** The OFFICIAL TeAm AnandTech "Meet your TeAmmates" thread....EVERYONE! Update: Poof posted! :D

[networkman]

joinT: Yep, I'm a confirmed SETI nut - and I can't even use the excuse that I was smoking something..

Dug up from the Archives:

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[RaySun2Be]

Originally posted by: Engineer
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Oh....and I just found this:

Also just discovered....Ray's first mainframe setup...using OPEN source cooling!

Hehehehehe....Way too funny Engineer.......*whack* *whack*



Ah yes, the NWM WU Auction. Thanks for the links!

 

[Freewolf]

It seems I'm not the normal Anandtecher but no one ever said I was normal anyway.
Don't have much time so I"m gonna do a copy and paste of my bio and add the rest after it.


Jim Freeman
Executive Chef, Perdido Beach Resort

Experience: 25 years of experience and knowledge

Specialty: Grilled Pork w/Wasabi and Caribbean Grouper

F&B Philosophy: ?I was raised on a farm where my family grew their own vegetables, raised chicken and had fresh eggs for breakfast every morning. A hunter and a fisherman, as most farmers are, I have a farmer's love for the soil and believe in cooking to bring out the natural favors of the food and not hiding it under heavy sauces. If the food is fresh and the fish is fresh, then how can you do any better than that??

Bio: A master in the kitchen and passionate about fresh seafood, Jim Freeman is responsible for overseeing both restaurants at the resort, including the popular Voyagers (fine dining, no ties required atmosphere) and Café Palm Breeze, (casual, family style dining), as well as the resort?s extensive banquets and catering operation.

Jim Freeman is the 40 year old, married, father of a three-year-old daughter. He was born and raised in the Florida Panhandle. Freeman has worked for the resort for 15 years and trained under the legendary Chef Brill. He began his career, at Perdido Beach Resort, as a line cook and has successfully moved his way up to Saucier, Sous Chef, and Assistant Executive Chef and now as the Executive Chef.


I live in Pensacola Fl and work in Orange Beach Al.
First computer was a TI 99/4A. First computer I built was a 486/ 33
Pretty much learned how to build computers by reading and by doing.
First started running seti in 99
I run seti and TSC now becauses yes I do believe in " Little Green Men " and believe finding a cure for Childrens Cancers to be a worthy cause.
Am trying to learn enough about networking to get my dozen or so machines on a home network to save a little time.
Joined the team because I like the folks on it.
And that's about it
by the way what's older dirt or mud? Is Dirt what Mud becomes when it grows up?

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Heh! I was born Jan 5, 19xx, or was that 18xx? I forget. I do know it was Jan 5th.

Mine is Jan 4, 1969!

Oh....and I just found this:

Also just discovered....Ray's first mainframe setup...using OPEN source cooling!

Don't make me laugh, i'm feeling really ill with sore throat and all i can do is cough when i laugh, and it really hurts to laugh.

Really must go to bed, dasm you Engineer for starting this thread, and also person i met at P.O.D. gig in May for coming onto MS Messenger for the first time since May!

 

[OhioDude]

by the way what's older dirt or mud? Is Dirt what Mud becomes when it grows up?

Dirt is old dried up mud...

 

[Engineer]

If the rest of you are like me, you had sort of a mental picture of everyone that you have had contact with on these boards...and let me tell you....none are like the "REAL LIFE" posts above. We have a very diverse group here....its great to get to know you all a little better!

Next!

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Engineer
If the rest of you are like me, you had sort of a mental picture of everyone that you have had contact with on these boards...and let me tell you....none are like the "REAL LIFE" posts above. We have a very diverse group here....its great to get to know you all a little better!

Next!

Yeah, i sorta do have a mental picture of people! I have seen an actual picture of Smokeball, so i actually know what he looks like, but yeah, some pictures do definately change! But i guess the change is for the better, and can only help to make the mental image better!

I'm just waiting for Poof to come along and clarify/blur my mental image of her! :Q

 

[Freewolf]

Dirt is old dried up mud...

