I'm a Linux System Engineer and Open Source Enthuasist interested in Automation, Security, Log Management, Virtualization and random geek stuff.

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The motivation for this blog is very easy: I want to help the community and give something back. In all the years I'm working as System Engineer I learned a lot of things and maybe I forgot already a part of that. Simply because: If you don't use it, you loose it. To fight this, I want to share my experience and knowledge with the community.

Most of the time I work very focused on a few projects and problems. If one is finished I move on to the next one. Because of that behaviour, I rarely look back to see what I achieved over the years. So this blog can help me to keep a history of what I've done, solved, found and learned over time.

In addition to that, I like tech comics, tech jokes and all kind of geek stuff. So there will be some posts of pearls and fun things I found in daily browsing.

Hello World

When personal computers came up and prices where more or less affordable for a young family, I've got my first laptop to my 10th birthday. Before my birthday I already got in touch with computers at my relatives or friends. So I started using it with the (good) old Windows XP. I started to read tech magazines and learned much by myself. The first time I saw and typed in a cmd.exe was within a support case. They guy on the other end of the phone told me what to do. When I showed my new skills to friends I already felt like a pro. Mainly it was the ipconfig command.

Parsing

In one of these magazine was once a CD attached with OpenSUSE and a starting guide article inside the mag. So I did what was written there and the first time in my life a saw these cute green chameleon and understood... this is now Linux. A GNU/Linux distribution. I started to explore. It used a KDE desktop, looked a bit like the Windows XP I was used to.

In the years later I didn't used that much OpenSUSE or another distribution. It was somehow way easier to use Windows. Especially for the games. I played a lot of games. The CD drive in the laptop broke two times because of that. In high school I started to use Ubuntu as dual boot. That was pretty useful. I could still play on it and learn "Linux things".

Return

After starting my apprenticeship as ICT System Technican, I got the final prove for myself that Linux and FOSS is my passion. I used it more than Windows and learned a lot. Sadly in school we didn't learn that much about it. Most topics have been about Micro$oft products; Windows, Office and so on. My employeer had it's own Unix Operating System team. They teched me then the real things. I got in touch with IBM AIX and it's POWER hardware and virtualization. I knew it better than VMware's ESX back then. I really want to thank this team, it had a big impact for my later career and my passion. They supported me to successfuly finish my apprenticeship and I just had an awsome time working together with them. Thank you!

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While I'm not working at the terminal or browser, I love to be outside, ride my (motor|downhill)bike, be in the mountains or looking for adventures while exploring the planet Earth. (Short: travelling)