User:DMahalko

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Name:	Dale Mahalko
Email:	dmahalko at gmail.com
Residence:	Gilman, WI, USA
Occupation:	IT Administrator
Employers:	Two K-12 public schools

[edit] My Agenda - Wikipedia Needs Illustrations!

I think Wikipedia needs more technical information, and it needs more pictures and illustrations. Text is relatively easy to contribute, but quality illustrations that are not copyrighted are a big problem. Who is going to provide detailed technical imagry for free? And if there are people that do this, there won't be very many.

And so I am trying to provide pictures and illustrations where possible, and I won't deny that I'm taking advantage of the US Copyright law that says books prior to 1923 are in the public domain.

[edit] 1917 Hawkins Electrical Guide for engineering articles

This is a small 10-book set I bought on ebay for US$100, with the primary intent of scanning the images and using them in various technical articles.

Expired US Copyright!

Since I intend to eventually scan hundreds of images from these old public domain books, the images list would be far too large to include here. I have created a userpage as a single-source archive for the images located here:

Hawkins Electrical Guide

[edit] Dye Sublimation Printer Insecurity

[edit] How Laser Printers work

These are my originals, whipped up with Microsoft Word, screenshotted, and saved using Windows XP Paint! It appears JPG's and even PNG's are hated by some people, but I'm not spending money to buy an SVG editor just to make other editors happy. And so these have all been redone as an SVG by others for the article.

[edit] History of the HP LaserJet

[edit] Portrait and Landscape Page orientation

Magnetic distortions seen when rotating a standard CRT monitor.
Poor side-viewing image quality of an LCD monitor rotated into portrait orientation.	Good side-viewing image quality of a typical landscape LCD.

[edit] Where should plenum cable be used?

[edit] How the old 3D game Quake Engine could run so well

[edit] inkjet printer spitoon

[edit] Image template

[edit] Userbox collection

Why use words to describe myself, when Wikipedia offers its own language for me to use?

[edit] The wikipedian commentary

This user loves userboxes.

ubx-5

This user uses entirely too many userboxes.

This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on his/her user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.

[edit] Life Learner - Interested in everything!

This user considers himself self-educated.

BIO

This user's favourite subject is Biology.

This user's favourite subject is Chemistry.

ICT

This user's favourite subject is Information Communication Technology.

$\sum_{k=1}^\sqrt{n} k^2$

This user's favorite subject is Mathematics.

PHL

This user's favourite subject is Philosophy.

This user's favorite subject is Physics.

PSY

This user's favourite subject is Psychology.

[edit] The Internet - It's Work, and it's my Life

This user is a computer system administrator.

This user contributes using a laptop.

This user contributes using a PC.

<56k

This poor user contributes using a dial-up connection slower than 56k.

BB	This user contributes using a broadband connection.

G	This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user loves using Google Earth.

goon

This user enjoys the Something Awful Forums.

Add

This user is addicted to internet communities.

[edit] A few personal details

X	This user is a member of Generation X.

This user is Child Free by Choice.

This user is an omnivore.

This user supports the conservation movement.

This user supports the use of nuclear power.

This user is an AFOL.

[edit] Games, games, games!

UT	This user plays Unreal Tournament.

This user plays World of Warcraft.

Deus Ex

This user wears sunglasses during night operations.

DN	It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but this user is all out of gum.

Q	This user plays Quake.

This user plays the Halo series.

This user is addicted to video games.

cvg-3

This user is an advanced gamer.

GTA

This user plays games from the Grand Theft Auto series.

EQ2

This user plays EverQuest 2

This user plays games in the Super Mario series.

MI	This user knows all the Monkey Island Insults by heart!

This user plays Pac-Man.

This user plays the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

This user plays the Star Fox series.

This user plays games from The Legend of Zelda series.

SC	This user plays SimCity.

SC2K

This user's city is much better than Defacto's.

An Adventurer is this User.

This user prefers to play games on a laptop.

This user plays retro games.

Mrh?

This user plays Urban Dead.
Graaaagh!

[edit] My reading is typically science or sci-fi

This user enjoys reading anything.

This user enjoys writing.

D	This user reads Dilbert.

This user enjoys reading science fiction.

This user's hero is Isaac Asimov.

ACC

This user enjoys the works of Arthur C. Clarke .

This user's personal hero is Carl Sagan.

Big Brother is watching this user.

This user is a fan of Dune.

This user enjoys reading the newspaper.

[edit] TV is mostly science or sci-fi

This user rejects your reality and substitutes one's own!

CSI

This user follows the evidence.

Good news, everyone! This user is a fan of Futurama!

Q	This user is an omnipotent member of the Q Continuum.

This user is a Doctor Who fan.

This user is a fan of Monty Python.

Tron

This user fights on the Game Grid.

d'oh!

This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.

B5	This user supports the Babylon 5 project.

Far

This user watches Farscape

AP	This user doesn't speak freaky-deaky Dutch!

This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made.

mach

This user watches machinima.

STAR WARS

This user is a Star Wars fan.

o_O

This user is a moderate fan of anime.

NERV

This user is a member of NERV.

G	This user likes Gundam, and wishes to become a Mobile Suit pilot

CB	This user is a Space Cowboy.

RD	This user knows that "they're all dead, Dave".

H * R

This user is a fan of Homestar Runner. Seriously.

[edit] Trace/Space/Electronica, or high-energy with thumping subwoofers

This user enjoys psychedelic rock.

This user enjoys electronic music.

D	This user likes disco music.

This user enjoys pop music.

[edit] Spirituality

This user understands biological evolution.

This user knows about ignosticism, the belief that the existence of God is not a useful topic of discussion.

agn

This user is interested in agnosticism.

This user is interested in the belief that the Meaning of life is to Improve Oneself.

This user enjoys philosophy.

This user is interested in existentialism.

I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.

This user thinks that abstractions cannot hurt anybody.

This user realizes that educated people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical.

IPU	This user doesn't really worship the Invisible Pink Unicorn (bbhhh).

This user is not a number; he is a free man.

Matrix

This user knows that there is no spoon.

This user knows that 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of life, the Universe, and everything.