So that's what you have to look forward to when you grow up OD

 

[Swanny]

My name is Christian, and my nickname is Swan or Swanny. I'm 16 and a junior in high school. I don't have a car to drive yet. I live in Sac City, IA and spend most of my time here reading stuff like this. I work on the SETI project. I've been doing computer stuff since I was about 10. My currect PC is the 3rd main box I have built. I also have a few other computers sitting around to do SETI and hopefully I will have a laptop soon.



Swan

 

[Insidious]

Wow, what a fun thread (long too)

I'm Scott. The whole 'puter hobby thingy came about when I realized that no skill was only half the problem for me when it came to trying to survive on-line with Half-life and (about a zillion) its' various mods. The rest of the problem was a 'pooter that could barely run windows (95). I took to the inet and began to learn about computers and took the leap of faith, sold the POS (Pentium 200, no MMX) and built my first....... IT WORKED! Learned more, upgraded, learned more, upgraded, became hopelessly hooked and upgraded again, and again, and again........

I'm not as old as dirt, but their are a couple pebbles in the back yard beginning to look way too familiar (I'm 43). I joined the USN for six years in 1977 and served as a Nuclear Reactor Operator/Electronics Technician to earn money for college. Went to Purdue and earned a BSEE in 1989. During that time, I met and married "HER". My son Danny was born when I was a Junior (1987), so you can imagine, I lost a little sleep those last two years.

Anyway, "SHE" got bored and split when Danny was 2 so it's been just me and him since then (he will be 15 next month). Of course, while I was getting assimilated into the computer stufforz, I finally built a second one for him (so I didn't have to share). I keep them identical (hardware) to make it easier to fix the stuff I mess up while I experiment.

After Purdue, I went to work for GM (Allison Transmission Division) as an electronic design engineer in advanced engineering. I've been lucky enough to spend the last 12 years working with hybrid electric drive technology (I do the low voltage controls hardware, sensor interface cktry, wiring design and system integration) It's a blast! But it gets better, for the last year I have been fullfiling the same role on a fuel cell powered vehicle! (These are transit buses and med/hvy duty trucks)

I have not re-married (not real keen on that particular instution, for obvious reasons). I was born in Indiana and (UGH) returned and remain in Indianapolis.

Life is good, you all are great and I am lucky to be a part of this bunch of geeks, heros and misfits

 

[JWMiddleton]

I'm starting this by copying my S@H profile: (I'm lazy today!)

My name is John William Middleton, usually referred to on the DC forum as JW. I live in Lawrenceville, GA, a suburb of NE Atlanta. I am an old guy who has as much enthusiasm for computers as most young people. (I think Smokeball is the only TeAmmate who is older; I'll be 57 in December!) My wife can't understand how I can sit in front of a computer all day and still want to play with them when I get home!

In addition to anything computer related I enjoy traveling, riding motorcycles, genealogy, colleting coins and reading historical novels. I spent 10.5 years in the US Army Finance Corp. Eight years of that time was on overseas assignments to such places as Japan, Germany, Belgium and Viet Nam.

I currently work as a Project Manager installing new network infrastructure into GM facilities (Assembly Plants.) Consequently I travel all the time; coming home only every other weekend. I ride a Honda Goldwing when I can get home and drive an Avis rental car the rest of the time. I have a white Avalanche Z66 to pull my white Goldwing when the weather doesn't permit riding.

I have been married to Linda for 16 years. We are both on our 2nd marriage. I have a daughter, Michele, from my first marriage and Linda has two children from hers. Amanda, the youngest, just graduated from GA State and moved out this past weekend!!

I started buying parts and building SETI crunchers about 2 years ago. Now I have WAY TO MANY computers! See link in my sig. Dave McOwen is taking care of some of them now that I'm out of my corporate apartment and don't have the room. Thanks Dave!

Edit 1 - I got started in computers in Mar 1980 when I bought a TRS-80 Model 1 with 16k Basic and 16k of RAM. I went through a number of Radio Shack systems until I bought an AST 286 from Soft Warehouse (CompUSA's original name) to help me in a "C" class I was taking at night. I loved it! Because I was doing this on my own, I was select by my Regional Director to be one of 12 candidates worldwide who were enrolled in Novell's certification programs. We beta tested the process and we became some of the first ever CNEs.

