| Oliver Leaver-Smith | |
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| [[Image:|thumb|center|Oliver Leaver-Smith]] | |
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| Birthday: | {{{birthday}}} |
| Home: | Sheffield, England, England |
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| FAS-Name: | ols |
| Fedora-Mail: | ols@fedoraproject.org |
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| Private Mail: | ols@fedoraproject.org |
| GPG-Key: | 83D8D2F5C8D16C93 |
| IRC: | muggahtee on Libera.chat in |
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Oliver Leaver-Smith — ols@fedoraproject.org
Network Security, William Hill
Bio
I built my first website at age 12, and have been doing so ever since. I quickly found that I enjoyed writing code by hand rather than using the drag-and-drop tools of the day -- I actually failed a module in Sixth Form because I wrote the code by hand rather than use Dreamweaver's layout tools (the lecturer said the code was "too sparse")
I started my Linux journey age 13 with Red Hat 9. I found a "Teach Yourself Red Hat" book on my dad's shelf and proceeded to tinker and unintentionally destroy his Windows partition. This wasn't all bad, as it meant that I got my own computer. Since then, I have chopped and changed with different distros, but have been a Fedora user since Fedora 14.
My current rig is a ThinkPad x61s and a HP ProLiant MicroServer, both running 24. I have 25 in a VM, but I think the sensible thing to do would be repurpose one of the 100 netbooks I have lying around as a test machine.
| Server | Nick | Frequent channels |
| freenode | muggahtee | #fedora, #fedora-social, #fedora-uk, #centos, #centos-social, #i3 |
| terahertz | oliver-57002 | #ix, #linx, #uknof |
| snoonet | muggahtee | #beer, #britishpolitics, #tea, #uk, #linux, #linuxmasterrace |