I live in CA,USA. And it's hot right now.

I am glad I found this site, because I can fellowship with other Christians who code things like I do.

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btw...its crazy-ish-one

My hobbies are hacking (please dont make me post what a hacker is). It;s pretty much the only thing im good at really. I mainly hack in Python, currently writing an IRC client with a curses front-end. It's working fine so if you have *nix, Python and want to test it let me know.

I'm a Linux zealot and have been using it since i was 12 because my parents didn't like comps much and I couldn't afford windows on my pocket money
Best thing i ever did personally

I have a wonderful girlfriend called Leigh, she is the only girl who has ever made me forget about my computer for a day

--D-SIPL
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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

My hobbies are computer programming, fishing and working out.
The programming languages I mess with the most are C/C++/php/javascript/html/css.

God bless you all

[This message has been edited by dedicatedrider (edited August 07, 2005).]

My name's Clint, I enjoy being creative and learning and serving my Lord. I'm currently a missionary by day and a game programmer by night (though I also do part-time computer contracting to pay the bills, as neither of the other two jobs pay very well at this point ). I live in northern Indiana, and am shortly out of college from Taylor University with a degree in Computer Engineering. I also enjoy juggling, unicycling, and studying theology.

DedicatedRider: If you find it encouraging at all, my wife is also on this board (Tonnyx), and she's not much of a hard-core gamer (though she loved Hero's Quest), nor does she do much programming (other than HTML/PHP), but she *really* loves horses. She gets excited about horses the way I do about Christian video games -- so yeah, that's pretty excited. Anyway, welcome! And you can rest assured that there is another person on these boards who shares your interest.

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Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. - Psalms 127:1

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. - Isa 32:17

Hi,
I'm Cool and my name is Kiwee
i am a game Artist and a Webdesigner
and i love God!!!!!!!ELEVEN
Lots

/me out

[EDIT]oh, and i am a guy [/EDIT]

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[This message has been edited by kiwee (edited August 08, 2005).]

Why I like Linux: There's no reason to download pirated software... somone has already made a clone of what you're looking for (you know that web development program with that $ 100 price tag). It's so configurable. It's free.

My computer specs: Click here.

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Sig comming soon.

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[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited August 08, 2005).]

i am 15, 10th Grade
my most overused thing on the internet is "..."
i use windows (not by choice, but by the fear of the unknown)haha.
i will prob get linux when windows vista comes out.
i REALLY love fixing my computer, opening it up, playing with various software.
music: trance, techno(various other forms of electronica), metal,ska.
hmmm. oh yah, and I am a guy.

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Music: Punk/Ska - NoFx, Millencolin, Mad Caddies, Zero Down, Strung Out, Anti-Flag, Capdown, Dead Kennedy's, No Use For A Name and loads of others. I also like InMe, Incubus, Pink Floyd, T-Rex, Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, The Charlatans.

I also drum in a punk/ska band. I've loved computers since i was around 6 years old. I'm a linux zealot, although I think Linus Torvalds is an idiot and Linux is over-rated

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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Vita sine Ieso est mors.
=Life without Jesus is death.

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although I think Linus Torvalds is an idiot and Linux is over-rated

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[This message has been edited by CPUFreak91 (edited August 08, 2005).]

Yes Linux is far too over-rated. People these days are like "i installed linux, its the best, i r teh 1337 h4x0r now, lol u windows n00bs..." etc etc. Like i said that all gets really boring after a while. Linux would have been so much better if they had taken the Minix concept further. Rather then the monolithic system approach. A micro-kernel system would have been far better.

Therefore Linux is based on concepts from the 70's. It could have been so much better. Anyways look into monolithic and micro-kernel systems and make up your own mind. I like Linux, its the best suited for my needs and i've been using it as long as i can remember, just don't get all blinded by the "wow i'm leet i use Linux" attitude.