 

[panhead49]

real name jim.......and i to remember when JFK was shot.......i was in school at the time (grade school that is)......as most of you grew up with/ went to collage for/ computers...i started with atari .....then didnt return to the keyboards till my brother gave me a grid scancase portable..(many years later) ...that machine bit me hard and from then on i had the bug.....being a mechanic from a navy back round ....and real life transmission mechanic..northern california area.......you know i like to take these electrical things apart and see what makes them tic....tic....gotta make them go faster too.......i also have a wife...daughter...cats ..dogs...birds...and as you can tell from my nick ..i like to ride a bike......when it isnt apart scattered around my room ,...its a 1949 panhead ....this is the perfect state for bikes.....and everything else....lol......have a few cars around.....2000 handa civic si......( loud exaust)...lol......a few other goodies........84 camaro.......84 jeep eagle......83 honda dx........i collect things.....you can tell....

 

[Spacehead]

Hey there fellow AT'ers,
I live in NW PA & for the last 6 years work at a tool & die shop running a surface grinder. We make spare parts for plastic molds & die cast molds. Before this i was a welder for about 8 years, 5 of those working for a company that made aircraft engine components, both millitary & commercial.

I've always loved star gazing & i taught myself the constellations & learned some of the brighter Messier objects, using binoculars.
About 4 years ago i bought my first telescope(8" dobsonian), having hooked up with a local astronomy club. I have since added a (used) 16" Meade dobsonian. I try to get out observing as much as i can, but we don't always have the best weather around here.

I got my first computer only about 5 years ago, but only ever played a few games with it. I've had my current machine almost 2 years now & lately have really caught the learning bug(on of the reasons i joined AT). I'd like to take a computer class at the local collage, if i can get the scheduling coordinated with work.

SETI is my only DC project at the moment(only 1 computer), but i would like to get involved in others someday.
I read about SETI in an issue of Sky & Telescope and knew as soon as i got connected to the net i'd like to try it.

I guess that's about it.

BTW, i drive a black 1995 Dodge Ram

Almost forgot-
The music connection continues. While i'm no musician(yet?), i did buy a synth about a year ago & am trying to learn to play. Time will tell, but it's fun to noodle around with it.

 

[Wolfie]

Hi All,
I should have replied to this a while ago when the thread was first formed. I didn't think it would have gotten this much of a response.

My name is Matt and I am 26 from the twin cities area of Minnesota. I love it here and don't plan to move too far if I ever do. My current employment job is at a golf course taking care of the #3 golf course in the state. I am into golf, computers (duh), and snowmobiling. I like to spend my time outdoors when I can, and I hate watching TV.


I don't do much for DC as much as I should since I have been here for so long. But I just can't afford to build a bunch of computers that I won't be using. But that's ok. I contribute what I have and I have been here long enough to meet some of the best computer nerdlings I have ever met from this site.

One last thing, for the few that have met me in person, you know I live by this quote,

"...and these children that you spit on,
as they try to change their worlds are
immune to your consultations. They're
quite aware of what they're going through...
- David Bowie"

Wolfie

 

[dmcowen674]

Hi everyone. My name is David McOwen, I'll be 40 in December. My wife Donna and I currently live about 80 miles Northeast of Atlanta Georgia. I've always been into electronics and first started tinkering with a Computer kit somewhere around 1979 was a Timex Sinclair 1000 4K Computer. My Dad bought me a Radio Shack TRS-80 for Christmas when it came out. I bought an original IBM XT when it came out and have gone through all of the generations of PC's, operating systems connectivity etc. I have had both the pleasure and the pain in the Industry. I was very fortunate to have been a Modem Engineer at Hayes Modems which invented the Modem for the PC. Many people now also know me for the pain as well which was really turned into a blessing. I can't say like WayneS said earlier that working in Academica is great. I went to work for a State school after Hayes went bankrupt and many people both on here and around the world knows what happened next. I like to ride my Motorcycle if I ever get it back on the road again (needs an alternator that is built in the engine) and like to play guitar. Currently have 5 computers running DC projects as JW Middleton said, was 6 but lost a Motherboard recenty, will get back to full strength shortly. Great online Community here.

