lpret's Journal: Frist Post!

Yeah! First post! Wait... Ok, so I get to make some comments that probably only I will ever read, except if I make some witty comment and people are intrigued with my adept writing skills. But a little about me:

I'm a college student. I go to Baylor University and yes I know our football squad sucks, but wait till basketball season...

I was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, lived there for 4 years, then moved to England, lived in a suburb of London called Horsley's Green for another 4 years, and then to the Philippines, where I spent the rest of my pre-college life.
I'm supposedly from California, I claim Huntington Beach my hometown, but I go to school in Waco, TX (and yes that's where that Koresh guy did his thing) and my parents live in Dallas, but they own land in Illinois, where my mom's from, and in California, where my Dad's from. So, I'm kind of a wierd mix.

But this is technology...
When I was a freshman in high school, I was in California, and the school didn't have a systems administrator, and I said I knew a lot about computers and I was given the title of Student Systems Administrator. Yeah, I wasn't ready for that, but it was a good learning experience. I ran a 32 PC lab and two 16 Mac labs. I basically learned Mac then and there, and I was already comfortable with PCs. Basically, I just ran WinNT 4.0 on all the boxens and got a lot of help from other schools sysadmins. I started to learn about network security, stability -- all the fun stuff -- but on the front lines. Anyways, as I was doing all this I kept hearing about this Linux thing and how it was supposed to be perfect. Now, mind you, this was back in 1997, and my brother was in college (Com Sci) and he showed me my first Linux, and he came home for a weekend and we tore Win95 off of my machine (166 mhz :) ) and put on Red Hat 4 or something. We had to do all the compiling ourselves, and it was a mess. I had no idea what was going on, but my brother gave me one of his linux books and said learn.

So, now I'm a Performance Improvement Technology major/International Business major/Japanese minor. I think I'd make a good teacher, an even better sociologist, and a horrible programmer. I can't stand sitting in front of my computer just typing in code -- there needs to be interaction.
And now I have 4 boxes, one's WinXP Pro and SuSe 8, another is Red Hat, another is Mandrake/BeOS, and the other is a mac. Yes, I love all my children, they're all lined up in a row, and I have this really expensive KVM for all four. But that's just fun and games. Oh, and yes, that really is BeOS in there, I love that beast. I fire it up every once in a while just to remember the glory days when I told everyone who would listen that this would bring down Windows and Mac in one blow. But it didn't...too bad, b/c it was good. Now it's time for a little japanese :)
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well nevermind, i guess slashdot isn't multilingual...time for a visit to slashcode...

so, hows my hiragana? and i see some kanzi in there...
anyways, now i'm just rambling and only noon and too many empty beer bottles sit here...