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| I learned to read when I was 6 when I typed BASIC programs from magazines onto a ZX-Spectrum. When I was 12 I started doing all kinds of freelance work fixing people's computers. By the time I was in high school I mostly did graphical design and created websites for companies, I also wrote small programs here and there. After I finished school I decided to get a steady job and worked in a computer shop for a while. All I did all day was removing virusses and it was frustrating and I missed my glamerous freelance lifestyle I had before. I quit and started working on getting Linux into school. I then joined The Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organisation that specialised on Open Source Software and Education. I worked there for nearly 3 years until I was called by the rat race and excitement of the commercial world. I joined Impi Linux, a small startup targeting business and government. After working there for a year it was acquired by a larger company that I didn't enjoy working for. In November 2008 I founded Zanix Software Systems, where I currently work. It's a small and steady growing company and I get to choose what I work on again. Life is good again. | I learned to read when I was 6 when I typed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC|BASIC]] programs from magazines onto a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum|ZX-Spectrum]]. When I was 12 I started doing all kinds of freelance work fixing people's computers. By the time I was in high school I mostly did graphical design and created websites for companies, I also wrote small programs here and there. After I finished school I decided to get a steady job and worked in a computer shop for a while. All I did all day was removing viruses and it was frustrating and I missed my "glamorous" freelance lifestyle I had before. I quit and started working on getting Linux into schools. I then joined [[http://shuttleworthfoundation.org The Shuttleworth Foundation]], a non-profit organisation that at the time, specialised on Open Source Software and Education as the Open Source Technical Co-ordinator. I worked there for nearly 3 years until I was called by the rat race and excitement of the commercial world. I joined Impi Linux, a small startup targeting business and government. After working there for a year it was acquired by a larger company that I didn't enjoy working for. In November 2008 I founded [[http://zanix.co.za Zanix Software Systems]], where I currently work. It's a small and steady growing company and I get to choose what I work on again. Life is good. |
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| There was a stage where I listened to the song "H! VLTG3" on the Linkin Park Reanimation album over and over again. It kind of resonated with me. My father walked into my room and said "You're starting to look like a high voltage". That was right at the moment where I was busy deciding on a username for my ISP, so it became highvoltage and since then has stuck for pretty much everything. I consider it to be my name as much as any other name I have, and I also react to it if you call me by it. | There was a stage where I listened to the song "H! VLTG3" on the Linkin Park Reanimation album over and over again. It kind of resonated with me. My father walked into my room and said "You're starting to look like a high voltage". That was right at the moment where I was busy deciding on a username for my ISP, so it became highvoltage for pretty much everything. I tried changing it to "jcc" once but people were surprisingly resistant to it, so highvoltage stuck and it's now just as much as name as any other that I have. |
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Welcome to Jonathan's homepage in Ubuntuland!
What am I interested in at the moment?
LTSP Cluster Packaging
Edubuntu 9.10 Advocacy/Marketing
Edubuntu Council member working on getting Edubuntu back in shape
Ubuntu in NGO's
Ubuntu-ZA
- Co-leader of the Ubuntu-ZA loco team
Maintaining Ubuntu-ZA website/wiki and planet
Package work in Ubuntu
- ltsp-cluster-accountmanager: Packaged for karmic
ltsp-cluster-lbagent: Packaged for karmic
ltsp-cluster-lbserver: Packaged for karmic
ltsp-cluster-nxloadbalancer: Packaged for karmic
ltsp-cluster-control: Packaged for karmic
ltsp-cluster-pxeconfig: Packaged for karmic
libgnome: Wrote man page for gnome-open
See also: Related Software in Launchpad
Past stuff
- I created and used to maintain the first versions of the Edubuntu and Xubuntu websites.
Fridge stories: 2006-03-21 - Cake War
2008-11-11 - Ubuntu Tatoo
2008-11-24 - New and Growing LoCos
More about me (all the gory details)
My Computing History / Career
I learned to read when I was 6 when I typed BASIC programs from magazines onto a ZX-Spectrum. When I was 12 I started doing all kinds of freelance work fixing people's computers. By the time I was in high school I mostly did graphical design and created websites for companies, I also wrote small programs here and there. After I finished school I decided to get a steady job and worked in a computer shop for a while. All I did all day was removing viruses and it was frustrating and I missed my "glamorous" freelance lifestyle I had before. I quit and started working on getting Linux into schools. I then joined http://shuttleworthfoundation.org The Shuttleworth Foundation, a non-profit organisation that at the time, specialised on Open Source Software and Education as the Open Source Technical Co-ordinator. I worked there for nearly 3 years until I was called by the rat race and excitement of the commercial world. I joined Impi Linux, a small startup targeting business and government. After working there for a year it was acquired by a larger company that I didn't enjoy working for. In November 2008 I founded http://zanix.co.za Zanix Software Systems, where I currently work. It's a small and steady growing company and I get to choose what I work on again. Life is good.
Where does "highvoltage" come from?
There was a stage where I listened to the song "H! VLTG3" on the Linkin Park Reanimation album over and over again. It kind of resonated with me. My father walked into my room and said "You're starting to look like a high voltage". That was right at the moment where I was busy deciding on a username for my ISP, so it became highvoltage for pretty much everything. I tried changing it to "jcc" once but people were surprisingly resistant to it, so highvoltage stuck and it's now just as much as name as any other that I have.
Stuff I like
- Ubuntu
Debian
LTSP
Ice Cream
Xfce
Stuff I don't like
- RPM
Johannesburg
Grapefruit!
TODO on this page:
- Screenshots
- Add Goals within Ubuntu
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