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Geek Of The Day: Linuxgirlie E-mail
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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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Geekiest moment of your life:
Getting excited over a atari games neon sign...and then buying it....also buying a beetle themaltake CPU cooler for my PC...its huge! Also buying my own domain..www.linuxgirlie.com
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Jo has probably always been a geek and never afraid to admit it.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Yes, I felt ashamed afterwards..

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
When someone shouted out LinuxGirlie at me in the street...

What is your favourite quote:
"Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred..."

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
full of ones and zeros.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Mountain Biking, or normally in a place with no power...

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):
Jo seems to be fairly happy in the present.

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(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Jo, who knows that true software development embraces consistent inconsistency, would like you to peek at www.karoshi.org.uk and www.karoshiathome.org.uk. Jo spende about 16 hours a day on a pc, is part of quite a few online communities and has have 2 open source projects on the go.
 
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