[Vru-devel] Hello!

[Bernhard K. <da...@gm...>]

Hi and welcome ...

to myself :) and everybody else who will subscribe to this list!

I think it's a good idea to introduce ourselves so we know who we are
and what each of us can do. I've received some information about you
already via email but I'm a bit hesitant to forward your information
into the public so I'll leave that to you. We can also make the list
archive available to members only if that makes you to write more
openly but actually I'd like this list to be open also to non members
- to everybody ... which may include search engines and also spammers.

All right ... I'm Bernhard as you can see from the headers. I made a
chemistry school and I finished about 3 semesters computer science at
the technical university Vienna. I quit after about 3 years for no
particular reason.

I started playing with computers with a C-64 did some BASIC and
assembly programming on the amiga and on my Sharp pocket computer
PC-1401 (that was machine language rather than assembler). When
Commodore died *sniff* and I got to university I started with an XT,
MS-DOS and windows. After a HD crash on my 386 I switched with my Fido
point/node to OS/2. For about 4 years I use Linux and there are no M$
products installed on my computers. I live in a flat commune with
about 8 friends and we have a cable internet line with a P60 as
server, about 6 other computers in the LAN and my workstation is an
intel Celeron 733 with a crappy all in one mainboard (sound, ethernet,
graphics).

You can find my IT profile at
http://rainbow.hn.org/bernhard/services.html (that's on our server).

I live here near the center of Vienna which is the very nice and calm
capitol of Austria/Europe.

I'm crazy enough to believe in minduploading
(http://minduploading.org/ ,
http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/MUHomePage.html). After
having this idea for a while I chose science to be my religion which I
believe is not less true, crazy and realistic than other religions and
their visions of rebirth, eternal life, etc. I aim for being uploaded
myself and the VU may be one of the places to live in the future -
remember the movie Matrix. I just played crossfire for a week and the
imagination of becoming a magic dragon in a mature (that is as
realistic as the real life) VU is amazing.

I'm glad you joined here to create the new world.

Cheers, Bernhard