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Software Developer (assembly, C, python, PHP, etc.), Embedded Developer, System Administrator (Linux), uISP owner, Open Source Geek and Security Nut.
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SAF Member, CCRKBA Life Member, NRA Endowment Member, GOA Life Member -- Join one now and keep EBR's free |
I'm a 30 y/o Sysadmin and Developer. I started picking up programming early (BASIC on Commodore VIC-20 whee) and just ran with it ever since. These days I know Delphi/Pascal, x86 assembler, Perl, and PHP very well. I can hack on C/C++ if need be and am trying to pick it up again for real. Most other languages I can at least understand well enough to see how they work and understand the flow.
I also do sysadmin stuff on NT based networks, and am a FreeBSD guru of about ten years. Never have liked GNU/Linux much, solution looking for a problem if you ask me, but it is doing one thing better than any of the other free OSes: marketing. Of course I "build" my own machines, I have not had a pre-built PC since the 286 I convinced my mother to buy way back when. Worked for all manner of companies big and small from startup ISPs and development houses that didn't survive five years, to giants like AT&T and Northrop-Grumman. I like the smaller companies better, and right now work for one that's pretty successful for having only a handful of employees. Been with them two years, doesn't look like they're going anywhere. |
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Nietzsche
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." - Spinoza |
I'm a BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer. When I'm not running my business (commercial communications contractor), I work with UNIX (Linux since 1.2.13, Solaris since 2.6)
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5 years as Unix/Linux/Microsoft sysadmin, currently Java Developer.
B.S. in IT from CU Boulder. |
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Mine still works ! I was playing with it the other day ! its so cool and brings memories ! |
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"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get
at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on." -- Ulysses S. Grant |
29 YO pc repairman. I know just enough to get by, but I'm always asking questions.
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
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26yo Information Security guy. I also do network/server admin and used to program.
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Alphabet soup of degrees and certs that are boring and don't mean much to anybody but a headhunter or hiring type.
Now a Director/Acting CIO that does people instead of packets. Everyone else gets to play with technology, I get to play with HR, the board, project management, strategy, and budgets. I secretly desire to quit and take a job as desktop support. |
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Just stumbled in.
Started using computers when I was 12 years old messing around with a Naval Suitcase computer that weighed about 50 lbs. Been building and working on PC's ever since and turned a hobby into a career. I work as an IT Engineer in the Groveport Ohio area and work on networks, and good old evil Microsoft products. Never caught the *NIX bug. I have also been learning about Oracle from my current job. |
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I am an Email System Tech. Basically I deal with everything under the sun right now. Perl, Python, Linux (RHEL), PHP, Mysql, Courier, Dovecot, Sendmail, etc. My core duties are maintaining my companies 200+ servers during third shift and coding up neat pieces of software to make eveyones life easier.
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40 yo Network engineer.
Cisco shop mostly Work for a fortune 100 company. Getting too old for the maintenance windows! ugh! |
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21yo college senior (UF GO GATORS) in political science (pre-law)
been gaming and interested in computers since the early 90's build my first computer in '05 about to build my next one interested in learning xhtml, perl, c++, and any other useful coding language good with hardware, learning software |
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Net Admin / Engineer
A+ Net+ iNet+ Lots of hardware break/fix, troubleshooting, small network support, wireless, etc. Standard fare IT guy. Except the fact that I like Apple... |
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Loud pipes save nothing. Not all women that have tattoos are whores, but the term "Tramp Stamp" didn't invent itself. If you hate lawyers so much, make sure to never hire one. Hate cops? Do a ride-along and see what they go through.
