Redhat 9, and am now happily running both a laptop and a workstation/server machine on Ubuntu (Hoary at the moment).

While not wrestling with various applications and learning the differences between Redhat and Debian based distros, I try to keep my $wife's Windows XP Home machine acting as responsible citizen on our home lan.

[edit] MediaWiki Experience

I've been a wiki participant on and off since the very beginnings of the wiki movement. In my prior life, one of my colleagues and friends was Ward Cunningham who invented the name wiki for his collaborative web site at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki which is considered the very first wiki web site.

Since December of 2004 I've been running a public facing mediawiki server dedicated to Project Mercury. It can be found at http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/wiki/

As such I've learned quite a bit about how mediawiki works and how to tame it.

[edit] Learning VI

After all the talk on the Trilug mailing list and here, I decided to make the effort to learn the VI editor. I'm documenting what I've learned here. Rick D learns VI

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