About
Hi, my name is Andrea and I am an italian EU citizen. I live in Italy and work as a general IT consultant, specialized on WEB and Networking.
The reason for this blog is to catalogue and organize my various activities, helping me not to forget. English is my favourite language (I'm kinda anglophile!), although everyone is welcome. When asked, I like to define myself as a "Linux System Administrator", but I generally don't like the feeling of being "tagged": I am just a man.
For business reasons, I may be related to such job profiles and technologies: Network and Computer Systems Integrator, Computer/IT Consultant (Contractor), System Administrator, Network Engineer, Database Designer, Public Relations guy, Value Added Reseller, Virtualization, Web Master, QA guy, Technical Writer, Supporter, Web Designer, but a more concise definition about my main qualifications may be the O*NET Online, Network and Computer Systems Administrators.
UPDATE 2009, July 01: I have a job. As of this date I'm (officially) a "sistemista" (the italian generic term for sysadmin) for Net and Work, a little, LLC-equivalent, Correggio-based wISP fighting against digital divide. I am OK with the colleagues and the boss and I like this place: the right formula to share experiences and learn a lot of interesting stuff.
My last important work experience (Mar/2007 – Oct/2008), was for a software house, shipping an (interesting) IT appliance.
I called this blog "pwrusr.com" because It makes me remember when I started using computers under DOS (I was a 640kb pwrusr-cli-junkie and command.com was not an URL!); I then grew-up as a Windows, click-click, power user; then Microsoft created the Power Users group inside Windows, so I felt offended by the term and started to dislike it (too few permissions!), then I moved to Linux and re-discovered my power user spirit and enjoyed my root credentials for some time, bringing randomness and destruction to my / for many kernel generations (some 2.2.x from a man, some red, next generation, 2.4.y and many cylonesque 2.6.z), 'till the day Ubuntu went into orbit: with the power of sudo, I returned being a pwrusr again (well, it seems I lost some vowels in the meantime, but the spirit remains the same), so, on october 2007, this blog was born.
Actually, I work as a full-time spare-time and free-time (well, not so much, indeed), IT consultant for my customers, through Winsystem Snc, a little general partnership software house between me and my sister, and its web and open source services division: amitex.it.
UPDATE July 2009: when I have some time, I will resize my division and port all the stuff over there to the Winsystem Snc site.
UPDATE Nov 2009: I successfully ported some stuff from amitex to winsystem and put it offline…mmh, now I need some new ideas for it, we'll see.
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