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On 06/19/2017 04:39 AM, Mikle Kolyada wrote: |
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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! |
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Welcome, sir! We look forward to you giving the gentoo ebuild repository |
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injections whenever it gets sick. :) See you around! -maffblaster |
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