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Frank
Real Name: Frank
Age: Three Plus Three
Resides: Belgium
Occupation: Technician
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Favorite website(s):
http://krusader.sourceforge.net Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The manpages and linux handbooks :-)
Star Wars, may the OpenSource force be
with you ;-)
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Krusader, twin-panel filemanager for KDE.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Krusader documentation and promotion.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
The KDE default, most of the time i can't see the wallpaper because i have
opened several applications ;)
I will use a Krusader wallpaper soon, artwork
artists are creating them on http://kde-look.org.
What's so special about your computer (room):
TUX, GNU and GPL are inside my computer ;-)
How many computers do you have:
Three: Desktop, Laptop, Pocket.
What was your first computer:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=198&st=1
The
first computer that i touched was a Epson PX-8 laptop with CP/M os,
LCD
display (8 lines of 80 characters :) and a micocassette.
If you want to
change from spreadsheet to wordprocessor you had to change an eprom :)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98
Soon
after that a Commodore C64 dit become my best friend for several years :-)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Calc a spreadsheet, and WordStar a word processor, on the Epson PX-8 laptop.
Geekiest moment of your life:
When i was about 14 years old i was almost hit by lightning stroke. I was
about 3 meters from the lightning stroke. There was so many light that i
could not see anything anymore except a very very bright yellow light for
several seconds, i dit realise it was a lightning stroke but you can't do much
at that moment :-) , i thought this how it looks when an atomic bomb explodes
(just like in the movies) a few seconds later the thunder dit test my ears
:-) Luckely i was not injured, i didn't have anything except that i was
scared for a thunderstorm for about one year. Of cource it's always possible
that my brain was altered by some energy particles ;-)
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When i was about 12 years old my friends dit play computer games, i was
writing some applications in basic :-) Of cource i played some games to, but
the progamming language dit fascinate me. I dit not know that it was
called a geek, i dit only know that i was different than most of my friends
:-)
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
When I talk about Linux many friends don't understand anything about
it because they are Window users or simply don't know anything about
computers. Last week when I ordered a book, I did need to spell "Linux" and
"Debian" so please write L I N U X and D E B I A N :-) It was the first time that they ever dit heard about Linux and Debian ... What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
The first time when i saw a friend connecting to the internet via the dos
commmand line, using archie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_search_engine to
search for some stuff.
When last year (2004) a technician came to my home to install the hardware
for new internet connection and to configure my PC (the PC configuration was
for free) , he dit panic when he saw Linux on my computer :-)
So i
configured my Linux box myself to connect to the internet :-) Like i said,
some people do know only Windows, i would be interested to learn something
new, others do panic and freeze because they think it's to difficult to learn.
What is your favourite quote:
"If somebody else can do something, there is almost no reason why i can't do
the same thing."
It's my own quote btw. :-) Of cource sometimes you need
to spend a lot of energy and time to learn something new.
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
The Krusader installation program ;-)
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Enjoy real life (TM), family life, and trying to find the fasted
rollercoaster that is in the neighbourhood :-)
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):
1970 or something, i would put on as many as possible OpenSource code on tape
so that i could change the past ;-)
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Frank, who has played with computers since he was 12 years old, admits that "some people have difficulty to
know me, but once i finally open my shell they're are apt to love me." Frank has some computer knowledge and he's a technical all-rounder, and he doesn't panic
if he starts with something that he has never done before :-) Frank says: If you like a Midnight Commnader or Total Commander or an other commander
than
give Krusader a try, a twin panel-filemanager for KDE
http://krusader.sourceforge.net
http://krusader.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusader
Krusader
will work also on BSD, Gnome, AfterStep, XFce and other window
managers apt-get resolves the KDElibs an QTlibs dependencies
instantly. There is also a port to Mac OS X with fink, but you will need some
computer experiance to compile and install KDE and Krusader.
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