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<center><H3><font color="maroon">About This Month's Authors</font></H3></center>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Husain Al-Mohssen</H4>
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Husain is a Mechanical Engineer working in Saudi Arabia who is
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badly addicted to computers. When he is not trying to build his own
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distribution he can be found reading up on Quantum Mechanics or experimenting
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with Mathematica. He can be reached on
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<A HREF=mailto:h_al_mohssen@yahoo.com>h_al_mohssen@yahoo.com</A> (all flames
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happily collected in ~/nsmail/Funny).
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jim Dennis</H4>
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Jim is the proprietor of <A href="http://www.starshine.org">
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Starshine Technical Services</A> and is now working for <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">LinuxCare</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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Quarterdeck, Symantec/Peter Norton Group and
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McAfee Associates -- 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">David Fauthoux</H4>
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<IMG ALIGN=right ALT="caricature" SRC=../gx/authors/fauthoux.jpg
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<P> David Fauthoux (22 ans) est un <20>tudiant fran<61>ais en DEA d'intelligence
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artificielle (Bac+5), sp<73>cialis<69> en logique par actions. Il a quatre
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passions : la logique en IA, la programmation "out-of-algorithm", les
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jeux de r<>le avec les enfants et lire (et relire) les dessins de Quino.
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<P> David Fauthoux (22 year old) is a French student in DEA of Artificial
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Intelligence (5 years after Baccalaur<75>at), specializing in Action Modal
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Logic. He has four passions : AI logic, "out-of-algorithm" programming,
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role playing games with kids, and reading (and reading again) the
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Quino's drawings.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jay Fink</H4>
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Jay is a UNIX/Linux systems administrator for "Ipsos-Asi The
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Advertising Research Company". He contributes to a variety of webzines and
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sites, and is the Editor of the <I>UNIX & LINUX Computing Journal</I>, which
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he hosts on his site <A HREF=http://www.diverge.org>www.diverge.org</A>. His
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hobbies include delving into the Linux kernel internels, surfing (as in ocean
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surfing, not web surfing), and hiking (mainly to get away from computers every
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now and then).
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Michael J. Hammel</H4>
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A Computer Science graduate of Texas Tech University, Michael J. Hammel,
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mjhammel@graphics-muse.org, is an software developer specializing in X/Motif
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living in Dallas, Texas (but calls Boulder, CO home for some reason).
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His background includes everything from data
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communications to GUI development to Interactive Cable systems, all based in
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Unix. He has worked for companies such as Nortel, Dell Computer, and
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Xi Graphics.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Brian Marshall</H4>
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Brian has been a software developer in Calgary's oil and gas industry
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since 1981. He is deeply into C++ and object-oriented design. His
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career began vowing never to learn Cobol; it progressed to never
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learning VB and now involves never learning MFC. Brian first got into
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unix in 1991 but he has only been using Linux for a few months.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Bill Mote</H4>
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Bill is the Technical Support Services manager for a multi-billion dollar
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publishing company and is responsible for providing 1st and 2nd level
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support services to their 500+ roadwarrior sales force as well as their
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3,500 workstation and laptop users. He was introduced to Linux by a good
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friend in 1996 and thought Slackware was the end-all-be-all of the OS world
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... until he found Mandrake in early 1999. Since then he's used his
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documentation skills to help those new to Linux find their way.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Mark Nielsen</H4>
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Mark founded The Computer Underground, Inc. in June of 1998. Since then,
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he has been working on Linux solutions for his customers ranging from custom
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computer hardware sales to programming and networking. Mark specializes in Perl,
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SQL, and HTML programming along with Beowulf clusters. Mark believes in the
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concept of contributing back to the Linux community which helped to start his
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company. Mark and his employees are always looking for exciting projects to do.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">nod</H4>
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nod - (no capital "n") is a real name due to being born a love child of the
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seventies. nod, did study physics and French to degree level but wanted to
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become a windsurfing instructor, so became a freelance photographer. This proves
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that nod also moves in mysterious ways. He enjoys playing with computers and
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seeing what happens if you "click that" or "unscrew that".
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<P>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Mike Orr</H4>
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Mike is the Editor of the <I>Linux Gazette</I>. You can read what he has to
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say in the Back Page column in this issue. He has been a Linux enthusiast
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since 1991 and a Debian user since 1995. He is SSC's Webmaster. He also
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enjoys the Python programming language. Non-computer interests include
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ska/oi! music and the international language Esperanto.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">JC Pollman</H4>
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I have been playing with linux since kernel 1.0.59. I spend way too much
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time at the keyboard and even let my day job - the military - interfere once in
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a while. My biggest concern about linux is the lack of documentation for the
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intermediate user. There is already too much beginner's stuff, and the
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professional material is often beyond the new enthusiast.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Carlos Serr<72>o</H4>
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The author is a professor at ISCTE, a Portuguese public University
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specilized in Management and Computer Science, teaching subjects like IT
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Management and E-Commerce. The author is also IT Research and Development
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Consultant at ADETTI, a Portuguese R&D institution, where he is specialized
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in information security, colaborating in several European Community IT
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projects: OKAPI, OCTALIS and OCCAM.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Martin Skjöldebrand</H4>
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Martin is a former archaeologist who now does system
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administration for a 3rd world aid organisation. He also does web
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design and has been playing with computers since 1982 and Linux since
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1997.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Dan York</H4>
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Dan recently joined the staff of <A HREF=http://www.linuxcare.com>
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LinuxCare</A>, to work full-time on
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developing the Linux Professional Institute certification program. He has been
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working with the Internet and UNIX systems for 13 years and PCs since the early
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Apple computers in 1977 . While his passion is with Linux, he has also spent
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the past three years working with Windows NT. Dan has written numerous articles
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for technical magazines, and has also spoken at various conferences within the
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training industry. He is now a member of the Certification committee of the
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Systems Administrators Guild (SAGE - a division of USENIX).
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<P>
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<P> And now for the inaguration of the <STRONG><I>Linux Gazette</I> Spam Count
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</STRONG>. This month, the <I>Gazette</I> received 284 letters. Of these,
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79 were spam. October's SPAM COUNT is thus 28%.
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<P> Aside from the usual get-rich-quick schemes, thigh creams, Viagra stuff,
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hardware/peripheral ads in Spanish and Japanese [note: the characters all turn
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into $##$% symbols in Latin-1], and investment opportunities "accidentally"
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sent to the wrong person, the most hilarious piece was:
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<BLOCKQUOTE>
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We offer Web Hosting for the following server platform: NT 4.0 Running
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IIS4 as low as $9.95/month, paid quarterly or annually, plus a $19.95
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set-up fee.
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</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P> Did they think this was the <I>NT Gazette</I>?
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<P> Doesn't the fact that we already have a web page show that we don't need
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web hosting services?
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<P> P.S. They do offer "FrontPage 2000 extensions FREE!!!" (Yawn.)
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<I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 46, October 1999,
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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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<H5>Copyright © 1999 Specialized Systems Consultants, Inc.<br>
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