Hi!

I'm a professional Linux Systems Administrator and Certified Ethical Hacker who has been programming, building, breaking and fixing computers my entire life. From playing with mainframes in the 1970s, discovering as a little kid what "10 goto 10" did to the Big Iron of the era (not pretty), to the 80s teenage hacker thing, bulletin boards and wardialing with acoustic modem and green screen monitor, to now working for companies such as Boeing, Telstra, IBM and HP, advising on Linux systems and security.

My first writing was for a local user group newsletter with a circulation of some thousands during high school in the 80s, becoming editor at 15. Now days most of my writing is internal documentation for clients and sporadic posts on mikelindner.com. I live in Melbourne, Australia and spend my offline time enjoying the city's awesome culture.

Michael.