The following people contributed their hacks, writing, and
inspiration to this book:
John
Richard,
known locally as JR, is a system administrator in Kingston, Ontario,
Canada. His trademark in the field is his insistence on a FreeBSD box
as the primary firewall on a network. He has enjoyed working with the
author in the past at a private college in Kingston. In his spare
time, he experiments with FreeBSD and rides his Harley-Davidson.
[Hack #64]
Joe
Warner is a
Technical Analyst for Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services
Corporation and has been using FreeBSD as a server and desktop since
October of 2000. Joe has lived in Salt Lake City, Utah for most of
his life and enjoys *BSD, computing, history, and The
Matrix.
[Hacks
#35 and #59]
Dan
Langille
(http://www.langille.org/) runs a
consulting group in Ottawa, Canada. He has fond memories of his years
in New Zealand, where the climate is much more conducive to
year-round mountain biking. He lives in a house ruled by felines.
[Hack #41]
Robert
Bernier's professional
career has included engineering, accident investigation, and Olympic
trials. In the 1980s, his interest returned to IT when he realized he
wouldn't have to use a punch card anymore.
Eventually he discovered Linux and by the mid-1990s had developed a
passion for all things open source. Today, Robert teaches at the
local community college and writes for a number of IT publications
based in North America and Europe.
[Hack #12]
Kirk
Russell
(kirk@qnx.com) is a kernel tester at QNX Software
Systems (http://www.qnx.com/).
[Hack #36]
Karl
Vogel is a
system administrator for the C-17 Program Office.
He's worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for
22 years and has a BS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from
Cornell University.
[Hack #32]
Howard
Owen
discovered computers by reading about Conway's
"Life" in Life magazine. It took
many years from that discovery to the time he could actually make a
living with the godforsaken things. Once that happened, however,
Howard turned into a "major geek."
He has worked as a sysadmin, systems engineer, and systems architect.
He is currently employed by IBM in Silicon Valley supporting Linux,
but he still runs FreeBSD and OpenBSD at home.
[Hacks #61 and #62]
Daniel
Harris
is a student and occasional consultant in West Virginia. He is
interested in computer networking, documentation, and security; he
also enjoys writing, armchair politics, and amateur radio.
[Hack #55]
Andrew
Gould,
CPA, performs financial and clinical data analysis for a hospital in
Texas. His primary tool for data integration is a PostgreSQL database
server running on FreeBSD. Andrew has been using FreeBSD at both work
and home for four years. Andrew has a BS in Education and a BBA in
Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.
[Hacks #17 2.6, #40,
#44, and #68]
Jim
Mock is a
FreeBSD admin and developer turned Mac OS X user and developer.
He's a FreeBSD committer, as well as an OpenDarwin
committer, and he currently maintains 50+ DarwinPorts. Jim is also a
member of the DarwinPorts Port Manager team. He can be reached at
jim@bsdnews.org or through his personal site at
http://soupnazi.org/.
[Hack #88]
Avleen
Vig is a
systems administrator at EarthLink (http://www.earthlink.net/), where he
maintains the company's web, mail, news, and other
Internet services for over 8 million users. He spends his spare time
with his newborn son, contributing to the various Internet and Unix
communities, and enjoying life. After seizing the day in 2001 and
moving to LA from London, he's waiting to see where
life will take him next.
[Hack #69]
Alexandru
Popa is a CCNA studying for a CCNP,
and is actively involved in the FreeBSD community in his spare time.
At the time of this writing, he was studying Computer Science at the
Politechnica University of Bucharest. He also maintains
cvsup.ro.freebsd.org out of a basement in a
deserted building, using a large hamster array for power. He can be
contacted at alex@bsdnews.org.
[Hack #70]
Jens
Schweikhardt is a German software engineer
and Internet wizard who is constantly looking for interesting things
to do. As a seven-time IOCCC winner, he is well-known for taking C
compilers to their limits. He contributes to Unix standardization
and, of course, to God's Own Operating System. When
not hacking, Jens has been caught writing romantic poetry and riding
his Italian Moto Guzzi around the Swabian hills and valleys. If he
were given one modest wish, it would be clear skies when he goes
stargazing with his telescope.
[Hack #78]
Matthew
Seaman is 38 years old and a former
scientist and academic (Oxford University postgraduate). He is now a
specialist in computer system administration, network architecture,
and infrastructure design.
