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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1><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">Steven Adler</H4>
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While not building <a href="http://www.phenix.bnl.gov">detectors</a>
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in search of the quark gluon plasma, Steve Adler spends his time either
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4 wheeling around the lab grounds or writing articles about the people
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behind the open source movement.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Marius Andreiana</H4>
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Marius is 19 years old and a student in the first year at Politehnica
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Bucharest, Romania. Besides Linux, he also loves music (from rock to dance),
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dancing, having fun, spending time with friends. He is interested also in
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science in general (and that quantum spooky connection :) and says, <EM>"I like
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cooking (okay, maybe I don't like it a lot, but I have to cook because I live
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alone while I'm at studies in Bucharest. Poor me :-) poor neighbours :-)"</EM>
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Shane Collinge</H4>
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Part computer programmer, part cartoonist, part Mars Bar. At night, he runs
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around in a pair of colorful tights fighting criminals. During the day... well,
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he just runs around. He eats when he's hungry and sleeps when he's sleepy.
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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">Ray Ferrari</H4>
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I am a newbie to the Linux community, but have been following the rise of
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popularity for almost two years now. I continue to learn as much as
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possible about the Linux operating system in an attempt to become
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proficient and knowledgeable in it's use as an internet platform. I have
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volunteered on the Debian mailing list, and I continue to assist the Linux
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Professional Institute(LPI) promote their agenda. I help staff the LPI
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booths at events and write articles updating their achievements.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Eric Kasten</H4>
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I'm a software developer by day and an artist, web developer,
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big dog, gardener and wine maker by night. This all leaves very little
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time for sleep, but always enough time for a nice glass of Michigan
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Pinot Gris. I have a BS double major in Computer Science and
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Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science. I've been using and
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modifying Linux since the 0.9x days. I can be reached via email at
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<A HREF="mailto:kasten@sunpuppy.com">kasten@sunpuppy.com</A> or through
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my website at <A HREF="http://www.sunpuppy.com">http://www.sunpuppy.com</A>.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Kapil Sharma</H4>
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Kapil is a Linux and Internet security consultant. He has been
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working on various Linux/Unix systems and Internet Security for more than
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2 years. He maintains a web site
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(<A HREF="http://www.linux4biz.net">http://linux4biz.net</A>) for providing
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free as well as commercial support for web, Linux and Unix solutions.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Juraj Sipos</H4>
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I live and work in Bratislava, Slovakia as a library
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information worker, translator and research reader at the Institute for
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Child Psychology. I published some of my poetry here and in USA, I
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translated some books from English (e.g., Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul
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Reps). You can see some of my stories and poetry at
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<A HREF="http://www.crosswinds.net/~aproximetri/index.htm">
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http://www.crosswinds.net/~aproximetri/index.htm</A>.
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Computers are my hobby.
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<H4><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="" SRC="../gx/note.gif">Jason Steffler</H4>
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<a href = "http://www.magma.ca/~jagwar">Jason</a> is a Software Architect for
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McHugh Software International.
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His computer related interests include: OO programming &
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design, Smalltalking, the peopleware aspects of software, and noodl'n around
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with Linux.
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Not Linux</font></H3></center>
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<H4>Penguins in Brazil</H4>
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<P> NPR had a story this month about the penguins arriving on the beaches in
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Rio de Janeiro and other parts of Brazil. Usually there are five or
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so penguins, but this year there are hundreds of penguins who used to stick
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around the Falklands/Malvinas Islands but have now migrated to Brazil.
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<P> Scientists suspect maybe it's a long-term climactic change, and the
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cold ocean currents they follow to find their food may have shifted.
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<P> Some Brazilians have adopted penguins as pets, but many don't know how
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to care for them. The penguins don't do well when the weather turns hot,
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so some ppl put them in the freezer. Unfortunately, this gives the
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penguins hypothermia, because this variety is used to a temperate
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environment. One of Brazil's zoos is building a penguin rehabilitation
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center for the penguins it has acquired and the ex-pets who have been
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donated to it.
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<P> Can any readers in Brazil provide any more information?
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<H4>Penguins in Australia</H4>
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<P> In January, <I>Linux Journal</I> published a short
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/culture/006.html">interview
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article</A> about an oil spil near Australia's Phillip Island where fairy
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penguins (aka little penguins, the kind that
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<A HREF="../issue59/jones.html">bit Linus</A>) live, and how hackers
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(including <I>LJ</I>) sent money to help rehabilitate the birds. The article
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describes how part of the rehabilitation included sweaters for the birds, made
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apparently from socks.
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<P> <A HREF="http://www.penguins.org.au/">http://www.penguins.org.au</A> has
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pictures and whimsical drawings of penguins, and
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<A HREF="http://www.penguins.org.au/hightide/">panels from the High Tide comic
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strip</A> featuring penguins. The site features information about the Phillip
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Island Nature Park.
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<H4>Spam</H4>
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The Spam of the Month award goes to the real estate company in Pakistan that
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offers programmers and sysadmins (certified in MCSE, Oracle, VB, e-commerce,
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etc.) for 240 hours per month for US$100.
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<H4>WTO</H4>
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<P> [Nov 30, 3:45pm] As I write, the N30 WTO II demonstrations have started in
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downtown Seattle. "Several hundred" protesters (600-800 according to the news)
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are marching to Westlake Park from separate demonstrations on Capitol Hill and
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the International District. The most ingenious of their plans is a giant cake
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they'll be presenting to Mayor Paul Schell and booster Pat Davis, to thank them
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for bringing the WTO trade ministerial last year.... so they [the activists]
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could expose what bastards they [the WTO] are. In other matters, nine
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Starbucks were hit yesterday and the day before.... Anyway, you'll know by the
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time you read this whether news about N30 makes it outside the region.
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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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Copyright © 2000, the Editors of <I>Linux Gazette</I>.<BR>
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Copying license <A HREF="../copying.html">http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html</A><BR>
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Published in Issue 60 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, December 2000</H5>
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