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      If you want some free advice on some technical issue, best
      meet over a coffee/ beer at one of the various tech &
      social events I organise & attend, some linked at http://www.berklix.org ,
      probably easiest if you join me Here Most Weeks  as
      unfortunately I don't often have free time to give advice,
      (unless you want paid Computer
      Consultancy ).
    
      ENGLISH is my native language. I am British.If you want help or info on numerous organisations & events I help
      organise free of charge, use English.
        Deutsch: Ich spreche und schreibe Deutsch für
        Zahlender Kunden,Please Do Not Contact Me In German
 unless you will Pay me or my
        company or associates for computer consultancy.
 
          I am fluent enough in German, but I get over
          saturated.I am Not an enthusiastic linguist.English is the language of my international computer
          industry.Many problems discussed in German are also
          international problems, often already solved elsewhere.
          First check international mail list archives in English,
          before restricting your knowledge pool to German
          language.With German tech. friends I often speak a 50/50 mix
          of English & German, as we are often both fluent
          enough in both languages.Francais: Oui, Je comprend Francais (pas trop bien
      maintenant, malheuresement), mais je ne l'ecris pas, (ou
      parlez beaucoup normalement) - je nai pas la vitesse, les
      mots a souvene, mais c'est plus facile a lesez. Commercial Computer Consultancy For Businesses
      3rd Party Pages Requested To Be
    PurgedThis section needs to be merged with my FAQ mail responseDo not send me invitations to link via 3rd party web
      sites eg Facebook Linkedin
      Twitter etc. - My spam filter dumps such junk
      unseen.I will happily cross link direct to _You_ if you mail me
      a URL (web ref.) to a useful Public page, but I will either
      not even see (filtered as spam), or will silently discard,
      & refuse to link to any monopoly privatising web sites
      such as facebook, that hide detail & contacts behind a
      requirement to join their site. -I support both Free
      Open Source and also the Open Internet, Not commercial
      companies carving the Internet into private exclusive
      fiefdoms.
Business contacts links may be
      here - later.Do not send me
      greeting cards via web sites, or in flash, My spam filter
      dumps such junk unseen.I support retaining information on the Public Open
      Internet, by not delivering Internet info into the hands of
      monopolists.I avoid sites by eg Facebook Linkedin Twitter Run by
      would-be monopolists, trying to grab your & my
      readership, attention & fees & advertising revenue
      & circle of contacts, & trying to lock us into their
      private subset of the Internet.
        I don't want & won't use : 
        
          Inane short tweets (as crippled as multiple
          SMS),Pictures of immature adults being sick at
          partiesTo follow pop stars, VIPs & politicians,Lack of data security (I read first half of a Big
          heavy tech report on Facebook),To give personal data to American corporations that
          obsess pontificating on ethics, but have little ethics,
          & are outside European law.Web sites that force me to be online just to read or
          reply to mail.Web sites that force me to be hostage to proprietary
          software that I don't control, don't trust, different for
          each company, upgraded to new version Not when it suits
          me & not when I have time to learn, just upgraded
          when it suits them ! ... Their software that would
          control & constrain how & if I read, reply,
          encrypt (Hah, As If!) & Secure (HAH! Even bigger
          joke!) My personal data & contact lists that they
          want to access to harvest & traffic analyse. |  |