I'm passionate about computer Science, especially System Administration and Server Management. This website is a personal project of mine, to showcase my skills :)

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MY SKILLS

Things I'm Passionate About

It all started when I got my first Computer back in 2021. I quickly became fascinated by Linux and thus started my Open Source Journey.

Programming

I can code in C and Python and have contributed to several projects on github, that I personally use.

System Administration

Managing Computers & tinkering with servers on Linux has become of my primary hobbies.

Network Security

Configuring and strengthening Networks is one of my other hobbies, tinkering with routers since 2021.

Interested in Learning ?

Although I have linked ample resources for people willing to learn. If there is anything you'd like to learn straight from me, then feel free to contact me on reddit :)

GOALS FOR 2024

Things I want to learn

These are some of the things that I've yet to try. Check them out !

SOCIAL

Conventions

DEFCON is a hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first DEFCON took place in June 1993 and today many attendees at DEFCON include computer security professionals, journalists, security researchers, students, and hackers with a general interest in software, computer architecture, hardware modification, conference badges, and anything else that can be "hacked".

The International Robot Exhibition (IREX) is the largest robot trade fair in the world. It is an event that has been staged once every two years in Tokyo, Japan since 1973 and is organized by the Japan Robot Association (JARA) and the company Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd. It is a place for companies from Japan and around the world to exhibit the latest in robot technology.

Micromouse is an event where small robotic mice compete to solve a 16×16 maze. It began in the late 1970s. Events are held worldwide, and are most popular in the UK, U.S., Japan, Singapore, India, South Korea and becoming popular in subcontinent countries such as Sri Lanka.

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LEGENDS IN OUR FIELD

These are the Experts

They are the people who changed the world with their ingenuity. I have immense respect for them.

Linus Torvalds

Creator of Linux

Richard Stallman

Creator of GNU

Ada Lovelace

The First Programmer

Alan Turing

Father of Computer Science

Dennis Ritchie

Creator of C

Tim Berners-Lee

Creator of WWW

STILL CURIOUS ?

Top 10 FAQ's

Here are the most popular computer science related questions !

Linux is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution (distro), which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project.

Quantum computers are machines that use the properties of quantum physics to store data and perform computations. This can be extremely advantageous for certain tasks where they could vastly outperform even our best supercomputers. Classical computers, which include smartphones and laptops, encode information in binary “bits” that can either be 0s or 1s. In a quantum computer, the basic unit of memory is a quantum bit or qubit.

There is no such thing as a Perfect Server OS. There are however differnet OSes for different use cases. For the vast majority of Servers, Debian is a no-brainer, it's rock stable and can be setup to be as secure as possible since it's based on Linux. There are also other specialized OSes like: NetWare, it was used in the Early Web. Windows Server and RHEL are also popular choices.

The butterfly effect is the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ultimately result in something with much larger consequences in other words, they have non-linear impacts on very complex systems. For instance, when a butterfly flaps its wings in India, that tiny change in air pressure could eventually cause a tornado in Iowa.

Web3 (also known as Web 3.0) is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Some technologists and journalists have contrasted it with Web 2.0, wherein they say data and content are centralized in a small group of companies sometimes referred to as "Big Tech".

Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic via a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network that consists of more than seven thousand relays.Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace a user's Internet activity. Tor protects personal privacy by concealing a user's location and usage from anyone performing network surveillance or traffic analysis.

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build or use such a connection or interface is called an API specification. A computer system that meets this standard is said to implement or expose an API. The term API may refer either to the specification or to the implementation.

SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is an encryption-based Internet security protocol. It was first developed by Netscape in 1995 for the purpose of ensuring privacy, authentication, and data integrity in Internet communications. SSL is the predecessor to the modern TLS encryption used today.A website that implements SSL/TLS has "HTTPS" in its URL instead of "HTTP."

In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It can sometimes be a high-level description that ignores details of the implementation. At a more detailed level, the description may include the instruction set architecture design, microarchitecture design, logic design, and implementation.

Electronic components have a wide range of failure modes. These can be classified in various ways, such as by time or cause. Failures can be caused by excess temperature, excess current or voltage, ionizing radiation, mechanical shock, stress or impact, and many other causes. In semiconductor devices, problems in the device package may cause failures due to contamination, mechanical stress of the device, or open or short circuits.

Resources Used for this Website

  • I bought the itnerd.dev domain from Namecheap.
  • Namecheap Basic DNS is being used as the Nameservers.
  • I used 1984.hosting to host the Virtual Private Server.
  • Debian 12 "Bookworm" is being used as the Server Operating System.
  • I'm using Apache2 Webserver to Serve this Website.
  • I issued an SSL/TLS Certificate from Let's Encrypt for HTTPS support.
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