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<H1>TAG Bios</H1>
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<H4> These are some of the people who answer your TAG questions every month.</H4>
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Ben Okopnik</H4>
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Ben was born in Moscow, Russia in 1962. He became interested in
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electricity at age six--promptly demonstrating it by sticking a fork into
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a socket and starting a fire--and has been falling down technological mineshafts
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ever since. He has been working with computers since the Elder Days, when
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they had to be built by soldering parts onto printed circuit boards and
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programs had to fit into 4k of memory. He would gladly pay good money to any
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psychologist who can cure him of the resulting nightmares.
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<p>Ben's subsequent experiences include creating software in nearly a dozen
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languages, network and database maintenance during the approach of a hurricane,
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and writing articles for publications ranging from sailing magazines to
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technological journals. Having recently completed a seven-year
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Atlantic/Caribbean cruise under sail, he is currently docked in Baltimore, MD,
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where he works as a technical instructor for Sun Microsystems.
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<p>Ben has been working with Linux since 1997, and credits it with his complete
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loss of interest in waging nuclear warfare on parts of the Pacific Northwest.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:ben-fuzzybear@yahoo.com">ben-fuzzybear@yahoo.com</A>
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<BR> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ben-fuzzybear/">http://www.geocities.com/ben-fuzzybear/</A>
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Chris Gianakopoulos</H4>
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I do embedded software for a living. I work at Motorola in Schaumburg,
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Illinois, and I design and implement RF networking protocols for a living.
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<P> My schooling is a BSEE at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago,
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but I was a nondegreed engineer during most of my career. I have been
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doing embedded software for about 20 years, and I'm 48 years old.
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<P> Networking protocols are what got me interested in Linux. For example,
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after reading <I>TCP/IP Illustrated</I>, Volume 1, by Stevens, I had a yearning
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to experiment with the protocols. Also, I got tired of using Microsoft
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Windows software on my 486 machine. A 66MHz 486 is sort of fast when
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running DOS -- Windows 95 brought it down to its knees. Also the Windows
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games require so much resources! Linux (I use SuSE 6.4) brought new life
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into that 486.
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<P> So I love Linux. I have lots of computers in the house with three of them
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running Linux (one of them with no keyboard or monitor -- just an
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Ethernet). I have another machine that runs FreeBSD because I like to see
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how the various systems (Linux, FreeBSD, even Windows with its protocol
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stack and Exceed) interoperate.
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<P> Physics, electromagnetics (fields and waves), and protocols are the things
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that I study most. I know the IrDA protocol, I have studied its specs,
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and I have ported a commercial IrDA protocol stack into more than one
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embedded system.
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<P> I am married with three kids, and I actually see them. When I am not
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hobbying and working, I actually get some sleep now and then.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:cgianakop@myexcel.com">cgianakop@myexcel.com</A>
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Dan Wilder</H4>
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Dan was born in the late Pleistocene before mortals were permitted
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access to computers. Raised on a diet of grilled Wooly Mammoth, he
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wrote his first program in high school, for an IBM 7090 in a language
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called MAD. Following a meandering career as a sound technician, auto
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worker, offset pressman, mechanic, roustabout and journalist, Dan went
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back to college to study Forestry. There, he met his doom in the form
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of the keys to a room in the cellar of the forestry school containing an
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IBM 1130, given him by an evil lecturer who became his computing mentor.
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<P> Following completion of a degree and extended sojourns as a real-time
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embedded systems programmer and UNIX sysadmin, Dan gravitated to
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<I>Linux Journal</I>, where he helps edit
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<A HREF="http://www.embedded.linuxjournal.com"><I>Embedded Linux
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Journal</I></A>, and plays with Linux systems all day (and more of the night
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than his dear and patient wife Jacque would prefer).