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

Andy Tanenbaum:
MINIX is a microkernel-based system. The file system and memory management are separate processes, running outside the kernel. The I/O drivers are also separate processes (in the kernel, but only because the brain-dead nature of the Intel CPUs makes that difficult to do otherwise). LINUX is a monolithic style system. This is a giant step back into the 1970s. That is like taking an existing, working C program and rewriting it in BASIC. To me, writing a monolithic system in 1991 is a truly poor idea.

Linus Torvalds:
True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. With a less argumentative subject, I'd probably have agreed with most of what you said. From a theoretical (and aesthetical) standpoint linux looses. If the GNU kernel had been ready last spring, I'd not have bothered to even start my project: the fact is that it wasn't and still isn't. Linux wins heavily on points of being available now.

Not really a good come back from Linus, the thing is this was written in 1992, a year after development, it wasn't too late for him to turn round, or at least start writing a microkernel based system. Therefore Linus is an idiot

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

I'm Jennifer, HanClinto's wife. I'm 25 years old, also graduated from Taylor University with a degree in English Education. I am not currently teaching, however. We've been married for 5 days shy of 1 year, during which time I've been adjusting to married life as well as life in Indiana (I'm originally from a suburb of Detroit, MI). I recently put in an application to do tech support at a local middle school, which I think I would enjoy doing, so we'll see....

I like all kinds of music, from classical (Chopin is one of my favorites) to trance & other techno (DJ Tiësto is my favorite). I don't like most Christian artists, although the Supertones are one notable exception.

I am the webmaster for my church's website, which was a fun opportunity to learn to use Dreamweaver as well as a little PHP. Lately I've been trying to learn to use TADS (a text adventure game thingie).

As Clint said, I really like horses. I first started riding in college (it was one of my P.E. credits), and I loved it so much I had to join the team. I competed at the walk-trot level (English riding) & got to go to Nationals my senior year, which totally rocked. After college, I got into training a little bit with Parelli & some other stuff with some friends of mine who have horses, but then I got married and moved, so I haven't had a chance to really work with horses for over a year.

Oh yeah, and it's pronounced "tonics", not "tonny-x".

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Uggh!! Not on CCN, please! It's hard enough to filter through it on USENET!!

I'm interested in the converstation.

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I am taking a big step and entering some photos into my very first contest this next week (at our local county fair). My wife and I went out tonight to pick some mat boards for the photos and I am totally amazed how well the mat's bring out the photos.

My favorite games are just about anything Star Wars, Medal of Honor games, Call of Duty, and the MegaMan Battle Network series on the Gameboy. Although photography and photo editing are really taking up most of my time these days.

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that would be half my motive for getting linux. haha. thats y i wanna dual boot. windows is more practical for me. i just want to say that i use linux. i am a person that is anti-mainstream, and windows embodies "the mainstream" in the computer world. people often use windows because they wouldnt know wat else to do. i dont like that feeling of ignorance. so i would use mac or linux just so i dont hav to use windows. (but mac oscan only be used on their compys, and linux can go on just about any pc, and its free.)
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Please don't be one of those people, i'm begging you. I post on Neowin quite a lot, and that is full of people like that. They use it because there friends rip into them about using Windows, when in relity, they are the ones running Mandriva, KDE and all the other tools that help people new to linux, stick them on a fresh base linux system with no window manager and they would cry.

It's hard to get respect in the Linux community. There are very few people that I know, that i could actually say really "know" linux and that I have respect for. Here is a quick list of things that will lose you "respect" in the Linux community.

- Saying Linux is an operating system
- Running the following distro's
Fedora
Red Hat (and variants)
Debian (and variants)
Mandriva
Linspire
Ubuntu
MEPIS

- Running KDE
- Asking stupid questions that are easily researchable in google

I'm not saying this is my list, but this is what I have generally found when talking to people who have been in the community a long time. Quite harsh I think but just a warning

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

I love video games and vidoe game programming. I just got married on July 23, 2005. My wife and I both are avid gamers, console and PC.

