some (many) cleanups
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[[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]]
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[[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]]
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Nico Schottelius is the orginator and author of this website.
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## About me
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## About me
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You can read about me and my projects at several sites:
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Nico Schottelius is the orginator and author of this website.
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He's also a [[FOSS developer|about/foss]].
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## About www.nico.schottelius.org
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There are plenty of websites currently up and running and this site
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will sooner or later consolidate all of the following ones:
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* [very old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schotteli.us/)
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* [very old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schotteli.us/)
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* [old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schottelius.org/)
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* [old personal website (to be merged into this one)](http://nico.schottelius.org/)
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[[!meta title="Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]]
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[[!meta title="Nico Schottelius and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]]
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[[Nico Schottelius|about]], the author of this website, is a FOSS developer.</p>
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[[Nico Schottelius|about]], the author of this website, is a FOSS developer.</p>
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<h3>How did he become a FOSS developer?</h3>
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### How did he become a FOSS developer?
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<p>In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium
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In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium
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1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So he
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1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So he
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asked his father, whether there is something else. And his father gave
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asked his father, whether there is something else. And his father gave
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him a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a packet labeled "Suse
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him a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a packet labeled "Suse
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Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white cd box and looked nicer,
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Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white cd box and looked nicer,
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so he began to try to install it to his computer. But it did not work,
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so he began to try to install it to his computer. But it did not work,
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because SCO did not support IDE disks and the computer had an IDE disk
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because SCO did not support IDE disks and the computer had an IDE disk
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builtin.</p>
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builtin.
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<p>After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up. Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system.<br /></p>
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<p>About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this
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After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up.
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Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system.
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About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this
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operating system was crashing so often and he remembered, that there
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operating system was crashing so often and he remembered, that there
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was another cd set (one source code, one install cd) to try out. After
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was another cd set (one source code, one install cd) to try out. After
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about 4 hours he had Linux running. That was really really easy
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about 4 hours he had Linux running. That was really really easy
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compared to SCO. It felt strange, so new, so fast. And it contains only
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compared to SCO. It felt strange, so new, so fast. And it contains only
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text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought.</p>
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text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought.
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<p>On the next day he read in the book that there is something called
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On the next day he read in the book that there is something called
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"X11" available, which can destroy the display, when wrongly
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"X11" available, which can destroy the display, when wrongly
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configured. He was shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. He
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configured. He was shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. He
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searched for vertical and horizontal refresh rates and found them after
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searched for vertical and horizontal refresh rates and found them after
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FOSS, because the FOSS people solved the driver issue much cleaner than
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FOSS, because the FOSS people solved the driver issue much cleaner than
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the cdrom vendor or Windos itself. The whole system has been running
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the cdrom vendor or Windos itself. The whole system has been running
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very stable and it has been really easy to change things (like
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very stable and it has been really easy to change things (like
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/etc/issues), it has been open. <br /></p>
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/etc/issues), it has been open.
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[[!tag schottelius net]]
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Mal schauen, wie sich dieser Ansatz bewährt!
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Mal schauen, wie sich dieser Ansatz bewährt!
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(pages, images, binaries, ...).
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[[!tag meta]]
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[[!tag meta]]
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* Global
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* Global
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* [[About|about]]
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* [[About|about]]
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* [[Documentation|docs]]
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* [[Documentation|docs]]
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* [[Net|net]]
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* [[News(blog)|blog]]
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* [[News(blog)|blog]]
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* Lokal
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* Lokal
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* [[Neuigkeiten|notizbuch]]
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* [[Neuigkeiten|notizbuch]]
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