Ben Okopnik
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URL: http://okopnik.com/
Updated: 2004-10-08
- [issue 184]
Book Review: Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred
- [issue 184]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 183]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 181]
Almost-but-not-quite Linux...
- [issue 179]
Making Your Network Transparent
- [issue 179]
Almost-but-not-quite Linux...
- [issue 178]
Almost-but-not-quite Linux...
- [issue 176]
Procmail/GMail-based spam filtering
- [issue 174]
HTML obfuscation
- [issue 172]
The Backpage
- [issue 171]
Reader Feedback
- [issue 170]
A Quick Lookup Script
- [issue 170]
The Back Page
- [issue 169]
The Back Page
- [issue 167]
A Quick-Fire chroot Environment
- [issue 165]
The Backpage
- [issue 163]
The LG Backpage
- [issue 161]
Bash configuration under Ubuntu
- [issue 160]
The Unbearable Lightness of Desktops: IceWM and idesk
- [issue 159]
Hyperestraier Redux - A User-friendly Approach
- [issue 152]
Review of the Plat'Home OpenBlockS
- [issue 148]
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (Book Review)
- [issue 146]
Holiday Greetings to Everyone!
- [issue 144]
FlickOff: Escaping the Clutches of Web 2.0
- [issue 139]
Installing Perl Modules as a Non-Root User
- [issue 138]
Linux Appliance Design (Book Review)
- [issue 137]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 136]
The LG Backpage
- [issue 135]
Configuring IPCop Firewalls (Book Review)
- [issue 134]
Perl One-Liner of the Month: The Count of Corpus Christi (TX)
- [issue 131]
The Geekword Puzzle
- [issue 131]
The LG Backpage
- [issue 130]
The Geekword Puzzle
- [issue 129]
The Geekword Puzzle
- [issue 129]
Low-Fat Linux - Now with Less Cruft!
- [issue 128]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 126]
Preventing DDoS attacks
- [issue 123]
The Backpage
- [issue 116]
Booting Knoppix from a USB Pendrive via Floppy
- [issue 116]
Introduction to Shell Scripting, part 6
- [issue 115]
Staying Connected
- [issue 115]
Introduction to Shell Scripting, part 5
- [issue 114]
Introduction to Shell Scripting, part 4
- [issue 114]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 113]
Introduction to Shell Scripting - Part 3
- [issue 112]
Introduction to Shell Scripting - Part 2
- [issue 111]
Introduction to Shell Scripting - The Basics
- [issue 111]
The Backpage
- [issue 109]
The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers
- [issue 108]
Laptop review: Averatec 5400 series
- [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 54]
Introduction to Shell Scripting
- [issue 53]
Introduction to Shell Scripting
- [issue 52]
"Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" - solved!
- [issue 52]
Introduction to Shell Scripting--The Basics
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 the tender age of 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 (the recurring nightmares
have almost faded, actually.)
His subsequent experiences include creating software in more than two dozen
languages, network and database maintenance during the approach of a
hurricane, writing articles for publications ranging from sailing magazines
to technological journals, and teaching on a variety of topics ranging from
Soviet weaponry and IBM hardware repair to Solaris and Linux
administration, engineering, and programming. He also has the distinction
of setting up the first Linux-based public access network in St. Georges,
Bermuda as well as one of the first large-scale Linux-based mail servers in
St. Thomas, USVI.
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 northern
Florida. His consulting business presents him with a variety of challenges,
and his second brain 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.