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Tony
Real Name: Tony
Age: 0x25
Resides: Mesquite, Texas
Occupation: Systems Administrator to beat all systems administrators
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Favorite website(s):
Google, Dilbert, Slashdot
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Star Wars (Original), Tom Wu movies.
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Lotus 123. Woohoo!!!
What are you playing and/or working on right now:
Linux RH9, FC3, GNOME. Embedded Linux running in PPC inside Xilinx FPGA.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
A mirror reflection.
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. The last system I worked on had 44 Pentium CPUs in it, and only consumed ~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.
Geekiest moment of your life:
First time I saw a personal computer at Sears: A Commodore.
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I first found Linux best thing ever.
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
There's been the odd sentence I've used with the word "grep" in it.
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 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 are you doing when you're not at your computer(s):
I 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.
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Tony, who was in therapy for a month when Internet Tonight was cancelled, loves to bet on Battlebots, Iron Chef competitions, and Quakecons.
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