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<H5>Copyright © 1997 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.<br>
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For information regarding copying and distribution of this material see the
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<A HREF="../copying.html">Copying License</A>.</H5>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage14.html#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage14.html#notlinux">Not Linux</a>
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<center><H3> About This Month's Authors </H3></center>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Larry Ayers</H4>
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Larry Ayers lives on a small farm
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in northern Missouri, where he is currently engaged in building a
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timber-frame house for his family. He operates a portable band-saw mill,
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does general woodworking, plays the fiddle and searches for rare
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prairie plants, as well as growing shiitake mushrooms. He is also
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struggling with configuring a Usenet news server for his local ISP.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">John M. Fisk</H4>
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John Fisk is most noteworthy as the former editor of the <I>Linux Gazette</I>.
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After three years as a General Surgery resident and
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Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
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John decided to "hang up the stethoscope", and pursue a
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career in Medical Information Management. He's currently a full
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time student at the Middle Tennessee State University and hopes
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to complete a graduate degree in Computer Science before
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entering a Medical Informatics Fellowship. In his dwindling
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free time he and his wife Faith enjoy hiking and camping in
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Tennessee's beautiful Great Smoky Mountains. He has been an avid Linux fan,
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since his first Slackware 2.0.0 installation a year and a half
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ago.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Jim Dennis</H4>
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Jim Dennis
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is the proprietor of <A href="http://www.starshine.org">
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Starshine Technical Services</A>.
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His professional experience includes work in the technical
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support, quality assurance, and information services (MIS)
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departments of software companies like
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<A href="http://www.quarterdeck.com"> Quarterdeck</A>,
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<A href="http://www.symantec.com"> Symantec/
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Peter Norton Group</A>, and
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<A href="http://www.mcafee.com"> McAfee Associates</A> -- as well as
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positions (field service rep) with smaller VAR's.
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He's been using Linux since version 0.99p10 and is an active
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participant on an ever-changing list of mailing lists and
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newsgroups. He's just started collaborating on the 2nd Edition
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for a book on Unix systems administration.
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Jim is an avid science fiction fan -- and recently got
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married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Grant B. Gustafson </H4>
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Grant Gustafson is Professor of Mathematics, the
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University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Besides
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differential equations, he has an interest in
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microcomputers (since 1978), compilers, programming
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languages, system utilities and TeX typesetting.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Michael J. Hammel</H4>
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Michael J. Hammel,
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is a transient software engineer with a background in
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everything from data communications to GUI development to Interactive Cable
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systems--all based in Unix. His interests outside of computers
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include 5K/10K races, skiing, Thai food and gardening. He suggests if you
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have any serious interest in finding out more about him, you visit his home
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pages at http://www.csn.net/~mjhammel. You'll find out more
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there than you really wanted to know.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Phil Hughes</a></H4>
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Phil Hughes is the publisher of <I>Linux Journal</I>, and thereby <I>Linux
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Gazette</I>. He dreams of permanently tele-commuting from his home on the
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Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula. As an employer, he is "Vicious, Evil,
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Mean, & Nasty, but kind of mellow" as a boss should be.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Mike List </H4>
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Mike List is a father of four teenagers, musician, printer (not
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laserjet), and recently reformed technophobe, who has been into computers
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since April,1996, and Linux since July.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">R. Frank Louden </H4>
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Frank Louden has a degree in Computer Science from Purdue.
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While working on his degree, he also worked in the Medical center first as a
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Computer Clerk then as the Systems Manager.
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He currently works as a Programmer, which "is all the fun and a lot
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fewer headaches (read: It sounds like a hardware problem to me.)"
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He first installed Linux last March, so he knows the challenge a convert
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faces.
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On the personal side, he lives in a small town in north central Indiana and
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would love to organize a LUG but thinks it'd be difficult to find
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any other Linux users out here in the boonies. He has two cats, Mac and
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Catalina who he says "both know more about Linux than I do...but they never
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reveal their secrets!"
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">
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James McDuffie</H4>
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James McDuffie is a 17 year old high school student who is looking forward
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to graduating. In college he plans to major in Computer Science
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and minor in English. He would like to be a writer while still
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working with computers. James wrote the article <I>Connecting Computers via
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PLIP</I> which appeared in issue #6 of the Linux Gazette. He has been an avid
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reader of the Linux Gazette ever since it was just starting out. And wishes
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that it continues helping the Linux community for some time to come.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">
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James Shelburne</H4>
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James Shelburne currently lives in Waco, Texas where he spends most of
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his free time working on various Linux networking projects. Some of his
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interests include Perl + CGI, Russian, herbal medicine and the Ramones
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(yes, you heard right, the Ramones). He is also a staunch Linux advocate
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and tries to convert every MacOS/MS Windows/AMIGA user he comes into
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contact with. Needless to say, only other Linux users can stand him.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Kelley Spoon</H4>
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Kelley Spoon currently studies computer science at the University of Texas,
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San Antonio. Some of his hobbies include trying to learn how to play the
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guitar, playing Euchre, laughing at John C. Dvorak, converting pizza into
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source code, terrorizing villages along the Mexican border, and frightening
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small childern. He has been a Linux user since August 1995, and still
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pronounces the name as "luh-eye-nucks".
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Kelly has written another article for us about tcpd that will appear in
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issue 15 of Linux Gazette.
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Jens Wessling </H4>
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Jens Wessling is a 26 year old Research Scientist working for the
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Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. He has been
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playing with Linux since Kernel 1.0.99. He is
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married and has 2 cats. He is currently working on his
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Masters Degree in Computer and Information Science
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at the University of Michigan. Life frequently gets in his way.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/rose.gif">Joel Wilf</H4>
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Joel Wilf is a technical writer with a strong interest in
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computers and multimedia. He is also a screenwriter, whose
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credits include <I>Supercarrier</I> and <I>Outsiders</I>. Writing a
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script-formatting utility, under DOS, led him to the richer
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programming and text-processing environment of Linux. Offline,
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he enjoys reading and traveling. He lives in Encino,
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California.
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Thanks to all our authors, not just the ones above, but also those who wrote
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giving us their tips and tricks and making suggestions. Thanks also to our
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new mirror sites. We get new ones every month. I was very excited to have
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both one in Russia and the new Italian translation site go up this month.
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(See the <A HREF="../mirrors.html">Mirror Page</A>.)
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My two favorite holidays are Valentine's Day and Halloween. Not sure I want
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to know what that little fact may have to say about my psyche. At any rate I hope
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the animated heart wasn't too annoying. I thought it was quite cute. Thanks
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to Michael, our web guy, for finding it and the roses to present to our authors.
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Two days after Valentine's on February 16, Riley and I will be celebrating
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our 5th wedding anniversary. In fact, we're celebrating all weekend --
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a long one with the holiday -- by leaving town and telling no one where we
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are going. Riley is a very special guy, and we've had a great 5 years. I
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look forward to many more with him.
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February 16 is also the birthday of my nephew Alex Carter. He's 14 and
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working on his Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. He's a smart kid and loves
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playing on his computer. I need to find the time to introduce him to Linux.
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On a professional note, I am now Managing Editor of Linux Journal as well
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as Linux Gazette. Gary Moore and I have switched jobs--keeps things from
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getting boring. However, I refused to give up custody of Linux Gazette,
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it's just too much fun.
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Have fun!
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<A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/ssc/Employees/Margie/margie.html">
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Marjorie L. Richardson</a><br>
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Editor, <i>Linux Gazette</i> <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</a>
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