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Michael Egan's Home Page.

Greetings. My name is Michael. I am the NSI Contact for passwall.com. Most people's home pages consist of pictures of their friends, themself, and a short description of their interests. Why should I be any different?

If you are looking for something specific, I have my own search engine at the bottom of this page for those that wish to explore just my stuff. Meanwhile, Altavista, google, lycos, yahoo! and most of the major search engines continue to index my offering of data.

I realize that some people out there have different monitors, graphics cards, and connection speeds. I have tried to create 3 identical "tours" for your review. Here are the photo pages:

Color: A collection of color images.
Greyscale: A duplicate of the color tour, but the images have been converted to greyscale images.
Text: Have you ever wondered what hi resolution images would look like if you could use standard keyboard characters to "re-draw" the image would look like? (yeesh!) Well, MAYbe you shouldn't look at these unless you have an *amazing* imagination.

What home page is complete without a voice (noise) file that allows them to say something to you. By choosing a sound format that is compatible with your system, you can summon my voice to your computer. (nifty)

Check out G+CSIC and Library of Sonoma State University

One of the best ways to learn about a person, is to learn about the people they hang around with. Here, I offer you a link to some of my friends' home pages.

I have visited a number of sites on the Internet. (Some of them *actually* provide a worth while service!) I have created separate pages that include a few of the sites I feel add value to the Internet.:

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery is a group of computer scientists and enthusiasts interrested in the art and science of computer, programming and system operations.
Project Gutenberg is an attempt to provide some paper-form documents and book into electronic format. (I had this link here before, but just recently got around to tracking down their home site again...)
PRL David Mitchell: Point Reyes Light, an on-line publication about Point Reyes National Seashore

A joke created by Andru Luvisi and myself back in 1991 on How different fellow student majors would create 50 widgets.

I recently joined an organization that shares my enjoyments in problem solving, research and development. They are a little secretive on the identities of their members, but I helped them set up their site at http://www.passwall.com/.

I continue to try to give back to the Internet community. Here are some documents I maintain and try to improve when I have time:

Linux on a Fujitsu 790Tx Laptop. One of my friends recently purchased a Fujitsu 790Tx LifeBook, and this link takes you to a URL that describes some of the steps that we had to go through to make this work.
Networking 101 An introduction into networking, and understanding concepts with real-world examples. (This is an evolving work. Some pages may appear incomplete and will be noted near their end. Spelling fixes, grammatical repairs, and over-all readability are issues that will be addressed after large parts of this are fleshed out. Apologies to those of you which are fascist on your read language.)
Macintosh NetBooting from Mac OS X and maybe other *NIX systems like Linux? It may be possible to boot one of the newer Macintosh machines (iMac series with firmware updates, or Blue & White G3 or later) without the need for a local hard drive. I have been reviewing their protocols, and system FOr booting to see how we could have more than one of their Mac OSX NetBooting server per subnet. (A stated restriction from Apple Computers Inc. with their present release (1-12-1999).) Please do not abuse the CGIs I have coded here, or I will be forced to remove them. (I have completed the process once to make a Mac boot from a Linux box, and also to have the linux box control the original BOOTP response to tell the client to boot to a specific Mac OS X NetBoot server.)
Security Related Links stuff that may be helpful for you if you are a Sys Admin, or an informed alternative user...
Useless Movie Related Trivia: Movie related passwords Love 'em, hate 'em, distinterested, whatever. These are here for trivia purposes only. You should check them on your own and don't hold me responsible for being accurate. (I'll take correction notices.)
Odds and ends on Networking is a small collection of data I have collected on networking, and placed up on the web. I have tried to offer credit for people or companies when they have contributed information to the (in)completed piece(s). If you find something in error,or improper assignment of credit, let me know. (E-mail address is at the bottom of this document.)
Information I have archived on some classes I have taken can be read here by people with proper authorization. The information stored here is not very special for most people, or even fun for a large part of the population. Mostly I keep it here for myself as a reference. (These may require authentication for proper access.)
Colocation Information is available. I reviewed several colocation facilities for price, service and exceptions and provide the results of my colocation search here. Costs and services are examined.

Other Projects:

A project that has taken a majority of my time from March 1999 through September 2000 has been the ARS Project for the new Jean and Charles Schulz Information and Technology Center at Sonoma State University. From the early RFP through to System Acceptance, and initial load of items, this project has been an enjoyable part of my work at our campus library. When I have free time, I try to add more information to this section. Do you have suggestions for information I should add here? Drop me a line.
I gave a presentation to NBLUG on an Introduction to configuring and building a Linux Kernel. It was targetted for the Beginner/Intermediate Linux user.
I created a mini-howto on setting up quotas with linux 2.4.x when I sent an e-mail message to a local mailing list.

I was "Acting President" for the North Bay Linux Users' Group (NBLUG). I have since retired and returned to my life as a student.

Comments and/or suggestions?: Email me at: dugan@passwall.com

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