User:Eric M Gearhart

Introduction/Background

I'm currently an Active Duty soldier in the United States Army, deployed to Baghdad, Iraq. My "job" in the Army is as an Information Systems Operator/Analyst, which basically translates to "a geek in the Army."

I've always been passionate about and interested in technology in its myriad forms, from computers to Sci-Fi, since around age 12 (the "Age of Reason" as it were).

If you're so inclined, you can read my résumé at nixwizard.net and see pictures of my life in Tucson (and Baghdad unfortunately) at the Gallery here

The necessity of this project

If there is any doubt on the necessity of this project, please see Wikitruth for all the convincing one could possibly need.

Call for Help

Please help out on the Computers Workgroup articles! The four or five of us that regularly edit articles there can't do it alone. You can see related changes in the Workgroup here.

Images on CZ

See Image_talk:MOS_6502.jpg for an interesting dialog between myself and constable Stephen Ewen about importing images from Wikipedia or Wikipedia Commons. Things are definitely not always what they seem to be.

Current Focus on CZ

I'm going to change my focus on CZ for a while, possibly indefinitely. I'm going to focus on "polishing up" articles I work on until they gain approval status, rather than blazing through Citizendium and starting stub after stub that doesn't get "cleaned up" and ready for approval status. I ask that Computers Workgroup editors help me in this endeavor. I hope this change of focus will help Citizendium. We're all working towards a better "free encyclopedia" in the long run, right? :-)

Current Project

I'm currently reading "On the Edge: The Rise and Fall of Commodore," a book describing the history of Commodore International, its people, and its computers. I'd like to start or improve related articles as I read the book, covering the people that worked there (Jack Tramiel, Chuck Peddle), the companies Commodore bought out (MOS Technology), and the technology Commodore developed (such as the Commodore 64 or the MOS 6502 processor).

Articles I'm collaborating on

• The Unix/Linux/Open source software family of articles
  • Berkeley Software Distribution
  • Mac OS X
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • TUX web server
  • Software fork
• The Computer security family of articles
  • Buffer overflow
  • Hacker
• The Commodore series of articles
  • Jack Tramiel
  • Chuck Peddle
  • MOS Technology
• General Computer articles
  • Beowulf cluster
  • Java platform
  • Network topology
  • Operating system
  • OSI model / OSI model seven layers

Articles Approved
I Collaborated On

• Tux - the first Computers Workgroup article to get approved!
  (Josh put a HUGE amount of work into this article. Great job folks!)