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Name: Jocke "Firetech" Andersson
Born: May 10 1987
Location: Hjärup (near Malmö) in southern Sweden.
Occupation: Student

Blog: Firelog
Mail: ajocke AT gmail DOT com
IRC: Firetech (Freenode/Quakenet)

Other notes:

  • Author of Amarok-svn (earlier known as get-amarok-svn.sh)
  • Part of the roKymotion crew. (Inactive because of school now though.)


Stuff

Some links

My computing history

This shouldn't be read, I wrote it mostly to think about it myself... It might, however, be of interest, if you're a shrink ;)

  • The "too early to understand programming" years
    • I was born in 1987. This has nothing to do with computing. ;)
    • The first computers (two of them) I had contact with was running DOS, and I spent some time playing DOS games when I was really young. (Ah, Norton Commander and its screen saver... :D) Don't remember much of those computers, though, other than the fact that we still have the older one, and that it still works but has been reinstalled since that... My grandfather used it for some years before he died in 2003.
    • Not much later, we suddenly had a computer equipped with Windows 3.1 (Ah, good ol' Paintbrush... And Netscape 2.)
  • The "learning (Windows)" years
    • We were fast in getting Windows 95 after its release. By that time, I was stuck by the computer... Somewhere here, my father suggested that I should do something productive in front of the computer, so he put me into programming BASIC. (BASIC later got exchanged for Delphi.) This later resulted in me getting my own computer... Some time here, my Netscape broke (didn't react when I pressed Enter after typing an URL...), so I started to use IE... *shrug*
    • After putting up with Windows 95 for some years, I installed Windows 98 SE. I think this was in 1999, but back then, I felt like it was five years since Windows 98 was released...
    • In December 2002, I installed Debian Woody on a secondary computer, which crashed during the Windows installation... I fell in love with Debian after some dependency hell while trying Red Hat... (See, there is a reason why I hate rpm based distros...) I had seen a bit of Linux before this, but this was my first real Linux installation.
    • After repairing (reinstalling) Windows 98 for the umpteenth (well, at least the twentieth) time, I switched to Windows 2000 Professional in 2003. After this, I started coding in PHP and finally exchanged IE for Firefox. I started longing for the time when I would have good hardware and time enough to switch to Linux. (My GFX card back then had no Linux support... At all.) IIRC, I said that I would convert four times (christmas and summer two years in a row) before I actually did it.
  • The Linux "years"
    • Finally, in late March 2005 (Start of the easter vacation, it was a Friday.), after speding the Christmas vacation exchanging hardware in my main computer, I installed Knoppix on it. It lasted for about a day, then I installed Ubuntu, after seeing it on my sister's boyfriend's laptop.
    • After some weeks of GNOME performance (and look) issues, I decided to change to KDE/Kubuntu, which I've now been running since early April 2005.
      The fact that I broke my Windows installation during the linux transition process (VMware and cfdisk are to blame, I think...), made the transition even easier. ;)
    • In the beginning of the summer, I got fed up by XMMS and turned towards amaroK (now Amarok), and after running 1.2.4 for about two weeks and then 1.3-beta1 and 2, I exchanged it for 1.3-SVN and started developing Amarok-svn. I based it on a simple script I got from Greg "oggb4mp3" Meyer and the first modification I made was to make it download localization and docs.
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