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I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card.

~Jamie Zawinski

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I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

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I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

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Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

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Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

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On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

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See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy.

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You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: November 3rd, 1968

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