My desktop computer (anomaly.xbill.org) was new about 4 years ago, and should be replaced one of these days. It's also running Red Hat Linux 7.1. The network is usually provided by a T1 to the apartment complex, except when it's down.

What do I do with my computer?

• Usually, I'm at work, and that involves doing DNS stuff. Until a few months ago, it was mostly (DNS Security related, but now I'm doing a lot of other things too.
• My biggest (only?) claim to fame is XBill, a moderately interesting action game where the objective is to stop evil computer users from corrupting your systems.
• dnsjava is an implementation of the DNS protocol in Java, and is useful as a replacement for the standard Java resolver, as well as providing interoperability testing with BIND. It's actually being used by anumber of Java netowrk programs, which is pretty cool.
• I'm still maintaining sftp, an ftp-like program that uses an existing remote shell as a tunnel (ssh or rsh). Now that opensshincludes an sftp program, it's not too important anymore.
• Once in a while, I play a game. Off and on for what seems like most of my life, I've been playing Discworld. Cool game, but much too hard. I enjoy games like Civilization, but haven't really played Civ: Call to Power for Linux too much, because I don't like the UI. I've also been known to play simple games like xbomb, freecell, and Super Tetris (under VMWare, as well as action games like Doom and Dark Forces in the distant past. There hasn't been a time in the last 7-8 years when I've both had a fast enough machine and time to play the newest FPS games, but anything's possible.
• I waste (er, spend) time reading news and mailing lists and surfing the web, which allows me to pretend that I know what I'm talking about. Occasionally, people believe me. Silly them. Reading Slashdot and Freshmeat is a good way to stay current. The linux-kernel mailing list keeps me sane, since there are always a few threads that I really just don't understand.