Dan Anderson

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Email: webpage at drydog dot com.
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Here's my GPG Public Key (for secure communications)
Home: San Diego, California, USA.

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My passion is cross-country skiing. I enjoy the sport in several forms--ski touring on roads and trails, locally, telemark skiing in isolated backcountry ski bowls and at downhill ski resorts. and snow camping in the Sierra backcountry in the spring. I wrote a guidebook on cross-country skiing called Ski Tours in Southern California. I've been an active Sierra Club member since 1974.

Here's a picture of my wife, friend, and sweetie :-), Helen. Here's her web page and her picture. I taught her HTML and she wrote some web pages for UCSD. She's now a grad student in Literature at Cal State San Marcos. Here she is backpacking in Yosemite, crossing an ice-cold stream and with mosquitoes swarming around her. Talk about fun! Here we are with mosquito nets and here I am storing food on a rock.

Helen's niece, Emily lives in Washington State.

Our dog is Fannie Mae, a golden retriever (2008-). Our previous dogs were Holly (1987-2001), and Patsy Ann (2001-2006), also goldens. Speaking of dogs, here's what do do if your dog or pet gets skunked.

Satellite Photos Here's a satellite picture of my home from MS TerraServer. Notice that I'm one of the few neighbors who like trees (dark areas). The line that goes through the middle of my lot is the original Mexican land grant for Rancho Los Peñasquitos (on the north side). Of course, the only stuff that was ranched was in the canyon below, not the mesa.
- Enlarged satellite image (0.5 meter)
- Image and topo map combined (2 meter)
I have a page on Pumpkin Recipes (Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin bread, . . .).
Here's what to do if your pet (dog, cat) was sprayed by a skunk.
Mortgage Calculator (free, non-commercial)
Hexadecimal and decimal number conversion (free, non-commercial)
Degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature conversion (free, non-commercial)
Date Calculator (free, non-commercial)
UNIX Date/time Calculator (free, non-commercial)
Origin and meaning of the word Yosemite
Formation of Yosemite Valley showing how Yosemite Valley was created from glaciers

Family

My brother Dave died recently.

My sister Teresa has a toy poodle puppy, Torrey. My dad's web page (genealogy), Shiloh the cat.

Genealogy information (password required)

Internet/Computer Stuff

Here's some web sites I maintain (roughly in order of appearance):
- Carlsbad, California, 1994-
- Sierra Club (founding Webmaster, 1994-1997; now maintained by Club staff)
  - This site was a nominee for the Webby Awards under the "Travel" category
- Unofficial Randy Cunningham Web Page (my Congressman :-) ), 1996-
- Yosemite Web Index, 1997-
- Solaris Intel - x86, 1997-
- CalHotels.US, online discount hotel reservations (1999-).
- HotelSanDiego.US, online San Diego discount hotel reservations (1999-).
- Cross-country skiing in Southern California, 2000-
- Spammer Bill Jones is running for Senate, 2004-
- Some links and my weblog (blog) at work.
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Here's some icons for X Windows Applications for use with Gnome/KDE (mostly .PNG format and some .ICO)
Miserable failure
The 6bone (HollyNet), is an experimental implementation of the next-generation Internet protocol, aka IPng or IPv6.
Security Stuff
- Kerberos allows secure logins on the `net:
- Besides Kerberos, I've also setup, Secure Socket Layer or SSL (here), and IPsec, which, together, help make the Internet more secure and private through encryption.
- SHA-256 C source code (sha256sum.c) Generates checksums

I work at Sun Microsystems on Solaris Security Toolkit software (formerly called JASS). Previously, I worked on software that manages and control the Sun Fire 15K and Sun Enterprise 10000 systems. Here's my web page at work. Except if you don't work for Sun you don't have access to it. Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! . . . Well I thought it was funny :-). You can access two public white papers I wrote though, related to the Sun Enterprise 10000 and Sun Fire 15K.

Here's some USENET FAQs/HOWTOs I wrote:

If you came here looking for Solaris or Linux software packages here they are:

Solaris x86 and SPARC packages Packages available are: fortune-off, gif2png, ncftp, nslint, pine, tin, knews, swhoisd, xearth, xfishtank, xroach, xsnow, xv, & nei (NE2000 NIC driver).
RedHat Linux i386 packages (RedHat RPM format; glibc 2.1 or 2.2) Packages available are: Welcome2L, ksh93, netwatch, nslint, queso, knews, swhoisd, & xroach.
Java: method GetServiceByName.java emulate's the BSD socket function s getservbyname().

My occupation is System Programmer (Here's my resume). I have BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of California's Irvine and San Diego campuses. I have worked with UNIX computer systems and Internet networks for several years.

Statistical Drivel

DOB: August 16, California.
height: 6' 0" (182 cm.), weight: 190 (85 Kg.).
Hat size: 7 1/8 (57 metric).
Shirt: 17.5 34-35 L, 36 metric, Large T-shirt.
Pants: 36-32.
Shoes: 9.5 W (42 metric).
breakfast preference: Raisin bran and O.J. (Pancakes in a restaurant)
Lunch preference: P.B. and J.
Dinner preference: Italian, Greek, and Mexican.
Beverage preference: Iced tea (semi-sweet).
Music preference: Country.
Color preference: Cyan.

Poetry Hour: The Men That Don't Fit In by Robert W. Service

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http://dan.drydog.com/