Advogato: Personal info for sjmurdoch

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Name: Steven Murdoch
Member since: 2000-11-28 22:46:54
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Notes: I am a 3rd year Software Engineering student at the Department of Computing Science at The University of Glasgow in Scotland.

I've distributed several of my applications under the GPL. They are all quite small but could be of interest to people.

A GTK application that takes in a image file and displays it in 3D, basing the depth on the grey value of the pixel. It allows the user to rotate the object produced in all three dimensions using the mouse. It's still in development, but if anyone is interested in the source then please email me at steven@murdomedia.net
Several small applications to help solve substitution and Caesar ciphers, again if you are interested then please email me.
A utility disk for the Bootable Business Card to add a UK Keyboard layout, SSH and a few other tools to this valuable rescue disk, again if you are interested then please email me.

In case anyone is interested, I wrote the 3D image viewer to visualise the face in the Turin Shroud as a few of my friends were working on a project to do this, but to a much higher standard

The susbstitution cipher program suite was to help me work on the Cipher Challenge from Simon Singhs' excellent work - "The Code Book". I only got through stages 1, 2 and 4 by the time University started and haven't gone much further since. Since I started the competition has been won, by a group from Sweden, but I still plan to continue when I get a chance.

I have an interest in several Open Source projects and try to help out in whatever way I can. Normally this only consists of submitting bug reports but recently I did have a patch for GnuCash accepted, and later the patch was incorporated in to Finance::Quote.

See the links below for more information:
Homepage
PGP/GnuPG Keys
Geek Code

Projects

Helper on scotlug

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22 Apr 2002 »

Still busy at University, almost finished my project, now studying for my exams. After them (the last is on June 1st) I hope to be starting a PhD, though I'm still waiting for offers of places at the moment.

10 Mar 2002 (updated 22 Apr 2002 at 13:29 UTC) »

Been busy since my last update, hence the long delay.

Was working down in London for Reuters. Now I'm back at the University of Glasgow in my final year.

As for the future I'm currently applying for PhD research positions.

If you're looking for something interesting, have a look at my current project - the Murdomedia Wiki.

24 Jun 2001 »

I have produced another desktop background, this time a photo (with a few small modifications) that I took during a visit to The Museum of Scotland. Although x.themes.org is back online it is not accepting submissions and some some things are not working (I'm not sure whether my last submission was deleted), so I couldn't upload it, but you can still download both of my desktop backgrounds from my website - Murdo Media.

2 Jun 2001 (updated 12 Jun 2001 at 10:35 UTC) »

I'm stuck in the middle of exams at the moment so very little else is happening at the moment. I have made some updates to my website Murdo Media, most recently I put a desktop background that I designed on it. I also put it on x.themes.org. Unfortunately two days after I did this, themes.org was cracked and as I am writing this it is still offline. Oh well :-) Remember you can still download my background from my website. I would like to know what what people think of it so feel free to email me at steven@murdomedia.net or leave a message on my guestbook.

I went to a talk by two members of the Arusha project. It seems really cool stuff, you could also check out its Advogato web page.

30 Apr 2001 (updated 17 May 2001 at 17:03 UTC) »

Updated my website, Murdomedia. The main changes are holiday photos and my updated PGP/GnuPG keys.

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