• Hi all!

    From scarface@21:1/101 to All on Saturday, August 30, 2025 12:23:57
    Hi there. I'm scarface from New Zealand. I'm pretty new to BBS's, mainly just been playing the games (poorly haha). I've also been lurking the message board a bit and thought I should take the time to introduce myself.

    I'm a child of the late 80's, brought up with a mix of DOS, Debian, and various window's starting from 3.11. I've gotten to know a lot more about computers ever since, but always know there is heaps more out there to learn.

    In recent years, I mainly use linux, but dabble in other OS's in VM's. I've also made a decent effort at my own OS for the x86, purely for the learning opportunity of learning x86 assembly.

    For work, I started off a sysadmin at my dad's work, then did university and whatnot. After uni I've been a web developer, security consultant. On the side I do various projects in a bunch of languages. I like trying things out, even "esoteric" stuff.

    I'm probably a bit younger than the average age, but is nice to see there are even younger folks getting engaged with this sort of technology. I worry sometimes about the direction of the software industry. I'm not so sure it is always going forward haha.

    Anyhow, that's me. Using SyncTERM from ubuntu. Happy for recommendations of other clients to enjoy this though!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Zip@21:1/202 to scarface on Saturday, August 30, 2025 10:48:38
    Hello scarface!

    Hi there. I'm scarface from New Zealand. I'm pretty new to BBS's, mainly just been playing the games (poorly haha). I've also been lurking the message board a bit and thought I should take the time to introduce myself.

    Thanks for the intro, and welcome! Nice to have you here!

    I was born in the late 70s -- almost early 80s! -- and also started off with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1. Later some OS/2 2.1, OS/2 3.0, Windows NT4, Windows 2000 Professional, and then finally some Linux (mostly Debian), which I use for the BBS stuff (still using Windows for my desktop, but a bit tempted to try out MacOS any year now...).

    Working as a Linux/UNIX sysadmin since the early 2000s to this date, and just spent a couple of days of wading trough config files and whatnot after a Debian 13 upgrade. =)

    Best regards
    Zip

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Star Collision BBS, Uppsala, Sweden (21:1/202)