redowl is currently certified at Journeyer level.

Name: Red OWL
Member since: 2001-11-07 18:47:49
Last Login: N/A

FOAF RDF Share This

Homepage: http://www.redowl.net

Notes:

With eight years of industry experience in programming (FORTRAN (yes...the Feds), C, Java) and UNIX systems administration (Linux and Solaris) and no free source to show for it. Argh! :( The truth is that I've always been too much of a work-a-holic (working 13-14 hour days including many many weekends) to have any time for contributions.

But that has now all changed. After becoming a casualty in the dot.com fiasco, I decided to take about a year off to focus on things that I never had time to do. This includes my active support for free software.

I have made one small contribution:

check_uptime.c plugin for Netsaint.
A miniscule drop in the bucket, but no one wrote it. So I did.

My favorite distro is Debian. I've been lurking on their mailing lists for many months now. They're a solid group of folks who're in it because they're passionate about what they do. They're the reason that I've permanently left RedHat.

I'm also a proud member of the EFF.

...and that's enough of my rambling for now...

Projects

Recent blog entries by redowl

Syndication: RSS 2.0
12 Dec 2001 (updated 12 Dec 2001 at 11:02 UTC) »

Just upgraded my Debian (potato) box to woody. Went well with only one minor scrape which broke X on startup, but was easily fixable. After the dist upgrade the /etc/X11/X symlink pointed to usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 instead of to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. This was fixed, and it's running smoothly.

Finally dumped Netscape for Skipstone.

9 Dec 2001 (updated 9 Dec 2001 at 02:58 UTC) »

The Heathmount vs. Technodome.com case.

If domain owners are forced to defend their domains in Virginia
(this has the legacy shadow of NSI all over this.), this could allow
for a corporate juggernaut to cripple a small business, perhaps a
competitor. A small business could find that it's financially difficult
for them to defend their domain name which they've legitimately registered ,
especially if they're located outside the U.S.

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

-t

Well according to the Commerce Dept.: "The DES is dead. The AES will take its place". Look here.
Possibly another contest to add to Distributed.net?

Let's get crackin' !! :)

Also, submitted two new Window Maker themes to themes.org, based on Myst III: Exile.
They haven't posted to themes.org yet. One of them called "Greenhouse" is my current
desktop theme. Here's a screenshot.

19 Nov 2001 (updated 20 Nov 2001 at 07:35 UTC) »

Got back in the running for cracking RC5-64
(I am sooo far behind) and posted my graphed individual results:

Distributed.net stats

The Perl script graph generator is written by Dominique Pelle
and can be found here. Gnuplot is required.

Now..if I can just get some more machines...

14 Nov 2001 (updated 14 Nov 2001 at 07:52 UTC) »

i finally updated my website...

2 older entries...

 

redowl certified others as follows:

  • redowl certified redowl as Apprentice
  • redowl certified cucumelo as Apprentice
  • redowl certified thomasvs as Journeyer
  • redowl certified typezero as Apprentice
  • redowl certified rw as Journeyer
  • redowl certified braden as Apprentice
  • redowl certified fxn as Journeyer
  • redowl certified mmannix as Apprentice
  • redowl certified mwk as Journeyer
  • redowl certified jao as Journeyer
  • redowl certified mirwin as Journeyer
  • redowl certified advogato as Master
  • redowl certified aoliva as Master
  • redowl certified alan as Master
  • redowl certified federico as Master
  • redowl certified miguel as Master
  • redowl certified raph as Master
  • redowl certified murrayc as Master
  • redowl certified xach as Master
  • redowl certified davej as Master
  • redowl certified dan as Master
  • redowl certified jfleck as Master
  • redowl certified rasmus as Master
  • redowl certified maragato as Master
  • redowl certified jonas as Master
  • redowl certified clausen as Master
  • redowl certified mpawlo as Master
  • redowl certified God as Master
  • redowl certified sdodji as Journeyer
  • redowl certified softweyr as Master
  • redowl certified sej as Master
  • redowl certified asleep as Journeyer
  • redowl certified sab39 as Journeyer
  • redowl certified sye as Journeyer
  • redowl certified jmason as Journeyer
  • redowl certified jwz as Master
  • redowl certified superant as Journeyer
  • redowl certified scandal as Master
  • redowl certified wardv as Journeyer

Others have certified redowl as follows:

  • redowl certified redowl as Apprentice
  • rw certified redowl as Apprentice
  • fxn certified redowl as Apprentice
  • typezero certified redowl as Apprentice
  • mwk certified redowl as Apprentice
  • jao certified redowl as Apprentice
  • sye certified redowl as Journeyer
  • sdodji certified redowl as Apprentice
  • wardv certified redowl as Apprentice
  • superant certified redowl as Apprentice
  • nixnut certified redowl as Journeyer
  • binaryfoo certified redowl as Journeyer
  • markdavis certified redowl as Journeyer

[ Certification disabled because you're not logged in. ]

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!

X
Share this page