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| Email: [[MailTo(brams007 AT umn DOT edu )]] | Email: <<MailTo(brams006 AT umn DOT edu )>> |
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| * '''Linux user since 1999'''. Red Hat 5.2 - 9, FC1-4, AS 3. SuSE 6-8.2. And now Ubuntu. | '''Linux user since 1999'''. Red Hat 5.2 - 9, FC1-4, AS 3. SuSE 6-8.2 and openSuSE 9.3. And now Ubuntu. |
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| * '''[http://libdata.sourceforge.net/ LibData]''' is a LAMP project for academic libraries to author subject-oriented web pages. Our needs require a high degree of data granularity & vocabulary control. | '''[[http://libdata.sourceforge.net/|LibData]]''' is a LAMP project I administer on '''SourceForge''' enabling academic libraries to easily author subject-oriented web pages. Our needs require a high degree of data granularity & vocabulary control. It's used by several college libraries in Minnesota and some elsewhere in the USA. It's been mentioned on '''[[http://oss4lib.org/|oss4lib]]''' and was added to the '''[[http://directory.fsf.org/|FSF/UNESCO]]''' Free Software Directory. |
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| == Computer History == | '''[[http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html|Creating a self-signed SSL certificate for Ubuntu]]'''. This is based on some discussion threads in the Ubuntu forums. I wanted to flesh it out a little with explanatory detail and a couple additional tips. From there is a link to my general purpose guide to making your own Certificate Authority (CA) and self-signed certificates by using openssl commands directly, generally applicable to any linux distro. |
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| I was introduced to the Apple // in elementary school, bought an Apple //c in high school, and ran a BBS (Bulletin Board System) using software named Pseudodel, a port of the IBM Citadel BBS software. I got onto the French Minitel network and was an early Gopher user (it was invented at the University of Minnesota when I was a student there). I also wrote probably one of the earliest web pages in Minnesota, using a highly unstable Windows 3.1, winsock.dll and the NCSA Mosaic browser. | '''Free Software in Education'''. I code in a non-profit academic research environment, so our work should ideally be shareable, open source, collaborative, for the general public good, and built upon over time (rather than forced into planned obsolescence). The free and open source software movements (lower-case, to be general) have proven to be most compatible with this vision. |
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| Since the mid-90's I've built all of my own computers and have been a technologist with the State of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota. I'm currently a LAMP programmer for the University of Minnesota Libraries, Digital Library Development Lab. I installed Ubuntu on my new development box. | == Other Stuff == |
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| == Non-computer Interests == | '''[[http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/|My Personal Home Page]]''' |
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| * '''Camping''' I've taken several roadtrips from my home base here in the American midwest to the Rockies, the 4-corners area, the Canadian Atlantic maritimes, New England, etc. Many national parks, state parks, and historic sites. * '''Folk music''' Celtic, jazz, fusion, etc. * '''Organic food''' I've been a vegetarian since about 1995, shop at co-ops, farmer's markets, and do a little of my own gardening. * '''Progressive politics''' I'm basically a green communitarian anarcho-syndicalist or something like that. I don't care much for large organizations, whether public or private. |
PaulBramscher
Email: <brams006 AT umn DOT edu>
Open Source Interests
Linux user since 1999. Red Hat 5.2 - 9, FC1-4, AS 3. SuSE 6-8.2 and openSuSE 9.3. And now Ubuntu.
LibData is a LAMP project I administer on SourceForge enabling academic libraries to easily author subject-oriented web pages. Our needs require a high degree of data granularity & vocabulary control. It's used by several college libraries in Minnesota and some elsewhere in the USA. It's been mentioned on oss4lib and was added to the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory.
Creating a self-signed SSL certificate for Ubuntu. This is based on some discussion threads in the Ubuntu forums. I wanted to flesh it out a little with explanatory detail and a couple additional tips. From there is a link to my general purpose guide to making your own Certificate Authority (CA) and self-signed certificates by using openssl commands directly, generally applicable to any linux distro.
Free Software in Education. I code in a non-profit academic research environment, so our work should ideally be shareable, open source, collaborative, for the general public good, and built upon over time (rather than forced into planned obsolescence). The free and open source software movements (lower-case, to be general) have proven to be most compatible with this vision.
Other Stuff
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