[Tfug] specialties

[Curtis Cooper]

Hi,

Thanks for asking this question!  I've been curious about people's 
interests for awhile.  I myself have branched out so much in the past two 
years that I often feel that I have become a jack of all trades but 
master of none.

I administer three Redhat 7.2 Pentium 4/Athlon machines at work.  I'm 
getting better at Linux, but I still have a ton to learn.  At home, I 
use a dual-boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 and Windows 2000.  The Win2k is 
mostly for DirectX games, though I have a few apps on the Win2k side 
that I still use (e.g., PhotoImpact, my favorite graphics and 
image manipulation program, and occasionally Corel WordPerfect and 
QuattroPro).  I still haven't gotten used to Gimp as a replacement 
for PhotoImpact, mostly because I so often use PhotoImpact's graphic art 
templates / samples (i.e., the program comes loaded with thousands of 
textures, effects, backgrounds, etc., to get people started on their 
graphics projects).  

I also program a lot, primarily with C and C++, though I also use 
Fortran 90 and Perl for research-related tasks.  And I enjoy games and 
game programming.  I'm currently working on an OpenGL strategy game 
employing C++, OpenGL, and SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), which allows 
the program to be cross-platform compilable, and thus distributable 
under Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac, etc.  By the way, if 
anyone is interested in this sort of thing, let me know.  We'd love it 
if more programmers were involved (so far, we have two programmers, an 
artist, and a musician working on this), though it will have to be on a 
voluntary basis, since we haven't decided what we're going to do with 
the game once it's finished.

Cheers,
Curtis 

P.S. In response to another message, I'd be up for a LAN game night if 
Tfug holds one.

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* Curtis S. Cooper		 *
* Graduate Research Assistant    *
* Lunar and Planetary Laboratory *
* curtis@lpl.arizona.edu	 *
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