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Hi. I'm Howi.

I was drifting around the internet and I found this place when I was looking for free internet shell access.

I see it's a community based thingy, so let me tell you about myself.

I am a US citizen and I am currently living in the UK. I am a scientist. I will be soon migrating to New Zealand. I wanted a place to store my e-mail in the mean time. I like shells. I've been using UNIX since 1992.

It's what I like. I say welcome.

hello howi, how old are you?

offsetzero wrote:hello howi, how old are you?

Hi offsetzero.

I'm 37. no problem.

hi howi welcome to the fourm
im sure you are pro with linux/unix (you are using it from 1992!)
(you start using it when u were at 23 )
anyway welcome to the forum

Xer wrote:hi howi welcome to the fourm
im sure you are pro with linux/unix (you are using it from 1992!)
(you start using it when u were at 23 )
anyway welcome to the forum

Thanks Xer. Well, I have been an end user for a long time. I used to think I was very interested in sys admin, but ultimately I figured out that I just like to use it to do my science. I really do like it though. It's nice to be familiar with something so powerful.

My favorite program is called IDL, Interactive Data Language. I've been using that for just about as long as I've been familiar with UNIX. It's a very powerful data analysis utility for Astronomy and general numerical analysis of thoeretical and experimental data.

I have done some web development and I'd like to learn more about how to develop some 3D animations for web pages. I'm only familar with some hardcore stuff I have done for my scientific processing using Alias|Wavefront/Maya. I'd like to learn how to use some simple freeware tools if they exist. It would be nice to do some 3D textual animations.

I'd never be able to live without access to UNIX. That's a fact.