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<title> Back Page LG #55</title>
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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1 ALIGN="center"><font color="maroon">The Back Page</font></H1>
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<li><a HREF="#authors">About This Month's Authors</a>
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<li><a HREF="#notlinux">Not Linux</a>
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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">Fernando Correa</H4>
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Fernando is a computer analyst just about to finish his
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graduation at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Now, he has built
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with his staff the best
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<A HREF="http://www.olinux.com.br">Linux portal</A> in Brazil and have further
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plans to improve services and content for their Internet users.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Juan Ignacio Santos Florido</H4>
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I am a computer engineering student at the E.T.S.I.Inf in Malaga, Spain.
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I've used Linux since kernel 1.2 and enjoy turning the Linux internals
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upside down.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Bryan Henderson</H4>
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Bryan Henderson is an operating systems programmer from way back,
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working mostly on large scale computing systems. Bryan's love of
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computers began with a 110 baud connection to a local college for a
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high school class, but Bryan had little interest in home computers
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until Linux came out.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Ben Okopnik</H4>
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A cyberjack-of-all-trades, Ben wanders the world in his 38' sailboat, building
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networks and hacking on hardware and software whenever he runs out of cruising
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money. He's been playing and working with computers since the Elder Days
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(anybody remember the Elf II?), and isn't about to stop any time soon.
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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">Chris Stoddard</H4>
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I work for Dell Computer Corporation doing "not Linux" stuff. I have been
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using computers since 1979 and I started using Linux sometime in 1994,
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exclusivly since 1997. My main interest is in networking implementations,
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servers, security, Beowulf clusters etc. I hope someday to quit my
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day job and become the Shepard of a Linux Farm.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Ben Tindale</H4>
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I'm working full time for Alcatel Australia on various xDSL technologies
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and writing Java based web apps. I've currently taken a year off from
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studying to work, and have just sold my share in an internet cafe I
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helped to found. So much to learn, so little time :)
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Michael Williams</H4>
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Currently studying for society's latest waste of his valuable time--GCSE
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examinations, Mike's attention have recently been turned towards Linux and
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open source Software. Since the tender age of eight, when he got his first
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commodore 64, Mike has been programming. Mike loves C++ , hates Micro$oft,
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Sony, and anything else that represents any form of establishment. He would
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like to say hi to his mom, Alan, Dai and yes even RK. Rescently, RK claimed
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to have blown up a cow, using but a strip of magnesium and a match (don't
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worry RK, the men in white suits will be along verrryyy soon....)
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Not Linux</font></H3></center>
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<P> And now for something that's completely non-Linux.
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<P> My Ireland/UK trip was a blast. Dublin's bridges remind me of
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St Petersburg, and the streets are bustling at all hours. I saw The Business
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(an oi band), and then went to a 3-day scooter rally in Carlow (a hundred miles
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SW). Neither of these events were planned--I just happened to be at the right
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place at the right time. In Belfast I took the black taxi tour of the
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political murals, bought a book about the history of the Troubles, and hooked
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up with the singer of another oi band, Runnin' Riot. Then I skipped across the
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water to Scotland.
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<P> <STRONG>Edinburgh is amazing!</STRONG> I've been in six countries in
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Europe, but have seen no city that matches Edinburgh. There's a drained loch
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in the center of town, and next to it, high up on a hill, is the castle. I
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connected with an old friend and met several new ones. The four days I
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was in Edinburgh was not nearly enough.
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<P> Edinburgh also has a cybercafe that's open 24 hours, costs only 1 pound
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for 2-4 hours, and any minutes you don't use can be applied later using their
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anonymous logins. Plus it has five hundred PCs with LCD screens. I wouldn't
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mind seeing more cybercafes like that. But it must've cost the owner a bundle.
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<P> Then I spent a night each in Manchester and Cambridge, and five days in
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London. I'd been in London once before, so I knew what to expect. Still, the
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city was a bit big for me, and hard to get a handle on. I spent some time in
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Camden Town, took a picture of the Elephant & Castle statue
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<IMG ALT=":)" SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" WIDTH="20" HEIGHT="24">,
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bought lots of clothes at The Merc and Lonsdale stores (cause you can't get
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that stuff in the States, at least not in the Northwest), and my two friends
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from Edinburgh and Cambridge came down one evening. Then I flew back to
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Vancouver and caught the train to Seattle. Just in time to begin the July
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<EM>Linux Gazette!</EM>
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<P> Michael Orr<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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This page written and maintained by the Editor of the <I>Linux Gazette</I>.<BR>
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Copyright © 2000, <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A><BR>
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Published in Issue 55 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, July 2000</H5>
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