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Bill Bennet

Bill, the ComputerHelperGuy, lives in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada; the "Catfish Capitol of North America" if not the world. He is on the Internet at www.chguy.net. He tells us "I have been a PC user since 1983 when I got my start as a Radio Shack manager. After five years in the trenches, I went into business for myself. Now happily divorced from reality, I live next to my Linux box and sell and support GPL distributions of all major Linux flavours. I was a beta tester for the PC version of Playmaker Football and I play `pentium-required' games on the i486. I want to help Linux become a great success in the gaming world, since that will be how Linux will take over the desktop from DOS." It is hard to believe that his five years of university was only good for fostering creative writing skills.

Jim Dennis

Jim is the proprietor of Starshine Technical Services and is now working for LinuxCare. 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 was married at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim.

Bill Mote

Bill is the Technical Support Services manager for a multi-billion dollar publishing company and is responsible for providing 1st and 2nd level support services to their 500+ roadwarrior sales force as well as their 3,500 workstation and laptop users. He was introduced to Linux by a good friend in 1996 and thought Slackware was the end-all-be-all of the OS world ... until he found Mandrake in early 1999. Since then he's used his documentation skills to help those new to Linux find their way.

Mark Nielsen

Mark founded The Computer Underground, Inc. in June of 1998. Since then, he has been working on Linux solutions for his customers ranging from custom computer hardware sales to programming and networking. Mark specializes in Perl, SQL, and HTML programming along with Beowulf clusters. Mark believes in the concept of contributing back to the Linux community which helped to start his company. Mark and his employees are always looking for exciting projects to do.

Mike Orr

Mike is the Editor of the Linux Gazette. You can read what he has to say in the Back Page column in this issue. He has been a Linux enthusiast since 1991 and a Debian user since 1995. He is SSC's Webmaster. He also enjoys the Python programming language. Non-computer interests include ska/oi! music and the international language Esperanto.

JC Pollman

I have been playing with linux since kernel 1.0.59. I spend way too much time at the keyboard and even let my day job - the military - interfere once in a while. My biggest concern about linux is the lack of documentation for the intermediate user. There is already too much beginner's stuff, and the professional material is often beyond the new enthusiast.

Jan Stumpel

Jan lives in Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. He has been a Linux user since 1995. At the moment he is trying to get a Debian installation just right.

Trenton G. Twining

Trenton is a process consultant for Terrapin Technologies, Inc. He specializes in configuration management, complexity management and training in several technical areas. After being a happy user of Coherent, he switched to using Linux in the Summer of '94. Since then he has been a Linux evangelist.

Alan Ward

"Alan teaches CS in Andorra at highschool and university levels. He's back to Unix this year after an 8-year forced interlude since he graduated -- it makes networking so much easier. His hobbies include science photography (both digital and traditional), trekking, rock and processor collecting.

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[ Penguin reading the Linux Gazette ]

For what it's worth, during July 1999, www.linuxgazette.com had:

57703 visitors (=unique domains or IPs) 623394 page views (=HTML files downloaded) 2048966 hits (=all files downloaded including graphics)

Of course, this doesn't include the mirror sites.

I've gotten over the New Editor ("O dear, when am I going to do something Really Stupid?") stage, and I'm beginning to really enjoy working with the Gazette. It was fun gathering ideas for the FAQ. I also had the opportunity this month to write some scripts in my favorite programming language--Python--to help format the Mailbag, 2-cent Tips and News Bytes. Those scripts alone will save my fingers three hours a month in formatting e-mail addresses and the like. :)

-Mike Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette, gazette@linuxgazette.net

Linux Gazette Issue 45, September 1999, http://www.linuxgazette.net
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