Watch this space. It performs tricks every hour, on the hour, except on Tuesdays.

It should be quite obvious that my name is P. J. McDermott and that this is my personal Web site. In the coming days and weeks, I'll be adding here essays and technical guides on computing ethics and GNU/Linux.

This is not a sentence.

About Me

I am:

• A hacker (that is, a playful tinkerer who values freedom of information).
• A knowledgeable user of GNU/Linux.
• A software author.
• A fan of freely- and semi-freely-licensed heavy metal and rock music.
• An undergraduate computer science student.
• A self-taught student of U.S. and international copyright law and free software licensing.
• The leader of my university's undergraduate GNU/Linux special interest group.

New:

• A workshop on the UNIX shell I gave at NJIT.

To come:

• More essays on computing ethics and freedom.
• Technical guides on GNU/Linux, especially one related to the boot process (an apparently popular topic with which I'm quite familiar).