How to reach me:
Kurt Garloff, Kurt Garloff
<kurt@garloff.de>
Public PGP keys:
GPG-1.0.x (DSA):
1024D/1C98774E: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
Fingerprint: 94DD 1125 CDFB AB48 6573 28EF C662 E1EA 1C98 774E
Old, depreceated PGP-2.6.3i (RSA) keys:
1024R/CEFC9215: Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de>
Key fingerprint = 92 00 AC 56 59 50 13 83 3C 18 6F 1B 25 A0 3A 5F
1024R/96AB5C19: Kurt Garloff <garloff@etpmod.phys.tue.nl>
Key fingerprint = DD 81 27 9A 08 6F 26 D3 97 67 CD 7A 22 18 67 5C
The keys can also be found on public keyservers.
Snail mail address, telephone and fax are available on
request. Drop me an email ...
(You may wonder, why I don't write it here? Well, I got
enough SPAM every day. Most of it is thrown away by my SPAM
filter. However, I have no way of filtering snail mail or telephone
calls before they reach me and making me angry.) You can see a sketch
how to reach me here. You need
Acrobat
Reader or GhostScript to
display it, though.
I was born 1973 in Reutlingen and
grew up in Genkingen, a small village at the edge of the Swabian Jura. I
went to secondary school in Pfullingen
(Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium)
and finished in 1992 with the Abitur. I changed my home and went to the
University of Dortmund to study
Physics. I specialized on
Theoretical Solid State Physics after my Vordiplom (Bachelor) in 1994. After
passing the (oral) examns for the Diplom (Master) in Physics, I was working
on my Diploma Thesis on the "Simulation of Microwave Plasmas for
Atomic Emission Spectroscopy" at the
Chair of High Frequency
Engineering. I received my Diploma (Master) in February 1999.
Since March 1999, I am a member of the scientific crew
of the Microstructure Research Center
(fmt) in Wuppertal and working on the improvement of Microwave Plasma
Sources.
I quit that job in June, as it worked out to be quite different from
what I expected it to be. I'm working for SuSE
GmbH, Nuremberg, FRG, now and do kernel development there (SCSI,
Security, ...).
I will continue to work in plasma simulation, though, somewhere else:
ETP, TU Eindhoven.
While studying in Dortmund, I was engaged in fighting for the improvement of
the Curriculum and situation of students and I was a member of the student's
representation.
On the one hand, I did this at the
Physics Department, being
member of the
Fachschaftsrat and Fachbereichsrat, which is the committee whichs
decides about almost everything in the Department and consists mainly of
Professors. In 1994, I was even
spokesman of the Fachschaftrat. Some of the things achieved are a Commented
Lecture Schedule (Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis,
KVV), a Review on
the quality of the Teaching, Information for Beginners,
Computer access for
students, Reworking the Curriculum, Presentation of the Chairs, ...
On the other hand, I also spent some time in the student's
parliament (Studierendenparlament) for the whole University and in the
committee for the University, the Senate.
I am interested in Computers. Since 1994, I was working with free software, mainly Linux and GNU software. For accomplishing my Diploma Thesis, I also used this software to do the software development for the numerical simulation of a Plasma.
I contributed a little bit to the effort of making powerful Free Software. A part of this can be found on my Free Software and Linux pages. Nowadays, I do work part time for SuSE. Some of my stuff can also be found there.
Naturally, I am also a netizen, meaning I try to observe and analyse
what's going on in the virtual life in the Internet. Apart from the
struggle of Operating Systems, where the Internet helped Free Software
a lot, I also see dangerous trends.
On the one hand, there are people misusing the Internet for
distributing pornographic material or for communication in order to
commit crimes. On the other hand, the governments are ignorant enough to
fight this by censorship and by
restricting cryptography. This
hurts the normal users in the first place, reducing their
constitutional rights.
However, there's more to life than working and hacking. I like cycling, especially when spending my holidays. I like to play table tennis, even though I unfortunately didn't do it for some months now. And I try to spend as much time as possible with my girlfriend.