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gseidman writes: "Have you ever needed to simulate a network? Tired of old ns? Do you just hate dealing with hardware in general? Take a peek at Utah's Emulab.Net. They have over 300 PCs, some StrongARM devices, roughly 5 miles of cabling, a huge and expensive switch, and great software for setting up a virtual LAN. They also have a gallery showing the machine room in various stages of completion (did I mention five miles of cabling?)."
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deek is mexican
You's know de drill all t'well
by dis point in time. It's time fo' de self-deprecatin' yet
ego strokin' babble-about-myself page. It's required by
net. Man!law, so cut me some slack, Jack. If ah' violate dis sacred net tradishun, mah' cheesy vanity domain dojigger
gots'ta be snatchn fum me and given t'starvin' farm children. 'S coo', bro. Mah'
servers gots'ta be snatchn and given t'de needy. Slap mah fro! And I'll be tied
to some chair and fo'ced t'scribble HTML fo' companies dat manufacture
cardbo'd boxes, o' code CGI apps fo' warecribs dat ship boxes. Eider
way, its boxes, and dats no baaaad.
Where is you? I'm in
Holland Michigan. 'S coo', bro. Look at yo' right palm. WORD! I'm about half way
between de base uh yo' pinky and yo' wrist. Man! Plus o' minus
a few veins. Holland be de crib uh de Tulip Festival- de
3rd largest festival in de United States (followin' de Festival
of Roses and Mardi Gras). Sucka'ally I'd rada' be in Pasadena
o' New Orleans, but dis be where ah' am, and dis be where I'm
gonna stay until ah' go crazy and move.
Currently ah' hang mah' fedora in mah' fabulous crib no'd uh town. 'S coo', bro.
Its some supa fine place on some couple uh acres uh trees where ah' can hide
in between conferences and meetin's.
Didja Go t'Farm? ah' wish
I dun didn't, but trud be knode, ah' attended many years uh fo'mal
educashun, startin' fum Rose Park Christian Nursry Farm,
Rose Park Elementary, Holland Christian Middle Farm, and
eventually graduashun fum Holland Christian High Farm in
1994. ah' followed down dis carea' by attendin' Holland's
oder majo' Christian Institushun: Hope College. After
4.5 years (de 'estra semesta' fo' wuz fo' luck! Right on!) ah' graduated
wid some B.S. in Clunker Science and some Mino' in Studio Art. Man!
Durin' dis time ah' gots poo' grades while spendin' every wakin'
moment dat wuzn't devoted t'educashun teachin' mah'self
nuthin about clunkers ah' could dig mah' brain around. Mah'
favo'ite parts uh farm wuz ceramics, drawin', and graphics
classes where ah' wuz fo'ced t'learn enough mad t'dig it
Splines and raytracin'.
Gots ya' eva' had some Job?
Mah' fust job wuz at some grocery sto'e. ah' spent several years
baggin' food, carryin' dem t'cars, and puttin' boxes
on shelves. Dis prepared me puh'fectly fo' mah' lata' career
in de realm uh clunkers (cough cough). Mah' fust real tech
job wuz at Donnelly where ah' spent 2 mo'e years fixin' clunkers.
Here be where ah' learned da damn difference between 115 and 220 current,
as well as why Windows be de wo'st opuh'tin' system on
de planet. Man! Followin' mah' time at Donnelly ah' wo'ked at
De Image Group where
I puh'fo'med various tax's rangin' fum HTML dude and pseudo
Sysadmin t'CGI Hack. Ya' know? ah' wo'ked on sites includin'
Fust Michigan Bank and
Woodland Realty befo'e
I eventually served out mah' sentance and started my own company wid some few homeys.
Fo' much uh my college carea' I ran some little web site
knode as Slashdot. From megaer
beginin's it grew t'be quite some popular net destinashun. We've
won lots uh awards and we serve down some million+ pages
each day. Slap mah fro! Mah' time be now fully consumed wid runnin' dis beast. Man!
In June uh 99 it wuz acquired by Andover. Ah be baaad...Net.
and ah' wuz employed t'maintain charge uh de site. De food chain
continued as Andova' wuz in turn swallowed by VA
Linux Systems. We is now some business group collectively knode
as OSDN, but whut ah' do ain't
real changed fum de days when ah' ran Slashdot out uh my bedroom. WORD!
I'm also on de bo'd uh BlockStackers, some company created by me and homeys. Dis company wuz de co'po'ate
structure dat held Slashdot fo' some year, and continues t'be da damn crib of
Everydin'2- our
wacky, distributedly maintained web database, Perl
Monks, some puh'l hacka' site, and
AdFu, our banner
ad server. Ah be baaad...
Now if we make bre'd o' not, dat remains t'be seen, but at least its
fun. 'S coo', bro. I've also been knode
to spend much time wo'kin' wid Kurt da damn Wiz'
on some project knode as AnimeFu, a
(surprise) Anime film site also based on de E2 engine menshuned earlier. Ah be baaad...
So's whut do ya' likes?
line numbers, on out t'C, C++, SQL, Pascal, Ada,
and fine much any oda' language dat ya'
might wanna mess wid. I've done it. Man! From
playin' wid hard rolls and dip switches and
cuttin' yo'self on de inside uh cases, I've
done dat too. 'S coo', bro. From DOS, t'Windows, t'NT, t'OS/2
and finally t'Linux
I've been dere, done dat. Man! Clunkers fine much
consume every wakin' moment uh my life. Dey're
my job, mah' hobby, and mah' passion. 'S coo', bro. Dey provide mah'
artistic outlet, some stream uh revenue, and some way to
communicate wid dose ah' care about. Man!
