Lina Mårtensson
I'm Lina. I'm also known as plastic on IRC and Lì Nà in Chinese. Recently, people have also started to refer to me as robot girl or bionic woman, since I have a titanium screw in my left leg.

I live in Zurich, Switzerland. After a long period of confusion of where I actually live, my two cats Ada and Lilo will soon move in with me again. I spend my days at work typing answers to search queries really really fast.

I've studied Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers. When I was allowed to choose my own classes, most of them were on the topics of cryptography, security, operating systems, and maths. I spent my last six months trying to factor large integers. Shortly thereafter, I met a guy at work who had been trying to multiply large integers. We should probably never be allowed to work on the same project, as we might accidentally reverse eachother's work.

I like LinuxChix.

Val Henson and I have written a tutorial on Linux kernel hacking which has been published at IBM developerWorks. Here are part 1 and part 2. An older version which doesn't demand registration can be found at the LinuxChix website.

I spent seven weeks of my summer vacation in 2004 in Taiwan, learning Chinese. I kept a diary which can be found here. It's mostly written in Swedish. There are some photos as well, with comments in English.

I have a bunch of other photos of all sorts of things outside of Taiwan, too.



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