User:Moxfyre
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About
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/91/Steely_Dan.jpg/200px-Steely_Dan.jpg)
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Lugged steel frame construction
- Sheldon Brown (famous bicycle mechanic, technical guru, and Internet personality)
- Bike boom
- Local Bike Shop
Computers & Electronics
[edit]- Motherboard
File:Acer E360 Socket 939 motherboard by Foxconn.svg (local)
File:ASRock K7VT4A Pro Mainboard Labeled English.svg (local) (similarly labeled diagram for an older motherboard)
File:Motherboard diagram.svg (local)
- Small form factor
- Python Paste
- Rhapsody (IRC client)
- Flash memory
- Read-only memory
- A23 battery
- 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
- Binary logarithm
- web.py
- Silverthorne (CPU)
- CR-V3 battery
- List of battery sizes
- Lithium-ion battery
- Internal resistance
File:Types-usb new.svg (local)
File:AliasingSines.svg (local)
- 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)#Analytical_die_count_estimation
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
[edit]- Rawstudio
- dcraw
- Image sensor format
- Battery grip
- Template:Nikon DSLR cameras
- Template:Pentax DSLR cameras
File:Olympus C740-UZ battery compartment.jpg (local)
File:Oregon Scientific pocket camera size comparison.jpg (local)
- 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
- (in French) Stabilisation d'image
- (in French) Indice de lumination
- (in French) Flou de bougé
Physics
[edit]- Second sound
- High-temperature superconductivity (cleanup)
- Barycentric coordinates (mathematics)
File:Pfeiffer turbopump.jpg (local)
File:Edwards turbopump.jpg (local)
File:Cascade Microtech probe station.jpg (local)
File:Cascade Microtech probe station close-up.jpg (local)
File:Desert Cryogenics probe station.jpg (local)
Translations from French to English
[edit]- 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
[edit]File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg (local)
File:Blank vowel trapezoid-three-height.svg (local)
File:IPA vowel trapezium.svg (local) - use this as a template for making future vowel charts, please!
File:Amharic vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Bulgarian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Catalan vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Farsi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:French vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Hungarian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Jamaican Creole vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Croatian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Cantonese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Hebrew vowel chart.svg (local) (cleaned it up)
File:California English vowel chart.svg (local) (cleaned it up)
File:Polish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Swedish monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Thai vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Turkish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Slovenian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Hindi vowel chart.svg (local) (cleanup)
File:Portuguese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Karakalpak vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Dutch monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Dutch diphthong chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Igbo vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Tukang Besi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Italian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Czech vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Sindhi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Taba vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Japanese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Australian English vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Australian English diphthong chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Korean vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Korean long vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Korean short vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:RP English monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:RP English diphthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Ulster Irish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Thai vowel chart (monophthongs).svg (local) (vectorized it)
File:Thai vowel chart (diphthongs).svg (local) (vectorized it)
Animals
[edit]What can I say? I like to take photos of animals!
File:American Beavers at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
File:River Otter at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
File:Captive Mexican Wolf at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
File:Red Pandas at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
File:Green iguanas in a bush in Curaçao.jpg (local)
File:Snowman photographer.jpg (local)
File:Arboreal snowman.jpg (local)
- File:Chickadee.jpg
- File:Female Northern Cardinal.jpg
- File:Male cardinal on a branch.jpg
File:Fat squirrel on roof.jpg (local)
File:Fat squirrel on roof 2.jpg (local)
File:Canada geese flying.jpg (local)
File:Mallards in motion.jpg (local)
File:Pelagic cormorants.jpg (local)
File:White-tailed doe.jpg (local)
File:Juvenile American black bear at Old Rag mountain.jpg (local)
File:Bee pollinating a flower at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
Places
[edit]File:The McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland at night.jpg (local)
File:College Park, MD at night, seen from Memorial Chapel Fields on UMD campus.jpg (local)
File:UMD Stamp co-op, food court beams.jpg (local)
File:Walla Walla WSF ferry.jpg (local)
File:Seattle waterfront at night 2.jpg (local)
File:Seattle waterfront at night.jpg (local)
File:Point No Point lighthouse.jpg (local)
File:Sunset in Fenner Arboretum on Christmas.jpg (local)
File:Southwest of Boca Reservoir on Route 73 on a Spring evening.jpg (local)
File:Boca Reservoir from the Southwest on a Spring evening.jpg (local)
File:Mount St Helens lava dome panorama July 2014.jpg (local)
Etc.
[edit]- Ruth de Krivoy
- Traffic pumping
File:Ridouane Harroufi winning the 2009 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-mile race.jpg (local) (taken by my friend Ruzbeh while I was running :-p)
File:Vusi Mahlasela.jpg (local)
- 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
- User en-N
- User fr-3
- User es-2
- User fa-1
- Translators fr-en
- Wikipedians who contribute to the French Wikipedia
- Wikipedians who contribute to Wikimedia Commons
- Wikipedians who participate in Pages needing translation into English
- Wikipedians who convert raster images to scalable vector graphics
- WikiProject Electronics participants
- User python-3
- User c-3
- User perl-3
- User Assembly Language-2
- Wikipedians who use Emacs
- Wikipedians who use Inkscape
- Wikipedian vector graphics editors
- Wikipedians interested in France
- Wikipedians interested in photography
- Wikipedians who read J. R. R. Tolkien
- Wikipedians who read Neal Stephenson
- Wikipedians in Vancouver