Profile: Bill Fehring

Personal background
Only being 16 years of age, I have successfully set up my very own UNIX network employing custom linux kernels, and Open/Net/FreeBSD... It has gotten to the point where I'm really not sure how many p233's I have running around here... I just collect "junk" and end up with another linux box every few weeks.. Eventually it gets SETI on it and runs some sort of server. My paper-pale flesh rots in Central Illinois and still sleeps through high school classes. I play both bass guitar and drums, then I code on whatever I think up, I also have an amateur radio license (W9KKN formally KB9UWV).... when my mother wakes me up in the morning, I mention things (still-asleep) about cross-platform object linking and various other sickingly geekish things.. I'm 6'3 and about 160 pounds... Maybe I should get a Job... I have these skills... I like sleep more though and well I hate people..so yeah. Who Cares? If you care, (about me) then you have some serious problems... I mean.. geeze.. I have no life.. where can I find the source code for one? maybe I just have a really unstable CVS snapshot for a life... maybe I'm just some AI engine that seems to have formatted its creator's mind with its own filesystem and kernel.. taking over his life.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I figure that I am entirely too stupid philosophically to ponder the existence of extraterrestrial life. Why would we transmit a beacon?.. the power requirement would be bewildering.. and would it not cook us alive with the RF radiation? The speed of light is so slow.. by the time the response got back, nobody would care.. and we could all be dead or something. I like using my *n*x cluster for something... Seti seems to keep it busy.. It's almost a pride thing... proving you have insanely fast machines.
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