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Festerius
Real Name: Michael
Age: 11001
Resides: Houston, Texas
Occupation: Tech Support / Customer Service
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Favorite website(s):
somethingawful.com,
portalofevil.com, homestarrunner.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
the Harry Potter books / Dawn of The Dead (1978&2004 versions) / The
Simpsons
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
TrueSpace 6, PaintShopPro 8.
What are you playing and working on right now:
A bunch of 3-D stuff, webpages, some crappy flash cartoons.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Blank : Screen Saver ; Crab Nebula : Wallpaper.
What's so special about your computer (room):
Duel monitor (1@CRTx17+1@TVx25) & Case: 4(red LED case fans) + 1 (Blue Processor Fan) @ Full
Black Aluminum Tower.
How many computers do you have:
2, computers (Have given too many away to friends and family to mention)
1st =
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+2G(PC2700 DDR) + 230GB (180GBx7200RPM + 20GBx7200RPM + 30GBx7200RPM) RADEON9550 (256MB DDR), 2nd =
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+512MB+80GBx7200
What was your first computer:
Commodore 64
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Impossible Mission, Beyond Castle
Wolfenstein
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Tadiera
Real Name: Leigh
Age: >18, <20
Resides: Cincinnati, OH
Occupation: Systems Coordinator (a.k.a. SysAdmin) for Clear Channel Radio
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Favorite website(s):
www.theregister.co.uk
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Firefly
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
World of Warcraft
What are you playing and working on right now:
Some sort of website.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
It changes every 15 minutes... Right now? The schematics of Serenity.
What's so special about your computer (room):
You can see the floor.
How many computers do you have:
2, currently. Both running WinXP. Hey, I'm a gamer. I do have at least two HDDs with *NIX just waiting for the right box of their dreams.
What was your first computer:
Mac IIsi
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Bloody hell no.
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Luke
Real Name: Luke
Age: 3^3+3
Resides: Nashvegas, TN -- Eat more rhinestones!
Occupation: Self-unemployed founder of an OSS software startup.
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Favorite website(s):
Boingboing.net and www.goats.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Godel, Escher, Bach (book); Seven Samurai (movie); Robot Chicken (TV show)
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
I'm a software hater, so it's hard to say -- they're each so painful in their own way. The original Metroid? Marathon 2: Durandal? Rxvt? Ruby? It pains me to say it, but I think Bash has probably helped me more than anything -- the thought of having to survive with just ksh until zsh showed up.... Ow!
What are you playing and working on right now:
I'm developing an open-source server automation framework in Ruby and have founded a company to try to make enough money to survive from it. The software is akin to cfengine but goes far beyond it in scope. It includes a large library for managing pretty much all of the configurable elements you'd find on a Unix system (files, packages, users, cron jobs, hosts, etc.) along with support for things like transactions. It also has an interface language I've developed for specifying configurations centrally.
In other words, I'm writing a library that can manage any aspect of a Unix system, and a new language for describing those configurations declaratively and much more simply than, say, a perl script.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Black on black on black. My Rxvt background is black, my desktop background is black but I don't notice because my Rxvts or whatever are always tiled to completely cover the screen, and my screens just fade to black when DPMS kicks in.
What's so special about your computer (room):
Hmm. I guess the two 19" LCDs mounted on arms above my desk. I could never go back to CRTs. (Ow! My eyes!)
How many computers do you have:
Between 7 and 11, depending on what you count as a computer. Two powerbooks, a dual athlon desktop running Debian (with 2 GB of RAM to support many VMWare images), a dual xeon running Solaris x86, a SPARC X1 running SPARC/Solaris, two old SPARCs I don't really use any more (a SPARC 20 and a dual-proc 10), plus three Linksys routers running the SveaSoft firmware and providing my wireless network. One of them replaced my SPARC 20 as my firewall, so at least that one counts as a computer to me.
What was your first computer:
Heh, I'm a Johnny-come-lately; my first machine was an Apple Quadra 660 AV with a 500MB drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 14.4 software modem.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
I don't remember the first stuff I ran on that, but I remember the games I played on my old ColecoVision (which would not qualify as a computer): Gateway to Apshai, Montezuma's Revenge (where you could cause the count of lines to rollover to the max by killing yourself two ways at once), and others. I mostly played Marathon over Ethernet on my 660, with a healthy helping of Doom thrown in.
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Kevin
Real Name: Kevin
Age: 0x23
Resides: Bernardsville, NJ
Occupation: SysAdmin
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Favorite website(s):
http://www.venganza.org/
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
War Games, Ferris Buehler's Day Off
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
screen
What are you playing and working on right now:
milters
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Star Wars-style kernel doc scroller
What's so special about your computer (room):
How the wires make the veins in my GFs head stick out.
How many computers do you have:
10 What types: SPARC/Linux, SPARC/Solaris, Intel/Linux, and a SGI Indy.
What was your first computer:
Atari 800 with 48k of RAM
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Star Raiders
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Linuxgirlie
Real Name: Jo
Age: 21
Resides: Kent, UK
Occupation: Sys-Admin
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Favorite website(s):
linuxformat.co.uk, gmail.com, google.co.uk/linux, linuxtoday.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
War Games, Ferris Buehler's Day Off
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Half Life, Doom 3 and Eternal Lands, Firefox, OpenOffice, Gimp, and of course LINUX!!
What are you playing and working on right now:
Karoshi, a system to set a school with a whole network running Linux server at a click of a button, no g33kness is needed on the school side :)
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Nice blue background.
What's so special about your computer (room):
The fact that I have a computer room in my 2 bedroom house!! The server and firewall live under the stairs and we had to put in a fan to keep them cool. The whole house is networked, apart from the toilet....
How many computers do you have:
I have 4 computers, 3 laptops, a server and a firewall. All run linux....
What was your first computer:
A pentium 2 350mhz, 9Gb HD, 128Mb ram...
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Half Life 1 and Duke Nukem
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Teiten75
Real Name: Todd
Age: 30
Resides: Pekin, IL
Occupation: Provisioning Engineer
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Favorite website(s):
www.myspace.com and home.grics.net/teiten
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Book = Anything written by Sylvia Brown, TV = Classic Airwolf
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
MS Flight Simulator 2004
What are you playing and working on right now:
Provisioning a special circuit for AT&T.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Nice tornado touching down.
What's so special about your computer (room):
There\'s more dust on my weight lifting system than on my computer keyboard.
How many computers do you have:
3 . . . . Intel based systems I have built.
What was your first computer:
Pacard Bell 386sx. Actually the very first was a Commodore 64.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Solitaire
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Jake
Real Name: Andy
Age: 37
Resides: Portsmouth, UK
Occupation: Company Director (Guess that makes me a stiff!)
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Favorite website(s):
www.coolhomepages.com, www.snopes.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Lost
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
So many!
What are you playing and working on right now:
Developing a PHP Content Management System and e-commerce package; planning to take over the world.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
This machine has an Audi A3 wallpaper but no sceensaver.
What's so special about your computer (room):
They're all special to me.
How many computers do you have:
2 PCs running Windows, 1 PC running Linux and an iPaq 4700
What was your first computer:
A ComX 35 (Quickly followed by a Commodore 64)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
On the ComX 35, a game called Worms. I can still remember the tune 23 years later!
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