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Home Skiing Sun Solaris Yosemite Carlsbad Cunningham Spammer Bill Jones Tweet Welcome—you have IPv6 enabled! \n"; -- Web form to contact me Email: webpage at drydog dot com. Professional links: Twitter Linkedin Resume Disclaimer: views are my own, not of my employer IM: contact me for my instant message screen name (WhatsApp, Wire, GTalk, or Skype) GPG Public Key (for secure communications) -- Home: Metropolitan Portland, Oregon, USA. Work I am a software engineer (programmer) specializing in computer security and cryptography. I work at Intel Corporation on Hyperledger Sawtooth blockchain software (here's a FAQ I wrote). Previously, I worked for ~20 years for Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) on the Solaris operating system. I worked in the Security Technologies group on Verified Boot/Secure Boot and Cryptography. I have BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from University of California Irvine and San Diego . Play My passion is cross-country skiing. I enjoy the sport in several forms—ski touring on roads and trails, locally , telemark skiing in isolated backcountry ski bowls and at downhill ski resorts. and snow camping in the Sierra backcountry in the spring. I wrote a guidebook on cross-country skiing called Ski Tours in Southern California . I've been an active Sierra Club member since 1974. Here's a picture of my wife and friend :-) , Helen. Here's her web page and her picture . Here she is backpacking in Yosemite, crossing an ice-cold stream and with mosquitoes swarming around her. Talk about fun! Here we are with mosquito nets and here I am storing food on a rock . Helen's niece, Emily lives in Washington State. Our dog is Fannie Mae , a golden retriever (2008-). Our previous dogs were Holly (1987-2001), and Patsy Ann (2001-2006), also goldens. Speaking of dogs, here's what do do if your dog or pet gets skunked. I have a page on Pumpkin Recipes (Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin bread, . . . ). Here's what to do if your pet (dog, cat) was sprayed by a skunk . Mortgage Calculator (free, non-commercial) Hexadecimal and decimal number conversion (free, non-commercial) Degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature conversion (free, non-commercial) Date Calculator (free, non-commercial) UNIX Date/time Calculator (free, non-commercial) Origin and meaning of the word Yosemite Formation of Yosemite Valley showing how Yosemite Valley was created from glaciers Family My brother Dave died 2008 . My sister Teresa has a toy poodle puppy, Torrey . My dad's web page (genealogy) , Shiloh the cat . Genealogy information (password required) Internet/Computer Stuff Here's some web sites I created (roughly in order of appearance): Carlsbad, California , 1994- Sierra Club (founding Webmaster, 1994-1997; now maintained by Club staff) This site was a nominee for the Webby Awards under the "Travel" category Unofficial Randy Cunningham Web Page (my convicted, imprisoned ex-Congressman :-) ), 1996- Yosemite Web Index , 1997- Solaris Intel - x86 , 1997- Cross-country skiing in Southern California , 2000- Spammer Bill Jones ran for US Senate , 2004- Here's some icons for X Windows Applications for use with Gnome/KDE (mostly .PNG format and some .ICO) The 6bone (HollyNet) , was an early experimental implementation of the next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6. Here's some USENET FAQs/HOWTOs I wrote: NTP: Network Time Protocol and my public NTP Service Apache 2 and PHP with Linux Solaris x86 FAQ Sierra Club Unofficial, Unauthorized FAQ Java: method GetServiceByName.java emulate's the BSD socket function s getservbyname(). Statistical Drivel Hat size: 7 1/8 (57 metric). Shirt: 17.5 34-35 L, 36 metric, Large T-shirt. Pants: 34-32. Shoes: 9.5 W (42 metric). breakfast preference: Oatmeal or Raisin Bran with O.J. (Pancakes in a restaurant) Lunch preference: P.B. and J. Dinner preference: Italian, Greek (Mediterranean/Middle East), and Mexican. Beverage preference: Iced tea (semi-sweet). Music preference: Country. Color preference: Cyan. If you have questions or comments, please send a message to . Last updated 11 March 2021. http://dan.drydog.com/...