Who are you?
I am a self proclaimed tech geek living and working in the Northern Virginia (NOVA), Washington DC Metro area. My interests here include *NIX based computer systems (Mac OSX, Linux, BSD, UNIX),mobile technology, FOSS (free open source software), web development, design, and photography.
I am also a member of the GIA.
There, I am known as Agent 711.
Who else are you?
I am a husband, a father, a combat veteran, a tinkerer, an outdoors man, a dreamer, a lover, and for the most part human.
I have earned my living many ways including, selling guns, serving beers, and slinging bullets.
Now I live my life behind my desk as an analyst, quietly shuffling papers and pushing pencils while watching my 401k slowly rise.
What’s in your utility belt?
Since my blog focuses on tech items, I guess I should put a list of my “toys” that I use on a somewhat daily basis on here, so here they are:
- Black MacBook, 2.0 Ghz Core Duo with 2Gb RAM, 160GB 5400rpm HD, running Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard, Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, and various other operating systems under Parallels (including Windows Vista beta, Windows XP SP2, and Solaris 10).
- Compaq Presario refurb from Woot.com, 3.0 Pentium 4, 2 Gb RAM, 160GB 7200rpm HD, Dual booting Windows Vista Home Basic, and Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”.
- Chumby.
- Palm Treo 680 (ATT)
- Palm Tungsten T3 (occasionally running Linux, it’s a bit finicky)
- 5G 30Gb iPod Video with the awesomely indestructible iTank casing (also running Podzilla)
- OLD Dell Dimension, Pentium 2, 400Mhz, 384Mb RAM, 10Gb HD, also running Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn (yes, it runs Gnome just fine.)
- Playstation 2
- Nintendo Wii (yes it rules, no, it doesn’t run Linux)
- Nintendo Game Cube
- Nintendo N64
- Nintendo Dual Screen Lite (With a Revolution R4 Flashcart and DS Linux) along with various other models of Nintendo Game Boys.
- Tom Tom Go 510 GPS