scott@sonic.net
The star that kept watch over my home page has gone supernova!

Regarding the "Pentagon hacker" situation in the media, Mark Twain anticipated reactions over a century ago -- it is a scrap of curious history. Also, Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown can give some historical perspective.

• Mr. Downey's xephem
• Which is an excuse to include some screenshotsshowing the orbit of comet 1996 B2 Hyakutake, as well as other items.
• And if that's old news, check out my GE-1 Azimuth/Elevation calculator.
• Raytracing is fun too.

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Work

• General Partner, Senior Systems Administrator, Sonoma Interconnect.
• Linus on the cover of the August 10th Forbes!
• My perfmeter page demonstrates some graphs available from this amazing tool.
• I've integrated our network diagrams with our network information page. Incidentally, I built the diagram using Tkined.
  
• I once administered SRJC's network. Behold, the old SRJC networking group -- aka, "nerd group".
• Ronnie -- man or myth? Hey, don't ask me ... I just maintain the site:

Hastings UFO Society

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SRJC Stuff

Here are a few things I worked on while employed at SRJC.

• SRJC Policy Manual
• The original course-lookup system, which has been replaced by a newer and spiffier system. Note that SRJC shuts down the mainframe weekday mornings from midnight until about 7:15am.

Mark Twain on the Philippines

Please visit Mark Twain on the Web for a wry view of religion, patriotism, and humanity. (May I suggest "To the Person Sitting in Darkness"?)

A related topic: 105th Congress H.R.404 introduction and discussion, which appears in the June 9th Congressional Record.

Geek Girl maintains a Unix reference desk.

Someone actually wrote a ztalk home page. Cool.

Ztalk can be found in this directory.

Scott Doty / Sonic! / scott@sonic.net

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