Phil Budne

phil at ultimate dot com

More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads.
One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction.
Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
        Woody Allen

I love animals: pets past & present. Please spay or neuter your pets!

Personal Fascinations

The outmoded, the ill-fated, the overlooked, the doomed, and other lost causes;

• Computer Software Archeology
  • XY display simulation
  • SNOBOL4
  • LIL, The Little Implementation Language
  • Finger
  • The PDP-10
• Outmoded transport
  • Evinrude and Johnson boats
  • Steam Power
  • Airships
  • Flying Boats
    • China Clipper
    • Martin Mars
• The Romanovs
• Reality

Volunteer activities

I have volunteered as a Jewish Big Brother. It's the experience of two lifetimes!

I have created (and maintained) web sites for a number of non-profit organizations;

• North Cambridge Family Opera Company
• Massachusetts Alliance for Animals
• Washington New Hampshire Historical Society
• Washington New Hampshire Washington Lake Association (Island Pond)
• Cambridge Community Chorus

Important writings of our times

• Now more than ever; CHOOSE CHEESE (Yes, Virginia... there is a FREE LUNCH. We are eating it now. Can I get you a napkin?)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Why we vote for Lizards.
• Class Struggle.
• Inalienable Rights.
• How to Haggle.
• RFK Quotes.

Intellectual Property Rights

• Salon.com: Courtney Love does the math
• Janis Ian's "Internet Debacle"
• ASCAP & BMI - Protectors of Artists or Shadowy Thieves?

Alternatives to "Big Label" music/content distribution:

• United Musicians
• Creative Commons
• Live Music Archive

Goal

Boring stuff

When I'm working, I'm an independent computer consultant.

I do:

• Unix/Linux systems programming
• Development environments (including configuration management, makefiles)
• Device driver development and porting
• Embeded systems design and development
• Applications porting
• System management tools
• Unix/Linux System management
• TCP/IP networking code development
• TCP/IP network design
• Toolsmithing (including parsers)

My Resume.

My speciality is wading into swamps that make most people turn and run.

FTP pointers to free software I've written.

Great technical works of Our Time

Collection of LBNL Network Research Group Email.
More Collected postings of Van Jacobson and others on (the late) W. Richard Stevens' Home Page .

#ifdef Considered Harmful, by Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer. (PostScript) (PDF) version

Characterization of Organic Illumination Systems (Another classic from DECWRL: A study of the Electric Vlassic).

On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

Jell-O Links

Recipes

• Fusilli with Peanut Sauce
• Salmon with Winter Vegetables
• Kale Stew
• Curried Cider-Braised Pork Chops

Music

• Chandler Travis Philharmonic (Writer, Songsinger)
• Ross Altman, Singer Song-fighter
• Jim's Big Ego

Other stuff I've collected

• My Favorite Keyboards (Now with VT52 keyclick/buzzer sound file!!)
• Captain Spud's Probers Posters
• Stuff looking for homes

Diffs for patches....

• Diffs to GNU tar to fix incremental backups for NFS mounted filesystems
• Diffs to CVS 1.11.20 to compile under SunOS4

The nice thing about Andy Tannenbaums is that there are so many to choose from...