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Thank you for visiting my site. Run your mouse over the links on the left for information about that link. Select that link for more information & links to other spaces. I welcome your objective criticisms. Please do not hesitate in letting me know if a link is broken or you're not understanding the information. These are things I want to fix.

What do I offer?

I'm an IT professional & I will be developing specific video training guides to assist with using OSS programs. These may require more than one program to achieve a goal but it will be approached both visually & textually. I hope to eventually have a weekly update going here but for now it's just what is here.

News & Links

Select this link to find out current news within Open Source Software & specifically Linux & Android (once I get further into Android). There will also be links to on-line videos I've made on using Linux programs & once these are done CDs of complete series of videos.

Site Aims

I want you to become interested in open source, to like what I do, stay a while & perhaps employ me so I aim to make your experience on my site professional, informative, interesting, artistic & easy to navigate.

I'd like to see Australia move towards Open Source & stop the waste of a billion or more dollars that go directly to the USA each year with little reasoning

Open Source

Also referred to as Free Software, Open Source Software (OSS) is software that you as an individual can download & up date to your heart's content. This is the difference between it & Proprietary Software. If it is OSS & you do modify it then you legally must re-release the source to be modified by others. It isn't yours to lock up. That doesn't mean you can't sell your software, just not the source of it.

Online & Free Home & Business Software

Email, Contacts & Calendars

Yahoo or Google are both very good

Word Processing, Spreadsheets

Google/LibreOffice/OpenOffice

Any Search, Web, Graphic Images, Mapping

Google holds this vortex

Graphics Editing

GIMP, Blender (3D), Picasa, Favicon & many online

Other really cool stuff

Clouds also known as Online Databases

DON'T TRUST ANY OF THEM

Linux & OSS updates

Ubuntu 11.04, OpenSuSE 11.4 & Fedora 12 are fairly easy to install & use. Drivers for hardware are usually automatic. Graphics (GIMP), Inkscape, Picasa, Blender (3D), Plotters. Business software by the bundles.

Mobile considerations

Android Versions 2.3 & 3.1 for mobiles & tablets
Hopefully soon, MeeGo as well

Linux

What is Linux?

Linux is an operating system along the lines of Windows or Mac & performs the same functions that Windows or Apple software performs. The functionality may be similar but the way it is done is very different. Linux is just another of those pet projects that has evolved into something grand.

What is so good about Linux?
Massive free, online support, stability, reliability, automatic patching, more regular updating & minimal malware. Linux has evolved from what was purely a text-based multi-user system into an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI), multi-user system. It is kind of like getting the "basic vehicle based on Formula One" operating system with all the diamond-studded bells & whistles available. All these add-ons can be added if & when you want. The GUI for instance can be simple, simply beautiful or amazing.

Who uses Linux?

I do. Most smaller Internet Service Providers (ISPs) around the world use Linux because of the ease of setting it up. Most of the people from poorer countries use Linux. China has its own version & Russians use it extensively to avoid the cost of licensing. Many European Governments are in the process of moving to Linux. Many countries also want to avoid the purported backdoor leaks inbuilt for the NSA, CIA & FBI.

IT Consulting

• I can help you to:
• Assess your business requirements
• Advise you on your hardware & software needs
• Help select hardware & where to buy:
• Computers & brands, either desktops or portables
• Cameras, printers & scanners or MFCs
• Network types - internal & external, wireless & wired
• Operating system & software to keep management costs down, possibly to zero
• Design, develop, setup & maintain your:
• System hardware & network whether hard wired or wireless
• Personal or business website
• Software if something isn't already available

Website Design

Obviously, I build my own website but there are tips for website design as well as sites built

The below sites are within http://anniegiarrusso.com/

Graphics

I've used a number of image editors over many years including Illustrator, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Xara.

This image, made from a photo of Mt Wellington in Tasmania has no lake at all

Software Development

• The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Eclipse is the standard IDE for Java it does come without a real GUI design utility
• Netbeans however, has an extremely good quality WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) designer called Faces
• These days I generally use Eclipse unless I'm building a GUI & then its Netbeans
• Operating Systems
• I'm at home with both Linux & Windows

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Contact Daggerlee

Mobile:

+61(0)438 300 558

Skype:

bradbrooklee
+61 (0)3 9018 6718

Facebook:

Rex Alfred Lee

Email:

alfielee@gmail.com

Address:

Town: Cambridge
State: Tasmania
Postcode: 7170
Country: Australia

About Daggerlee

Degree & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computing Science completed recently
• Registration in General & Psychiatric Nursing over many years
• Computing courses over many years back to early 80s
• Began as a Cobol & JCL engineer in the mid 80s
• Report Development in Cache with Crystal Reports
• Design, Development & Testing Reports using Java & Jasper Reports
• Use Eclipse as an IDE
• Netbeans for GUI builder
• Both Linux & Windows equally well
• Many years experience in:
• Graphics editing
• Building network systems
• Building computers

Feedback

I aim to make your experience on my site artistic, professional, informative as well as easy to navigate. I welcome your page-focussed & objective criticism using the link on each page.

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