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Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> Thanks :-) And now, here I stand corrected: The thread has actually |
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> become a cultural excercise and social mailing list event! Maybe we |
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> even make it into the GWN: "Big outing party on gentoo-user" or |
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> similar ;-) |
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OH YES :) |
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> OK, I hope I adhere to the auto-adjusted standard for writing one's |
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> Gentoo/Linux/Computing history ;-) : |
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Damn, so far your story is the msot similar to mine. Please, fellow gentooers, allow me to extend my |
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bio, while quoting Hans: |
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> I'm at the end of 26, using Linux since about 1996 (there was this |
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> Corel Linux distribution on some magazine's cover CD...), quickly |
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I'm in the middle of 25, using linux since about 1994 (there was this minilinux.zip 11MB file on |
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some BBS...), quickly chosing Slackware (from the famous Infomagic's Linux Developer Resource CD |
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sets, I got like 4 of them), then SuSE. I never liked Debian. I used SuSE without YaST. |
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I was worn 8/2/82 (yes, at 23:32, lots of mathematical bizarreness here, most numbers in my life |
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have to do with 2 and 8 :P) |
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I started programming at the age of 8, in a Commmodore 64 my biological father had. Then he left, |
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and until 10/11 years old I couldn't get my own computer. I still remember saving every penny I |
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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 |
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at that time) in 1990, 1991... I continued programming (although I did at primary school, and the |
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teachers insisted on my mom to get me a computer): more quickbasic, then turbo pascal. I wrote my |
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first BBS for MS-DOS in Turbo Pascal 7.0. I remember using the TurboPower COMM libraries for it |
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(incidentally, my best friend in USA was one of the top programmers at TurboPower...). A couple of |
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years later, I got the minilinux, then full Slackware. That's when I decided to get my own telephone |
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line ("Mom, PLEASE, PLEASE, let me have my BBS! I won't dial other BBSes!"), and started writing a |
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new, from scratch, BBS system: multiuser, it had instant messaging, tree-based forums, file |
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attachments, private email and multiuser conference, anybody wants the source?). It was my first |
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stake at C. Learning C AND Linux at the same time, at that time, provided LOTS of OS knowledge. I |
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still fix most things by [spl]tracing to find out bugs, or by writing interposers, etc. |
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I was starting secondary school and decided to study electronics. That's where assembler started. I |
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was bad with soldering, but good at microcontrollers :P. Although I already knew about secure |
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coding, learning how to write an exploit helped a lot. |
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As I was interested in Security I never dropped other OSes 100%. Of course, all my servers run |
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Linux, but at home I had Microsofts' OSes and other stuff, mainly for research purposes. I work and |
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play and everything under Linux. |
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> At the age of 15, I felt in love with the FIDO-Net (I was |
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> 2:240/6010.29, later 2:240/9301.29), only to dump my first registered |
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> shareware, CrossPoint, a few months later when the internet was |
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> starting to make its first steps in the private sector in germany. |
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I was a fido point! 4:900/748.3. I was a node for 3 other networks too (Music & Sound, Desertic and |
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another I can recall the name). |
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> Now, I earn my little money with programming (just boring web stuff) |
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> and administration, while studying law (funny choice given the |
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> background, eh?). |
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Now, I earn my little money with consulting, programming (just boring systems stuff :P) and |
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administration, while playing punk-pop with my band (PLUG! PLUG |
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www.purevolume.com/futurabandapunkpop everything released in creative commons license) and I never |
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went to university. |
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In .ar I wrote many articles in different magazines, given talks on security, programming and FLOSS, |
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I was 6 months in one of Cable tv's most famous technology programms [yeah, talking and everything], |
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and had the chance of meeting Vinton Cerf (I had a nice talk with him, told me I was just a living |
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example of why he created internet. I still have wet dreams about that.), Richard stallman, Jon |
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"maddog" Hall, Roger Dingledine from the TOR project, and many other hackers while giving a speech |
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about covert channels in the Bolivian hacker conference. That's as far as I got from Buenos Aires. |
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Basicly, this story is a big thank you for the GNU project, Linus Torvalds and BIG TEAM, and |
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everyone else that contributed to what I've been using since the beginning to become what I'm now. A |
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big geek with a potential rfc in his hands. :P |
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Somebody kick me. |
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