User:Moxfyre

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About


I received my PhD in physics from the University of Maryland, where I studied nanotechnology, in 2010. 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.

I spent the summer of 2008 working for Seagate Technology at the company's research headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I worked on modeling the structures and dynamics of magnetic materials used in hard disk drives with computer simulations.

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.

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
 * Other languages, especially Spanish, Persian, and Hebrew
 * Judaism, Islam, and early Christianity
 * Developing and using free software... especially OpenConnect, Linux, GNOME, Emacs, OpenOffice, GStreamer, Apache, Python, Perl
 * Reverse engineering of proprietary communications protocols
 * Computer hardware design
 * Data storage technology, especially magnetic storage and flash memory.
 * 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.

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.

Bikes

 * Symbol support vote.svg Lugged steel frame construction
 * Sheldon Brown (famous bicycle mechanic, technical guru, and Internet personality)
 * Bike boom
 * Local Bike Shop
 * Bike boom
 * Local Bike Shop

Computers & Electronics

 * Motherboard
 * (similarly labeled diagram for an older motherboard)
 * Small form factor
 * Python Paste
 * Rhapsody (IRC client)
 * Flash memory
 * USB FlashCard
 * Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group
 * Phison
 * Read-only memory
 * A23 battery
 * Field-programmable
 * Template:x86 Processor Modes
 * FreedomHEC
 * Chipset
 * Computer case
 * Intel PowerTOP
 * The Linux Action Show!
 * Codec listening test
 * Windows Media Audio
 * Low-pass filter
 * Pulse-density modulation
 * Binary logarithm
 * web.py
 * Silverthorne (CPU)
 * CR-V3 battery
 * List of battery sizes
 * Lithium-ion battery
 * Internal resistance
 * BS170 and 2N7000 transistors
 * OpenWRT
 * Using scripts from https://GitHub.com/dlenski/top500:
 * Slirp
 * Template:Revision control software
 * Kyocera Zio
 * Motorola i1
 * Inconsolata (font)
 * Wafer (electronics)
 * OpenWRT
 * Using scripts from https://GitHub.com/dlenski/top500:
 * Slirp
 * Template:Revision control software
 * Kyocera Zio
 * Motorola i1
 * Inconsolata (font)
 * Wafer (electronics)
 * Kyocera Zio
 * Motorola i1
 * Inconsolata (font)
 * Wafer (electronics)

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)

Digital photography and optics

 * Rawstudio
 * dcraw
 * Image sensor format
 * Battery grip
 * Template:Nikon DSLR cameras
 * Template:Pentax DSLR cameras
 * Angle of view
 * Angular aperture
 * Numerical aperture
 * Pentax K-7
 * Pentax K20D
 * Pentax K200D
 * Pentax K2000 (aka Pentax K-M)
 * Pentax K-x
 * List of digital camera brands
 * Numerical aperture
 * Pentax K-7
 * Pentax K20D
 * Pentax K200D
 * Pentax K2000 (aka Pentax K-M)
 * Pentax K-x
 * List of digital camera brands
 * List of digital camera brands

Physics

 * Second sound
 * High-temperature superconductivity (cleanup)
 * Barycentric coordinates (mathematics)

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
 * Jacques Adam from fr:Jacques Adam
 * GNU GLOBAL from fr:GNU GLOBAL
 * Vupen from fr:Vupen
 * Laurent Louis from fr:Laurent Louis

Linguistics

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


 * File:Chickadee.jpg
 * File:Female Northern Cardinal.jpg
 * File:Male cardinal on a branch.jpg‎
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Etc.

 * Ruth de Krivoy
 * Traffic pumping
 * (taken by my friend Ruzbeh while I was running :-p)
 * User:Moxfyre/Personal gravity reversal (userbox!)
 * User:Moxfyre/com (template to link to images on Commons)
 * Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting
 * Hyperbolic discounting
 * Template:Georges Perec
 * Things: A Story of the Sixties
 * Ellis Island Revisited
 * Template:Georges Perec
 * Things: A Story of the Sixties
 * Ellis Island Revisited

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