[Hacks #49, #50,
and #97]
Nathan
Rosenquist first tried FreeBSD in 1996,
and has been using Unix ever since. During the day, he can be found
developing Perl-based web applications and business automation
software. He lives in Shadow Hills, California with his girlfriend
Carrie and their dog Nutmeg.
[Hack #39]
Adrian
Mayo
(http://unix.1dot1.com/) has
worked with computers for 20 years, specializing in the design of
safety and mission-critical software for the aerospace and medical
industries. He has gained exposure to BSD Unix through
Apple's Mac OS X operating system. He is Editor for
the news and support site http://www.osxfaq.com, writing most of the
technical content, including the Unix tutorials and Daily Unix tips.
[Hacks #14, #15,
and #16]
Sebastian
Stark (seb@biskalar.de)
works as a system administrator at the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics in Germany. He manages a bunch of
workstations, as well as a computer cluster that is used for
machine-learning research.
[Hack #52]
Marlon
Berlin
(marlon@biskalar.de) studies linguistics, comparative
literature, and mathematics in Berlin. He works for DNS:NET, a German
ISP, as a systems developer.
[Hack #52]
David
Maxwell
(david@netbsd.org) is a NetBSD Developer and member of
the NetBSD Security-Officer team. He attended Unix Unanimous in
Toronto since the first meeting in the early `80s,
and still visits when he can. He was an avid Amiga user, and relishes
a good (or bad) pun when he can muster one. David currently works at
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (IDT).
[Hacks #10, #53,
#73, #75, and #76]
Julio Merino
Vidal is studying Informatics Engineering
at the UPC University of Barcelona, Spain. He has been a NetBSD
developer since November 2002, working on the NetBSD Packages
Collection (http://www.pkgsrc.org/) and translating the
web site to Spanish. He also maintains his own free software
projects, including Buildtool (http://buildtool.sourceforge.net/). You can
contact him at jmmv@NetBSD.org.
[Hacks #27 and #87]
Jan L.
Peterson (jlp@peterson.ath.cx)
is a professional system administrator with 16 years of experience
working with multiple Unix versions (and the occasional Windows
machine). Laid off from his last job when the company was acquired by
a direct competitor, he has spent the last couple of years as a
consultant. More about Jan can be found at http://www.peterson.ath.cx/~jlp/.
[Hack #74]
Michael
Vince
was born in 1977. His initial interest in computers was video games,
but he soon ventured into many other areas, such as programming,
Unix, the Web, and networks. Having completed a Diploma in Computer
Systems and a CCNA, he is an IT administrator for software companies
and has been involved in large software projects that put his
development skills to good use. A tech news junkie, he is always
interested in the future of computing. He also enjoys staying up late
solving difficult problems that require complex regular expressions
in Perl, going to the gym, and hanging out in cafes. He is currently
working on a software product called Ezmin.
[Hack #64]
Daniel
Carosone has been involved with NetBSD as
a user, advocate, and developer for over 10 years. He is a member of
the NetBSD Security Officer team, which provides leadership for
security matters within the project and coordinates responses to
public incidents and vulnerabilities. He is Chief Technologist for
e-Secure, specializing in security consulting and management services
to financial, government, and telecommunications organizations. He
promotes security awareness through conference presentations and
university lectures. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, and—when
not working too hard—enjoys hiking, driving, and astronomy.
[Hack #60]
Aaron
Crandall, BSEE, has used OpenBSD since
2.7. He currently works for the Oregon Graduate Institute running
computers as a part-time Master's student.
He's built and given away more OpenBSD firewalls
than he can count. Contact him at
aaron.crandal@cse.ogi.edu.
[Hack #45]
chromatic is the
Technical Editor of the O'Reilly Network. In
practice, that means he edits ONLamp.com (open source administration
and development) and, occasionally, books like this one. Outside of
work, he enjoys cooking and somehow produces a whole slew of weird
software hacks like SDL Parrot, tiny mail tools, and that Perl 6
thing. Wade through the disarray of his web site at http://wgz.org/chromatic/.
[Hack #92]
Brett
Warden,
BSEE, specializes in Perl programming and embedded systems. He lives
in the Northwest with his wife, son, and two antisocial cats.
He's currently keeping an eye out for contracting
and permanent positions. You can find a collection of odd projects at
http://www.wgz.org/bwarden/.
[Hack #65]
