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Galaxy pages.

I once frequently played Galaxy, a PBeM game (1991 - 2000 or so). I also maintained a version, Blind Galaxy

There are many varients, tools, and other resources related to Galaxy.


School/Work

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Once, in the distant past, when life was less complicated, I was one of the Wizards at UT.

I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Villanova University in May of 1991. I received my master's degree in Computer Science from the Univeristy of Tennessee, Knoxville in August 1994.

Not too long ago, I worked as a Unix Systems Administrator for Stibo Datagraphics, where I was free from SEI which I was subjected to in my former place of employment. I decided that SEI was too good a source of laughs (and material for Scott Adams' Dilbert), so I returned. Thankfully my current department recognizes that SEI as implemented for the joke factory that it is.

These days, I primarily admin hardware (mostly Ultra 60's and SunBlade 1000's) from Sun Microsystems running Solaris 8 and 9. I cut my teeth on Sun 3/60's and Sparc 1's running SunOS 4.1 and a Sun386i running SunOS 4.0.1 and their contemporary servers and have admined most Solaris/SunOS releases and hardware since then. I have admined many other flavors of UNIX in the past, and installed the occasional Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD box. I make heavy use of Open Source Software such as the GNU Project's gcc compiler and gdb debugger.


Job related Humor

Random things I find funny. (Not for the easily offended, particularily managers...)

Political Statements

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Why one should Boycott Microsoft.

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Howard Bampton, bampton@cs.utk.edu

This page (as well as pages of mine linked to from it) are copyright 1996-2004. Permission for noncommerical sites to copy or link to them is hereby explicitly granted provided this copyright notice and all other content is kept intact. Permission for PBM/PBeM related sites to make links or copies is also granted provided this copyright notice and PBeM related content is left intact. Permission for commercial sites (other than seach engines) to make links or copies is herby explicitly NOT granted without my express written permission.
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