64 Bit Jungle

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I live in the Jungle, in Northern Thailand, near the Burmese Border. I’m married to an amazing girl, from the equally amazing Lisu Hill Tribe, and spend my time between our home, and her village in the remote mountains. The Lisu are a tribe who originated in Tibet, and over the course of a couple of centuries walked to North Thailand (they also settled in Southern China, and Burma along the way).

Up here in the jungle covered mountains of North Thailand, I can pursue all of my interests, and even fuse some of them! I’m currently trying to scrape together a living for my family by freelance programming, through my web development company Blue Lotus Design, and in my free time study my Wife’s tribe and their customs (since they have no written language, I really want to document as much about them as possible - unfortunately, times are changing, and I fear much of their culture may be lost and forgotten with the new generation of TV and Levi Jeans).

I’m a computer programmer, with an extensive background in Data Warehousing and Multidimensional Analysis, and web/application development. I’ve been interested in computers, and Anthropology for as long as I can remember, and wrote my first computer program when I was 7, on a Sinclair ZX81 (admittedly copied from a computer magazine, but hey, I was 7 years old!).

I first started using Linux in the mid 90s, having been introduced to UNIX at university, and wanting a *NIX platform to use at home and practice with. A University friend passed on a Red Hat installation CD (Thanks Fronbow!), which I installed on my 486 DX2 66, and I instantly loved the OS. Although I’ve used a mixture of M$ Windozzze and Linux over the years (mainly the former, due to Work etc.), I’ve been an ardent fan of Linux ever since that day. I’ve also been through quite a few distros - Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, and have finally settled with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is seen by some elitists as a “Noobie” Linux - so what? It works, it’s easy to use, and it’s fantastic that there is finally a distro that non-geeks can use! Personally, I just don’t have the ego to care, and while I can quite happily sit and play with CLI to configure my system, sometimes, I just don’t want to.

64 Bit Jungle came about during a period of Meditation - my mind just wouldn’t let it go, so I bought the domain and set up this blog. I don’t know where it’ll go - I guess it’ll just evolve into something… At the moment, I envisage an information repository for my computer setup (Ubuntu Linux 64 bit, on an Acer Aspire 5052 laptop) - i.e. any problems I resolve (although obviously many solutions won’t be restricted to the Ubuntu distro), I’ll post so that others can see the solution if they need it, possibly some snippets of information about the Lisu as I learn more about their fascinating culture, and some kind of rant outlet and diary of my 64 bit life in the jungle!

A final note:

Despite the adverts on this site, it is not sole my intention to make money form this blog - in fact, I’ll be very surprised if I make a single penny from the ads. My intention is to offer honest advice, and opinions on Ubuntu, and specific advice on setting up and configuring Ubuntu 64 Bit on an AMD based Acer Aspire Notebook, interjected with brief insights, rants, and observations about my life, and the fascinating things that happen around me every day. I don’t really care about high traffic to my blog - what I do care about, however, is my content being useful to somebody.

I want to write quality articles, with in-depth useful information. I don’t want to write so-called “filler artcles” - one or two sentence pointless posts - each day I have nothing substantial to write about, telling you how many times I farted yesterday. Although I might have a short rant every now and then…

If one person visits my blog, and finds information that helped them set up their system successfully, then my blog has served its purpose.

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