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Geek Of The Day: Pseudonym |
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 Pseudonym IS his pseudonym.
Real Name: Matt
Age: Hiding from the Soylent Green factory men.
Resides: Edmonton, Alberta
Occupation: Gainfully Unemployed
Favourite Website(s): HardOCP, Truthout, User Friendly
Favourite Program(s) Of All Time: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Xfce4, gdesklets, pf
What Are You Playing Or Working On Right Now: PBX, Remote device fingerprinting, SWARM, Netrek.
Current Wallpaper: Xfce4 default right now, but I usually have something from Skinz.org up. Screen saver is a blank screen.
What's So Special About Your Computer Room: The SGI Indigo^2
Impact 10K Graphics workstation, The HP C3000 PA-RISC Visualize
Station, Quad head (Four monitors 1x17", 1x15" 1x14", 1x19") main
computer system. And of course, the Tower of Power. 8x4
rack where it all sits. Along with the 17" server monitor and the
17" sun monitor on the SGI. This is of course not counting the
file server, router, PVR box and various unassembled computers,
monitors and printers I haven't figured out what to do with yet.
Geekiest Moment: Going to my friend's house, forgetting his POTS
number, going to a Future Shop and logging into a putty session to
message him to come down and open the door of his apartment.
When Did You First Realize You Were A Geek: When I wired a tape recorder into my friend's TSR-80 so that we could save our "Pac-Man" type game. I was six.
If I Was A Program I'd Be: IRIX, difficult, proprietary, hard to work with, imposible to get, but oh so L337!
Favourite Quote: "640K ought to be enough for ANYBODY!"
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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Matt, who used to believe that Norton Ghost was an actual spirit,
has never admitted his secret addiction to Infocom text adventures.
Matt, who once led a rally in 1992 to ban graphics from adventure
games, has never forgiven his mother for giving away his personally
autographed Scott Adams hint books.
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