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Thabass, Fatass, Big Bass
Real Name: Jason
Age: 19
Resides: Tempe, Arizona
Occupation: Student/Future Software Engineer (Game Programming)
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Favorite website(s):
http://boards.ign.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Headcrash, Hackers, The ScreenSavers (editor's dream answers)
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Metal Gear Solid, Microsoft Word.
What are you playing and working on right now:
That New Hulk Game, and just trying to move to Tempe.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A girl that has my nickname on her chest.
What's so special about your computer (room):
My computer is custom built really, and it has neon lights, if that counts.
How many computers do you have:
A Windows Custom and a Mac Mini 1.5 GHz.
What was your first computer:
It was probably a Pentium II - 266.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
I'm guessing that is was probably or should've been Quake II, Capture The Flag!!!
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Dud Real Name: Bill
Age: 54
Resides: central New Jersey (exit 90, har-dee har har)
Occupation: Programmer for a small telco and ISP
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Favorite website(s):
slashdot.org,hackaday.com,dilbert.com,woot.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Further Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
teco text editor for DEC PDP-8 (then); vi (now)
What are you playing and working on right now:
playing with http://openfi.sourceforge.net/index.html car MP3 player software.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
daily image from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
What's so special about your computer (room):
Every room is a computer room.
How many computers do you have:
20? What types: various X-86 boxes running Linux, FreeBSD, and (ugh) Windoze for my wife's work.
What was your first computer:
home-brew Intersil 6100 (a CMOS PDP-8 clone).
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
the bootstrap loader, of course, prior to booting up OS-8. (Unless you want to count the IBM 360 running APL that I was introduced to in 1965. But that one wasn't "mine", so I don't think it should count.)
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Jay Real Name: Jason
Age: 27.74
Resides: Toronto, Ontario (Just in case you confused it with the various other Toronto's out there)
Occupation: Full time Programmer. Part time sleeper.
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Favorite website(s):
homestarrunner.com, bash.org, thesuperficial.com, jasonnussbaum.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, The
Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Diablo II, Kings Quest IV
What are you playing and working on right now:
It's top secret. So top secret I'm not quite sure what it is. But it's real
cool. I promise.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My son Phillip, smiling.
What's so special about your computer (room):
I have a really great desk. And some guitars. A particularly beautiful Takamine
acoustic that my wife bought me for Father's day.
How many computers do you have:
3. Pentium II, III and IV.
What was your first computer:
An IBM XT. That my mom brought home from work.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Hrm. Tough one. No, but I do remember playing Leisure Suit Larry on my mom's 286
laptop. In CGA. When I was 9. And, yes, I finished it.
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Vrykolakas Real Name: David
Age: 28
Resides: Paris, France and Ljubljana, Slovenia
Occupation: Student of Geography, Teacher of French as a Foreign Language
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Favorite website(s):
http://www.empyree.org
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Matrix, Flowers for Algernon, The Anubis Gates....
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Planescape: Torment
What are you playing and working on right now:
Blogging and trying to stop geeking.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Puma Screensaver - classic Aqua. No, I use Tiger, but it may be nostalgia...
What's so special about your computer (room):
The worst computer I ever got: two motherboard changes, two CD drive changes (one pending), display change, HD change... It is a Powerbook. Apple means you pay for high quality. Yeah, right.
How many computers do you have:
One, this bloody laptop. I'm interested in wearcomps, though.
What was your first computer:
Atari 520 ST. After a ten year hiatus in computing, a AMD K5 PR100 (Pentium-like, 90MHz). Incredibly cheap for that time.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Diablo. It was a killer app: I bought the computer in order to play it.
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Mu-Sly Real Name: Dave
Age: 25
Resides: Nottingham, UK
Occupation: I'm a freelance web developer, over at
<plug> www.rentamonkey.com </plug>
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Favorite website(s):
I Live: http://www.ampfea.org/
I Read: http://digg.com/
I Hear: http://www.thinner.cc/
I Love: http://www.rubyonrails.com/
I Need: http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Book: would have to be "The Tripods Trilogy" by John Christopher - awesome and really captivating, and I read it back in the days when I could still take the time to sit down with a novel. Unfortunately, I never seem to have time to finish reading fiction these days, so I tend to read mostly non-fiction political and technological books.
