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Geek Of The Day: T0ny E-mail
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Tony

Real Name:  Tony
Age:  0x25
Resides:  Hong Kong I think

Occupation:  Part-time working stiff and full-time fantasy fighter


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Favorite website(s):
Google, Dilbert

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Some chinese KungFu Novel, Star Wars 

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Lotus 123. No Games.  They waste time.

What are you playing and working on right now:
Linux RH9, FC3, GNOME.  Embedded Linux running in PPC inside Xilinx FPGA.

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
None. They waste CPU.

What's so special about your computer (room):
The system I am developing has 36 power PC CPUs in 17 Xilinx Virtex Pro II FPGA all within one U form factor.
It supports 8x1 GIGE input or 1x10 GIG input of videos. It consumes more power than a normal oven. Last system I work on has 44 Pentium CPUs in it, only consume ~5,000 watts of power.

How many computers do you have:
~10 Pentium SMP, Linux FC3, Windows, at works, 8 mostly pentium  at home.  A few unused x86, 386, 486.

What was your first computer:
Timex Sinclair 1000, Later  8086. (Turbo mode with memory upgrade to 640K)

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Some basic game program I copied/modified from a basic programming book.

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Geekiest moment of your life:
Being caught lying to his wife telling her he was going to get a glass of milk, when he was actually surfing the Net.
 
When did you first realize you were a geek:
First time I saw a personal computer at Sears:  A Commodore.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
Tony likes to use the word "scuzzy" as an adjective and a noun.

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Reading how to destroy a PC physically with matches, lipstick and floppy disk.

What is your favourite quote:
"You can't never be too good looking or have too much computer power."

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Lotus 123,  I just like it.  Fast and easy to learn.

What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Play with my kid.  Home improvement project including how to wire the home with all GIGE connections in all rooms.  Wireless is too slow and insecure.

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):
Take the 9/11 report (book) back to a few days before it happens.

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

Tony, who has some knowledge of Basic, TCL, Java, Python, PHP, SQL, C, C++, Windows, MFC, VB, .NET,
Apache, Linux, Verilog, Expect, Forth, x86 assembly, SNMP, TCP/IP, Linux kernel hack, IGMPv3, ISO13818-1 ISO 13818-2....umm...after typing all that I forgot what I was going to write....

Tony, who can type faster than he can think,  likes to Google himself in his spare time, and checks his email in the morning before doing anything else.
 
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