Current games I'm playing:
XBOX - have about 60 games
Crimson Skies
Halo 2
Fable
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes

Playstation 2 - have about 60 games
Red Dead Revolver
Dark Cloud
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Tenchu: Fatal Shadows
Warhammer 40,0000: Fire Warrior

PC - have countless games
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars
Neverwinter Nights
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Unreal Tournement 2004
City of Heroes

...that's a lot of games to be currently playing, but it just depends on my mood and what system I want to play on at the time.

I've been doing programming, web-design and 3D animation since 1998 (in High School) and have loved it eversince! I've got several 3D modeling programs, GameMaker 6, Visual Studios 6 and few other little utilities I like to use.

As far as Christian activities...I actually work at my church as well as my own business. I'm the Youth Worship Director, Praise Band Director and Director of Media. This all keeps me pretty busy as well. Also, starting in February of 2006 I'm going to start teaching an Intro to Computers class.

Well...that's me, in a somewhat wordy nutshell.

MastaLlama

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games, music, fun...i'm glad there are other people out there that see God can be apart of all 3!

http://www.jeremysouthard.org

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- Saying Linux is an operating system
- Running the following distro's
Fedora
Red Hat (and variants)
Debian (and variants)
Mandriva
Linspire
Ubuntu
MEPIS

- Running KDE
- Asking stupid questions that are easily researchable in google
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lol....wow.! i score like a thousand. haha. im new to the whole concept of it....windows is more practical for me i just want to toy with linux...and i probly will use redhat.lol) haha..now i feel like a poser...a geeky poser...is there such a thing?lol.

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If you going to toy with linux, at least make it into a decent to you can play with without it moaning too much like Red Hat. Go with either Slackware, Gentoo or Arch Linux.

It will give you something tangible to play with

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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If you going to toy with linux, at least make it into a decent to you can play with without it moaning too much like Red Hat.

--D-SIPL

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Stop picking on my Red Hat!!! hehe :P, Don't fear the Red Hat embrace it and wear it .
(Linux, free as in freedom not free as in it won't cost you nothing.....)

God bless you all

http://www.slackware.com/getslack/list.php?country=USA

i do get confused by all of this tho. i would rather they sed "click here to begin your download"..then you download..put the file (installer, zip, etc...) on a disk or w/e and install the oprating system. er...ummmm....D-SIPL, if its not called on os, then what the heck would you call it???

ohh, btw...
1 @m 1337 |-|@xx0rr & 1 wi11 t8k u a11zz!!! 1 yuz 1inuxx!

lol.

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[This message has been edited by crazyishone (edited August 11, 2005).]

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D-SIPL, if its not called on os, then what the heck would you call it???

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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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Originally posted by crazyishone:
are you sure it isnt free of cost???i ve had opportunities to get various distros for free.......(but all my music and many of my prog.s are "free" lol) but in all seriousness.....

http://www.slackware.com/getslack/list.php?country=USA

i do get confused by all of this tho. i would rather they sed "click here to begin your download"..then you download..put the file (installer, zip, etc...) on a disk or w/e and install the oprating system. er...ummmm....D-SIPL, if its not called on os, then what the heck would you call it???

ohh, btw...
1 @m 1337 |-|@xx0rr & 1 wi11 t8k u a11zz!!! 1 yuz 1inuxx!

lol.

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Just go down to a mirror. Go into the current folder and download the iso's then burn them onto a cd. If you can't get over this first hurdle... please don't torture yourself and go any further

--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

Has anyone ever used CentOS? It's a RedHat Enterprise Edition clone. I've got the ISOs and I'm going to set it up as a file server at my church on an old, yet massive, Dell server with a nice little RAID array.

I currently run Windows XP Pro on 2 machines, Windows 2000 on 1, Mandrake Linux 8.1 on 1, and OpenBSD on 1 as a spamfilter.

I've heard lots of good stuff about Gentoo and I'm gettin' an itch to install it over my Mandrake box.

