Lance Hirdler

One mans path to IT Enlightenment

My path to the I.T.By Lance Hirdler A.K.A antman1380/lancelive. Where to start w CollectionFrom the beginning my first experience with a computer was my uncles Commodore 64 I would be playing on that rig while my uncle played D&D on his IBM machine.In Middle school we used Mac Apple2 with the old floppy disc mostly for word documentsThen from there it was high school with win 95 and 98My first Hack was bypassing the security to browse the web.Game counsel VS PCMy first game counsel was an Atari 2600 from then it was NintendoI would get up extra early just to play games before schoolNintendo to me was my best friend and my worst enemy o how I would blow and blow load and unload those game cartieragesWhen Snes came out I was stoked that's all I wanted for Christmas that year I did not get a snes but instead was an Atari/pc.My first PC was Compaq Pissarro my girlfriend now wife went after Black Friday waiting in line for 3 hours to check out came with windows 98 secand version first using one of the AOL discs that came in the mail.My first PC game that I was really stoked about was MechWarrior 4 after waiting a day in half to load I couldn't play it because the onboard graphics chip suckith. I franticly went out buy one and the one I got was voodoo 3dfx saved me from putting my boots in the machine.From then on it was HPzd8080 that laptop rocked but was heavy o yes I forgot to mention I purchased the model that only had 512mb ram got it home and put all the info in to Register blbalblabalb and went to reboot itself and rebooted again and again I called the help line and the person on the other end didn't speak English o so well four hours later we got it to boot finally but after I shut it down again bam it would do the boot loopy loop after that experience I started reading magazines books looking on line built my first machine then my second machine config in raid0 I learned the dos and the don'ts about raid0.Then from there it was doing remote sessions followed by the Vista upgrade project going to web sites for drivers .setting up a home network ,securing my wife network then windows to Linux ubuntu gnome KDE,Red Hat,sidux, knoppix, sidux, Fedora8,9,10,11,Freespire,linux mint7,mythbuntu, ubuntu studio, backtrack 3,suse,opensolaris,solaris10,11, ubuntu remix, Dream Linux, just to name a few ,creating ISO's usb, flash drives duel booting .Now its IT Forensics