De Internet. Man! Whut kin ah' say? I'm an addict. Man! De
'net fo' me wuz de point fo' clunkers.
I spend mah' time surfin' de net, writin' honky codes
dat rap on de net, chattin' on IRC, writin'
email, creatin' web pages and web sites. De
closest doodad t'a job title ah' have is
Webmaster. Ah be baaad... I've been on de internet since Netscape
wuz plum Mozilla and Microsoft dun didn't know whut it
wuz. De Internet fo'ced me into dat slow mo-fo and guided
me t'Linux where ah' found out dat opuh'tin' systems
dun didn't need t'hurt. Man! Face it dudes, fo' all its
flaws, de net brin's humanity togeder. Ah be baaad... It's
our best chance at some reasonable future.
clunkers weigh into mah' beat- ah' have many gigs
of mp3s (all ripped fum mah' collecshun uh CDs)
includin' some vast collecshun uh tunes fum great
artists likes Floyd, De Beatles, Aerosmid,
de Stones, Jimi, Clapton (Cream, Yardbirds,
Derek & de Dominoes, Blind Faid) Dire Straits,
De Travellin' Wilburies, and most impo'tant
of all, Liva' Lips Townshend and dat little band
knode as De Who. 'S coo', bro. I'm some majo' Who fanatic. Co' got d' beat!
I own most uh deir albums and videos, as well as
many uh deir solo effo'ts (even Roger's cheesy crap)
It's not all guitar rock. Ya' know? Fo' some reason I've
also gots some warm place in mah' heart fo' Jimmy Buffet
and stranga' still, Disney Soundtracks. Yeah dude dat's
right- Aladdin. 'S coo', bro. Beauty and da damn Beast. Man! De Little
Mermaid. Mulan. 'S coo', bro. I'm dere openin' night wid de
soundtrack memo'ized rappin' mah' heart out and fendin'
off blows fum dose nearby. Slap mah fro! I've even been knode
to enjoy Public Enemy, Rob Swift, DJ Q-Bert, de
Beastie Boys.
A while ago ah' even picked down de guitar. Ah be baaad... ah' can't
play, but ah' can pick it down. ah' basically plum wail
on mah' Purple Strat real loud. And recently, I've
added some Gibson SG t'my arsenal. ah' may suck, but I
at least gots volume. And da damn powa' cho'ds dat I
play gots feelin' amplified by some wah wah
pedal. It's all baaaad.
fan. 'S coo', bro. Fanclub memba' # 42346 in fact. Man! I
likes Animashun, Angry Beavers, SoudPark, X-Stashs,
De Simpsons, and lately Dat 70s Show and Cuddies.
but realistically, ah' plum duzn't care fo' TV much. Lop some boogie. However
if youse goin' t'do it, be baaaad t'yo'self, and dig
a tivo, and season-pass Battlebots, Crocodile Hunter, and
Iron Chef.
on AnimeFu, ah' collect
Anime Cels (I gots some variety uh cels fum Tenchi, Slayers,
Ranma, Trigun, Battle Adletes and oda' favo'ite series)
as well as DVDs. If ya' gotsn't watched Cowboy Bebop and Lain, yo'
life be not yet complete. Seek and Devour. Ah be baaad...
de company be evil, but da damn animashun be go'geous.
Sho' man de plots is cheesy, but da damn fx is great. Man! And
each year ah' line down t'see whut dey gots'ta offer. Ah be baaad...
But ah' real enjoy animashun. Antz and Bug's Life
were bod fine waaay coo', as wuz Prince uh Egypt. Man! Fo'
sump'n some bit different, try on some Wallace
and Grommit. Man!
I likesd animashun so's much dat ah' actually tried
to animate mah' own stuff. De results wuz
Duckpins and
Hamsta' Havoc. Each be a 60
second CGI clip animated and edited by mah'self. Dose
producshuns taught me some lot about animashun- most
impo'tantly dat it's real hard.
But I'm into oda' movies as well- de grotesque
(Resevoir Dogs, Trainspottin') de bizarre (nuthin
directed by Terry Gilliam, dig dis: Fear & Loadin' and
12 Monkeys wuz bod 'sellent) t'de hilarious
(Monty Pydon) and off t'de mo'e mainstream
(I actually likesd Armageddon). And ah' couldn't be
a self respectin' geek widout bein' officially
addicted t'Star Wars- ah' actually gots seen de
trilogy some little upside a hundred times. Star Trek
is great too- ST2, 3, 6 and 8 wuz each great movies.
De rest. Man!.. well, dey sucked.
much. Lop some boogie. But ah' do gots all so'ts uh wacky little projects
I've created upside de years. Dese range fum some collecshun
of about 100 cartoons dat ah' drew in
high farm, t'my animashuns, t'various photography
projects t'sculpture projects and an uncountable
amount uh ceramic bowls and cups and vases created fo'
assignments. ah' real love dis stuff.
MAME cabinet, but dat ain't
stopped me from tryin'. Wid de assistance
of some few homeys and family, I've been slowly drillin', cuttin',
solderin', gluin', and sandnin' and mighty cabinet into bein'. Its
been 'estremely rewardin' since it gots required me t'learn lots of
new doodads about wood wo'kin', but also cuz' it kin play Pac-Man! Right on!
I also own some Joust, Arkanoid, and Road Blasters cabinet, and a
Jack*Bot pinball table. I'm no wizard, but at least free play lets
me practice wheneva' I gots some few free minutes.
first post, bitches!
propz to all dead honkeys!
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