diff --git a/about.mdwn b/about.mdwn index a9af525c..bb7043ef 100644 --- a/about.mdwn +++ b/about.mdwn @@ -1,33 +1,35 @@ [[!meta title="About Nico Schottelius and www.nico.schottelius.org"]] +## Who am I? + +As you can guess, my name is Nico [[Schottelius|schottelius]]. +I'm living in Switzerland and work for the +[ETH Zurich](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/people/nicosc). +I am a [[FOSS developer|foss]], with [[several interests|interests]]. + +I personally do not think it's wise to publish detailled personal +information in the internet, because they are personal (versus public). + +To get an impression of what I do and who I am, +you can have a look at [[some press articles|press]] +or some of my [[websites|websites]]. + +If you want to know more about me, there are +[many](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22) +[public](http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22) +[information](http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22nico+schottelius%22) +available about me. + + ## Contact You can contact me via E-Mail at -***nico-webcontact*** (at the following domain) ***schottelius.org***. -I recommened using PGP to encrypt any mail. -The fingerprint of my [[pgp-key|pgp-key-9217A3DF.txt]] is + + nico-webcontact (at the following domain) schottelius.org + +I recommened using PGP to encrypt any mail. The fingerprint of my +[[pgp-key|pgp-key-9217A3DF.txt]] is BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42 F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C -## Personal information - -I personally do not think it's wise to publish detailled persoal information -to the internet, because the internet never forgets, as -seen on [google](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22), -[alltheweb](http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=%22nico+schottelius%22), -[yahoo](http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22nico+schottelius%22), ... - -But already from the above search results you may find out that ... - -* I work for the [ETH Zurich](http://www.systems.ethz.ch/people/nicosc) -* ... - -## More information - -About my ... - -* [[Websites|websites]] -* [[Aims|aims]] -* [[Relation to FOSS|foss]] - [[!tag schottelius]] diff --git a/about/aims.mdwn b/about/aims.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8d604dee..00000000 --- a/about/aims.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,14 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="Nicos aims and plans"]] - -* Create a clean (secure, fast, and comfortable) Linux distribution -* To stimulate the FOSS development, to boost the acceptance of FOSS. -* Create tools that are needed for himself and to make them available for use in other Unices as well (like cinit, ccollect are available already) -* Group together some people, interested in aiding the success of FOSS - * Paid people - * "Normal people" (those, that are just using the computer, not using to hack with it) - * Try to get different groups to work closer (like *BSD with the Linux community) - * I want to study computer science again - * Learn more, to create better software - * this time without the focus on economy - -[[!tag schottelius]] diff --git a/about/foss.mdwn b/about/foss.mdwn index bbc4bce2..29c1806e 100644 --- a/about/foss.mdwn +++ b/about/foss.mdwn @@ -1,39 +1,38 @@ [[!meta title="Nico Schottelius and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)"]] -[[Nico Schottelius|about]], the author of this website, is a FOSS developer.

-### How did he become a FOSS developer? +### Why did I become a FOSS developer? -In 1998 he was running Windows 95 on his brand new computer (Pentium -1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So he -asked his father, whether there is something else. And his father gave -him a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a packet labeled "Suse -Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white cd box and looked nicer, -so he began to try to install it to his computer. But it did not work, -because SCO did not support IDE disks and the computer had an IDE disk -builtin. +In 1998 I was running Windows 95 on my brand new computer (Pentium +1, 166Mhz) and it randomly crashed. This was very frustrating. So I +asked my father, whether there is something else available. +And his father gave me a set of SCO Unixware floppys and cds and a +packet labeled "Suse Linux 11/94". The SCO package had a blue/white +cd box and looked nicer, so I began to install Unixware my computer. +But it did not work, because SCO did not support IDE disks and the +computer had only an IDE disk builtin. -After about two weeks trying around with SCO, he gave up. -Frustrated he continued to use the old operating system. +After about two weeks trying around with SCO, I gave up. +Frustrated I continued to use the old operating system. About one week later he was again extremly frustrated, that this operating system was crashing so often and he remembered, that there was another cd set (one source code, one install cd) to try out. After -about 4 hours he had Linux running. That was really really easy +about 4 hours I had Linux running. That was really really easy compared to SCO. It felt strange, so new, so fast. And it contains only -text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, he thought. +text. Strange, like DOS before Windos, I thought. -On the next day he read in the book that there is something called +On the next day I read in the book that there is something called "X11" available, which can destroy the display, when wrongly -configured. He was shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. He +configured. I were shocked, but still tried to do it the correct. I searched for vertical and horizontal refresh rates and found them after some hours searching in the handbook (they were labeled differently compared to the SuSE Linux handbook). Created the configuration and typed in "X<enter>". Wow, it works. But why is it grey and black? Really gross. But after typing 'startx' it looked much better.

The next confusing thing was that there were no drivers for the -cdrom. Nothing to load. After about two weeks he found out that they +cdrom. Nothing to load. After about two weeks I found out that they are already integrated into the kernel and that one simply needs to -"mount" them. And after that experience, he was totally convinced by +"mount" them. And after that experience, I was totally convinced by FOSS, because the FOSS people solved the driver issue much cleaner than the cdrom vendor or Windos itself. The whole system has been running very stable and it has been really easy to change things (like diff --git a/net/press.mdwn b/about/press.mdwn similarity index 100% rename from net/press.mdwn rename to about/press.mdwn