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<P> Dan spends his spare time hiking, reading to his two children, and doing
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volunteer gardening at their school.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:dan@ssc.com">dan@ssc.com</A>
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Faber Fedor</H4>
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Faber runs <A HREF="http://www.linuxnj.com">LinuxNJ.com</A>, a Linux
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hacking, er...consulting company in New Jersey, USA where people pay
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him to practice his hobby. Besides teaching Linux around the
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country, writing code and setting up networks, Faber <EM>does</EM> occasionally
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walk away from the computer. During those times he's either sleeping or
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watching reruns of
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Star Trek or Babylon 5.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:faber@linuxnj.com">faber@linuxnj.com</A>
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Frank Rodolf</H4>
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After his first experiences with a Sinclair ZX-80 - with a wopping 1 KB
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RAM - when in - what in the US would be called - 9th grade, Frank was
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addicted to computers.
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<P> When he first got to play with Linux (an SLS distribution with kernel
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0.98.xx), he was impressed, but - having no experience with Unices at
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all - had no real use for it. Writing applications for small companies
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and tutoring students in IT-related classes meant using the standard
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(DOS-based) software.
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<P> Things changed when he got a new PC. Now he could play with other OSes
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on the old PC. Kernel 1.2.10 being available by now, Linux had gotten
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much more stable and thus much more fun to experiment with. After a
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short while, Linux was the main OS on the new machine too - DOS being
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hidden behind a dual boot that was hardly ever used anymore.
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<P> After having had various office jobs, Frank accepted a job as Unix
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system administrator with the biggest Dutch ICT service provider - now,
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after a merger, officially a French company - in August 1998.
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<P> Apart from the standard work - mostly involving Sun Solaris and HP-UX -
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Frank is responsible for the Linux developments within the group he is
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part of. This includes making a standard installation for Linux
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servers, based on Red Hat, kickstart and a lot of Bash and Perl scripts.
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<P> At home, when Frank is not on the phone with his girlfriend in NYC or
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playing backgammon online, he experiments with various distributions,
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currently using Mandrake on his main machine.
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<P> Frank lives in the Netherlands.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:linux@rodolf.com">linux@rodolf.com</A>
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Guy Milliron</H4>
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Guy grew up in SillyCon Valley (San Jose/San Francisco Bay area) where frequent
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road signs say Intel, HP, Apple, etc...
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<P> Starting at an early age of 10, when Guy took the 27" console television
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apart one afternoon when the parental units were busy elsewhere, they learned to
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keep him at bay with his own personal electronic components. It started with a
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Radio Shack 200 in 1 electronic test kit. Quickly he grew into computers
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(Apple ][ series - TTL chip sets). Guy entered into an electronics course at
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school, but was more capable of teaching the course than the teacher. So he
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was given run of the class to do whatever projects he came up with.
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<P> After high school, Guy joined the working people. He worked in IT/MIS for
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such companies as Adept Technologies (Robotics), Micro Focus (COBOL), Apple,
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Ibm... His interests in hardware quickly grew into interests in software too.
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Reading any technical book about any OS, he quickly learned about DOS, Win,
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OS/2, MacOS... Taking him to a new job title, OS Tech. He heard about
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Slackware Linux. Obtained a copy, never really thought it would take off and
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shelved the project.
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<P> Guy operated a FidoNet based BBS for many years. Always trying to get more
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out of the computer by trying different operating systems. Connectivity really
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interested Guy.
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<P> Continued life working for various Microsoft based companies (QualComm,
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Stac Electronics). Until one day in the late 90's, he heard about Red Hat
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Linux. Once again, obtained a copy, installed it... and promptly deleted
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Windows (much to the annoyance of the people in his household). Ended up
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buying more computers, one specific to Windows for those less apt at Linux, but
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kept playing with Linux.
