I thought I might as well write something about me…
My name is Ivan SavÄ?ić. It’s pronounced “ee-vahn sav-cheech” (with softer second “ch” as in “pistaccio”) for you english speaking people out there ;). I was born on 11. April 1982 in Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia, and when I was seven I got my first computer: Commodore 64.
My interest in computers has risen very fast, most probably because my C64 got broke very soon in a peculiar way: the most of the games didn’t work properly and I was stuck with playing around in BASIC. Commodore Amiga 500+ followed the C64 and then came the A1200. I bought a hard drive for it and I experimented with ProTracker and Daydream BBS software. I was a member of the Serbian computer scene back then with my computer group HeX and made some interesting .MODules and ASCII-art collections.
I started going to high school, the Fifth Belgrade gymnasium, and was utterly bored with the classes. As my Amiga 1200 broke, I bought my first PC: PentiumII 266MHz with 64MB RAM and 5.1GB HDD. BBS were still hot back then and the Internet was still new (at least to my knowledge ;), so I joined a group called Trancethereal and made some XM modules. We even published a music compilation on an audio CD!
The group fell apart and I started playing with GNU/Linux. If I remember correctly, my first distribution was Redhat 5.0 or something and I wasn’t happy with it, so I got myself a Slackware 4.0 (thanks to Luka “Stinger” Gerzić) and started to play with it. Flaming newbie I was, I spent many hours making the sound work properly, configuring X and KDE…
I didn’t have the nerves to migrate to GNU/Linux completely, so I stuck with Windows.
(rest of the “story” follows…)
