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<H4>"The Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
LinuxCare,
<A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com/">http://www.linuxcare.com/</A>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>Who is Jim Dennis?</H3>
<p><strong>From SeanieDude on Tue, 21 Sep 1999
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Why the f*ck is your name listed so damn much in hotbot?
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Err. 'Cause I write a column for an online Linux magazine.
I've been writing the "Linux Gazette's Answer Guy" column for about
three years.
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Honestly, my name only returns 2,000 hits on Hot Bot. Linus
Torvalds (Linux' namesake) returns 9,990. If you search on
the terms jim and dennis (not the phrase "jim dennis" with quotes)
you get a bunch of stuff about Dennis Hopper being interviewed by
Jim Carrey (or something like that). On Yahoo! my "vanity rating"
is 4200 (which includes some false hits of course).
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I only get about a 1,000 web page hits on Alta Vista (including
links to some "trivia question" pages on the Linux Users Group at
the Los Angeles Airport(*). I remember that this was a trivia
question at some Linux conference, though I don't remember which
one.
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(<A HREF="http://www.pelourinho.com/linuxatlax/linuxtrivia/tsld061.htm"
>http://www.pelourinho.com/linuxatlax/linuxtrivia/tsld061.htm</A>)
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<blockquote>Oddly enough I'm also listed in the credits of the sed FAQ
(surprised me --- I don't remember helping on that; but they got
one of my e-mail addresses right so it's probably from when I was
active on the comp.lang.awk newsgroup).
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At Deja.com I found an amusing reference to myself. Some in
the Netherlands apparently adopted an old .sig (signature quote)
of mine to which he left on my name as the attribution:
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&quot;Any sufficiently advanced Operating System is indistinguishable
from Linux.&quot;
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... though I thought I'd said "UNIX" instead of Linux in that one.
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Anyway, searching for yourself online can be fun and entertaining.
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You can read more than you want to know about me (and quite a bit
more about Linux) by going to <A HREF="http://www.linuxgazette.com"
>http://www.linuxgazette.com</A>
(and its many mirrors) to <A HREF="http://www.starshine.org"
>http://www.starshine.org</A> (my home, and
my wife's consulting service) and <A HREF="http://www.linuxcare.com"
>http://www.linuxcare.com</A> (my
employer), and at:
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<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562059343/o/qid=937947698/sr=2-1/002-3892219-4037450"
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562059343/o/qid=937947698/sr=2-1/002-3892219-4037450</A>
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(my new book: "Linux System Administration").
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<p><em>[ As we go to press, the book is already hitting the stores, as well.
It has a purple spine, and a white cover with a river scene along the top.
-- Heather ]</em></p>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
>Copyright &copy;</a> 1999, James T. Dennis
<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 46 October 1999</H5>
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