Nethack Excerpt

    In the morning you awake, collect your belongings, and set off for the dungeon.  After several days  of  uneventful  travel, you  see the ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Mazes of Menace.  It is late at night, so you make camp at  the entrance and  spend the night sleeping under the open skies.  In the morning, you gather your gear, eat what may be your  last  meal  out-side, and enter the dungeon. You have just begun a game of NetHack...

Word of the Week: GIGABUTT

Me

I am a geek. There is no denying this fact. If you have met me, you more than likely considered me weird or... different, at least at first. And that's perfectly fine with me. Once you got to know me, I'm sure you got used to the strangeness and accepted me as normal, or as normal as geeks get anyway. I consider myself to be honest and true to my friends, and expect the same honesty in return. Among geeks though, this is usually not a problem.

Interests

I have many interests, most of which being... well... geeky of course. Have a list to enjoy:

• Calculators (I own too many)
• Watches (My watch never needs batteries or setting. How's that for geeky?)
• Computers (I need more of these)
• Linux (The operating system for the truly hardcore)
• Keyboarding (Everyone needs a little music)
• Oldschool chip tunes (Those sweet gameboy beats)
• Hacking (In the real sense. No crackers allowed!)
• Network "tinkering" (Frighteningly easy...)
• Progressive music (Mainstream is boring)

Linux

    Linux is an amazing, free, open source operating system that is widely used in servers and high-reliability systems due to its stability and security. It is also used by hobbiests and programmers due to the code for the entire system being completely public. I use it personally because I was fed up with Windows, and after trying Macintosh, even OS X, I wanted more. I never felt like I was truly in control of the system I was running, and when problems would arise, I would typically be hard pressed to find an easy solution. Any problems that come about in Linux, however, I could figure out, because the tools for doing so were there and the insides could be exposed at my will. To me, this is how an operating system should be.