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N0ne
Real Name: Paul
Age: 30
Resides: Hell, or one of its suburbs
Occupation: Linux Sysadmin/BOFH/"That guy that sits in the office and does stuff we don't understand"
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Favorite website(s):
http://localhost/apache_default.htm
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Firefly, Pratchett's Discworld
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
cowsay
What are you playing and working on right now:
I'm answering an email quiz. I'm also setting up our web filter to allow me to visit all the archives of www.freelancesluggy.com
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My daughter and some daisies.
What's so special about your computer (room):
At home? I mount fourteen different encrypted partitions... They all have a different password. Originally, it was an experiment in which I was learning to set up encrypted disks, and after a while I forgot they were there. I only reboot once every two months or so, so once every two months I get annoyed at it... and then forget until I have to reboot again.
How many computers do you have:
6. Two are 'dead spares'. One firewall, my wife's machine, mine and a PVR/media server I built from junk parts.
What was your first computer:
Atari 500ST (or was it a 1040?)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
HUrm.... On a PC? MY Dad has this Bally Basic thing. I typed in a game of 'hobbit' via a "How to program in Basic" book he had. Fun stuff.
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Phat Rino
Real Name: Patrick
Age: pi*6.2 years
Resides: Des Moines, Iowa
Occupation: Slacking student
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Favorite website(s):
http://news.google.com/?ned=us&topic=t
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Complete Linux Reference
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Lame (Ain't an MP3 Encoder)
What are you playing and working on right now:
Just checkin' the Gmail.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My computer hasn't been idle long enough to go into screen saver in six years...
What's so special about your computer (room):
It's Microsoft free.
How many computers do you have:
Two PCs. Both I built myself out of spare parts.
What was your first computer:
Tandy 1000RL
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Space Quest II
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Demian
Real Name: Jonathan
Age: 22
Resides: Costa Rica !
Occupation: Student, Consultant
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Favorite website(s):
Hint: something with a "/" and a "."
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Las enseñanzas de Don Juan, author: Carlos Castaneda
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Eclipse IDE.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Testing several J2EE implementations: Tomcat, jBoss, SJSAS, Systinet Java Server, Websphere, and doing some efforts on testing web services architecture.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A skull in the hell praying for life.
What's so special about your computer (room):
Nothing special, it's just powered by HDW Linux :)
How many computers do you have:
AMD Sempron 2400+, 1024gb in ram, 120Gb in HD.
What was your first computer:
AMD K6-II 550Mhz 128ram.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Winamp!
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Tall Paul (TP)
Real Name: Paul
Age: 32
Resides: Teesside, England
Occupation: Software developer for a telecoms co: www.teleware.com
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Favorite website(s):
The Register
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
What is a book?
You think I get out to the movies?
I don't have a TV. (This is true)
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Ricochet Robots the board game, or www.ricochetrobot.com every day.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Various codec plugins for our pure IP telephony platform.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Juggle Saver.
What's so special about your computer (room):
It has real people in it.
How many computers do you have:
IBM T22 flaptop (Main machine; I used to say no-one would ever need more than 128MB but I must confess since moving from pine and w3m to kmail and firefox I have bought an extra 128MB for it) Other PC spec similar to the above. Amiga1200 + 68030-68881 accelerator & 20MB hard disc.
What was your first computer:
ZX-Spectrum.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
A dodge the objects type 'driving' game originally written for the ZX-81.
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Meg0r
Real Name: Megan
Age: 20
Resides: Dartmouth, MA
Occupation: sales specialist - computers
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Favorite website(s):
slashdot, drudgereport, wired, madville Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Could it be Shopaholic and her Sister? Or maybe She's All That, or perhaps Smallville? We may never find out.
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Favorite game of all time is Red Alert 2.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Why yes, it IS Red Alert 2!
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
http://www.digitalblasphemy.com - top 10 - Fluorescence
What's so special about your computer (room):
The laptop and matrix are running Mandrake.
How many computers do you have:
(3) vpr matrix desktop, old 400mhz nec, dell inspiron 5100 series laptop.
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Tony
Real Name: Tony
Age: 0x25
Resides: Hong Kong I think
Occupation: Part-time working stiff and full-time fantasy fighter
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Favorite website(s):
Google, Dilbert Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Some chinese KungFu Novel, Star Wars
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Lotus 123. No Games. They waste time.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Linux RH9, FC3, GNOME. Embedded Linux running in PPC inside Xilinx FPGA.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
None. They waste CPU.
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. Last system I work on has 44 Pentium CPUs in it, only consume ~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)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Some basic game program I copied/modified from a basic programming book.
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Kurifu
Real Name: Clifford
Age: 22
Resides: In my office in Nova Scotia
Occupation: computer programming, computer science drop out, fulltime demi-god
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Favorite website(s):
slashdot.com, map.google.ca
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and A Brief History Of Time
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Microsoft Virtual Studio.net 2003..
What are you playing and working on right now:
Trying to sell things on Ebay whilst slowly enslaving the world with my iron
fist and a single cocked eyebrow.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Final Fantasy X scene.
What's so special about your computer (room):
It's a high end laptop computer.
How many computers do you have:
I have three; Dell Inspiron 9300, 1.2 GB T-Bird (Server), 4 Processor Xeon with
2 GB RAM (Server).
What was your first computer:
Packard Bell Legend Computer, Enchanced 486 AMD Processor @ 120 MHz and a 2 GB
HD.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Blake Stone, Aliens of Gold.
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