When I came back from Sierra Leone, I bought a laptop thinking, you know, I’m going to teach myself how to use computers and stuff because all the comms kit that we had was absolute garbage and there wasn’t any I.T. as such involved, so I wanted to kind of learn how to use computers. And I had a mate who is now a very high-level Cisco engineer. In fact, there were two guys in my accommodation who were into Linux, they had Linux magazines and CDs, and he was like, “Oh, you don’t want to have Windows on that, you want to learn how to use computers you need to learn how to use Linux. I can install it for you.” Got halfway through installing it for me and completely bricked my brand new laptop. So, I had to spend the next, I don’t know, it must have been weeks on watching the comms send on night duty with my dial-up internet, because it was the only place on camp that had internet access, I think, back then. So I literally spent weeks of night shifts. I was volunteering for night shifts so I could learn how to use Linux and get this laptop fixed.
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