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<H1><IMG SRC="../gx/backpage.gif" alt="Linux Gazette Back Page"></H1>
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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_backpage17.html#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage17.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/note.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/note.gif">Kendall G. Clark</H4>
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Kendall Clark is a PHD candidate in systematic theology at
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Southern Methodist University. He
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is hard at work on his dissertation using Red Hat 4.1, LaTeX,
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and AucTeX & Xemacs. He helped found <a
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href="http://www.ntlug.org/">NTLUG</a> in the summer of 1996
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with Stephen Denny and Tim Jones and currently serves as Acting
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President. He makes his home with his wife Hope in Dallas,
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Texas.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.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 was
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married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Sean Dreilinger</H4>
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Sean Dreilinger
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suffered through two years of Los Angeles smog for a Masters degree in
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library/information systems at UCLA. Linux swept him off his feet in grad
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school and turned into a Network Administration career for the University.
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Consulting on Internet strategy and info-system design in assorted
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bored-rooms followed. Today he beams-in to www.interactivate.com from a
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remote mountain cabin near Cuyamaca, California and is only required to
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show his face at work once a week--nice job for the outdoors-loving and
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socially inept. He lives with his lover Kathy and this incredible
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high-altitude silence--punctuated only by the sound of wind rustling in the
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Manzanita trees, hummingbirds fighting for a perch on the feeder, and that
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reassuring whir of SCSI drives dancing with Linux under the desk. More life
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story with explicit photos can be found at http://www.interactivate.com/people/sean/.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jon "maddog" Hall</H4>
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Jon "maddog" Hall is Senior Leader of Digital UNIX
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Base Product Marketing, Digital Equipment Corporation.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.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/note.gif">Rick Hohensee</H4>
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Rick Hohensee is a guitar bum and former construction executive who has
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so many irons in the fire he can't keep the fire going. Visit him on
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the web at http://cqi.com/~humbubba.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.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/note.gif">Jesper Pedersen</a></H4>
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Jesper Pedersen lives in Odense, Denmark, where he has studied computer science
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at Odense University since 1990. He expects to obtain his degree in a year and
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a half. He has a great job as a system manager at the
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university, and also teaches computer science two hours a week. He is very
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proud of his "child," The Dotfile Generator, which he wrote as part of his
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job at the university. The idea for it came a year and a half ago, when he had
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to learn how to configure Emacs by reading about 700 pages of the lisp manual.
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It started small, but as time went by, it expanded into a huge project.
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In his spare time, he does Yiu-Yitsu, listens to music, drinks beer and has fun with
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his girl friend. He loves pets, and has a 200 litre aquarium and two very cute
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rabbits.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jay Painter</a></H4>
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Jay Painter is the Systems Administrator at SSC.
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<center><H3> Not Linux </H3></center>
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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. And many, many thanks to Amy for doing most of the work
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this month.
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Seattle--always a wonderful event. Riley and I spent the morning working
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in the yard, clearing out a flower bed that was overgrown with grass. It
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felt like hard physical labor after sitting at a desk all week. We rewarded
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ourselves by taking a spin on the motorcycle along the Sound. Even as
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passenger there is something about riding on a motorcycle that puts a smile
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on my face. I guess it helps that I have complete trust in Riley's driving
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abilities.
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Afterward I went to the Opera House for a talk about <I>Il Trovatore</I> by
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Giuseppe Verdi (or Joe Green, as Riley likes to call him). I had seen
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the opera itself on Wednesday night--a silly
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story as usual but, oh, such
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wonderful music! I think it has to be one of my favorites. At any rate
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the talk was informative and fun and made a nice end to a very wonderful
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day.
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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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<I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 17, May 1997, http://www.ssc.com/lg/<BR>
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This page written and maintained by the Editor of <I>Linux Gazette</I>,
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<A HREF="mailto: gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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