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Wow, there are alot more tech savy people on these forums than I would ever have expected. I personally am a hardware tech at a PC repair shop and currently a student at NJIT. I've been programming for as long as I remember and am proficient in C, C++, Perl, Lua, and VB. I am also very active in the Playstation 2 and PSP homebrew and hacking scenes and am a hardcore linux/unix geek he )
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B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (contemplating masters)
Title: UNIX Systems Admin, but GOAT(Geek Of All Trades) would be more appropriate Work: University Environment OS: HP-UX 11.*, SCO, Linux (Fedora *, RedHat Enterprise *, and SUSe *) Specialties: C/C++, PERL, csh, sh, ACE report writer, SQL, Informix 7.3+ database administration, m4 preprocessor, COBOL, tcl, expect, Apache, Sendmail, problem-solving, and general psycho-therapist for my users (if only i could prescribe medications) Dabbles: MPE/IX, Active Directory & Exchange Administration, hardware hacking, network security, reverse-engineering, gun-smithing, XP Pro Built all of mine, my family's, and most of my friends' machines. NFA item owner. |
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Network Engineer CCNA, but I have done some SE work with AS-400, Rehat, Suse, and Windows, VMWare and Citrix
The beginning of the thread mention about "sniffers" I use packet sniffers ALL the time and it is not uncommon in the Network Engieering department. It allows you to all the nuts and bolts of the communication between systems. It is very useful in troubleshooting clinet/server communications. Ethereal is a great one but is now known as WireShark, so is TCPDump |
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I've only been into computers for about 10 years now and I still feel like a noob. I use Adobe and CAD software but I'm not that good at it yet.
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Just thought i would throw in a greetings and salutations! I am a long time lurker, and finally registered. I am currently a java developer (J2EE/SOA) but have written my share of c/c++, and work primarily on various *nix platforms. I also have been a long time carrier of the dreaded BRD, as well as the OMD (Old Mauser Disease).
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EE / Network engineer / Consultant / Communication and Information Systems CNE, blah, blah, blah. I started in computers before the when the Osborne 1 was THE IDEAL portable copmputer and CPM was THE OS. Network General "Sniffer University" in 94. |
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The hunting of wild birds and wild animals with fully automatic firearms, defined as a machine gun in § 18.2-288, is prohibited.
Damn! |
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I've been in IT for around 10 years now.... started out doing Configuration Management (CM) using PVCS Version Manager, did some scripting for builds/promotions for dev/qc environments, started using CA Harvest, and am now using Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. Over this time I did quite a bit of process work, too (writing 'em, auditing folks who were supposed to be following the processes, etc.)
Over the years I've worked on various Windows OS's (3.1, 95, NT 4, 98, XP, 2003 Server, etc.), and have played a bit with Linux (Gentoo, Trustix, a little bit of Suse). I don't work all that much on building machines anymore for myself or friends because I do quite a bit of hardware swapping at work. I now do network/hardware tech work in WV and have a blast with it. I still do a little CM work, but I'm more on the hardware side now. Probably will start doing more process/CM work over the next few months. |
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A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government - George Washington
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took apart my moms old 486 when i was 11. couldnt figure out how to put it back together. now im 22, only fully-assembled computer ive ever bought was my laptop.
my trip to iraq funded my 10-box sandbox network. im a hands-on learner, figured if i need to learn something best way to do it is to just do it. of course, you can do it all with virtual machines and whatnot, but theres just something to be said for the warm hum of the fans. army reserve got me settled as a 25B, now ive gotta find a job that dosnt involve talking to the computer illiterate all day. |
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Im Joe, i have been using Unix and Linux for 11 years now. As Ire said, Im still learning too.. but im damn good too.. if you need any System Security Help.. give me a shout.. CISSP/SANS certified here!
Later! |
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'Cause the only reason that you're here.
Is 'cause folks died for you in the past So maybe now it's your turn To die kicking some a** |
DB performance whore. I kill deadlocks.
I build all of my computers (laptops excepted). |
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Just to be clear. This is an AT laugh. This is not a WITH laugh - Persephone
"In Soviet Russia, Potheads bust Sherrick13!" - Zippy_The_Wonderdog |
Just been checking out this part of AR15. Im a Math/CS/Econ major. I just added CS so I don't know shit past basic knowledge in C++/C
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"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" ....Euripides....