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<P> Today, Guy runs Red Hat Linux on several systems offering dns, webhosting,
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email services... to small businesses. (He also has one Windows machine,) He
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also also, operates a taxicab and karaoke hosting business in Las Vegas,
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Nevada.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:guy+tag@gmnow.net">guy+tag@gmnow.net</A>
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Heather Stern</H4>
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Heather got started in computing before she quite got started learning
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English. By 8 she was a happy programmer, by 15 the system administrator
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for the home... Dad had finally broken down and gotten one of those personal
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computers, only to find it needed regular care and feeding like any other
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pet. Except it wasn't a Pet: it was one of those brands we find most
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everywhere today...
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<P> Heather is a hardware agnostic, but has spent more hours as a tech in
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Windows related tech support than most people have spent with their computers.
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(Got the pin, got the Jacket, got about a zillion T-shirts.) When she
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discovered Linux in 1993, it wasn't long before the home systems ran Linux
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regardless of what was in use at work.
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<P> By 1995 she was training others in using Linux - and in charge of all the
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"strange systems" at a (then) 90 million dollar company. Moving onwards, it's
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safe to say, Linux has been an excellent companion and breadwinner... She
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took over the HTML editing for "The Answer Guy" in issue 28, and has been
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slowly improving the preprocessing scripts she uses ever since.
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<P> Here's an autobiographical filksong she wrote called
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<A HREF="../../issue67/misc/tag/filksong-programmers-daughter.txt">The Programmer's Daughter</A>.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:star@starshine.org">star@starshine.org</A>
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Huibert Alblas</H4>
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Huibert Alblas is my real name, but everybody has been calling me Halb
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since the day I moved from Holland to Germany. After spending 5+ years on
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University (mostly hanging around on campus) "studying" math and physics to
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become a teacher, I was finally asked by a small .com to work for them, doing
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what I was doing all day anyway (programming, Linux, Windows, hardware
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support (a little bit) and overall messing around with computers). In the
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evenings I teach Wing Tsun (kung fu) 3 times a week or sit in my
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favorite cafe, drink Weizen (2 times a week), or practice playing guitar
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and writing a songbook with campfire songs in LaTeX.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:halblas@weos.de">halblas@weos.de</A>
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Jim Dennis</H4>
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Jim has been using Linux since kernel version 0.97 or so. His first
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distribution was
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SLS (Soft Landing Systems). Jim taught
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himself Linux while working on the technical support queues at
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Symantec's Peter Norton Group.
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He started by lurking alt.os.minix and alt.os.linux on USENET
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netnews (before the creation of the comp.os.linux.* newsgroups), reading them
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just about all day while supporting Norton Utilities, and
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for a few hours every night while waiting for the rush-hour traffic to subside.
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<P> Jim has also worked in other computer roles, and also as an electrician and
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a crane truck operator. Jim has also worked in many other roles. He's been a
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graveyard dishwasher, a janitor, and a driver of school buses, taxis, pizza
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delivery cars, and even did some cross-country, long-haul work.
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<P> He grew up in Chicago and has lived in the inner city, the suburbs,
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and on farms in the midwest. In his early teens he lived in Oregon--
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Portland, Clackamas, and the forests along
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the coast (Brighton). In his early twenties, he moved to
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the Los Angeles area "for a summer job" (working for his father, and learning
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the contruction trades).
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<P> By then, Jim met his true love, Heather, at a
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science-fiction convention. About a year later they started
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spending time together, and they've now been living together for
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over a decade. First they lived in Eugene, Oregon, for a year, but now they
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live in the Silicon Valley.
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<P> Jim and Heather still go to SF cons together.
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<P> Jim has continued to be hooked on USENET and technical mailing
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lists. In 1995 he registered the <A
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HREF="http://starshine.org">starshine.org</A> domain as a birthday gift to
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Heather (after her nickname and favorite Runequest persona). He's participated
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in an ever changing array of lists and newsgroups.
