ASUS P5B SE
Intel Core 2 Duo (E4600) @ 2.4GHz
2x 2GB RAM
nVidia 8400 512MB
320GB HD
OS: Xubuntu Linux with Fluxbox
Acer X221W LCD 1680x1050

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Previous owner of Win 3.11, 95, 98, 98se, Me (I had to! don't flame me!), NT4 and XP. All legitimate and fully legal (it was an expensive habit!). Before this, I was an Atari computer kind of guy.

Also tried RedHat 5.1 (purchased the boxed set) in the summer of '98 and dual-booted for a while, but I was not ready for Linux (or it wasn't ready for me) at the time, so I left it behind after a few months.

I ran into Windows dissatisfaction again in mid 2002, and downloaded RedHat 7.3. It came a LONG way, and I was happy dual-booting. When 8.0 came out, I decided to completely ditch Windows, as I was using Linux 70% of the time, and having that Windows "crutch" to fall back on prevented me from exercising my Linux legs. I have run 100% Linux at home now since Jan 2003.

At home, I am a father of four young boys (currently ages 6, 8, 11 and 13). I play keyboards (not very well), and enjoy scuba diving - though we haven't gone diving since wife was pregnant with the last two kids. We go on family trips to the mountains. We camp out (mostly just when it is the boys and I), and go on cave trips with our Cub Scout pack. Our kids are active in sports, which makes my wife and I very active in driving to the many practices for each kid, plus their games.

At work, I am a Robotics Engineer. I worked for a company called FANUC Robotics for about four years, then hired into Saturn about 14 years ago (back when it truly was a different kind of company). We have several hundred FANUC robots, and used to have several hundred KUKA robots (which used Win95 as their UI). Most of our robots are used to weld, and/or are used for material handling and transfer. I was also responsible for a couple dozen sealing units that happen to run QNX as their OS, until they were replaced with brand-new units running Windows NT 4.0. The FANUC robots run some sort of custom proprietary OS made by themselves, I believe.

On October 1st, 2008, I accepted a separation package offered by GM as they work on a salaried employee reduction. It is effective on December 1st.

• A picture is worth 1000 words. A digital picture is worth 1024.
• Having your 'user' and 'admin' accounts as the same login is like having your sister and wife as the same person.
• Fanboys say Microsoft became #1 by offering the best product. If the best product became #1, then we would have had Beta tapes instead of VHS, and there would be a better restaruant than McDonalds at every streetcorner.
• If your path has backslashes in it, then you are going down the wrong path.
• Windows Vista is a strange piece of software. Normally, when a company drops feature after feature from a product, the delivery time moves forward, not slips further behind...
• Bigger is not always more important. The freedoms for a corporation are outweighed by the rights and freedoms of the individual.
• A government "of the people, by the people, for the President"...
• "When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the *******! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth." -- Steve Jobs
• "Novell's SUSE Linux customers are the only Linux vendors that have any assurance that Microsoft won't sue for patent infringement" -- Steve Ballmer (3 Nov 2006)
• Calculate pi to an arbitrary number of digits, set by the "scale" variable:
  user@localhost:$ echo "scale=2000;4*a(1)" | bc -l
• Microsoft's Reality Distortion Field: Vista performs faster than XP, yet it requires 3x the CPU frequency and 4x the RAM, per their XP and
  Vista published minimums.
• "Way I see it, we're all on the Hindenburg, no use fighting over the window seat." -- Richard Jeni (1957-2007)
• I refuse to license my Linux from Microsoft.
• I'm boycotting Google for whining about about Windows Search. I'm boycotting Microsoft for whining about the EU. I'm boycotting the EU for whining about Microsoft. I'm boycotting people that boycott things for whining that corporations do things they don't like. Whatever.
• My wish: I wish that people intent on committing a murder-suicide get the order right, and do the suicide first. Spare the lives of the other innocents.
• Web sites done all in flash suck
• And the pirates (and some legitimate Windows licensees) are saddened.
• Spouting mindless hatred of all things Microsoft since... ummm... never.
• "... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition
• "... To those who would tear the world down, we will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security, we support you." - Barack Obama, Nov. 4^th, 2008
• Torture: It is wrong and unreliable