Movie: It's all about "Enter The Dragon" - suddenly wanting to leave Mr. Han Man's island, learning to prepare for defeat, oh how so? When it comes, I won't even notice - I'll just be too busy looking good, having extra-ordinary skills, I don't care if he's not alone, dammit it all, I don't care who he's with, you bloody well put him on the line! Wooaa-taaaaahh! *Ahem!*
TV: I generally try and avoid using that mental pacifier device, but sometimes I'm partial to a bit of light entertainment from that Family Guy and his crazy talking dog.
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Paradroid.
What are you playing and working on right now:
I've just started building a car park booking system for a small international airport. I'm using Ruby On Rails for the first time on a serious application, and it's going pretty well so far. (Don't tell anyone... I'm actually really enjoying my work right now, as a direct result of having this shiny new toy!)
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
I don't have a screensaver - the computer is in use, or the screen is off.
Wallpaper is a picture of this cool African musician called Bajaly Suso, who I saw play an amazing little free gig a month or so ago. Whether you like world music or not, if you ever get a chance to see this guy play - do it!!
What's so special about your computer (room):
The
fact that I have my bass guitar within arms reach, and that it's great
for chilling out for 5 minutes to give my brain a rest from coding.
How many computers do you have:
My main machine is an Athlon XP 1800+, running Gentoo Linux. I do all my web development stuff on that.
Then there's a fairly ancient laptop, running Win2k, for testing my sites in all versions of Internet Expletive.
Finally, there's an old Beige G3 mac, running OS X 10.2 - it's my
firewall and router, and I use it for a bit of Mac browser testing too,
although not so much since my girlfriend got a nice 12" iBook.
What was your first computer:
Commodore 64
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
I
remember the first program I tried to write, which went something like
"draw two red robbers" at about the age of five or six... but that was
before I really knew what programming was. Luckily, my dad came to the
rescue and helped me write:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
But somewhere along the way after getting into sound generation, I lost
track of my PEEKs and POKEs and never really wrote anything of great
significance on the old C64.
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Artimador Real Name: Chris
Age: ...before beauty
Resides: Houston, Texas
Occupation: Admin for a Hosting Company
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Favorite website(s):
myspace.com, jesusdressup.com, portalofevil.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Wheel of Time Series, Don't have one, Family Guy.
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Wolfenstien ET, Macromedia Studio MX 2K4.
What are you playing and working on right now:
php shell script and webbased powered hosting application.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
None.
What's so special about your computer (room):
I got half of my computer from a dumpster. The other half is from misc parts and it's running Gentoo linux on a 2.6.12 kernel.
How many computers do you have:
6 (a dell, two compacts, a custom xp machine for my wife, and my gentoo box. All ranging from 1Ghz-2Ghz.
What was your first computer:
A Compaq laptop that the keyboard unfolded to reveal the screen and 5 3/4 drive bay.
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
I remember playing Nibbles and moding the code in Qbasic.
Geekiest moment of your life:
Jumping up and doing a geeky dance when I successfully upgraded glibc on a redhat box.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I discovered linux.
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
"The new version of red hat is running xinetd instead of inetd"
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Uh... I'm a geek not a loser.
What is your favourite quote:
"We've upped our standards, so up yours."
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
a porn bot in a yahoo chat room why: I'm a perv.
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Watching tv.
You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
1900 and a satchel of money made before 1900.
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Chris, who claims to know linux, gentoo, bind, apache, php, mysql, snmp, mrtg, bash shell scripting, qmail, vpopmail, Xorg, kde, enlightenment, also says he know a little asp and access, and Iss hosting. Chris, who insists that you check out his site, write programs using php shell scripts in his spare time.
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