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Some private info about me

General

I am known by the name Markus Tornow, also by some nicks on the WWW: jalu or j1alu, nadir and some more (dawg, banshee, xepanche...) , but i use them seldom. Else i use tornow. Same is for IRC and alike. I would have prefered a name like Murphy, Malone or Molloy (m...m, la-la, alike a moll. Oh? Like in mollify?), but the only free one was nadir. I will get used to it. I have to. The place of birth is Germany,Rhineland, and it was in 1970. Private life is not what i am interested in, so that was that.

Interests

My main interests for a long time have been literature, philosophy and music.
"Music", of course, "is the best". I was a bit bored, i must have been 30, and started to learn English.
After that i started to write my own texts, some are lost, some you can find here.
As no one was interested in my writings, i started to play with my PC:
bought a new one, with Windows XP, and after a few weeks installed Gnu/Linux distributions.
After a while i installed Debian Gnu/Linux, and that is my main OS. The one i like most and the one i know most about.
(Not that i would know much about computing, but about the rpm-based distributions i know even less)

Computing

There are a couple of things i am trying to learn.
I hope i will have learned some of it in circa 5 years.
Here is a short list:
- Bash and Bash-scripting
- Vim and Gvim
- Git
- Packaging Debian-packages


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