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Good day everyone! |
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It is my pleasure to announce the latest addition to our family. |
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Toralf Förster is joining us from Hamburg, Germany. |
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I strongly believe that lots of people already know him as the person who works on tinderbox, |
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and he will continue work in his new status! |
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Here is how he describes himself: |
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I'm Toralf. |
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I was born at the end of the 60's in the northern part of the GDR. |
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In the early 90's I made my graduate engineer in Electrical Engineering at the University Rostock ("Technical Cybernetics and Automation Technology"). |
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Since end of the 90's I do live in Hamburg. |
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In the early 90s I was influenced by the idea of "public domain". |
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A decade later I started to play with Linux. |
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I tried SuSE, looked at RedHat, installed a Gentoo - and stayed at it. |
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At the university I coded in Turbo Pascal. |
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After the study I coded for about 5 years in C. |
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Then I preferred Perl and UN*X/shell tools. |
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Around 2003 I sneaked a little bit into Java. |
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Last year I wrote my first Python scriptlet. |
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For the Ethereal project (today: Wireshark) I wrote a dissector [1] for the IBM Sametime protocol. |
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I made it into the commit history of the Linux kernel with [2]. |
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I fuzz tested in the past with Trinity [3] x86 User Mode Linux images and uncovered few bugs in nfs (v4 mostly) and hostfs (UML). |
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I use the hardened profile since 3 years both at my desktop and my server. |
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The later acts since 2014 amongst other things as a Gentoo tinderbox [4]. |
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My plan within the Gentoo universe is to help keeping the portage tree in a acceptable quality state. |
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[1] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1121 |
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[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ca75b4d8799d46842350596fdc5fce7711610326 |
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[3] https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity |
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[4] https://www.zwiebeltoralf.de/tinderbox.html |
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Please give him a warm welcome! |