On 4/14/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > 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 > Informatica > Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: > http://foros.buanzo.com.ar > Consulting and Secure Mail Hosting: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGINWDAlpOsGhXcE0RCrGpAJ4td3rFej4aUJz7c2FRSKrVGvglIgCeOBmf > Lyr89NgEJK9QLNaRJteDDQQ= > =FjnM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > 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. -- - Mark Shields