Introduction to

I have given a number of presentations to Austin Linux Group:

• Live USB sticks using grub2, A low level approach
  
• Be master of your domain; Commoditize your ISP and other services
  
• Phone Home with dynamic DNS
  
• The History and Philosophy of PGP and GPG
  
• Using OpenSuSE Build Service
  
• Linux Startup
• Miscellaneous Linux Tricks
• Free Software History
• Lessons of Free Software History
• Tanenbaum-Torvalds microkernel vs monolithic kernel Debate

I have written a simple OS/2 text file lister using IBM's Open Class library.

I have ported a TCP/IP Socket++ Library to OS/2.

I have also written a OS/2 device driver for a simple hardware Random Number Generator.

If you want, you can read my resume.

Here is a poem for you to read.

Freedom in cyberspace.

Support Free Speech in cyberspace.

Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

Cryptography as a tool of freedom.

Privacy is needed to implement freedom in cyberspace. Without it, cyberspace is a glass-walled prison. It is more difficult to coerce people if you do not know what they are up to! This is why totalitarian elements of government are deathly afraid of cryptography. The development of commonly available easy to use cryptography represents a massive transfer of power from government to ordinary people. I have written a rant on why cryptography should not be regulated. Philip Zimmermann's cryptography program PGP is the beginning of such software. I have written a tutorial on how to use PGP.

In 1994, I wrote an essay on the clipper chip for the HAL PC users Journal. This essay is now dated, and some statements are no longer true.

Cult of Free Inquiry

Philosophy

I have written an essay on how Bertrand Russell discovered the Russell Paradox.

Some of my family is also on the WEB.

Can You Identify this Quercus?