I also have distros of Linspire and Knoppix, I love my Knoppix, I use it as a major techie tool to diagnose hardware and OS problems when Windows won't boot up properly.

MastaLlama

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

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--D-SIPL

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"One World. One Web. One Program." -Microsoft promotional advertisement
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!" -Adolf Hitler

MastaLlama

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http://www.jeremysouthard.org

--D-SIPL

haha!! dont torture myself any further?!??!?!?! ITs agaisnt my nature. If there is something I dont understand, i at least try to conquer it! lol.

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And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. - Col 3:17

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. - Psalms 127:1

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ya know what cracks me up? all these people who are strictly *nix users that treat other *nix distros as if they were created by micro$oft.

MastaLlama

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[This message has been edited by firemaker103 (edited September 17, 2006).]

I play soccer, actually I am a captain for our homeschool team, and we just got beat the other day 10-1... sad really... but we have a chance to redeem ourselves this Friday, lol. I would prefer playing American football, but there is not any homeschool friendly sports teams nearby. My football team is the Steelers!!! GO BLACK AND GOLD!!!

I have been programming for four years, and am loving it. I use C++, and VB, and I have worked with GameMaker 5. I am working on a game right now, it is called Kings of Ethristah. I wrote a book a while ago (BIG book, lol) it is called Eadoin.

Ummmm... I live in Tipton Indiana right now, but we are moving to Kokomo, which means I am going to be closer to my friends, lol(Mainly Dedicatedrider! Her and I are courting if you did not know ). I do not like music very much. When I do listen to it it is Contemporary Christian, but usually just one song, over and over... "More Then You'll Ever Know" I am forced to listen to my sisters, and dad's music ALL the time... Shania Twain... hate it!

Ummm... I think that is it, lol. So I best be going, so I will talk to ya'll later, lol.
God Bless Ya'll!!!! Later

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Don't Ask,
Just Understand.

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[This message has been edited by mastallama (edited September 15, 2005).]

Real Name: Kevin
Age: 13... almost 14, getting there
Nickname Online: Realm Master
Nickname my uncle uses: Buff

i know a lot of BlitzBasic 3d (me and firemaker are on a "team" together with two other guys... ....
we havn't done ANYTHING yet... its kinda... weird... anyway, i know a little of C++ and that is going to be my main language... as SOON AS MY COMPTUER IS FIXED! WAAHHH!!!
and im kinda the "little kid" around here.

oh yea, im a christan

Go God!

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God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

lol, nope that is not mine, lol. I chose the name Eadoin for its meaning, lol, it is a celtic name that means: Blessed with many friends.

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Don't Ask,
Just Understand.

you got a medieval fiction book published! LUCKY! ( i got about 600 pages into mine before i ran out of steam... * 999999999999)

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(yes, i know im stupid)
God rules!

Blessed are those who show mercy.
They will be shown mercy. - Matthew 5:7

Blessed are those who suffer for doing what is right.
The kingdom of hevan bleongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

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Right now my book is 190 pages, in 59 chapters. but the font I used is really small, and the page is bigger then it really is going to be. So I figure when it gets everything edited and rewritten it should be around 500 pages, and 60 chapters, lol.

Crazyishone: Yeah I know how that is. I have had at least nine other book ideas get to chapter 3 and then just stop. But it sounds like I will have some buyers if it sells, lol. awesome.

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Right now my book is 190 pages, in 59 chapters. but the font I used is really small, and the page is bigger then it really is going to be. So I figure when it gets everything edited and rewritten it should be around 500 pages, and 60 chapters, lol.

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It will be 60 chapters once he's edited it. (I'm helping with the editing, and it needs to be done in 60 chapters like he had oringinally planned.)

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My goal in life?
To become like the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31.

Proverbs 22:1
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

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I am a Senior, and am being homeschooled.

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Learn How to Use Linux

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Linux vs Windows vs Mac.... what crap. Linux is best for me and windows or Mac is best for you. End of age long argument.

Learn How to Use Linux