redowl is currently certified at Journeyer level.
Name: Red OWL
Member since: 2001-11-07 18:47:49
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Homepage: http://www.redowl.net
Notes:
With eight years of industry experience in programming (FORTRAN (yes...the Feds), C, Java) and UNIX systems administration (Linux and Solaris) and no free source to show for it. Argh! :( The truth is that I've always been too much of a work-a-holic (working 13-14 hour days including many many weekends) to have any time for contributions.
But that has now all changed. After becoming a casualty in the dot.com fiasco, I decided to take about a year off to focus on things that I never had time to do. This includes my active support for free software.
I have made one small contribution:
check_uptime.c plugin for Netsaint.
A miniscule drop in the bucket, but no one wrote it. So I did.
My favorite distro is Debian. I've been lurking on their mailing lists for many months now. They're a solid group of folks who're in it because they're passionate about what they do. They're the reason that I've permanently left RedHat.
I'm also a proud member of the EFF.
...and that's enough of my rambling for now...
Projects
Recent blog entries by redowl
12 Dec 2001 (updated 12 Dec 2001 at 11:02 UTC)
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Just upgraded my Debian (potato) box to woody. Went well
with only one minor scrape which broke X on startup, but
was easily fixable. After the dist upgrade the /etc/X11/X
symlink pointed to usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 instead of to
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. This was fixed, and it's running
smoothly.
Finally dumped Netscape for Skipstone.
9 Dec 2001 (updated 9 Dec 2001 at 02:58 UTC)
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The Heathmount
vs. Technodome.com case.
If domain owners are forced to defend their domains in
Virginia
(this has the legacy shadow of NSI all over
this.),
this could allow
for a corporate juggernaut to cripple a
small business, perhaps a
competitor. A small business
could find that it's financially difficult
for them to
defend their domain name which they've legitimately
registered ,
especially if they're located outside the
U.S.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
-t
Well according to the Commerce Dept.: "The DES is dead. The
AES will take its place". Look here.
Possibly another contest to add to Distributed.net?
Let's get crackin' !! :)
Also, submitted two new Window Maker themes to themes.org,
based on Myst III: Exile.
They haven't posted to
themes.org yet.
One of them called "Greenhouse" is my current
desktop
theme.
Here's a screenshot.
19 Nov 2001 (updated 20 Nov 2001 at 07:35 UTC)
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Got back in the running for cracking RC5-64
(I am sooo
far behind) and posted my graphed individual results:
Distributed.net
stats
The Perl script graph generator is written by
Dominique
Pelle
and can be found here.
Gnuplot is required.
Now..if I can just get some more machines...
14 Nov 2001 (updated 14 Nov 2001 at 07:52 UTC)
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i finally updated my website...
2 older entries...
redowl certified others as follows:
- redowl certified redowl as Apprentice
- redowl certified cucumelo as Apprentice
- redowl certified thomasvs as Journeyer
- redowl certified typezero as Apprentice
- redowl certified rw as Journeyer
- redowl certified braden as Apprentice
- redowl certified fxn as Journeyer
- redowl certified mmannix as Apprentice
- redowl certified mwk as Journeyer
- redowl certified jao as Journeyer
- redowl certified mirwin as Journeyer
- redowl certified advogato as Master
- redowl certified aoliva as Master
- redowl certified alan as Master
- redowl certified federico as Master
- redowl certified miguel as Master
- redowl certified raph as Master
- redowl certified murrayc as Master
- redowl certified xach as Master
- redowl certified davej as Master
- redowl certified dan as Master
- redowl certified jfleck as Master
- redowl certified rasmus as Master
- redowl certified maragato as Master
- redowl certified jonas as Master
- redowl certified clausen as Master
- redowl certified mpawlo as Master
- redowl certified God as Master
- redowl certified sdodji as Journeyer
- redowl certified softweyr as Master
- redowl certified sej as Master
- redowl certified asleep as Journeyer
- redowl certified sab39 as Journeyer
- redowl certified sye as Journeyer
- redowl certified jmason as Journeyer
- redowl certified jwz as Master
- redowl certified superant as Journeyer
- redowl certified scandal as Master
- redowl certified wardv as Journeyer
Others have certified redowl as follows:
- redowl certified redowl as Apprentice
- rw certified redowl as Apprentice
- fxn certified redowl as Apprentice
- typezero certified redowl as Apprentice
- mwk certified redowl as Apprentice
- jao certified redowl as Apprentice
- sye certified redowl as Journeyer
- sdodji certified redowl as Apprentice
- wardv certified redowl as Apprentice
- superant certified redowl as Apprentice
- nixnut certified redowl as Journeyer
- binaryfoo certified redowl as Journeyer
- markdavis certified redowl as Journeyer
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