About
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Last changes to this page were made in summer of 2008. And a lot has changed since then.
Name: Adnan Hodzic aka AbsintheSyringe
Gender: Male
Occupation: Student
Born: 25.09.1985
Location: Tuzla, Bosnia
About Me
Well, it’s a really hard question to answer. I don’t know, I haven’t done anything BIG yet. Anyways, I’ve been growing this passion for computers and such. Yet in a very early age I figured how to mod my “Super Nintendo” so I could play other consoles games.
Later on, came computers, where I of course had to screw everything up to learn something 
In 98-99 I first came across my first Linux distro, Caldera 2.0. Of course I didn’t figure anything out, and was too lazy to RTFM But this did change my life. After Caldera, my “cherry popping” distro was RedHat 7.1 (SeaWolf). Around same time I got my hands on the latest “it hit” Macromedia Flash 4. I was simply amazed, and kept using it until 6/6-MX. I was really successful, I managed a higly popular personal flash website, with animations and such. I even released a demo of game called “Addict” but never released it, and lost the demo itself due to hosting problems.
Out of frustration to current situation on “market” I decided to open my own free hosting service. Since I already had some linux experience, it was all based on Linux, giving professional service with enormous amounts of webspace and bandwidth. Of course all strictly free, and based on few basic “gnu/linux” virtues such as “power of community”. Over time this slowly kills my passion for art and animation, due to lack of time as hobby was becoming a serious business.
At the highest point, I was in charge/admin of ~2000 users and few dedicated servers. This may not sound anything special, but remember why I started this? Heh, yes host was called Abshost
This lasted for 3 and something years, and it was simply dying out as I started university. As I loved living on the edge, I got at a point, where I was involved in an incident with a train, ending up clinically dead, after I was alive, I slipped into coma, and in the end all spiced up with amnesia and broken body, not mentioning broken mental system.
It took time to recover, slowly after that I killed Abshost, because I decided to use that same time for studying and finishing university. Last year I also changed my university and right now am a studying IT at AUBIH/SUNY, I also work as network admin and program/develop SIS (student information system) at/for this same university. Also I’m student at CISCO CCNA. Besides doing those two, I freelance, just recently I did a job for government of Tanzania. Also please not that what I do here and what I write about is not affiliated with who I work with and has nothing to do with my clients/employees.
As for GNU/Linux world, I worked on many projects, but nothing really big, I’d say the biggest would probably be writing code for Wormux project. Last year I was invited to DebConf7 (Edinburgh, Scotland) as honor guest, even tho at the time I had years and years of Slackware experience. After DebConf7 I have moved to Debian and is now my default distribution. One thing lead to the other one, right now I’m a contributor and I plan to become official debian developer in near future
There, that was very brief About me. If you got any questions, please contact me.
Best regards,
Adnan Hodzic (AbsintheSyringe)
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