User:Taviso

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I'm English (born in London), but I live in Wales. My main interests are Computing related, but I enjoy browsing wikipedia on all kinds of topics. I'm an Electronics Hobbyist, and enjoy reading about Skepticism, Critical thinking and wasting time at Slashdot.

My pet hate is Pseudoscience.

Random Trivia

Favourite Films: π, Being John Malkovich, ST:FC, Rear Window.

Favourite Author: Douglas Adams

Favourite Free Software Project: FVWM, Gentoo Linux

Favourite People: James Randi, Pamela Jones, Shami Chakrabarti

Favourite Animations: Futurama, One Froggy Evening

Some pages I've created, or expanded from Stub/Substub

FVWM, SIGSEGV, Pseudo-transparency, Crazy Frog, Vmlinux, Pentium F0 bug, Klick, Module (Linux), SIGHUP, SIGILL, SIGFPE, UPX, OOM, Shave and a Haircut

[edit] Interesting Articles

Blink comparator -- How astronomers identified moving objects before computers were able to.

XOR linked list -- A curious list structure.

Ulam spiral -- Unexplained pattern that occurs when graphing primes.