Maxkool Real Name:  Daniel Age:  22 Resides:  Rockville, Maryland Occupation:  Exchange Admin

Favorite website(s):
Engadget, Slashdot, Hackaday, Fark

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Headcrash, Serenity, Stargate SG1 

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
putty.exe Small, easy, and always there.

What are you playing and/or working on right now:
Finding the right open source firewall suite for me.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Tessterosa and konome from Full Metal Panic.

What's so special about your computer (room):
The world is my computer room

How many computers do you have:
x1 AMD Athlon 3000+, x1 Dell Dimension 2200, x1 Compaq Proliant 1850r, 3x AMD K6 450, x1 Dell Latitude CPI, x1 Latitude 7500, x1 IBM PC300gl @ 200Mhz, and finnaly x1 HP vectra @ 450Mhz, x1 Treo 650 @ 233Mhz

What was your first computer:
P I 200 it was hot back in the day.

	Tony Real Name:  Tony Age:  0x25 Resides:  Mesquite, Texas Occupation:  Systems Administrator to beat all systems administrators

Favorite website(s):
Google, Dilbert, Slashdot

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Star Wars (Original), Tom Wu movies. 

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Lotus 123. Woohoo!!!

What are you playing and/or working on right now:
Linux RH9, FC3, GNOME.  Embedded Linux running in PPC inside Xilinx FPGA.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A mirror reflection.

What's so special about your computer (room):
The system I am developing has 36 power PC CPUs in 17 Xilinx Virtex Pro II FPGA all within one U form factor.
It supports 8x1 GIGE input or 1x10 GIG input of videos. It consumes more power than a normal oven. The last system I worked on had 44 Pentium CPUs in it, and only consumed ~5,000 watts of power.

How many computers do you have:
10 Pentium SMP, Linux FC3, Windows, at works, 8 mostly pentium  at home.  A few unused x86, 386, 486.

What was your first computer:
Timex Sinclair 1000, Later  8086. (Turbo mode with memory upgrade to 640K)

	Aye you Real Name:  Pete Age:  now that would be telling   but still 50 Resides:  Bearwood west mids UK Occupation:  Errrrrrrrrr  whats one of those now someone remind me please

Favorite website(s):
lwn.net  ,  slashdot.org  ,  frell-you.com

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Lord Of The Rings , Up In Smoke (Cheech & Chong)  Farscape

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Kmail   without it i would be right in the smelly stuff.

What are you playing and/or working on right now:
Filling this web form in.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
active globe map.

What's so special about your computer (room):
They run Linux and just keep going.

How many computers do you have:
3 AMD Athlon xp2400 (this box)  Athlon 1.0g running Climate prediction and seti  , Intel P III 450 just sitting there right now soon to be a small MySql server.

What was your first computer:
Hum  yes  an self built ZX81.

	Nick Real Name:  Nick Age:  101100 Resides:  United Kingdom Occupation:  Tech Developer for ftse100

Favorite website(s):
skywhale.net

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Consider Phlebas, A Matter of Life and Death, Dr Who

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
no game, Firefox, vi.

What are you playing and/or working on right now:
usb bootable linux firewalls.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A map of Sydney IP connectivity.

What's so special about your computer (room):
The computer room is but a canvas, waiting for the artist. 

How many computers do you have:
4 linux machines.

What was your first computer:
Altos 586 (8086 running Xenix)

	Mart Real Name:  Mart Age:  32 late this year Resides:  Steinkjer, Norway Occupation:  Right now I'm a full time house renovator.

Favorite website(s):
None really, though the BBC's news site is the one I visit most often.

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Hyperion/Endymion series by Dan Simmonds.

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
That's like asking what my favourite bacteria is :)

What are you playing and working on right now:
Right now I'm working on renovating a house that was last decorated in 1978.  I'm also vaguely thinking about starting up my next business.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
http://photos.hinterlands.org/p16912648.html

What's so special about your computer (room):
Nothing! 

How many computers do you have:
I have one dual Opteron workstation and one old laptop.

What was your first computer:
An Acorn Electron that was built from a kit.