UNIX

My first introduction to UNIX happened when I was 16. I had heard of it, but I knew at the time that it wasn't as great as Linux was supposed to be. I had heard that if you ever wanted to be a hacker you needed a shell account.

So I ended up getting a shell account on freeshell with the user name Rekcah01. How goofy! (A side note, I've always had a thing for spelling things backwards). Eventually the account died from inactivity.

Ironically, several years later got another account on the same system as 'selever' (again, think backwards and it makes sense). This time the purpose wasn't that I might mysteriously become an incredible computer hacker, but was simply to learn how to use UNIX. I became hooked.

By the end of my freshman year in college I setup my 550 Pentium III computer to dual boot between freeBSD and Windows. I started an ssh daemon on it and started getting my friends to use it remotely.

More recently, starting my sophomore year at UTA I went ahead and built my first computer. I can say with a certain pride that I am one of the very few people in the world who actually take advantage of a 64 bit processor with a 64 bit operating system (freeBSD 5.4 for amd64). Though I can no longer run a ssh server with my apartment's internet connection, I do use it for a wide variety of tasks.

Accessing UNIX Computers
Getting Access

Scripts
My entirely customized 'newspaper'
A script to add proper DOCTYPEs to webpages

An introduction to writing Borne shell scripts
A very basic tutorial on editing scripts