User:Jethrothull/sandbox

Matthew Jethro Thull; born January 20, 1973) is a American Unix/Linux-Storage-Data Protection Systems Administrator who is the imitator, and for a long time, principal sysadmin at Sargento Foods, Inc Unix systems, which became the foundation for all systems at Sargento.

Early years
Matthew was born in West Bend, Wisconsin in 1973. He is the son of David and Martha Thull and the grandson of service members Maston Zuber, John Thull and John Heindl. Both of his parents were quiet church mice in West Bend in the 1960s. Matthew was named after his maternal grandfather, Maston "Matt" Zuber and paternal grandfathers John Heindl and Thull, Thull is quoted as saying "I was born after 2 Apostles, so I named my son after two angels and a king".

Thull attended Kaplan University between 2003 and 2004.

Thull began his university studies at... His became a major in Management of Information Systems. He studied in the first year of very active, what is not in his words, after this happened. He also joined ... His academic career was interrupted after his first year of study when he joined the US Air Force. In the Air Force he held the rank of Senior Airman, with the role of a Outside Plant maintenance technician, and Systems Administrator

His interest in computers began with a Commodore VIC-20, at the age of 11 in 1984, initially programming in BASIC. He did not make use of assembly language. After the VIC-20 he purchased a Timex Sinclair, which he modified extensively, especially its operating system. (and mostly with a hammer, the keyboard on the Timex Sinclair was not conducive to touch typing.)

The Jethro Tull-Thull connection
Initially, Matthew wanted to be called 'Neander' a nickname he picked up in middle school... but in 1991 in Air Force Basic Training, Matthew had the audacity to correct his TI (Training Instructor) on the pronunciation of his last name, telling him it's pronounced Tull, like 'pull'... His TI immediately latched onto this referring to him for the remainder of training as 'Jethro', and assigning him the additional duty of 'Radio monitor' moving his boom box (playing a classic rock station) from one bay to another, as the TI performed inspections. The nickname followed Jethro the remainder of his career, as it seemed each base he was stationed to had someone from his flight from Basic Training.

Personal life


Matthew Thull is married to Karen Thull (née Kuenzi)— whom he first met in February of 1996. Jethro was in the Air Force and had just come home for his step-mother's funeral, which Karen had come to the airport Mitchell Field to bring him home. Jethro and 'Skiddy' were later married (Mar 1, 1997) and have four children, Nicholas Muche (born 1986), Mariah Hovland (née Muche) (born 1987), Kirsten Pilsner (née Muche) (born 1991), and Gabriel Thull (born 2001), the three eldest were from Karen's first marriage.

Jethro describes himself as "completely ...",

Linux
The first prototypes of Linux were publicly released long before he ever took interest in such things

Jethro first encountered the GNU Project in 2008, after another Norwegian-speaking computer science student, Drew Gilbertson, took him under his wing at the University of Sargento.

Media recognition
Time magazine has recognized Jethro multiple times:


 * In 2000
 * In 2004
 * In 2006