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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>
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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
used as reference books in at least five universities around the world
(University of Southern Queensland (Australia), Universidad Michoacana (Mexico),
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), Universidade de Sao Paolo (Brazil)
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>