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Wind Minstrel Technologies

Linux and Open Source Solutions in Cheshire.


About Wind Minstrel Technologies


"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure". Douglas Adams



About Wind Minstrel Technologies.

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Wind Minstrel Technologies have been involved in computing since 1982, this involved punched tape, tardis-like computer units with a text based computer terminal. Moving on from linear based layout coding to various Windows systems from MSDos through to XP and Vista both within domestic and industrial scenarios.


1998 brought Linux operating systems, running various distributions such as:
  • Red Hat
  • Debian
  • Slackware
  • Fedora
  • Mandrake
  • SUSE
  • Currently Ubuntu, (Ubuntu user since the first release in October 2004).

Interest in Linux sytems then brought about membership of Manchester Linux User Group and South Cheshire Linux User Groups. Website design and computer assistance has been a natural evolution for the last decade and more, this has included:
  • Website design and optimisation
  • Computer assistance
  • Ethical hacking
  • Home tuition
  • Home networking - configuring PC's, laptops and printer networks.
  • Virus / Trojan / Spyware removal
  • Computer forensics
  • Computer set-ups
  • Password Recovery

Interests include:
  • Cryptography
  • Computer science and forensics
  • Perl programming
  • BASH scripting
  • C Programming

Recently Wind Minstrel has been setting up and configuring Apache web servers with MYSql, PHP, CGI and Perl. Current set-up at Wind Minstrel includes an Apache webserver, file and printer networking with Samba, utilising Ubuntu Linux, XP and Vista on various laptops.

Wind Minstrel have given much help to novices setting up a new Linux system and also give Ubuntu Linux disks out at the various group meetings attended.