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who i am

I am an undergraduate student majoring in Information Technology at York University. I love using computers, which would probably explain why I'm majoring in Information Technology. Some people say I spend way too much time in front of a monitor and way too little time getting my social life together. Oh well. I figure I'm happy doing what I do, why change it? I am also very lucky to have a very beautiful and very caring girlfriend who's stood by my side for two years now. No one has ever made me feel more special. What more could a guy ask for?

what i do

I work with computers a lot, whether I'm at home or in school. Currently most of the computer work I do is at home because I'm not allowed access to the UNIX computer labs in school (yet). Fortunately I at least have access to the Windows NT computer labs (which isn't as fun as UNIX unfortunately). At home I have a laptop running on Slackware Linux and Windows 98. On my desktop computer I have Windows 95 running. In addition to my two main boxes, I have two other boxes that are currently not being used. Perhaps firewalls for someday. I am also one of the five system administrators in charge of the York University ITEC Club servers.

what i know

I have been using computers only for two years. Before computers, I was more interested in art, basically Japanese anime and manga, as well as playing rock guitar in a band. That changed though when I got my hands on my first computer. In the two years span that I've been using computers, I've learnt quite a bit:

I mentioned that I have experience in quite a few languages and operating systems. But what I mostly use at home is Linux and Windows, and most of my programming is normally done in C and Bash. I never really program in Java because I'm not very interested in Graphical User Interface programming (GUI). I'm a command line person, and I type a lot faster than I click with the mouse. 90% of what I've learnt so far is self taught. I find that teaching oneself, although more time consuming, allows one to understand the material more clearly at one's own pace. However, I am extremely grateful to those who've had the patience to put up with my questions and to take the time to teach me what I wanted to know. Cheers to you guys! You know who you are.

what i hope to achieve soon

I am continously teaching myself new things, especially programming languages. Currently I am planning on covering material on Perl programming, Assembly programming (yes!), Tcl/Tk scripting, and eventually, mastering C programming so I can do some kernel hacking and help develop the Linux kernel. It will probably take a long time before I reach the kernel hacker level though. Aside from programming, I am constantly exploring the innards of Linux, trying to find out how it works, what each configuration file does, and the format of the syntax. Stuff that would brand me a geek (if it hasn't already). But hey, just like some people enjoy running around smacking tennis balls, this is fun stuff to me.

where i can be found

Where do you find me? Well you might be able to catch me on IRC in EFNet in the channel #linuxnewbie. I also hang out in the BBS at Linuxnewbie.Org. This is an excellent place to ask questions if you're new to Linux and don't want to get the RTFM (Read The F****** Manual) response from the Linux hackers. They have files called Newbieized Help Files (NHF) written by me and a whole slew of other techies and newbies who want to help the newbies of the Linux population. What's a non-Linux newbie doing hanging out in a place with Linux newbies you ask? Well to help of course! In addition to that, I can also be found (although not as often) in the Slackware Linux forum.

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