User:N3v3r3nding5tory

Introduction - Who I am, Where, Interests, Education

Hello. I'm Steve from the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, US area very near the 45 degrees N. lattitude. My interests are mostly technical (GNU/Linux, security (firewalls, PAM, GnuPG), software--my projects seem to end up mostly in perl, C, C++, and /bin/sh shell scripts. My two computer systems are from 2000 (a desktop) and 2002 (a laptop), respectively, and, I'm trying hard to maintain their longevity (worried about desktop's 10 year old hard drive). The longevity requirement is because I'm very short on funds--this requirement means possibly trying to get SATA drives onto an PATA (EIDE, I bet) system--this is my current line of research. Regarding my education, I have a BSCS (Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science).

Specifically regarding Wikipedia - My editing and usage

I end up in the strangest places in Wikipedia because I like crossword puzzles. But, although I like crossword puzzles, this does not mean that I am actually an expert at figuring them out. So, I take the Sunday New York Times Crossword, and if I can't figure out clues by (oh, say) Wednesday, I try to figure it out via paper-bound dictionary, paper-bound atlas, and then up the ante into online dictionaries, google and wikipedia.

As to Wikipedia editing, I'm a long time fixer of typos from the crossword clue hunting. I only recently decided obtained a wikipedia (username, password).

I also use Wikipedia like everyone else does: as a paperless encyclopedia (no 26 set of books, plus Wikipedia gets updated--a paper-bound one does not). It also helps some in figuring out what is "technobabble" and what is important insofar as purchasing hardware (say PCI cards) or peripherals from hardware (or computer systems or electronic) vendors. By "technobabble", I usually mean marketing terminology that is specific to a particular vendor which would have a different marketing term for another vendor--it is (at least) unintentionally confusing.

N3v3r3nding5tory (talk) 21:26, 20 December 2010 (UTC)