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| Your personal background. | |
| My name is Andy Wright. I live in La Crosse Wisconsin, about 200 miles from Madison (the capital of Wisconsin). My school education; the program was in computer networking technologies. I am 28 years of age. Not looking forward to the next page of growing older. However, I have been using open based operating systems since the age of 17. I have used, some in production, some for personal use, FreeBSD, Linux (2.2.12 was my favorite), NetBSD, and my first experience with a UNIX type system was the OS Minix in which I used as a internet portal conduit to my dial-up BBS I had at the time. My first internet access OS was a VAX machine which offered gopher, ftp, & UUCP. I was very young at the time, and the only access available was at a private college where I grew up. As young as I was, the clerk at the desk would always ask if I was a student. I would reply with yes, nervous, and saddened at the possibility of not being able to use their pipe. Their response was always a smile, and an OK. Thanks guys! I ran a BBS for many years, "Electric Dreams BBS", not knowing another dial in provider had the same name. I also hosted "Moonshine On-Line" for a short period. Everyone back then was using remote access in my area. I was the odd one, and purchased a license for Search Light BBS. All my users were costume to Remote Access, but I still received a great deal of connections. I was involved with several FIDO NET type message boards, of course using front door; although importing into Search Light was a pain in the ass. This is where I gained my first networking systems experience. At such a young age, it took a lot of convincing to get my own private line, but the check went through. Little did the parent know that I was using our primary line for a Internet Minix console gateway after 11:00PM The BBS was active for about 3 years, and you can find my BBS listing in many archives. I was given a FIDO NET node address right before I canceled my services. My IP and node information is probably archive somewhere on this spacial plane of binary information. Their were several other networks I was involved with, some local, some long distance. I was somehow always able to pay for the long distance charges for the message networks, as little as I received from my 4 AM paper route job. I was first turned on to Linux by the name of Eric. I am so appreciative of his constant NFS/Network Slackware re-installations, as I was learning how to use it productively. Long after the last paragraph, I started experimenting with FreeBSD and NetBSD, along with Solaris on a 150 box. Now that I am 28, I have gained the knowledge of development and productivity provided by these systems for about 10, or 11 years. Throughout college I refused to use a Windows OS version, and bought a copy of crossover office for the MS office applications I was studying. Why in hell they had 3 semesters of office education for a networking program beats the hell out of me. Although in addition, their were UNIX, Windows Server, and Novell classes, along with the 4 semesters of the CISCO academy, programming courses, and other network technology classes. At this point in time I am dedicated to public communication platform development in which will be providing a production service within 6 to 9 months. I have programming experience with scripting languages such as bash, PHP 5, object orientated applications, Pascal - in which I developed several BBS door applications that to this day I find available in archives, a little C/C++, and my current interest in the mono .net runtime environment.. GTK#, ASP, C#, and the mono .net runtime libraries that are available for this type of development. | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| I crunch numbers primarily for the Einstein@Home project, with the exception of two systems in which separately crunch for simap and seti (33% cpu time in comparison). Gravitational waves, the aspect of time as we know or understand, and the curiosity of how our world exists with these, gives me the most inspiration to dedicate the most amount of computer resources to this project. We are an evolving species, and with projects like this we are developing an understanding of our existence. I personally do not believe their will ever be a solid scientific method to explain any aspect of our existence, but with better understanding by means of this project, we move ahead and develop in other directions that may just be more meaningful to the world as we know it, and to us as humans - living, curious beings, in which most call life. | |
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