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====== About this Wiki ======
This Wiki was originally intended to share some experience in setting up computers with Windows XP. I soon realized, that it helps me remembering the steps I took to do almost everything which over time gets forgotten. Hence, I expanded this Wiki to be my "extended memory". It covers computers, although recently I focus more on Linux than on Windows, website programming, Audio & Video ripping and tagging instructions, and more.\\
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I also use this Wiki to take notes and manage my personal todo lists, which I found quite effective because of the simple but effective markup language of DokuWiki, and because it is available on all my clients I'm using (mobile phone, tablet, Windows 7 and Linux clients). All of my private information is stored safely and securely on my own server, and accessed through my domain names and my own cloud.\\
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====== About Bernard Condrau ======
I grew up in Zurich, Switzerland, where I graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology as a mechanical engineer. I acquired my computer and programming skills through studies during my university years, and passion for software programming. Back in 1987 I founded Mammut Soft, together with 2 friends, under which umbrella we developed a comprehensive graphical IDE for the Modula-2 programming language on Atari computers. The product was technically superior but we lacked the marketing skills to make our product and our company a success. After this I turned to management, and 2001 I left Switzerland to work first in Hong Kong and from 2003 in South Korea. After my retirement in 2016 my wife and I moved to Thailand.\\
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I registered and set up my first website in February 2001, with the help of an offline website development software. Not satisfied with the limited functionality I decided to learn HTML, CSS, and PHP and eventually became quite skillful in it. I also adopted the Joomla CMS early on to build more powerful websites, and in 2007 I set up my Wiki based on the DokuWiki software. In the years to come, I developed several web sites, which I'm also maintaining, all in my free time and as a hobby. My biggest effort was programming a fully functional league management website for the pool and darts league in Seoul, Korea, which currently is in use in many different countries in the world.\\
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====== My pages ======
[[https://www.condrau.com|{{wiki:bernard.png|Bernard Condrau}}]]
[[https://www.banmoo.com|{{wiki:thinna.png|Thinnakorn Banmoo}}]]
[[https://www.bethico.com|{{wiki:bethico.png|Bethico - Bernard Thinna Company}}]]
[[https://twitter.com/bernardcondrau|{{wiki:twitter.png|Twitter}}]]
[[http://www.linkedin.com|{{wiki:linkedin.png|LinkedIn}}]]
[[http://www.facebook.com/bernard.condrau|{{wiki:facebook.png|Facebook}}]]