Greetings! I just moved to New Zealand (Wellington) a few days ago to study computer science, and I'm excited to be a part of this community.

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#140575 13-Feb-2014 12:51

Hello, everyone! As the title states, I moved to Wellington a few days ago (on Tuesday, the 11th) with a student visa and I'm getting settled in. I'm originally from the United States. I'd like to consider myself all-around well-versed in most things IT, although I ultimately want to hone my skills in software development.

I'm an avid fan of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, emulation, and enthusiast-grade hardware.

This community appears to be an amazing place, and hopefully I can prove to be a welcomed contributor. I'm sure I'll get to know many of you in the coming months!

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#986695 13-Feb-2014 12:51

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#986696 13-Feb-2014 12:51

Welcome to Geekzone!

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#986702 13-Feb-2014 12:53

Welcome. Good to see your from the USA

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#986723 13-Feb-2014 13:45

Welcome to NZ, and welcome to GZ!

I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.

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#986745 13-Feb-2014 14:50

Welcome to Welly!!

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#986785 13-Feb-2014 15:26

Welcome

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#986830 13-Feb-2014 16:27

Welcome

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Move to New Zealand's best fibre broadband service (affiliate link). Free setup code: R587125ERQ6VE. Note that to use Quic Broadband you must be comfortable with configuring your own router.

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#986831 13-Feb-2014 16:28

Hi! NZ is a small place so no doubt you'll also meet a lot of forum people IRL or by phone etc. too. :) Welcome.

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#987031 13-Feb-2014 21:38

Welcome, hope you enjoy Wellington, I'm pretty jealous- there are lots of places I'd like to work up there :) I'm from Christchurch, studied CompSci a few years ago and loved it

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#987048 13-Feb-2014 22:16

Welcome!

With that kind of enthusiasm it looks like we'll be lucky to have you in the community!

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