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Sr Systems Engineer - OpenVMS, HP-UX, OS X, Windows. Mostly code these days in C/C++ and JAVA. Though I do know and have been known to code in: Dibol, PHP, Perl, Python, VB, C#, Fortan, and COBOL.
about 25 years worth of dealing with those EEEVill computers... |
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Greetings my brothers and sisters. Thanks for inviting me into the Nerdery. I mean Armory. :D
Anyway, I've been a Microsoft Engineer for about ten years, plenty of hardware background and copper/coax/fiber training. My big deal is Exchange Messaging and Enterprise security. I own a small business that is also a Cisco Premier Partner, so we get mad pricing that I can extend if asked. I know multiple high-end Cisco Experts that get git-r-dun. That said, I just bought a MacBook Pro and love it. I still run Windows in Parallels, so it's not like I've abandoned Uncle Bill. He still pays the majority of my bills. I bought this because it boots in 15 seconds and opens Photoshop CS3 in seven flat. I also just purchased a pair of IronPort boxes for Enterprise-level Anti-X services. My IronPort boxes kick ass. ...and they're stainless steel. :D |
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Solar Power. Just another way of getting your money back from "the man".
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Network engineer extraordinaire, here!
-James |
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The GeekCrew - http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/GC
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33YO Senior UNIX Systems Engineer Grew up a computer geek but flunked computers in the 6th grade because I didn't keep a notebook. In the college days I worked for the university multimedia lab and help desk. Which led to jobs in web design, then to web server administration, then system administration, now they call us System Engineers. My platform history started out on C64, then to Amigas, to Mac Emulators, to Macs, to Solaris Webservers, to HP-UX and Solaris Big Iron and Oracle databases. Now things seem to be moving to distributed IBM Blade Centers running enterprise RedHat Linux. In my spare time I run the local range webserver off a home cable modem connection and a PIII laptop running Suse and Twiki. The backup webserver is hidden in a comm closet at the office. |
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starting off in the whole techie world. Taking CompTIA+ now and Network+ shortly.
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30-yr IT veteran. Started with Data General Nova systems and worked through the entire mini-computer craze of the 70s & 80s. Became a Unix grunt and have worked for major vendors like Sequent, Sun, Veritas, HP & EDS as well as independent consulting.
Now I'm a Data Center/Infrastructure Architect working on Data Center consolidation projects for the .gov. Anyone in NE Florida hiring? |
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IT manager here -
What I know or systems I work with: Mitel Phone Systems Best software(MAS, SalesLogix, etc) HP Printers Server hardware- self built and Dell HP managed switches Copper networking Linksys, wolverine routing F5 BIG IP appliances Lots of MS stuff from all ends of their offerings except for Vista A/V codecs, multimedia presentation setups for conventions(mostly fan conventions) Wireless 2.4 & Microwave, including mild levels of wireless security. Display technology MAC OSX in a microsoft server2003 environment. Desktop hardware to the level of most OC enthusiasts who build a new gaming rig every 6 months or so. Misc stuff you pick up from working with, on, and around computer for most of your life while at and away from work. I am a big time LAN gamer. Played competatively in regional tournaments over the past 8 years. Known fairly well in Eastern Washington. Good enough to know how far I sit from the top, but not good enough to hold a candle to any true gaming pros. Shooting/reloading is my most expensive non-computer related hobby. |
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Just your local tech guy here. 21yo and been workin with computer for almost half of it. Just started a local service shop because the other ones don't know what the definition of customer service is. 2 weed turnaround is good for them. Studying for the A+ then network+ and goin up the chain from there.
-Bobby |
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Just about the most hated person on the network, I'm the Information Assurance Mgr. Good thing I don't mind being an A-hole.
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Programmer and all around geek here. Right now I'm trying to get a job as a programmer, but no dice yet. Ask me anything about Star Wars and I WILL know ith In the interest of self promotion here is my website (it's not as feature-packed as fiero loki's site is). kcwebwerx.com
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Been in the IT industry for 14 years. Done just about everything From PC support to programming.
Currently a security analyst which keeps me busy. -MAC- |
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Just an uninformed non-tech dope hoping to absorb some of ya'lls smarts.
