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| = Personal Information = Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia, not too far from where the river Aare flows into the Rhine. |
Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia (Switzerland) near Baden, not too far from where the river Aare flows into the Rhine. |
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| == Education == * dropout at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) [http://www.epfl.ch/], after two failures at first propaedeutic exams in electrical engineering. * a short visit to Uni St.Gallen [http://www.unisg.ch/ turned out to be a dead end. |
== Linux == === Career === * collected first experience with Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, but never really made the switch over to Linux. * discovered Gentoo and loved it, for about a year on one PC and several Sun Ultra workstations. It taught me a lot about Linux and helped to complete the migration to Linux - great support community. * found Ubuntu in it's late 4.10 days and was instantly upon it. * running Ubuntu 7.04 on a Laptop (HP Compaq nc6000) and some Sun Ultra Workstations (for the fun of it) * running Ubuntu 7.04 (with ubuntu-desktop) on a Shuttle SN95Gv3 barebone with an AMD Athlon 3000 (Venice). * running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server with file services (NFS, Samba) on a very quiet old P-III 500. === Involvement === * actively contributing and helping in the Networking & Wireless and SUN SPARC sections of ubuntuforums.org * occasional visits to the (former) local Linux User Group [http://www.lug-ag.ch/] == Education and Career == === Education === * dropout in summer '96 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) [http://www.epfl.ch/], after two failures at first propaedeutic exams in electrical engineering. * a short visit to Uni St.Gallen [http://www.unisg.ch/] turned out to be a dead end in spring '94. |
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| == Career == * Network specialist at SWX - Swiss Exchange [http://www.swx.ch/] for five years and counting... * IT support at Holcim Switzerland [http://www.holcim.ch/] for almost five years |
=== Jobs === * Network specialist at [http://www.swx.com/ SWX - Swiss Exchange] for five years and counting... * IT supporter with [http://www.holcim.ch/ Holcim (Switzerland)] during almost five years ('96-'01) |
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| == Certifications == * CCNA since February 2005 * complete and utter failure to become a CCIE during summer 2005 |
=== Certifications === * [http://www.cisco.com/go/ccna CCNA] since February 2005 * complete and utter failure to become a [http://www.cisco.com/go/ccie CCIE] during summer 2005 |
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| = Fields of Interest = == professional == |
== Fields of Interest == === professional === |
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| == private == * inline skating, motorcycling and airboarding [http://www.airboard.com/] in wintertime * Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld] * Life, the Universe and Everything [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy] |
=== private === * inline skating, motorcycling and airboarding [http://www.airboard.com/] in wintertime. * Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld]. * Life, the Universe and Everything [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy]. |
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| * Goa and Psytrance music | * Goa and Psychedelic Trance music and parties, Didgeridoo. |
Marc Lüthi (1973), living in northern Argovia (Switzerland) near Baden, not too far from where the river Aare flows into the Rhine.
Linux
Career
- collected first experience with Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian, but never really made the switch over to Linux.
- discovered Gentoo and loved it, for about a year on one PC and several Sun Ultra workstations. It taught me a lot about Linux and helped to complete the migration to Linux - great support community.
- found Ubuntu in it's late 4.10 days and was instantly upon it.
- running Ubuntu 7.04 on a Laptop (HP Compaq nc6000) and some Sun Ultra Workstations (for the fun of it)
- running Ubuntu 7.04 (with ubuntu-desktop) on a Shuttle SN95Gv3 barebone with an AMD Athlon 3000 (Venice).
- running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server with file services (NFS, Samba) on a very quiet old P-III 500.
Involvement
actively contributing and helping in the Networking & Wireless and SUN SPARC sections of ubuntuforums.org
occasional visits to the (former) local Linux User Group [http://www.lug-ag.ch/]
Education and Career
Education
dropout in summer '96 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) [http://www.epfl.ch/], after two failures at first propaedeutic exams in electrical engineering.
a short visit to Uni St.Gallen [http://www.unisg.ch/] turned out to be a dead end in spring '94.
Matura '93 at Kantonschule Beromünster [http://www.ksb-lu.ch/]. Those were the golden years.
Jobs
Network specialist at [http://www.swx.com/ SWX - Swiss Exchange] for five years and counting...
IT supporter with [http://www.holcim.ch/ Holcim (Switzerland)] during almost five years ('96-'01)
Certifications
[http://www.cisco.com/go/ccna CCNA] since February 2005
complete and utter failure to become a [http://www.cisco.com/go/ccie CCIE] during summer 2005
Fields of Interest
professional
- Networking. TCP/IP, Routing, Switching, Firewalls (mainly Cisco-oriented)
Network Management. HP OpenView Network Node Manager, CiscoWorks 2000
- Redundancy, fault-tolerance and resilience in networking
- unixoid operating systems
- the protocols of the Internet in general
private
inline skating, motorcycling and airboarding [http://www.airboard.com/] in wintertime.
Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld].
Life, the Universe and Everything [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy].
- listening to what people (don't) say when they open their hearts to let grief, anger, pain, sorrow or old memories out.
- Goa and Psychedelic Trance music and parties, Didgeridoo.
- Sarah
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