Ben Okopnik

E-mail:
URL: http://okopnik.freeshell.org/
Updated: 2004-05-12

• [issue 107] The Backpage
• [issue 105] The Backpage
• [issue 104] The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
• [issue 103] Plots, Graphs, and Curves in the World of Linux
• [issue 103] The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
• [issue 103] The Backpage
• [issue 101] The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
• [issue 101] The Back Page
• [issue 100] The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
• [issue 97] Using the HTML::Template module
• [issue 96] The Linux Gazette, Reborn
• [issue 96] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Spicy Blonde
• [issue 92] Setting up the mail subsystem in Linux
• [issue 91] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Runaway Files
• [issue 90] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Mystery of the Red Worm
• [issue 89] Perl One-Liner of the Month: April is the Cruelest Month
• [issue 88] Perl One-Liner of the Month: Good Enough For Government Work
• [issue 87] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Arbitrary Archives
• [issue 86] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Case of the Evil Spambots
• [issue 85] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Case of the Duplicate UIDs
• [issue 84] Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Adventure of the Misnamed Files
• [issue 83] Replicating a Linux System - Yet Another Method
• [issue 74] Installing Software from Source
• [issue 73] The Answer Gang's Posting Guidelines
• [issue 69] Learning Perl, part 5
• [issue 67] Learning Perl, part 4
• [issue 65] Learning Perl, part 3
• [issue 64] Learning Perl, part 2
• [issue 63] Clearing out the Master Boot Record (MBR)
• [issue 62] No More Spam! (a "procmail"-based solution with tips on "fetchmail" and "mutt")
• [issue 61] Learning Perl, part 1
• [issue 58] Introduction to Shell Scripting
• [issue 58] Configuring Sendmail in RedHat 6.2
• [issue 57] Introduction to Shell Scripting
• [issue 55] The Deep, Dark Secrets of Bash
• [issue 53] Introduction to Shell Scripting
• [issue 52] "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" - solved!
• [issue 52] Introduction to Shell Scripting--The Basics

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Ben is the Editor-in-Chief for Linux Gazette and a member of The Answer Gang.

Ben was born in Moscow, Russia in 1962. He became interested in electricity at age six, promptly demonstrated it by sticking a fork into a socket and starting a fire, and has been falling down technological mineshafts ever since. He has been working with computers since the Elder Days, when they had to be built by soldering parts onto printed circuit boards and programs had to fit into 4k of memory. He would gladly pay good money to any psychologist who can cure him of the recurrent nightmares.

His subsequent experiences include creating software in nearly a dozen languages, network and database maintenance during the approach of a hurricane, and writing articles for publications ranging from sailing magazines to technological journals. After a seven-year Atlantic/Caribbean cruise under sail and passages up and down the East coast of the US, he is currently anchored in St. Augustine, Florida. He works as a technical instructor for Sun Microsystems and a private Open Source consultant/Web developer. His current set of hobbies includes flying, yoga, motorcycles, writing, and Roman history; his Palm Pilot is crammed full of alarms, many of which contain exclamation points.

He has been working with Linux since 1997, and credits it with his complete loss of interest in waging nuclear warfare on parts of the Pacific Northwest.