A Little Rampok Story
Born in July 23rd 1985, i was a normal fat jerk born from a father from Manado ( North Sulawesi ) and a Mother from Solo ( Central Java ). In case you’re wondering about my weird name, its a family name from my father, Mamuaya. As for “Rama” was taken from ancient story of Heroic Rama & Shinta - a Hindu story.
From the age 3-5, i live in Lampung with my mom while my dad works at Jakarta where he came to see us twice a month. It is my beloved father who introduced me to computers. When i was 5 we had our first PC my dad bought for us. It was a Intel 486 with 8MB Memory and 256MB harddisk. It was my first time touching a computer and i immediately fell in love with it. I used it to play games like PacMan, KingKong, Tetris, etc. Back in the days, before i played the game i would run QBasic, opens the *.bas game file, compile it, then run it. Thats the whole process before i played my games, until one day… “Compile Error!!!”.. and thats a pretty historical moment for me when for the first time, a 6 years old had to debug the code written in BASIC language . Thats when i debug my first program.
Then i continued learning programming, helped by my father who happens to be a Head Programmer in one of the Private Bank in Indonesia. BASIC goes on until i excel in Junior High School for BASIC programming. But, in Senior High School it was forgotten. I got into music and formed a band, performing in school and we were pretty famous back then.. =)
In 2002, one of my friend in school told me about carding, cracking, and all sort of cyber crime. And for a year i dive into the dark world of the internet developing my first virus using VB6, Pascal, and C. I made like 7 viruses back then, and i enter the most embarrasing part of my cyber life.. cracking websites. I joined Jasakom Community,and at that time i defaced hundreds of website and steal company data for password, credit cards, and sold it to one of the d00dz inside the community. It was my first job that makes money.. not very proud about it though. But that series of pathetic events, brought me to another phase.. a good one. Cracking website and systems ( including my university’s system ) made me understand about UNIX systems, Networking, and how website works. Then in 2003, in my last year in school i made my first website. Using Frontpage and notepad i made a website for my class’s profile.
And of course for college i took “information system” and my dad couldn’t agree more. From 2003 until now, i develop websites using PHP, Javascript, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, XML, and all sorts of Markup Languages.
In the future i want to be like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, or some CIO for a big IT company.. or maybe… The Minister for Communication and Informatics of Indonesiaaaa…. hahaha. Wish me luck guys.. =)









Ecko Manalu
Salam Kenal,
haha.. saya juga waktu SMP dulu belajar BASIC, yang versi QBASIC :D, tapi ga sampe level yang ngejelimet2 banget kayak mas.
klu ud terkenal nanti ingat2 kita mas
GB
April 18th, 2008 at 4:07 pm