My name is Rumen Stoyanov and I'm 19 years old from Bulgaria.
I finished school and currently don't have a job, so I have a lot of spare time, half of which I spend in front of my computer.
I don't really have a big computing experience like you, guys, especialy compared to those which started at the age of 11 or 12.
I started computing in 2001, when I had an old low-end HP Vectra with Pentium1/200MHz and 40 MB RAM. It was equipped with Windows'95 and for sure was not the dream of a gamer.
..But I had to put this into use and I did my best. The machine has gone trough all kinds of Windows OSes - from Windows 9x to Windows XP and I was able to test a lot of software on it and even play lots of older games. Since 2003 I have a much faster Pentium4 machine and quite fast internet connection.
In march 2004 I installed my first Linux - Zipslack and after some time I switched to standart Slackware. Later I tried some other distributions, but I always return to Slackware.
I have some coding skills in C and C++, and can do well with HTML. What I find exciting is TCL, which is most popular from eggdrop scripting. I used to learn it trough modifying eggdrop scripts and then trough tclsh, where I'm testing regexp or other stuff on the fly. I disagree with people, who think it's not a real programming language. Yes - it is and it can be very powerful, it's not just a tool for eggdrop maniacs.
I know assembler too (for the x86 family), initially I learned low-level programming for the 16-bit 8086(/8088) and then extended to 32-bit processors and the protected mode of 386
. I learned this cause it was interesting to me and in these days I wanted to make an operating system (no, I'm not interested in the commercial stuff), but I am some kind of perfectionist, so I almost dropped the idea.I'm also interested in hardware and electronics, and I like to know the principles of working for every piece of electronics I see. I really enjoy constructing my own gadjets, but now all my money go to parties or for girls and clothes and I can't experiment with this things.
Enough for the technical part. Let me say something about my real life personality - I like going to parties, especially night parties, and I like loud music even at home. Many of my friends think of me as a happy person, always in high spirits, only interested in girls and drinking. Very few are those who know what's behind.
In conclusion, to be honest I came here because you provide a free service, and I decided to stay, because except the many lamers who only want to have shell "cause it's free" and never manage to learn something, I see some people who are serious and willing to make interesting discussion, to help except getting helped.
So that's me, I didn't expected to go into depth, but anyway thank you if you're reading this and again - Hi to everyone
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I've already read your intro and some of your posts