Hi, I'm spellbinder...

I'm a "`expr \`date +%Y\` - 1988`" year old computer veteran/nerd, musician, gamer and "fan/participant" of/in the Metal subculture.

Interests

Here are some of my interests:

• Playing Guitar/Bass (primarily Guitar)
• Electronics (µCs, tube amps, robotics...)
• Gaming (mainly Counter-Strike titles)
• Everything IT
• Free Software/Hardware movement

IT experience

Over the past 20 years I've had my fair share of technologies I've come across.
Starting with crappy DOS systems on a f---ing XT-clone with MDA display, I've moved through a lot of systems. Nowadays I specialize in UNIX and GNU/Linux operating systems and associated software, but I'm also quite capable of Microsoft Windoze administration, even though I despise it. Apart from gaming/music production I don't like Windoze, not only because of security reasons but also because of practical and moral reasons. Here are a few things I've worked with in the past or currently am working with:

• Programming languages:
  • C
  • C++
  • C#
  • Objective-C
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • PHP
  • Shell scripting
  • Ruby
  • Currently learning: Rust & Swift
• Other languages:
  • HTML4, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, XML
• GNU/Linux:
  • RedHat Linux 6.0 (~1999)
  • SuSE Linux 6.0
  • Debian GNU/Linux Lenny to Stretch (from ~2003 on) [I recently moved away from Debian based systems for personal reasons]
  • CentOS, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Fedora (since around 2010)
  • Arch Linux (since ~2017)
  • Gentoo Linux (on and off, can't remember when I first used it)
  • Android
• UNIX:
  • FreeBSD and appliances (pfSense, FreeNAS, opnSense)
  • OpenBSD (for testing... I like the packet filter)
  • crApple Mac OS X (I hate it and every crApple product but can use it if I have to)
• Microsoft operating systems:
  • MS-DOS 5 to 8
  • Windows 3.1 / 3.11 / WfW 3.11
  • Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME
  • Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
  • Windows Server 4.0, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016