User:Moxfyre

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fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.
es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.
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english		 I translate from French to English on Wikipedia:Translation


This user participates in Pages Needing Translation Into English.
This user is a Francophile.
This user is a member of WikiProject Electronics.
py-3 This user is an advanced Python programmer.
C-3 This user is an advanced C user.
Perl-4 This user is an expert Perl programmer.
asm-3 This user is an advanced assembly language programmer.
This user contributes using Linux.


This user hacks happily with Emacs.
This user contributes while using Rhythmbox.
Inkscape This user contributes using Inkscape.
ΑΦΩ This user is a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega.
This user takes photographs with Pentax equipment.
This user is a proud cyclist.
This user enjoys jelly beans.
This user loves the Winter.
This user enjoys the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien.
This user enjoys the works of Neal Stephenson.


This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

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[edit] About

My faithful commuter road bike, "Steely Dan", built by me starting from a high-quality 1980s touring bike frame
My faithful commuter road bike, "Steely Dan", built by me starting from a high-quality 1980s touring bike frame

I'm a graduate student in physics at the University of Maryland. I'm studying nanotechnology. I'm very passionate about riding, building, and maintaining bicycles: I think it's good for the environment, good for health, good for communities, and an enjoyable hobby to boot. I'm also a Free software guy, a big fan of Linux, and an amateur hardware hacker and electronics designer.

In December 2007 I got a new Pentax K10D digital SLR camera, and which I've used to take several pictures for Wikipedia and for Wikimedia Commons.

My user pages on French Wikipedia and on Commons.


[edit] Interests

My interests include:

  • Nanotechnology
  • Bicycles
  • Rock climbing
  • World politics, especially of the US and the Middle East
  • French language and culture, especially bande dessinée
  • Spanish language and culture
  • Judaism, Islam, and early Christianity
  • Developing and using free software... especially Linux, GNOME, Emacs, OpenOffice, GStreamer, Apache, Python, Perl
  • Computer hardware design
  • One big interest of mine is in documenting computer hardware and software standards, and in helping to describe interfaces which lack documentation, often because the manufacturers refuse to provide it without a non-disclosure agreement and licensing fees. This information is vital to those who write free and open-source operating systems, so that they can support new hardware devices and file formats as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. It's also important in order to continue supporting devices and file formats which the manufacturers have abandoned. To that end, I've tried to clean up and expand Wikipedia's information on how hardware works, and provided links to external documentation (which has often been obtained only through a painstaking process of reverse-engineering). To that end, I've added information to several articles.

[edit] Contributions

Statistics on my edits to en.wikipedia.org, to fr.wikipedia.org, to commons.wikimedia.org

These are articles and images which I've created or to which I've made substantial contributions.

[edit] Bikes

[edit] Computers & Electronics

Documenting undocumented stuff

  • Inkjet printer (added info on third-party ink and cartridges, chip resetters, etc.)
  • SD card (added info on official specs, reverse-engineered docs, and open implementations)
  • xD card (added info on reverse-engineered docs, hardware interface, hobbyist hacks)

[edit] Digital photography

[edit] Physics

[edit] Translations from French to English

[edit] Animals

What can I say? I like to take photos of animals!

[edit] Places




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