| Personal background |
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Hi there,
Let me take this opportunity to talk a little bit about myself.
When writing this, I was 27 years old, living somewhere in the Netherlands.
I have lot's of hobby's, to start with one I am a very enthusiastic HAM radio operator. Currently I am very active somewhere on the 10 meter band using the SSB mode. When tropospheric conditions are good enough I am able to communicate with other HAM radio operators from france, and even spain. I also like to listen a lot on the 20 meter, 40 meter and 80 meter bands. I just love the occasional war story's that are told by old and very experienced HAM radio operators.
I also like to work with computers, they do ( and screw up ) they way they are told to without complaining to much ( well except the C compiler though ^^ ). As you might have understood already, I am a programmer. I mostly write PHP modules for interactive and dynamic websites, the ocasional C# ( read C-Sharp ) .NET windows application, and I just started writing C to see if I could pull it off. I am currently working on a C program that creates wordlists for password crackers ( in case someone lost his own password off course ).
I also like to fool around with hardware a bit. Building up computers for others, or fixing overheated laptops by taking it apart and removing the dust pile that's in front of the heatsink, ensuring prolonged reliability and performance of those things, so that there is no need to buy a new laptop.
I have studied electronics at what we call the 'Lower Technical School' ( LTS ) and got my degree. So I also know a fair bit of that as well. One kind of need this as a HAM radio operator to tune antenna's, fix broken transmitters, build noise filters for audio outputs, and the likes. Recently I took a dive into Digital Switching as well. I got in touch with AND gates, OR gates, NAND Gates, XOR gates and stuff to better understand how computers actually works. A great tutor on this can be Minecraft ( yes the infamous Minecraft :-P ) It allows you to build the gates described above, but also allows for building of Latches, which are basicly 1 bit memory cells. So a project I am doing in my spare time is building an actual CPU with a clock, program counter and memory, an actual RAM module and an ALU ( Arithmetic Logic Unit ) so it can preform Add, subtract, multiply, divide, perform bitwise logic like AND, OR, Left shifting, Right shifting etc. Quite neat =]
My occupation is currently looking for a job ( that's why I have the time to learn stuff ). I am looking for work in the field of system or network administration. Quite an easy and relaxed job I have to say, cause I don't want to be to busy at work :-)
Well that's it really, nothing else comes to mind at the moment, so feel free to drop a message and ask away if you want to know more. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1)
I believe we have to search for Extra terrestrial intelligence by any means possible. If there is anything out there, it's worth looking for it. The seti project needs all the computing power they can get, and if i can donate my CPU's idle time, well.. it's the least i can do right ?
2)
Very good. In the near future i hope to have contact with the team, and perhaps one day visit the actual site. I love computers and HAM radio, and SETI@Home is a perfect project for me to participate in. The team also does a very good job, I have been reading the tech news on SETI's home page, and got to see some inside problems they were having with routers that lock up, databases freezing up, and that they are pretty much always out of RAM and Storage. I have seen some of the major upgrades they have done with the hardware, that's just really awesome! They deserve a round of applause every day!
3)
My suggestion to the team would be "Keep on going the way you guys are currently going!" |
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