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About This Month's Authors
 Larry Ayers
Larry Ayers lives on a small farm
in northern Missouri, where he is currently engaged in building a
timber-frame house for his family. He operates a portable band-saw mill,
does general woodworking, plays the fiddle and searches for rare
prairie plants, as well as growing shiitake mushrooms. He is also
struggling with configuring a Usenet news server for his local ISP.
John M. Fisk
John Fisk is most noteworthy as the former editor of the Linux Gazette.
After three years as a General Surgery resident and
Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
John decided to "hang up the stethoscope", and pursue a
career in Medical Information Management. He's currently a full
time student at the Middle Tennessee State University and hopes
to complete a graduate degree in Computer Science before
entering a Medical Informatics Fellowship. In his dwindling
free time he and his wife Faith enjoy hiking and camping in
Tennessee's beautiful Great Smoky Mountains. He has been an avid Linux fan,
since his first Slackware 2.0.0 installation a year and a half
ago.
Jim Dennis
Jim Dennis
is the proprietor of
Starshine Technical Services.
His professional experience includes work in the technical
support, quality assurance, and information services (MIS)
departments of software companies like
Quarterdeck,
Symantec/
Peter Norton Group, and
McAfee Associates -- as well as
positions (field service rep) with smaller VAR's.
He's been using Linux since version 0.99p10 and is an active
participant on an ever-changing list of mailing lists and
newsgroups. He's just started collaborating on the 2nd Edition
for a book on Unix systems administration.
Jim is an avid science fiction fan -- and recently got
married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.
Grant B. Gustafson
Grant Gustafson is Professor of Mathematics, the
University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Besides
differential equations, he has an interest in
microcomputers (since 1978), compilers, programming
languages, system utilities and TeX typesetting.
Michael J. Hammel
Michael J. Hammel,
is a transient software engineer with a background in
everything from data communications to GUI development to Interactive Cable
systems--all based in Unix. His interests outside of computers
include 5K/10K races, skiing, Thai food and gardening. He suggests if you
have any serious interest in finding out more about him, you visit his home
pages at http://www.csn.net/~mjhammel. You'll find out more
there than you really wanted to know.
Phil Hughes
Phil Hughes is the publisher of Linux Journal, and thereby Linux
Gazette. He dreams of permanently tele-commuting from his home on the
Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula. As an employer, he is "Vicious, Evil,
Mean, & Nasty, but kind of mellow" as a boss should be.
Mike List
Mike List is a father of four teenagers, musician, printer (not
laserjet), and recently reformed technophobe, who has been into computers
since April,1996, and Linux since July.
R. Frank Louden
Frank Louden has a degree in Computer Science from Purdue.
While working on his degree, he also worked in the Medical center first as a
Computer Clerk then as the Systems Manager.
He currently works as a Programmer, which "is all the fun and a lot
fewer headaches (read: It sounds like a hardware problem to me.)"
He first installed Linux last March, so he knows the challenge a convert
faces.
On the personal side, he lives in a small town in north central Indiana and
would love to organize a LUG but thinks it'd be difficult to find
any other Linux users out here in the boonies. He has two cats, Mac and
Catalina who he says "both know more about Linux than I do...but they never
reveal their secrets!"
James McDuffie
James McDuffie is a 17 year old high school student who is looking forward
to graduating. In college he plans to major in Computer Science
and minor in English. He would like to be a writer while still
working with computers. James wrote the article Connecting Computers via
PLIP which appeared in issue #6 of the Linux Gazette. He has been an avid
reader of the Linux Gazette ever since it was just starting out. And wishes
that it continues helping the Linux community for some time to come.
James Shelburne
James Shelburne currently lives in Waco, Texas where he spends most of
his free time working on various Linux networking projects. Some of his
interests include Perl + CGI, Russian, herbal medicine and the Ramones
(yes, you heard right, the Ramones). He is also a staunch Linux advocate
and tries to convert every MacOS/MS Windows/AMIGA user he comes into
contact with. Needless to say, only other Linux users can stand him.
Kelley Spoon
Kelley Spoon currently studies computer science at the University of Texas,
San Antonio. Some of his hobbies include trying to learn how to play the
guitar, playing Euchre, laughing at John C. Dvorak, converting pizza into
source code, terrorizing villages along the Mexican border, and frightening
small childern. He has been a Linux user since August 1995, and still
pronounces the name as "luh-eye-nucks".
Kelly has written another article for us about tcpd that will appear in
issue 15 of Linux Gazette.
Jens Wessling
Jens Wessling is a 26 year old Research Scientist working for the
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. He has been
playing with Linux since Kernel 1.0.99. He is
married and has 2 cats. He is currently working on his
Masters Degree in Computer and Information Science
at the University of Michigan. Life frequently gets in his way.
Joel Wilf
Joel Wilf is a technical writer with a strong interest in
computers and multimedia. He is also a screenwriter, whose
credits include Supercarrier and Outsiders. Writing a
script-formatting utility, under DOS, led him to the richer
programming and text-processing environment of Linux. Offline,
he enjoys reading and traveling. He lives in Encino,
California.
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Not Linux
Thanks to all our authors, not just the ones above, but also those who wrote
giving us their tips and tricks and making suggestions. Thanks also to our
new mirror sites. We get new ones every month. I was very excited to have
both one in Russia and the new Italian translation site go up this month.
(See the Mirror Page.)
My two favorite holidays are Valentine's Day and Halloween. Not sure I want
to know what that little fact may have to say about my psyche. At any rate I hope
the animated heart wasn't too annoying. I thought it was quite cute. Thanks
to Michael, our web guy, for finding it and the roses to present to our authors.
Two days after Valentine's on February 16, Riley and I will be celebrating
our 5th wedding anniversary. In fact, we're celebrating all weekend --
a long one with the holiday -- by leaving town and telling no one where we
are going. Riley is a very special guy, and we've had a great 5 years. I
look forward to many more with him.
February 16 is also the birthday of my nephew Alex Carter. He's 14 and
working on his Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. He's a smart kid and loves
playing on his computer. I need to find the time to introduce him to Linux.
On a professional note, I am now Managing Editor of Linux Journal as well
as Linux Gazette. Gary Moore and I have switched jobs--keeps things from
getting boring. However, I refused to give up custody of Linux Gazette,
it's just too much fun.
Have fun!
Marjorie L. Richardson
Editor, Linux Gazette gazette@linuxgazette.net
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