Welcome to My Blog
Welcome to WordPress.
I hope to be true to this blog. It’s my first attempt at setting a personal / technical blog site. My hobby is exploring Linux. I’ll admit, I’m a geek. I’ve been toying around with Linux for several years now. I started out with Redhat 8 if I remember correctly, migrated to Redhat 9. I then migrated naturally to Fedora.
I then briefly tried out Debian, Kubuntu and Mepis. They all had there strong points, but what I was looking for was a very stable enterprise type OS, and with that in mind, I settled with CENTOS.
The first thing I did back in the time of Redhat (8 or 9) don’t quite remember, was the setting up and configuration of samba 2. That was my first real foray into Linux. That was quite an experience. I don’t know how long it took me to get it up and running, but it took a while
Then Samba 3 came out, and again it took quite some tinkering to get Samba to work as a Domain, but I got it work. Meanwhile I was setting up Apache, which in contrast was easier. I set up Postfix (email server) and squirrelmail. I have Gallery and Wordpress now running on my server.
I want to get into php programming. I was a programmer between 1990 and 1999. I programmed Vax Basic for those 10 years. I enjoyed it alot. Recently I began Visual C# programming for the school board I work for. That has been quite a learning curve. I have no training in C# or Windows programming. I have a basic understanding of OO programming, aquired from a couple of courses I took years ago.
As I said before, I now want to jump in feet first into php programming. I don’t have as much free time as I wish, and some of that time I like to use for vegging out, just unwinding.
I’m going to try to maintain this blog as my technical diary. I’ll be learning blog posting, php. I’ll be posting my Samba setup. At this I’m just using it as a file server. When I decide to set it up, I’ll be posting the details.