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Geek Of The Day: QuantumG E-mail

geek of the day Nickname: QuantumG

  Real Name: Trent
  Age: 27
  Resides: Sydney, Australia

  Occupation: Coder

  Favourite Website: Slashdot

  Favourite Game Of All Time: Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap
 What Are You Working On  Right Now: My primary project is the open source decompiler Boomerang .  I also hack on the Io programming language and I help out on the LessShift MMORPG project .

Current Wallpaper/Screensaver: My wallpaper is a picture of my girlfriend toasting the camera at my brother's wedding.  I hate screensavers.

What's So Special About Your Computer Room:  I have a big desk with 5 monitors on it.

How Many Computers Do You Have: My main machine is a Dell Latitude laptop with a wide screen.  When at home I use it in conjuction with a flat panel LCD display.  It runs Windows XP.  I have a number of machines that run Linux including an Athlon and a Pentium 4.

Geekiest Moment: Presenting a paper I co-authored at the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering in Germany 2001.  The paper was about using decompilation techniques to identify security flaws in proprietary software.  The Europeans were shocked that I could even make such a suggestion as, unlike the rest of the world, they have strict anti-reverse engineering laws there.

When Did You First Realize You Were A Geek: When I went over to my friends house and discovered that all they used their C64 for was playing games.

If I Was A Program I'd Be: Suffering from bit rot.

Favourite Quote: "You deserve to be able to cooperate openly and freely with other people who use software. You deserve to be able to learn how the software works, and to teach your students with it. You deserve to be able to hire your favorite programmer to fix it when it breaks. You deserve free software."  - Richard Stallman

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The Truth Behind The Geek (*creative liberties taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Trent, who will soon be working on a project writing a simulator for testing space station technology (like spinning wheels vs tethered systems for artificial gravity), has always enjoyed programming. Trent, who claims he invented the <blink> tag, admits that he once had a shrine to John Carmack in his bedroom closet.
 
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