Why do I Blog?
Its simple! I read, I have an opinion, and I do not mind sharing it with people. There is also information that I feel I should store for later use. What better way then with a blog that I can reference.
Who Am I?
Well I am a Techie! I started with computers at the days of the Commodore 64, as a 13 year old. I started off playing games, but then got interested in programming, and started programming using assembly. After a while I discovered the 300 baud modem
and started adventures of the Bulletin Board. For a while I visited others, and then ran my own using my commodore 64 and a modified hard drive attached to a floppy controller (You had to see this 40 MB monster). As time progressed I upgraded to an Amiga computer (Which is sitting unused in my closet now) and started playing with Video. So after doing a lot of fun stuff and working with some old video gear, getting involved in 3D and producing some nice commercial adds and videos. I started working for GENIE in the Amiga Forum. Lots of fond memories of this time. During that time I actually built a few of my own PC’s and also installed Linux (pre 1.0 release of kernel), and started playing with and learning Unix.
So after some time and a job as a general administrator including building bastion hosts out of Linux systems for a small publishing company I started working as a Unix admin on HPUX and Solaris systems.
After a while this got very boring for me, as being a Unix admin is a daily grind. So I transitioned in to the world of Information Security. My Unix background gave me lots of experience to work on early firewalls which were all based on Unix derivatives. I have worked for the largest banks and insurance companies, and even worked for a few years as an Ethical Hacker and getting paid to break in to banks officially (Now that was fun).
I still work in information security and Unix although with a different twist, by working as a Sales Engineer for a vendor selling security appliances.
So thats enough about me!
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