 

[ProviaFan]

I'm Josh, from southern Indiana (south of Terre Haute about 30 miles), where the corn grows freely while the broadband does not.

Anyway, I'm afraid that guy who's 16 and who posted previously thinking he's the youngest is wrong. I'm 15 (though in a few months I will be 16). I'm in 10th grade this year. I don't have a car just yet (for obvious reasons), and my hobbies are tinkering with my computers, keeping fish and live aquatic plants, and training and grooming my Shetland Sheepdog. I speak various dialects of BASIC, and I'm currently learning C++. Oh, you wanted to know what real languages I speak? Well, the American "distortion" (or so our British friends would tell us ) of English is my native language, and I also know some Latin. I'm also considering learning German for a 2nd language.

My first experience with computers was with my dad's IBM PS/2 Model 50 (iirc) which had a 10mhz Intel 80286 processor, 1024K of RAM, a 20MB hard disk, 3.5 inch floppy, DOS 3.3 (no Windows), VGA graphics, and a monochrome monitor capable of 16 levels of grayscale. When I was about 8, I started learning a few very simple DOS commands, and loved to use the Norton "batch enhancer" (how many of you remember the wonderful Norton Utilities?) to make little musical compositions that the computer would beep out on it's screechy speaker. I also experimented with a little BASICA programming on that system. (Oh the wonderful memories of loading up BASIC for the first time, only to realize that I had no idea how to get out of it, and thinking "oh crap" and turning off the computer, only to find out later that the proper command is "SYSTEM").

My first computer of my own was an IBM PS/1 that was given to me (when I was about 10) by some of my parents' friends who had upgraded several times and were then running some early Pentium. The PS/1 was similar in specs to my dad's PS/2, except it had a color monitor, a 30MB hard disk, and came with DOS 4 originally. By the time the hard disk crapped out, I had it pushed to the limits with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.

The first computer that I built myself was a Cyrix (YUCK!!!) 233mhz with a 4.3gb 5400rpm hard disk, 32mb of RAM, running Windows 98 SE. That system lasted me several years, and by the time I finally ditched the Socket 7 platform for something newer, it was an AMD K6-2 400mhz overclocked to 475mhz, with 192mb of RAM, a 7200rpm 20gb hard disk, and an ATI Radeon SDR PCI running Windows 2000 Pro. (The rigs I have now are listed in the link that's in my sig).

I have been full of indecision when it comes to DC projects - first I tried Folding@Home, but since that didn't play well with my modem, I went to RC5 for a bit. Getting bored with that, I decided to give OGR a try, and kept with that for a while, only to be distracted by ECCp-109. Then, for the duration of the TA vs. DSLR SETI race, I ran SETI, but switched back to ECCp afterwards. Next, I ran Folding@Home for some time, but recently (due to Narzy's recruiting thread in this forum), I've gone back to RC5, hopefully to remain interested in it until it's completion.

 

[Eponymous]

Hi my name is Grant and I am a Gradual student.

"I was born at a very early age, in a hospital, so I could be near my mother." --WC Fields.

I grew up in a small town in California, you might of heard of called Los Angeles.
This is where I was introduced to computers, a Commadore PET with 16K of RAM.
Because I had an affinaty with computers I was allowed to use the Teachers
machine which had the expansion module bringing it up to 20K!!! :Q

I am 34yrs old and am currently a professional student in New York and have been in school
of some form for the last 30years. I plan on retiring sometime this year, of course
this will require me getting a real job. If all goes as planned, this time next
year you can call me Dr Eponymous PhD.

Note: PHD = Pizza Hut Delivery or was that Post Hole Digger?

