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<appendix id="About-the-Author">
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<title>About the Author</title>
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<para>
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Binh Nguyen was born, 26 March 1983, Melbourne, Victoria. He studied
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at St Josephs Marist Brothers College, North Fitzroy until receiving a
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scholarship to St Kevin's College, Toorak in 1998.
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</para>
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He is currently a university undergraduate studying computer science
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and physics at the University of Melbourne. His main interests in each
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area are in Operating Systems and Quantum Mechanics respectively.
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</para>
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His background is strongly biased towards science and mathematics.
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Nonetheless, he does have an appreciation for the arts, humanities
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and sport. A reasonably proficient musician (flute), he is currently
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pondering whether he should complete his musical studies to obtain a
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diploma so that he can teach. In high school, he was a member of the
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athletics, basketball, football, cricket and swimming squads. He speaks
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English predominately but is also able to communicate in Vietnamese and
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French. When younger he also possessed the ability to communicate in
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Chinese and Italian.
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</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
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high school he considers himself an atheist.
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</para>
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At this moment in time, he works part-time as a (commercial)
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researcher/developer on Linux related projects with his current
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focus being on software distribution mechanisms.
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</para>
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Two of his technical documents have been incorporated into the
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Linux Documentation Project ("Linux Dictionary" and "Linux Filesystem
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Hierarchy", www.tldp.org/guides.html). Furthermore, they are being
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used as reference books in at least five 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)
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and Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)).</para>
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He has published articles at linux.com, linmagau.org, desktoplinux.com,
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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.
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</para>
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</appendix>
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