The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Sir Winston Churchill
(defclass l33t () (non-lamer)) (defclass hacker (l33t) ((hack-value :accessor hack-value :initarg :hack-value :initform t) (name :reader name :initarg :name))) (defparameter rowland (make-instance 'hacker :name "smr") "It's like Lisp! That symbolic, er, what's that? Funky algebra!") (documentation 'rowland 'variable)
My other hackpage can be found on www.interhack.net. Someday it may replace this.
Hello. Welcome to my world. I am the manager of the Software Support and Development group in the Department of Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University. I have had a few jobs since I have been working in this department. The current list with approximate dates includes:
While working as a system administrator I had the privilege of
working under the leadership of
Dave Barr.
Once he left, the expression s/barr/rowland/ could be applied.
During this time I also had the pleasure of working with
Matt Curtin.
He has been a great influence on me. His influence has
gotten me on the "right track" in many respects. Without it I
would surely be years behind where I am. After a couple of
years messing around with all things UNIX, I took over Matt's
responsibilities as a Senior Developer/Engineer, or more daily
title of Senior Software Specialist. This means making things go
with respect to software support and writing local applications.
During this time I had even more luck with having the opportunity
of being managed by Sandy Farrar. I now have her job since she
decided to move on the the great beyond of the outside world.
I should also mention the other great staff I have had the
privilege of working with, including Jagoda Babic, Jim Hill,
and Tami King.
I miss working with all of these great influences, but
somehow I have managed to carry on.
My office is DL 795 in the building I like to call The Tower of Enlightenment. Sometimes I feel like I live in this building, but that was truer in the past than today. Building a new printing system that does print quotas and group/user permission testing using NIS can do that to you. Who wants to work during the day anyway?
Right now my desktop at home is Linux. In the past I listened to the words of Matt Curtin and ventured into the land of
[ FreeBSD is (incf l33t) ]
FreeBSD is a great free UNIX for PCs and Alpha boxen. There is enough information out in the big room about Linux, but here are some points about FreeBSD:
I used to switch my OS a lot. These days I am more concerned about getting use out of my system instead of just messing around with system administration differences and the joys of installation. I also have the newest version of VMware, so I can mess around with other systems in my spare time without having to disrupt my main box. If you are considering FreeBSD or Linux then I would urge you to try either out and experience what the free software movement is all about. I am sure you will be amazed at the quality and robustness that free software has to offer. It truly is better and designed under a better paradigm. On a humorous note, I think that Microsoft might be coming around to the idea of free software, and here you see "evidence" supporting that claim. Sigh, yet another Apache default page on the web!
Here is where I throw out a bunch of links that may or may not be useful. Neehaw&trade !
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