ETHERTEK SOLUTIONS: How I Became a Computer Guy. [The Beginner's Guide to Geek]

In this post, i wish to tell you my story. a story i didn't expect to talk about this early but couldn't avoid for all that's happening. I'm also starting a series of posts to guide the new entrants to the geek community.

(UPDATE: I have now devoted to developing and designing fantastic Websites at ElitNex Website Developers Uganda )

Hints to hacking is a Face book Group I created out of the love I hard for computers that later turned me into more of a hacker than an average geek. I spent lots of sleepless nights even more than the ones I have spent trying to learn Coding. In this time I learnt something I was supposed to have learnt years ago “If you got to do it, do it for the Good in it. A lot of beginners go into it after hearing stories or watching that movie that portrays hacking. Well tell you what, That was me at 16 years of age and as an admin at Hint's to hacking, Trust me when I say 60 % of those that ask me about hacking want to hack their girlfriends / boyfriends face book or computer passwords, school networks or friends and relatives. Really most beginners are motivated by Hacking the wrong way [black hat]. I have seen this first hand since I myself was 50% motivated by the stories about hackers giving banks hard time. I'll begin another series come January 2015 about Hacking where I will be talking about Hacking so please keep around if you must.

My arrival to here wasn't an easy one. I am choosing to ignore my life before Hints to hacking so I don't bore you with my long life story. I have always been inspired by computers. From the movies, the stories, even in real life. However, starting my journey as a group admin was not exactly what I expected but it worked out just fine. So how did I come to be one, I hard knowledge I needed to share, but the luck of a way to share it made me do a little research. Then I found a way. It was a face book based group administered by a one called Titus Mukisa. And that was how it all began, after participating in the group for some time, I realized Titus's group didn't have the right people I wanted to share my knowledge with, I wanted a specific kind of people that would all share and learn from each other as hackers. But Titus’s group hard more of IT guys than hackers. Don't get me wrong I loved the group, hey I still like it. But I loved Titus's dedication to the group more. That's the kind of guy I wanted to be. But for the Hacker community and so I started off by thinking of a name for a new group. It’s that moment that it hit me I had already made a face book page Hints to Hacking and someone hard suggested I made a group to. It took me a few mints to create and get the group started. I added one close friend then went ahead to share the group to all my friends and in groups including Titus’s Group and within a week, Hints to hacking went from 2 to 300 members. The next week I added all my friends making us about 500 and came to 1,500 Members after a moth. During this time was the time I became more respondent, supportive and got to know a lot of people some of whom I still have as my friends up to date. This was the time I felt like yes I did it and it was the time when all the group was so active interactive and all good but wait,Scamming, Spammers, Script kiddies and all other kinds of bad guys were also in the group though all of it was controllable at that capacity and I had time. In the year 2012 the group had grown from 1000 s to 10,000 s. We were over 17,000 Members. Now we are a group of over 40,000 members and still growing with daily Join requests in the group.
There have been a lot of ups and downs as the world translates it. A lot of times I abandoned the group and more of times I came back and shared what I could. All this time wasn’t because I wanted to stay away but because of all I hard on my plate to handle. A time came when I had to spend two days without sleep, when I had to miss lunch or breakfast because I hard to buy an Internet bundle. I did all sorts of things to stay on top of my game until 2013 when I felt I should try something. Something new. I knew some programming since it was kind of a requirement for hackers though a lot of it was really more of networking and computer side trickery than programming. I didn't have that much interest in programming and it was only at that time I found a friend in my networking class “CCNP” at MUK who made me a small calculator on windows with programming language called python. Well, I came to be interested and given i had read somewhere about C++ being the language for hackers i went for it so i could mix it with my hacking skills. Well yes I did try it, for a moth or so and I was all C++. I went ahead to research about everything a C++ programmer can do in Uganda and, Well, the results were alarming and really disappointing. The results not only gave me a bad felling but it also left me half backed on C++. The next week I found a book called “C++ for Hackers” downloaded and read it. It was a very brief book about C++ and so gave me an over view of what the language was really about. I will later be giving you download links of the books and applications you may need in the series. Please don't be demotivated to learn C++ because I found it to be very useful and handy especially if you are into making windows Games, applications and drivers, C++ can do almost anything from operating to another.

As I completed with Networking at The College of computing and information science Makerere University, It hit me to start a blog and so I did start it like seriously. At ethertek.blogspot.com. As the year ended I really go into Web Development and got good at HTML and CSS3 that is how I modified my blog’s looks to be my own. In 2014, an offer from a friend I made in my group to host my blog at a good price surfaced and so I went for it. Until now I have been learning more about Web Development.

So why did I chose Web Technologies to Application development for windows in C++? Well it’s all about what interested me more. Why Web Technologies interested me and why it might be the next big thing. I’ll talk about this and the other things that could interest particularly you in The Beginners Guide to Geek #2.

Computer Repair, Software installation, Computer support and advisory, Web designing ETC. That's a list of a few of what I hard to do for the money to run my projects. It always wasn't that much but it did just fine for me. I also made a disk of soft ware’s I called “The 120 Softwares All on One Disk” which was a combination of 120 Softwares compiled to fit the average users software needs. I put all the soft ware’s on one 4.7 GB DVD and sold a copy at 9,500 UGX this was one of the best ideas I hard in 2013 and although the money seemed OK, Really it wasn’t enough for my projects and the time I invested in it. Also I also hard to deliver the disks myself or pay a delivery man 4000 UGX to deliver it around town. So for that I later raised the price to 18,000 UGX. I’ll briefly talk more about this in the part where I talk about making money from the Computer world.

Early December 2015 Am releasing another version/ Update for the disk and this time it's called: THE MULTI-SOFTWARE DISK. I have worked on this for over 3 month now and hopefully will take care of all the resources and time I‘ll put into this series. ”The Guide to become a geek”
THE GUIDE TO BECOME A GEEK will be a series of posts I will be posting to this website and could go for at least 2 month. This string of posts should be able to get pretty much any one to understanding of computers to even the programmer level it all depends on your tests and preferences.
This should mark the end of the first part otherwise you would have to read until tomorrow if I am to right it all down in this post. Next time we will get into what being geek means and what are the basics. Hope to see you in the next post, Stay loving.