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Nick
Real Name: Nick
Age: 101100
Resides: United Kingdom
Occupation: Tech Developer for ftse100
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Favorite website(s):
skywhale.net
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Consider Phlebas, A Matter of Life and Death, Dr Who Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
no game, Firefox, vi.
What are you playing and/or working on right now:
usb bootable linux firewalls.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A map of Sydney IP connectivity.
What's so special about your computer (room):
The computer room is but a canvas, waiting for the artist.
How many computers do you have:
4 linux machines.
What was your first computer:
Altos 586 (8086 running Xenix)
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
vi.
Geekiest moment of your life:
Talking network driver code with Donald Becker at the Linix Expo, NYC 2001.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
Fixing Dada radio, aged four.
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Many, oh so many.
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Advicing a senior IBM enginner to take the board out, turn it upside down to let the electricity drain out, and plug it back in again. It worked.
What is your favourite quote:
"The instructions sain Windows98 or better, so I put Linux on it."
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
a krnel.
What are you doing when you're not at your computer(s):
Drive to my computer(s)
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):
Helsinki, 1990 to give Linus Torvalds a coy of Fedora4.
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
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