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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_backpage27.html#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="./lg_backpage27.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">Murray Adelman</H4>
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Murray is an academic mathematician; trained at the University of
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Pennsylvania and teaching at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia
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for the last twenty odd years. At a time when UNIX was new to our
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department he stumbled across the Berkely User Supplementary Documents
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and got interested in troff. He also vowed to save up and get a UNIX
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system of his own. Linux saved him from the saving up part.
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In his professional
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work he has used mostly TeX, but maintains an interest in markup
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languages in general, including SGML.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Larry Ayers</H4>
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Larry 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
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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">Chris DiBona</H4>
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Chris is a computer security specialist for StrongCrypto Inc. He
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can be reached at chris@dibona.com. His personal web site is located at
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http://www.dibona.com/.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">John M. Fisk</H4>
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John 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/note.gif">Michael J. Hammel</H4>
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Michael
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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">Clint Jeffery</H4>
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Clint is an assistant professor in the Division of Computer Science
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at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He writes and teaches about
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program execution monitoring, visualization, programming languages, and
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software engineering. Contact him at
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<a href="mailto:jeffery@cs.utsa.edu">jeffery@cs.utsa.edu</a> or read about
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his research at
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<a href="http://www.cs.utsa.edu/faculty/jeffery.html">http://www.cs.utsa.edu/faculty/jeffery.html</a>
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He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Richard Kaszeta</H4>
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Richard is currently both a Unix Systems Administrator and a
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PhD Student in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University
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of Minnesota, and currently administers more than 25 Linux machines
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running Debian Linux. In addition to Linux, his hobbies include scuba
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diving, ultimate frisbee, and cooking. You can visit his home page at
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http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">John Kodis</H4>
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John has been involved in a wide range of scientific and
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real-time software development efforts. He is currently the software
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development manager for a large satellite image ingest, archive,
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processing, and distribution system. He enjoys tinkering with Linux,
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writing Perl, playing with his two kids, and trying to keep pace with
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the rapid growth of the Gnome project.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">John Little</H4>
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John, who worked for Sun for nine years, is from the U.K., lives
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in Japan and works in Tokyo for an American company. He wears a range
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of increasingly bizarre hats in an (mostly futile) effort to hide his
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incipient baldness. He can be reached by e-mail at gaijin@pobox.com.
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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">Shamim Mohamed</H4>
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Shamim met Unix in 1983 and was introduced to Linux
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at version 0.99 pl12. He is the author of Icon's POSIX interface and
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produced the linux distributions described in this article.
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These days he is a Silicon Valley polymath and
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factotum, and an instrument rated pilot flying taildraggers. He's at
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<a href="mailto:spm@drones.com">spm@drones.com</a> |
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<a href="http://www.drones.com/shamim">http://www.drones.com/shamim</a>.
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He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Oliver Müller</H4>
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Oliver works
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as programmer and is principal of a software developing firm. He is also
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author and writes for several computer magazines and book publishers. His
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email address is ogmueller@t-online.de.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Kirk Petersen</H4>
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Kirk is a recent graduate of The Evergreen State College
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and is working at NOAA in Seattle. He spends his spare time working on
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various Linux software projects. E-mail him at kirk@muppetlabs.com or
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check out his web page at http://www.muppetlabs.com/~kirk/.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Dave Wagle</H4>
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Dave's a slightly quarky theology graduate student who has made a living
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for the last 10 years developing, deploying, supporting and otherwise
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wrestling with Unix and relational databases. He's married, has 2
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kids, and an odd fondness for Kierkegaard. Write him at: davew@cloudnet.com.
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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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This month we say good-bye to our "Weekend Mechanic", John Fisk. John began
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<I>Linux Gazette</I> as a learning project for himself, never dreaming how
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popular it would become with the Linux community. When he turned <I>LG</I>
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over to SSC, I was very pleased he planned to continue writing for
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<I>LG</I>. I appreciate all of
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John's contributions and will miss having his column in our pages. I
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know you will too.
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Bye, John, keep having 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 27, April 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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<A HREF="mailto: gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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