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<P> In 1999 Jim started a book-authoring project (which he completed
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after attracting a couple of co-authors). That book <I>Linux System
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Administration</I> (published 2000, New Riders Associates) is not
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a rehash of HOWTOs and man pages. It's intended to give a high-level
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view of systems administration, covering topics like
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Requirements Analysis, Recovery Planning, and Capacity Planning.
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His book intended to build upon the works of Aeleen Frisch
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(<I>Essential Systems Administration</I>, O-Reilly & Associates) and
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Nemeth, et al (<I>Unix System Administrator's Handbook</I>, Prentice
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Hall).
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<P> Jim is an active member of a number of Linux and UNIX users' groups
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and has done Linux consulting and training for a number of companies
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(Linuxcare) and customers (US Postal Service). He's also presented
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technical sessions at conferences (Linux World Expo, San Jose and
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New York).
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<P> A few years ago, he volunteered to help with misguided technical
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question that were e-mailed to the editorial staff at the Linux
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Gazette. He answered 13 questions the first month. A couple
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months later, he realized that these questions and his responses had
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become a regular column in the Gazette.
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<P> "Darn, that made me pay more attention to what I was saying! But I
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did decide to affect a deliberately curmudgeonly attitude; I didn't
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want to sound like the corporate tech support 'weenie' that I was
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so experienced at playing. That's not what Linux was about!"
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(<A HREF="http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=curmudgeon">
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curmudgeon</A> means a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man,
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according to the
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<A HREF="http://www.m-w.com/">Merriam-Webster OnLine dictionary</A>.
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The word hails back to 1577, origin unknown, and originally meant miser.)
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<P> Eventually, Heather got involved and took over formatting the column,
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and maintaining a script that translates "Jim's e-mail markup hints"
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into HTML. Since then, Jim and Heather have (finally) invited other
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generous souls to join them as The Answer Gang.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:jimd@starshine.org">jimd@starshine.org</A>
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John Karns</H4>
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I first heard of Linux around 1994. Shortly thereafter I bought a copy
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of Yggdrasil, which had kernel version 0.99 if I recall. One could either
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install it to hard drive or run it directly from the CD.
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<P> Until 1987, I worked as musician full- and part-time. My preferred
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musical idiom is modern jazz - John Coltrane, Mile Davis, etc.
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<P> Graduated 1983, Lawrence Institute of Technology (now Lawrence
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Technological University), Southfield, Mich. B.S.E.E.
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<P> First personal computers: Commodore 64 w/ TV as monitor, and Apple ][+.
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<P> 1983 - 1985: field engineer with Wang Laboratories. Bought my first PC
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from them, an 8086 (16 bit XT style), with 256k RAM, 10MB hdd, and
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monochrome graphics in 1984.
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<P> Worked in an electronics shop and freelanced as programmer approx 4 yrs.
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Picked up some networking and RDBMS experience in an industrial IS dept.,
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approx. 5 yrs; then more freelancing.
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<P> Since early 1998 have been implementing LAN's (Linux-based, of course)
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and setting up a distributed RDBMS for an educational institution in
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Bogotá and other parts of Colombia, South America.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:jkarns@csd.net">jkarns@csd.net</A>
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Karl-Heinz Herrmann</H4>
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I'm a physicist. Right now I'm working in a research center in Germany, and am
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enjoying my good fortune in having mostly Unix machinery around me. I started
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out with Linux as it made the leap to 2.0.0 and have been running my home PC
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under Linux since then.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:k.-h.herrmann@fz-juelich.de">k.-h.herrmann@fz-juelich.de</A>
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Mike Ellis</H4>
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Mike works as a Research and Development Engineer in Surrey,
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England. His first experience of Unix was in 1990 at the University of
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Kent in Canterbury (UKC) where he also came across Linux in 1992. He has
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been running Linux systems at home and at work since 1996, starting with
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Slackware 96, although he now tends to prefer RedHat. He spends as much
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of his work time as possible writing code for Linux and Solaris, although
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unfortunately most of it is commercially confidential. Having learnt a lot
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from other people, Mike hopes to repay some of the debt by contributing to
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the Linux community through TAG. He also regularly contributes to C-Vu,
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the bi-monthly magazine produced by <A HREF="http://www.accu.org">ACCU</A>.