Anyways, my current activities, include running a course in Embedded Control where
I manage 18 TA's and coordinate with 4 professors, with a total class size of
about 300 students. When I'm not doing that I help 3 other guys maintain
about 350 machines (Hence how I get those BIG SETI numbers). We do everything,
from building the machines, setting them up, wiring the building, networking,
file sharing, DNS, Web hosting, data archiving, mail servers, firewalling, ......
If it needs to be done we probably do it in some form or another.

My non-computer interests include being Head Projectionist at our
campus run theater. It is a Second Run non theatrical, 35mm Dolby Surround
theater. (Ie just short of a THX theater.) We hope to have Digital sound
installed this year.

I am also a Graduate Senator since I won with a landslide of 7 votes.
And when I find those idiots that voted me in they will be sorry!

I currently live in Married Student housing and by contract am required to
get married within 30days of moving in. Since I'm single, I am taking applicants
to fill this position.

Oh right, I am also working on my Thesis, which involves view planning for
grasping of unknown three dimensional objects using a parallel jawed gripper.
In other words I get to play with robots and video cameras.

I drive a 1989 Mustang LX. (Yes the 8 cyclinder one.)

As far as anyone here on campus is concerned I remember when they
invented sliced bread back in 1928 or at least they think I do.

 

[Freewolf]

The following is a copy and paste from our offsite forum if you would like to visit just use the link in my sig.

My name is Denis. I am 45 years old and got divorced amicably a few years ago. I spend most of my time at home in a small appartment because I suffer from myalgic encephalomyelitis (aka chronic fatigue syndrome). I still teach one undergraduate invertebrate paleontology course each spring but must rest for the other 8 months of the year.

I got my geological engineering degree from l'Université Laval in Québec City (my place of birth) in 1980 and subsequently did a M. Sc. on Cambro-Ordovician invertebrate trace fossils (ichnology), particularly trilobite trails, at the University of New Brunswick in 1984. Field work areas were Bell Island near St. John's (Newfoundland) and the Trenton group between Québec city and Montréal. The resulting thesis won the Canadian Society Of Petroleum Geologists Certificate of Achievement in 1985 as the M. Sc. judged to have contributed most significantly to Canadian sedimentary geology. Following that I started my Ph. D. at the same place but I haven't finished it yet because of my illness. I am technically still on medical leave of absence from it. Field work was on the Upper Cretaceous of southern Oregon and northern California between Medford and Yreka. I no longer do research but did get over a dozen papers published from my M.Sc, including a large monograph (Palaeontographica Canadiana #7).

I used only departmental Macs from 1984 to 1990, then went 9 years without a computer. The woman who holds the keys to my heart is the most wonderful marsupial in the universe.
_________________

 

[Tetsuo316]

hey all.

this is a bit weird but here goes:

my name is jeff.

i guess i mean it's weird because i've been posting in this forum since march of 2000 and only now have i seen a getting to know you thread. anyway...

so, my name is jeff and i live in berkeley, ca. i'm taking my last class as a film studies undergraduate this semester. when i'm not sitting on my butt watching movies i'm at work at the video store near my house. i live with my good friend chandler as well as my girlfriend, jen - whom i love dearly. i post here less than i used to since that gf moved in, but really, i'm not so sure that's a bad thing.

i've never been one to use correct capitalization in my posts. if you ever see me do it, i'm probably saying something very important and you should listen up.

oh, i'm 22 years old and grew up in redding, ca. Niege probabyy knows redding as he's just a couple hours away. for the rest of you, i don't recommend visiting. on certain days of the year it's the hottest place on the planet - yes, hotter than death valley.

i first touched a pc in 1998 when i was given a gateway for graduation from high school. the first thing i did was void my warranty by opening the puppy up. after that, i started reading about "overclocking" and "upgrading" and "frames er second." yeah, it was pretty much downhill from there. at least this much can be said: a man coul have more expensive hobbies.

i've been crunching for seti for over three years now with only a short break when i crunched rc5 for the cavalry. oh right and then there was that other short interruption when i went to italy for five months. i met my girlfriend in venice. isn't that just disgustingly romantic? anway. that was nearly two years ago now and i don't see an end for us. ever.

