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<H5>Copyright © 1998 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_backpage26.html#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage26.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">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">Dr. Richard L. Dubs</H4>
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When Dr. Dubs is not playing with Linux, he is a Senior Scientist with a
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Virginia-based defense contractor. He lives in an idyllic community in
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Rockville, MD with his wife, two kids and the family cat.
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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">Tom Kunz </H4>
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Tom is 24 years old, married to the most wonderful woman in the
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world, and he works as a Systems Programmer for Rutgers University
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Telecommunications Division. Hobbies, other than Linux, include
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listening to and performing classical/romantic-period piano music,
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writing piano arrangements for church, woodworking, and recreational
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shooting. I can be reached at tkunz@hardees.rutgers.edu or
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tkunz@fast.net.
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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,
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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">Eric Marsden</H4>
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<a href="http://www.chez.com/emarsden/">Eric</a> is studying computer
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science in Toulouse, France, and is a member of the local Linux Users
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Group. He enjoys programming, cycling and Led Zeppelin. He admits to
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once having owned a Macintosh, but denies any connection with the the
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<a href="http://locke.ccil.org/~esr/ecsl/">Eric Conspiracy Secret
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Labs</a>.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Cary O'Brien</H4>
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Cary O'Brien lives in Washington DC, and refers to himself, when
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pressed, as a "systems engineer". He is currently Vice President of Optim
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Systems, Inc., which provides products and services to the the
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telecommunications industry. He has been messing with computer
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hardware and software since high school. He is married with two
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children, 4 and 7, who are starting with computers even earlier.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Alessandro Usseglio Viretta</H4>
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Alessandro, European citizen and physicist, is a Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal
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Institute of Technology in Zurich. During daytime he's trying to learn the art
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of cryo-electron-microscopy but at night he turns himself into the abominable
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kernel-compiler.
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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.
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Lots of excitement in the air these days what with free Netscape and
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the debate over OpenSource. We're going through some interesting times.
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Well, not much to report this montho on a personal front--work!
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work! work! makes Margie a dull woman.
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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, <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/"><i>Linux Gazette</i></A>, <A
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HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</a>
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<I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 26, March 1998,
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com/">http://www.linuxgazette.com</A><BR>
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This page written and maintained by the Editor of <I>Linux Gazette</I>,
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