User:Moxfyre

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¡lɐsɹǝʌǝɹ ʎʇıʌɐɹƃ lɐuosɹǝd ɯoɹɟ sɹǝɟɟns ɹǝsn sıɥʇ en This user is a native speaker of English. fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. ⇔ I translate from French to English on Wikipedia:Translation Je contribue sur la Wikipédia francophone. This user participates in Pages Needing Translation Into English. This user is a Francophile. This user is a member of WikiProject Electronics. py-3 This user is an advanced Python programmer. C-3 This user is an advanced C user. Perl-4 This user is an expert Perl programmer. asm-3 This user is an advanced assembly language programmer. This user contributes using Linux. This user hacks happily with Emacs. This user contributes while using Rhythmbox. This user contributes using Inkscape. ΑΦΩ This user is a Brother of Alpha Phi Omega. This user takes photographs with Pentax equipment. This user is a proud cyclist. This user enjoys jelly beans. This user loves the Winter. This user enjoys the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This user enjoys the works of Neal Stephenson. This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

[edit] About

My faithful commuter road bike, "Steely Dan", built by me starting from a high-quality 1980s touring bike frame

I'm a graduate student in physics at the University of Maryland. I'm studying nanotechnology. I'm very passionate about riding, building, and maintaining bicycles: I think it's good for the environment, good for health, good for communities, and an enjoyable hobby to boot. I'm also a Free software guy, a big fan of Linux, and an amateur hardware hacker and electronics designer.

In December 2007 I got a new Pentax K10D digital SLR camera, and which I've used to take several pictures for Wikipedia and for Wikimedia Commons.

My user pages on French Wikipedia and on Commons.

[edit] Interests

My interests include:

• Nanotechnology
• Bicycles
• Rock climbing
• World politics, especially of the US and the Middle East
• French language and culture, especially bande dessinée
• Spanish language and culture
• Judaism, Islam, and early Christianity
• Developing and using free software... especially Linux, GNOME, Emacs, OpenOffice, GStreamer, Apache, Python, Perl
• Computer hardware design
• One big interest of mine is in documenting computer hardware and software standards, and in helping to describe interfaces which lack documentation, often because the manufacturers refuse to provide it without a non-disclosure agreement and licensing fees. This information is vital to those who write free and open-source operating systems, so that they can support new hardware devices and file formats as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. It's also important in order to continue supporting devices and file formats which the manufacturers have abandoned. To that end, I've tried to clean up and expand Wikipedia's information on how hardware works, and provided links to external documentation (which has often been obtained only through a painstaking process of reverse-engineering). To that end, I've added information to several articles.

[edit] Contributions

Statistics on my edits to en.wikipedia.org, to fr.wikipedia.org, to commons.wikimedia.org

These are articles and images which I've created or to which I've made substantial contributions.

[edit] Bikes

• Lugged steel (bicycle frame construction)
  • Image:Lug on steel bicycle frame.jpg
  • Image:Head lugs on steel bicycle frame.jpg
• Sheldon Brown (famous bicycle mechanic, technical guru, and Internet personality)
• Bike boom
• Local Bike Shop

[edit] Computers & Electronics

• Motherboard
  • Image:ASRock K7VT4A Pro Mainboard Labeled English.png (and original SVG)
  • Image:Motherboard_diagram.png (and original SVG)
• Small form factor
• USB FlashCard
• Python Paste
• Rhapsody (IRC client)
• Flash memory
• Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group
• Phison
• Read-only memory
• A23 battery
  • Image:A23 battery.jpg
• Field-programmable
• Template:x86 Processor Modes
• FreedomHEC
• Chipset
• Computer case
• Intel PowerTOP
• The Linux Action Show!
• Codec listening test#Results
• Windows Media Audio#Sound_quality
• Low-pass filter#Digital_simulation
• Pulse-density modulation#Algorithm
  • Image:Pulse_density_modulation.svg
• web.py
• Silverthorne (CPU)
• CR-V3 battery
• List of battery sizes

Documenting undocumented stuff

• Inkjet printer (added info on third-party ink and cartridges, chip resetters, etc.)
• SD card (added info on official specs, reverse-engineered docs, and open implementations)
• xD card (added info on reverse-engineered docs, hardware interface, hobbyist hacks)

[edit] Digital photography

• Rawstudio
• dcraw
• Image sensor format
• Battery grip
• Template:Pentax DSLR cameras
• Image:SensorSizes.png (and original SVG)
• Image:Olympus_C740-UZ_battery_compartment.jpg
• Image:Oregon Scientific pocket camera size comparison.jpg
• Angle of view
  • Image:Lens angle of view.svg
• Angular aperture
  • Image:Angular aperture.svg
• Numerical aperture
  • Image:Numerical aperture for a lens.svg
• Pentax K20D
• Pentax K200D

[edit] Physics

• Second sound
• High-temperature superconductivity (cleanup)
• Image:Pfeiffer turbopump.jpg
• Image:Edwards turbopump.jpg
• Image:Cascade Microtech probe station.jpg‎
• Image:Cascade Microtech probe station close-up.jpg‎
• Image:Desert Cryogenics probe station.jpg

[edit] Translations from French to English

• Jean Fourastié from fr:Jean Fourastié
• Breton nationalism and World War II from fr:Le nationalisme breton et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
• Ernest Mercier from fr:Ernest Mercier
• Samuel Bernard from fr:Samuel Bernard
• June 29, 2007 assassination attempt on Guillaume Soro from fr:Attentat contre Guillaume Soro du 29 juin 2007
• Raul Pateras Pescara from fr:Raul Pateras Pescara

[edit] Animals

What can I say? I like to take photos of animals!

• Image:American Beavers at the National Zoo.jpg
• Image:River Otter at the National Zoo.jpg
• Image:Captive Mexican Wolf at the National Zoo.jpg
• Image:Red Pandas at the National Zoo.jpg
• Image:Green iguanas in a bush in Curaçao.jpg
• Image:Snowman photographer.jpg‎
• Image:Arboreal snowman.jpg‎
• Image:Chickadee.jpg
• Image:Female Northern Cardinal.jpg
• Image:Male cardinal on a branch.jpg‎
• Image:Fat squirrel on roof.jpg‎
• Image:Fat squirrel on roof 2.jpg‎
• Image:Canada geese flying.jpg‎
• Image:Mallards in motion.jpg‎
• Image:Pelagic cormorants.jpg‎
• Image:White-tailed doe.jpg‎

[edit] Places

• Image:The McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland at night.jpg
• Image:College Park, MD at night, seen from Memorial Chapel Fields on UMD campus.jpg
• Image:UMD Stamp co-op, food court beams.jpg
• Image:Walla Walla WSF ferry.jpg
• Image:Seattle waterfront at night 2.jpg
• Image:Seattle waterfront at night.jpg
• Image:Point No Point lighthouse.jpg
• Image:Sunset in Fenner Arboretum on Christmas.jpg