so, that's me i guess. i've been here a long while. at least long enough to know that assimilator1's real handle is asslaminator. everyone knows that though

 

[muttley]

more more or I will start writing volumes 2 and 3:frown::frown:

 

[Bleep]

First a question for muttley. I had a friend that was the world wide rep for Bally slot machines in Vegas maybe you knew him, C.D. Kaufmann everyone called him DOC
I think he has passsed by now as I have not heard from him for a few years.
Now for me.
I may be the old one here, I was born in 1934 and I live in a little town in Nebraska, North Platte to be exact, Buffalo Bill Cody's home town. The house across the street from me was built for Anny Oakley so it is a historic neighborhood.
I have a wife, been married for a little over 40 years and have raised 5 kids 3 were ours and 2 that we took in. I am a Korean vet, and spent some time in europe working for the goverment as a Cryptographer and as a code breaker many years ago. I have done a lot of things in my life and could not ever put them in one message. The last 10 years that I had to earn a living I had a machine shop and a 1 off engineering business, if someone could think it up I would make it. I gave it to one of my sons 8 years ago and have not done a lick of work since.
My first computer was a huge thing that a friend and I bought together from the Air Force in Lincoln Nebraska that had about a million vacuum tubes and used magnetic memory, the readout was a model 15 teletype.
I have been a Ham operator almost all my life getting my first licience in 1950 my present call letters are wb0anq.
Despite my age I did a little job for the Goverment related to the deal in Afganastan which I would like to believe saved a couple of lives.
Whoops almost forgot I have been a ordained minister for about 30 years but had a change of mind about a year after i got ordained so I did not do it for a living.
For the last 3 years I have been building computers and donating them to some native american schools in northern nebraska and south dakota.
This is probably enough from me.
I might add that I got my nickname from a little job I had helping out a friend that had a small FM station and had a open phone program and he used a 4 second delay and I got to be the Bleeper for the bad language, man I could not believe what some callers would say.

Bleep

 

[Engineer]

Small note....I would like to personally thank all of our TeAmmates (and all men and women for that matter) that serve to protect in the Armed Forces. Your work is very much appreciated!

SALUTE!

 

[muttley]

Bleep, Bally during my time frame was sort of in their own world I would drop in on IGT in Vegas. Most of the sales reps all you had to do was make a call and they would give you new machines of whatever you wanted and they had large varieties of glass facess and it was pretty much those faces on the glass that sold the games. Like one machine was the red white and blue a bit patriotic but people liked it now if it was brought back it might be stellar. I worked in Wendover for the Silver Smith then another place the name changed later. Then I moved to the misquite (red garter) another casino name change. Then I kept hearing of a Bud Sopper and so I was off to meet him he took care of his employees and so I went to work for him. I was slot manager and mechanic/tech. I worked for him 2 different times at 2 seperate casinos and helped at some of his others. I made him an increase of $100,000 a year doing a consult for him. Can't say enough about Bud. I'm an only child and end up associating with older people his wife had cancer and now I suppose the business is passed on to his son.
muttley

PS JWMiddleton you can get geneology research from familysearch.com and in your area contact a LDS or Mormon (nickname) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The have microfish and bunches of other stuff/materials and cd material.

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Small note....I would like to personally thank all of our TeAmmates (and all men and women for that matter) that serve to protect in the Armed Forces. Your work is very much appreciated!

SALUTE!

Thanks Engineer!!

--LANMAN

 

[Darkone]

If hes him and you're you... and if you're you and hes him, and shes her and you're you, what does that make me.... ???

Anyhow... to be serious again.... guess i'll add my bit...

i'm 28, an IT manager for a company in London UK. Drive a Subaru Impreza P1 (http://www.subaru.co.uk/p1/p1.htm)

Dont get on the forums very much, but still privaleged to have been toping the #1 spot in TA Seti for a while back in 2000/2001

Very small fleet these days due to standardisation in our company

Anyhow.. there we go.. thats it from me.. see ya around i hope


Oh and welcome all the new TA members who are giving it their all!!!!

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