Didier Raboud, aka OdyX

Me

Hi !

First of all, I want to hear from me in my allday life, visit my weblog (mainly in french, sorry) : http://didier.raboud.com/

I was born in 1986 in Switzerland where I spent a large part of my life. I'm living in the French speaking part, near Lausanne, Vevey, in a little town named Corseaux. I'm actually studying Electrical and Electronical Engineering at the [http://www.epfl.ch EPFL].

I'm now spending a year in Madrid learning Spanish and trying to make that year a success.

Interests

I'm very interested in :

• Scouting (since my 12 and still going on)
• Vocal art (been in various choirs since my 8)
• Coding
  • BASIC on TI-92+ (very funny)
  • C++ at school (I have to practise)
  • PHP (idem)
• Cryptography, security
  • Author of a "maturity work" about RSA (coded RSA in BASIC though)
• FLOSS philosophy

Linux Experience

I first began to use Linux as a complete beginner thanks to a custom distribution based on Fedora Core 2 (then 3 and 4), made by a team in my school : [http://poseidon.epfl.ch Poseidon] for our lowcost laptops. After destroying my system 4 times (loosing 3D acceleration, RPM-crap and so on), I began to look around. I installed the new born Breezy on a partition for a moment. After one month, I deleted all my Windows stuff, formatted my HardDrive and Installed Kubuntu Breezy alone. Since then, I increased my Linux skills up to installing Kubuntu Dapper in begin of March.

I plan to improve my little C++ and packaging skills so as to be able to become MOTU and maybe more.

Hardware

I own a Dell Latitude D800 which contains :

• Nvidia Geforce FX5200 3D Card
• ipw2200 Wifi Card
• IR and Bluetooth cards