Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

[Mark Shields]

On 4/14/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar> wrote:
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> Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > Thanks :-) And now, here I stand corrected: The thread has actually
> > become a cultural excercise and social mailing list event! Maybe we
> > even make it into the GWN: "Big outing party on gentoo-user" or
> > similar ;-)
>
> OH YES :)
>
> > OK, I hope I adhere to the auto-adjusted standard for writing one's
> > Gentoo/Linux/Computing history ;-) :
>
> Damn, so far your story is the msot similar to mine. Please, fellow
> gentooers, allow me to extend my
> bio, while quoting Hans:
>
> > I'm at the end of 26, using Linux since about 1996 (there was this
> > Corel Linux distribution on some magazine's cover CD...), quickly
>
> I'm in the middle of 25, using linux since about 1994 (there was this
> minilinux.zip 11MB file on
> some BBS...), quickly chosing Slackware (from the famous Infomagic's Linux
> Developer Resource CD
> sets, I got like 4 of them), then SuSE. I never liked Debian. I used SuSE
> without YaST.
>
> I was worn 8/2/82 (yes, at 23:32, lots of mathematical bizarreness here,
> most numbers in my life
> have to do with 2 and 8 :P)
> I started programming at the age of 8, in a Commmodore 64 my biological
> father had. Then he left,
> and until 10/11 years old I couldn't get my own computer. I still remember
> saving every penny I
> could. In the end I got a 80286, 20/25Mhz, no HD, and 5 1/4" floppy for
> AR$ 6.200.000 (like USD 620
> at that time) in 1990, 1991... I continued programming (although I did at
> primary school, and the
> teachers insisted on my mom to get me a computer): more quickbasic, then
> turbo pascal. I wrote my
> first BBS for MS-DOS in Turbo Pascal 7.0. I remember using the TurboPower
> COMM libraries for it
> (incidentally, my best friend in USA was one of the top programmers at
> TurboPower...). A couple of
> years later, I got the minilinux, then full Slackware. That's when I
> decided to get my own telephone
> line ("Mom, PLEASE, PLEASE, let me have my BBS! I won't dial other
> BBSes!"), and started writing a
> new, from scratch, BBS system: multiuser, it had instant messaging,
> tree-based forums, file
> attachments, private email and multiuser conference, anybody wants the
> source?). It was my first
> stake at C. Learning C AND Linux at the same time, at that time, provided
> LOTS of OS knowledge. I
> still fix most things by [spl]tracing to find out bugs, or by writing
> interposers, etc.
>
> I was starting secondary school and decided to study electronics. That's
> where assembler started. I
> was bad with soldering, but good at microcontrollers :P. Although I
> already knew about secure
> coding, learning how to write an exploit helped a lot.
>
> As I was interested in Security I never dropped other OSes 100%. Of
> course, all my servers run
> Linux, but at home I had Microsofts' OSes and other stuff, mainly for
> research purposes. I work and
> play and everything under Linux.
>
>
> > At the age of 15, I felt in love with the FIDO-Net (I was
> > 2:240/6010.29, later 2:240/9301.29), only to dump my first registered
> > shareware, CrossPoint, a few months later when the internet was
> > starting to make its first steps in the private sector in germany.
>
> I was a fido point! 4:900/748.3. I was a node for 3 other networks too
> (Music & Sound, Desertic and
> another I can recall the name).
>
> > Now, I earn my little money with programming (just boring web stuff)
> > and administration, while studying law (funny choice given the
> > background, eh?).
>
> Now, I earn my little money with consulting, programming (just boring
> systems stuff :P) and
> administration, while playing punk-pop with my band (PLUG! PLUG
> www.purevolume.com/futurabandapunkpop everything released in creative
> commons license) and I never
> went to university.
>
> In .ar I wrote many articles in different magazines, given talks on
> security, programming and FLOSS,
> I was 6 months in one of Cable tv's most famous technology programms
> [yeah, talking and everything],
> and had the chance of meeting Vinton Cerf (I had a nice talk with him,
> told me I was just a living
> example of why he created internet. I still have wet dreams about that.),
> Richard stallman, Jon
> "maddog" Hall, Roger Dingledine from the TOR project, and many other
> hackers while giving a speech
> about covert channels in the Bolivian hacker conference. That's as far as
> I got from Buenos Aires.
>
> Basicly, this story is a big thank you for the GNU project, Linus Torvalds
> and BIG TEAM, and
> everyone else that contributed to what I've been using since the beginning
> to become what I'm now. A
> big geek with a potential rfc in his hands. :P
>
> Somebody kick me.
>
> - --
> Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad
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I just finished compiling to age 24 this last Sunday.  I've been using Linux
seriously since 2004 (when I started using Gentoo on my server); however,
I've been playing around with Linux since about 2002.

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- Mark Shields