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<appendix id="About-the-Author">
<title>About the Author</title>
<para>
Binh Nguyen was born, 26 March 1983, Melbourne, Victoria. He studied
at St Josephs Marist Brothers College, North Fitzroy until receiving a
scholarship to St Kevin's College, Toorak in 1998.
</para>
<para>
He is currently a university undergraduate studying computer science
and physics at the University of Melbourne. His main interests in each
area are in Operating Systems and Quantum Mechanics respectively.
</para>
<para>
His background is strongly biased towards science and mathematics.
Nonetheless, he does have an appreciation for the arts, humanities
and sport. A reasonably proficient musician (flute), he is currently
pondering whether he should complete his musical studies to obtain a
diploma so that he can teach. In high school, he was a member of the
athletics, basketball, football, cricket and swimming squads. He speaks
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English predominately but is also able to communicate in Vietnamese and
French. When younger he also possessed the ability to communicate in
Chinese and Italian.
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</para>
<para>
Typos which can be located by the Find command: hierarchal -> hierarchical symobolic -> symbolic utilites -> utilities equivalencies -> equivalents ramdisc -> ramdisk progamming -> programming wich -> which kB -> KB perfomance -> performance deallocated -> unallocated firewallsblock -> firewalls block trafic -> traffic acknowledgments -> acknowledgements interoperatibility -> interoperability Appletalk.It shows (spaces after period) .../proc/tty.You'll find entries for drivers... (spaces after period) digestable -> digestible sytem -> system (a few places) symbollic -> symbolic workeable -> workable redering -> rendering utlitiy's -> utility's tunnneling -> tunnelling tby -> by ...'xinit' is a configuration method os starting up... #Change "os" to "of". dissallowed -> disallowed specfic -> specific ...see inetd(8) for further informations. #Change "informations" to "information". ...so it is OK to start it early in the bootprocess. #Change "bootprocess" to "boot process". anymore -> any more ctrlaltdel -> ctrl-alt-del spearated -> separated startupfiles -> startup files dialing -> dialling seperate -> separate (a couple of places) utliise -> utilise bookeeping -> bookkeeping ...Three commands can be used to access the contents of this file dump-acct, sa... #Change "dump-acct" to "dump - acct" (put spaces around dash) or "dump: acct". accouting -> accounting userful -> useful Organiztion -> Organization prorgams -> programs woul dhappen -> would happen unlikt -> unlike ...or a violation of the operating systems or hardwares protection mechanisms... #Change "systems" to "system's" and "hardwares" to "hardware's" symolic -> symbolic progams -> programs Unlilke -> Unlike Commentry -> Commentary Progamming -> Programming english -> English vietnamese -> Vietnamese french -> French chinese -> Chinese italian -> Italian buddhist -> Buddhist catholic -> Catholic christian -> Christian Geoff Farrell, gfarrell(at)netspeed(dot)com(dot)au
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Although brought up as a Buddhist and studying at Catholic/Christian
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schools all his life as well as studying scripture during his final year of
high school he considers himself an atheist.
</para>
<para>
At this moment in time, he works part-time as a (commercial)
researcher/developer on Linux related projects with his current
focus being on software distribution mechanisms.
</para>
<para>
Two of his technical documents have been incorporated into the
Linux Documentation Project ("Linux Dictionary" and "Linux Filesystem
Hierarchy", www.tldp.org/guides.html). Furthermore, they are being
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used as reference books in at least six universities around the world
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(University of Southern Queensland (Australia), Universidad Michoacana (Mexico),
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), Universidade de Sao Paolo (Brazil),
University of Southern California (United States of America),
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and Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)).</para>
<para>
He has published articles at linux.com, linmagau.org, desktoplinux.com,
newsforge.com, linuxtoday.com, linux.org, pclinuxonline.com,
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tuxreports.com, etc.... and has a keen interest in the latest innovations
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in science and technology.
</para>
</appendix>