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At the moment I work as a Senior Solutions Engineer (really a software developer) for Citi (previously Egg).

In my free time I'm working on the Eager Queue Protocol. This is a protocol I hope to use with scheduling and resource allocation in the GNU Hurd. I started writing OpenEd - Computing: Theory and Practice in Context on Novell's Developer Network in December 2005. I decided to start moving this work and get more involved with free software since Novell teamed up with Microsoft. This is when I created the sourceforge project and later moved onto launchpad.

ubuntu deployments

I've decided to keep a note of how well deployments went to family and friends.

Compaq Evo 1015v. My wife uses a compaq laptop and I tried installing 7.04 on this. There were problems with this installation so I tried 6.06. This worked but there were some problems with the graphics. Buttons appeared with vertical lines. I have been told that this has been fixed in 6.10. I've yet to try this. I plan to try installing 7.04 again but may wait until 7.10.

The more problematic issues were to do with rendering in Firefox. One was printing web pages. Some web pages would only print one page. I checked for similar problems on Firefox's buzilla and the problem seems to be due to bugs in IE that mean poor html and css print formatting is rendered in IE when it shouldn't be.

Hotmail (dare I say it) is a problem. It now has a classic and full version. The full version only seems to work on Windows OS's.

My wife bought a Nokia N6300 which came with a CD containing documentation and a flash (swf) presentation. This would not work on ubuntu.

Firefox 2.0 is needed for some websites (TalkTalk). It was difficult installing this on 6.06. I ended up installing Swiftweasel.

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ubuntu installation: Julie Cozens (my wife)

Installed unbuntu 6.06 on Julie's compaq evo n1015v. I tried installing 7.04 but had problems. There are some problems with the graphics, vertical lines on some buttons. I've been told these are fixed in 6.10.

The main problems we've had are websites and hotmail that don't work in firefox. TravelSupermarket is one and some emails in hotmail from bmi baby will only print the first page. I've reported the problems with travelsupermarket to the firefox team.

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Sep 2006 Added to monodoc documentation.

2006 Main instigator in getting subversion as the developers' version control system at egg.com. This replaced Visual SourceSafe and was up against Team Foundation Server.

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