User:The daemon

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Marco Michna aka daemon

About me

Yes, I was born ... long ago ('echo $(((`date +%s` - 14860920) / 31557600))') in a small town close to Bremen.
The name of the town is Delmenhorst.
Amazing that I was allowed to go to school - so I had different schools :)
During school I was mostly interested in chemics and had a real nice talk about "acids". Beside acids I was good in building 'fireworks' :)
By accident I learned how to fix the electric stuff in cars and everything with 4 or more than 4 wheels.
I also know how to handle 'big guns' and I can drive a Leopard 1A5.
After that I learned to sell stuff to people - I was that good that I could sell a dead granny and a shovel to dig the hole ...
And then this strange looking, green thing took me away :)

My life at SuSE

Jan 3rd 2000 was my first day at S.u.S.E.
I started as a supporter (mainly all stuff) and specialized on printers and other weird stuff.
During the time when I was a supporter, I also have been to a lot of trade fairs like CeBIT or LinuxTag.
I also made fun out of it to be Henne's secretary.

I'm a proud member of the (Q)A-Team since August 2003.
My part at the Quality Assurance Team is to be everywhere :)

My favorite stuff:

• biiiiiiig machines (never trust a computer that you can lift)
• and a lot of other things eg creating funny testcases to bother the developers :)

I do not only work for SuSE - I live SuSE ... always having a lot of fun ...

computer history

I started with a VIC-20 (around 83). Yes, it was a real VIC-20 not the VC-20 which has been sold in germany.
3 years later I switched to C-64 which in germany was called "Brotkasten" because it looked like a bread box.
A little bit later I got a C-64 in the new design and kept it till 1992.
In 1990 I had to start working on a 286 and 1992 I bought a 386 for home use :)
According to the reseller it was the first complete "black" machine (case, monitor, keyboard) for private usage.
The better machines followd soon.
Between 1993 and 1999 I had to work a lot on VT-200 terminals and learned quite a lot about administration.
Since 2003 I'm on all platforms but still have some i386 at home.

activities

• Regular at #suse on FreeNode and webmaster of suse-irc.org
  
• user meetings smeet
  
• (w)Hacking the PS3
• compiling and packaging games from Game Tome (for internal use only, ATM)
• voice in-/output (please help to support Blinux)
• Books and documentation (BTW ... have a look at Millin Verlag (IMHO German only ... sorry)

activities (!=Linux)

• I LOVE to play games (eg ut2k4, NWN and Guild Wars).
  
• I am addicted to music (still need to buy some stuff for my Rolands :))
  
• german history
• Geek toys like the Robosapien
• PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTY all the time! :)
  

This'N'that

My private webpage is at http://hausb.org - but there's really no reason to go there now.

Contact info:

• Email: mmichna@suse.de (please use 'opensuse' in the subject)
• ICQ: 121183848
• IM: [daemon] @ freenode (IRC) in #suse and #opensuse