About Loudas

Loudas.com is my primary domain.

I use it for everything. Email services, DNS services, hosting (subdomains for friends), lots of stuff.

I purchased te domain in 2002 after trying to do some development work for In Car Entertainment in Hamilton.

Seemed like a very cool name, and very fitting for In Car ENtertainment, however the chose not to use, which left me with the domain.

I thought the domain was pretty cool, nice and short, and fitted my personality :) .. so I stuck with it.

It has seen many incarnations, and many different methods of development.

Currently it runs Media Wiki, the theme is coded heavily in CSS (with some use of CSS3), uses valid XHTML, with no tables (except when tables should actally be used - tabulated data), and has a bit of Javascript thrown in as well.

About McRides

McRides is a website focused on meetings.

Here you can share your motorcycle events, and get people talking about them.

Be it, a gathering for viewing the MotoGP, or World Super bikes, or a group ride event with your motorcycle club this is the place where easy meet ups happen.

Want to organise your buddies, and pillions for a tour? or do you want a small quiet group to do a circuit around the coromandel? Are having trouble organising your motorcycle club rallys? or hope to meet others from other parts of the country at a pub somewhere?

Perhaps you just want somewhere to quickly check out what is happening this weekend.

Maybe you just want to hang out on a website, and chat with your motorcycling buddies, or meet new buddies. McRides

About Terminaladdict

Here's a wee bit about me (TerminalAddict) Firstly about the name TerminalAddict. Many moons ago I was in a chat room (#musb on irc.freenode.com) chatting with a bloke called DragonMage. DragonMage is a member of MandrivaUsers Well I was helping some people with Mandrake (or some other distro, I can't remember) and all my help was telling them to open a command line interface (CLI) which is also called a terminal, so soon enough DragonMage started saying I was addicted to the terminal. The name developed from there, and I thought it was very appropriate for the following reasons

• I use a Terminal for everything.
• I am a smoker, which could be terminal, and I am addicted.
• I ride motorcycles, which could be terminal and I am addicted.
• Many of my other hobbies and habits could be described the same way.

So I stuck with the name, also it wasn't being used anywhere, by anyone else, which is pretty amazing in this day and age.

About Wapdomainz

The story of Wapdomainz starts in 1995 when WAP (the Wireless Application Protocol for Cellphones) was born. Since then WAP (the protocol) has faded away, however, Wireless technology continues to grow, and develop. Wapdomainz is run entirely from a Wireless network, and serves as a Wireless Access Point (WAP) for other wireless customers. This has introduced a new era for the services of Wapdomainz, and the domains that are, or can be, attached to a wireless network.

About MandrivaUsers

Mandriva Users has a long history and continues to go from strength to strength. It started in 2001 when a forum run by Tom Berger started to fall into disarray. At the time I was a confident Linux user, and contributor, but had never found a forum I could call home. I stumbled across this forum and found that I liked the people, and my contributions were relavant. In the following year (2002), the forum started having problems, but the maintainer of the forum had since vanished. After some discussion with other users, I put a copy of phpbb up on a server I was paying for, and slowly started populating it with information. Soon enough I had registered the domain name mandrakeusers.org and the community started to grow. Now in 2006, the group of leaders which run this forum enjoy the fact that we have reached some form of success in the large world of the internet. It is now a living breathing "thing" that has regular changes in management / registrations / users etc etc ... Credit must be given to the team of people who, a times, have kept the site alive well after I have disappeared for a break. Now my role has evolved in to a Manager type role. I take responsibilty for hosting, funding (or finding funds :) ) and as always, I share my opinion on all things I think a worth talking about. There is a large a committed team, that I am proud to be counted amongst, that is committed to keeping this forum alive, and growing.