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Hi I'm Scott and I'm a big dork :)
I got my first computer when I was 14. I bugged the living heck out of people asking questions and read everything I could. I kind of got my start in hacking and phreaking. I got my first IT job with an ISP when I was 16 and have been in IT ever since (about 14 years or so). I'm currently a Windows System Administrator and in the next couple weeks or so I will move into my new position as an Exchange / Email Systems Administrator. I'm stoked about being able to focus on one element of the system. |
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YOYO: "You're On Your Own"
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Hey!! BT here!
Infosec professional with history similar to the guy above me. he Good to meet everyone. |
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A+, Network+, Security+, MCP(3), BS CompSci, and MBA
Start to Current: Techie Military Weapons Hardware Consultant Biometric Security Consultant IT Security Consultant Sarbanes-Oxley Consultant Web Manager for Online Company Director for Online Company Sippin' a cold one on the back deck edit: probably more than one cold one...maybe two |
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Hazard Zet Forward!
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. |
Hello,
Just found this part of the board. MN techie. A+, Net +, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, HP-Procurve Switching, WCSP. I'm a Network Engineer working for a contracting company. I work in the mid to large business group. Used to run a LAN center for 4 years also. Yeah I'm also geeky. |
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Never had a "real" job in the computer industry. I am A+ certified. I dabble in C/C++ a bit and am doing my best to learn Python. More got into the hardware aspect of computers. I just love taking the things apart. Built/rebuilt over a hundred desktops and a few laptops. Currently building my third "carputer" for my new mustang :D
Never use Windows. (Debian and/or Ubuntu always.) Proud supporter of open source software! |
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Network Administrator (Associates Degree) with 13+ years exp with a mid size manufacturing company. One man IT shop so I get all the headaches. Win 2K, Win 2003, XP, Exchange, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics, AutoCAD, Acom Doc Mgmt... and the list goes on.
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I guess I should intro myself.
9 years in the IT industry. Currently director of IT. Doing some CUDA development. (CUDA, C++) Overclocked my Mac back in 1999 with a #2 pencil. Whatever. |
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I am Mad.
I work in telecom, I speak TL1 better then English. I prefer Mac over Winders. That is all. |
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Just found this forum.
I am just getting started in really getting into some fun tech stuff now. I'll be taking my CCNA exam this summer and hopefully passing. I am also currently learning Active Directory, Redhat, Server 2003. I have had classes with SQL (basics mainly), comp. engineering(hardware back to the old IBM stuff up to current), programming (basic skills only), etc. Like I said I am still covering the basics. My short term goal being my CCNA this year and longer term goal being CCNP certified within a few years, along with voice certs at some point as well after each exam (CCVA, CCVP) Hopefully I can use this board to absorb some of other peoples knowledge from experience and training that will help me out in the future. |
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Just came across this section, figured since I'll probably post from time to time I should probably introduce myself.
Name is John, don't really have any courses/school under my belt. I'm pretty much self-taught in what I call "the basics and then some". I've been toying with computers since I was about 9 (1994ish), mid to late 90s was spent doing bad things with our own versions of things like sub7 and optix pro. We also were really in to phreaking, had our own little crew we called "UPLE"...basically a local sub-group to UPLA. After that, I made a majority of my money up until the age of 20-21 doing pc home repairs/clean-up/upgrades/etc. In between I dabbled a little in things like ubuntu, VB(designed/released my own command-controlled mp3 player), web page design, etc. Never really stuck with anything, and probably should have gone to school for something. I'm still thinking about getting in to some courses, but I honestly have no idea what I'd be comfortable with. Definitely no coding or web design, didn't really like that stuff when I tried it out. I think I'm more of a hardware/fix-it type of guy. I'll try my best to keep up with you pros. |
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-CMMG M4LE(16" WASP-Coated Carbine)
-Colt M1991A1 GOVT(ORM / Stainless) -Arsenal Co(Bulgaria) Model SA93 AK-47 |
SysAdmin for the past six years. NT, AS/400, blah, blah, blah, blah...
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