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Non-computing activities include Juliet, flying light aeroplanes and target
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shooting.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:mike@miju.demon.co.uk">mike@miju.demon.co.uk</A>
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Mike Martin</H4>
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I got introduced to Linux through Red Hat 5.2 in April 1999, and rapidly got
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involved in the movement.
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I'm definitely not a guru but I know a lot about
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configuring systems, both individual and as a part of NT networks.
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I got involved in The Answer Gang because I saw quite a few answers regarding
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RH that were not quite right (ie they were related to known RH issues that I
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was aware of), so in the spirit of co-operation decided to get involved.
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I'm currently running the beta version of Red Hat and am actively involved
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in a local Linux users group (LUG).
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:mike@redtux.demon.co.uk">mike@redtux.demon.co.uk</A>
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Mike ("Iron") Orr</H4>
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Mike is the Editor of <I>Linux Gazette</I>. You can read what he has
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to say in the Back Page column of each issue. He has been a Linux enthusiast
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since 1991 and a Debian user since 1995. He is SSC's web technical
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coordinator, which means he gets to write a lot of Python scripts.
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Non-computer interests include Ska and Oi! music and the international
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language Esperanto. The nickname Iron was given to him in college--short for
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Iron Orr, hahaha.
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com">gazette@ssc.com</A>
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Thomas Adam</H4>
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I write the recently-revived series "The Linux Weekend Mechanic", which was
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started by John Fisk (the founder of Linux Gazette) in 1996 and continued
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until 1998.
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<P> I was born in Hammersmith (London UK) in 1983. When I was 13, I moved to
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the sleepy, thatched roofed, village of East Chaldon in the county of Dorset.
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I am very near the coast (at Lulworth Cove) which is where I used to work.
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<P> I first got interested in Linux in 1996 having seen a review of it in a
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magazine (Slackware 2.0). I was fed up with the instability that the then-new
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operating system Win95 had and so I decided to give it a go.
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Slackware 2.0 was great. I have been a massive Linux enthusiast ever
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since. I ended up with running SuSE on both my desktop and laptop computers.
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<P> While at school (<A HREF="www.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk">The Purbeck
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School</A>, Wareham in Dorset), I was actively involved in setting up two
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Linux proxy servers (each running Squid and SquidGuard). I also set up
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numerous BASH scripts which allowed web-based filtering to be done via
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e-mail, so that when an e-mail was received, the contents of it were added to
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the filter file. (Good old BASH -- I love it)
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<P> I am now 18 and studying at University (Southampton Institute, UK), on a
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course called HND Buisness Information Technology (BIT). So far, it's great.
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<P> Other hobbies include reading. I especially enjoy reading plays (Henrik
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Ibsen, Chekov, George Bernard Shaw), and I also enjoy literature (Edgar Allan
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Poe, Charles Dickens, Jane Austin to name but a few).
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<P> I enjoy walking, and often go on holiday to the Lake District, to a place
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called Keswick. There are numerous "mountains", of which "Great Gable" is my
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most favourite.
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<P> I am also a keen musician. I play the piano in my spare time.
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<P> I listen to a variety of music. I enjoy listening to
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Rock (My favourite band is "Pavement" (lead singer:
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Stephen Malkmus). I also have a passion for 1960's
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psychadelic music (I hope to purchase a copy of
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"Nuggets" reeeeaaall soon).
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<BR> <A HREF="mailto:thomas_adam16@yahoo.com">thomas_adam16@yahoo.com</A>
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Copyright © 2001, the Linux Gazette Answer Gang.<BR>
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Copying license <A HREF="../copying.html">http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html</A><BR>
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