User:Kopachris
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Christopher Koch is the founder and CEO of NinjaSoft Entertainment, a computer programmer, and a member of several wikis (including Wikipedia and Memory Alpha).
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[edit] NinjaSoft
NinjaSoft Entertainment started when Christopher was in Algebra. The school allowed them to use TI-73 graphing calculators for that year. Christopher has always been a tinkerer and immediately started programming the calculator. Soon, Christopher had a small game that he called "Ninja". It was short and pointless, but was soon ported to and expanded on his HP Pavilion zv5000 via GWBASIC.
The next year, Christopher got a TI-84 plus Silver Edition of his own for Geometry. He quickly got at work at writing and expanding Ninja again. By the beginning of October 2006, he had created a simple menu-based RPG. It was small, but functional. In mid October that year, he and his family went on a week-long vacation in San Diego, California. By the end of that week, Christopher had almost completed a single functional map for Ninja. Then, later, due to an experiment with Z80 assembly code, the calculator's memory got cleared and Ninja was no more.
[edit] Computers
In December 2006, Christopher got his dad's 17" PowerBook G4. His dad got that computer for himself earlier that year, but decided that he needed a Windows computer, got himself an HP Pavilion dv9000t, and gave Christopher the PowerBook. When he got it, just months before the release of the MacBook Pro, it was state of the art, with a 1.67GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 1GB of Random-Access Memory, and a 120GB Hard-drive. Christopher is now the only full-time Mac user in his family.
Around the same time that Christopher got the PowerBook, the family's main media-center PC crashed and was unrecoverable. The AMD Athlon XP based computer was placed in their garage while their newer Athlon 64 based computer was put in the Athlon XP's place. In November 2007, Christopher hauled the computer and its monitor out of the garage and into his bedroom, with his PowerBook. He set it up and reloaded it with Windows XP. Unfortunately, it had (and still has) a notorious lock-up problem. It completely locked up at random intervals (usually after an hour), forcing him to do a hard reset. Just after Christmas, Christopher installed Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on his "Dinosaur" PC. Now he dual-boots Ubuntu and Windows XP and uses Windows solely for playing video games.
Christopher recently pulled another old Athlon XP computer out of his garage and tried setting it up for use in conjunction with his Dinosaur as a two-node Beowulf cluster. The installation of Ubuntu was less than half way done after a week, due to an unknown problem, and so the project was aborted.
[edit] Linux Development
Christopher has always been fascinated by how things work. That interest is how he got into computer programming. Now, he is taking that one step further with his Linux development.
[edit] Dustbunny OS
Christopher is currently working on his own Linux-based operating system that he calls "Dustbunny OS". (Christopher uses several plays-on-words in his Linux development. The acronym for "Dustbunny OS" is DOS. MSDOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System, which is often synonymous with the acronym DOS. The group that creates Dustbunny OS, Dustbunny Groomers Operating System Development creates the acronym "DGOSD", which Christopher pronounces "De-Gaussed".) Dustbunny OS is currently in it's first stage of development: building the default LFS system and then determining what to change. (See the external links for the Dustbunny website)
Dustbunny OS and Dustbunny Groomers OSD were named so because Christopher and his friends at school took part in a career-choosing activity. The website that the school counselors used for the activity included a random slot-machine-like career choosing applet. One of the careers that it gave Christopher was "Professional Dustbunny Groomer". Now, (or as soon has Dustbunny OS really gets going) he actually will be a Professional Dustbunny Groomer".
[edit] Physics
Along with computer programming, Christopher's interest in how things work also got him interested in physics.
[edit] String Theory
One of Christopher's main theories regarding theoretical physics is based on string theory, which predicts the existence of extra dimensions. Scientists' main theories regarding the usage of these extra dimensions are brane-world theory and that the extra dimensions are so small we cannot perceive them. Christopher's theory on these extra dimensions is that we are constantly perceiving these extra dimensions as various properties of matter such as mass and velocity, with different wave-forms and vibrational frequencies of different strings in these dimensions representing different values for these properties. Theoretically, if one could alter the way a string vibrates in different dimensions, one could change which particle we perceive a string as, effectively changing a smaller atom (such as Nitrogen) to a larger atom (such as Gold).
These extra dimensions are defined as the Koch set Kappa:
Where σ is the symbol of a particle and length is κ0.
[edit] Variable Speed of Light
Christopher's extra-dimensional vibration theory brought upon other theories, such as a variable speed of light in the equation:
The Variable Speed of Light theory says that the c in the above equation is not the velocity of light in a vacuum, as is the conventional usage, but rather the speed of light in a material in which the matter-energy conversion takes place. Christopher is currently designing a small fusion reactor to test this hypothesis. This theory could eventually pave the way for space travel if we can find a material in which light travels exponentially faster than in a vacuum. This theory can be defined with the Koch set as:
[edit] Solopcism and the EPR Paradox
One interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the EPR Paradox is that the probabilities of certain events happening are altered by a sentient being's thoughts. However, if those probabilities are altered by sentient beings, and materialism is correct in saying that there is an outside universe with other sentient beings, then these probabilities must be fluctuating extremely rapidly and chaotically. The alternative to this is solopcism, the belief that there is only one sentient being, that there is no outside universe. Following the logic through, quantum mechanics leads to the ERP Paradox, which leads to solopcism, which leads to the "realization" that one is the sole cause of all of mankind's pain and suffering. That realization, as happened to Christopher in early January 2008, could bring about moral turmoil in one's mind. Let friends and family go (they don't matter after all, they're not truly sentient beings), or do the "right" thing and pay up. This sort of battle in one's head, as Christopher found out, can be quite traumatic to recall.
[edit] External links
NinjaSoft Website
Dustbunny Groomers OSD
Christopher's official Dustbunny development blog