LOL. Self taught programmer, and hardware guy. Did 4 months working for Celestica on the Dell Europe laptop repair contract, thats why I know not to mess with rewiring laptop screens without money
I'm a bit of a Nerd/Geek/Slashdotter type. Like to dabble.
Knew about the hardware stuff before the webstuff, bacause I bought a mailorder PC, with less than reliable stuff in 95/6 (then learn't to fix it), and then discovered the internet while a mature student at uni, got some webspace when I signed up with Compuserve, looked at their homepage builder, and thought, I can do better than that, and learn't HTML.
When I graduated in English lit, I went to work for Oyster Systems back in 97 as a production assistant/HTML grunt, when anyone with some HTML, and ability to bluff could get into internet jobs. Never really got my head round Javascript, but since then, I've picked up enough PHP, VBScript/ASP, photoshop and Flash to be enough of an all round developer, who could edit and work on what the hardcore proggies and designers kicked out. getting bored with it now though.
I'm not creative enough to make it as a designer, or logical enough to make it as a real hardcore programmer (just a very messy average simple coder), so I'm pretty much stuck setting up and creating CD/online based signups for 0845 Virtual ISPs.
Would love to jack it all in, and have enough money to invest in building real incar PC's full time. I've got some ideas that could make a wonderful system.
Armin's VGA motorised screen is one of the key elements, as are the din sized casetronics Epia Barebones machines, and the Opus PSUs. Would love for someone to build a CarOS linux build similar to that for the Zaurus, maybe using QT as a dedicated window manager, instead of standard X, with support for the touchscreen out of the box, booting straight from CF on a readonly partition, to a config screen on first boot, where you would choose your hdd's for MP3/Ogg and Movies, and your removable drive (DVD/CD) (on a normal setup defaults could be used, but others like wireless mounted drives for fie copying could be added), then after that automount local filesystems at boot. Use ReiserFS 3 for quicker booting of the writeable partitions and file checks incase of bad restarts. just wish I was more of a real coder, or knew of a decent linux real time route planning and mapping software other than GPS drive, which misses some important features.
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