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The Ars Technica Group

Alias: Ator

Real Name: Ben Rota
Age: 25
IQ: Well, I took the test in Junior High, but parents were advised not to tell their children what their scores were...and by the time I was old enough to ask, my parents didn't remember anymore... :-P
Marital Status: Engaged
Languages: English, German, HTML
Education: BA History from Yale, MTS from Harvard Divinity School...what can I say?  Computer work pays better!  :-)
Primary Computer:
Motherboard: Abit BH6
Processor: Celeron 300A overclocked to 450MHz
RAM: 256MB PC100
Drives:
Maxtor DiamondMax 11.5GB
IDE ZIP
IOMagic 24x IDE CD-ROM (bleh)
1.44MB floppy (ooh, aah)
Video: Creative Labs Graphics Blaster TNT
Sound: Aztech PCI-338 A3D
Communications: USR Sportster 33.6
Alias: Cæsar Augustus
(Octavius Marcus Kennicus Augustus), Dominus Mundi NTi, Tuba Felicissima Caeli

Education: (huh?)
Languages: 90% of the languages I know are dead.
History: Yes, I study it whenever I get out of the zoo.
Computers:
Coleco Adam
Saving up for TI-81 Calculator

Alias: Dr. Claude Damage

Real Name
: Scott Wasson
Age:
27
Marital Status  Hitched
Languages: QuakeC
Education: Ph.D. in Pain, Chambers of Torment U.
Powers: Quad Damage, Bad Puns
Hobbies/Interests: Capture the Flag
Claude speaks: "Accept  Claude's Damage."
Computer:
The DamageBox
Alias: Dr. Evil

Age: 26
IQ: 127.0.0.1
Marital Status:  Ummmm.... no.
Languages: Tenuous grasp on English
Education: BADC (figure that one out)
Powers: Superhuman tolerance for users.
Pet Peeves: ID-10-T errors.
Hobbies/Interests: The same thing I do every night. Try to take over the world.
Computer:
Motherboard: Abit BH6
Processor: Celeron SL2QG O/C 412MHz
RAM: 64MB PC100
Drives:
Maxtor DiamondMax 11.5GB
Asus 32x IDE CD-ROM
1.44" floppy
Sony 2X CD-R
Video:
Matrox MGA Mystique
Creative 8Meg V2
Sound: Aztech PCI-338 A3D
Communications: USR Courier V.Everything
Alias: Gonzo

Backup: DrGonzo, [DK]Assman (!)
Real Name: Will Smith
Date of Birth: May 15, 1975
IQ: 42, aka What is 6 times 9?
Languages: yes
Education: BS in Biochemistry @ University of Tennessee
Powers: Kung Fu grip, Shaft master (Quake I shaft, you perv!)

Computer:
Motherboard: Abit BH-6
Processor: P2-300 SL2W8 o/c'd to 504
RAM: 128MB CAS2 PC100
Grafix: Canopus Spectra 2500 & 2 12MB Creative Voodoo2s
Sound: Diamond Mx300 (for Windoze)
SCSI card: Adaptec 2940-UW SCSI PCI
Storage: 14.4GB IBM GxP Ultra DMA drive / 6.4GB Quantum Fireball SCSI / Plextor 12/20Plex SCSI CD-ROM
Yamaha 2x/6x CD-R & SCSI internal Zip drive
Communications: 3COM Office Connect ISDN Modem hooked to a 3Com 905B.
Alias: Hannibal, fka. Hellazon

Name: Jon Stokes
Age: Immortal
IQ: <Classified>
Marital Status: Unattached
Languages: English, Ancient Greek, C, C++, Java, x86 Assembler, VB,...(I could go on).
Education: BS in computer engineering from LSU. Currently in grad school at Harvard Divinity School
Powers: Clairvoyance. Precognition. See through hype. Invulnerable to flames. +10 to all saving throws vs. illusion. +5 to-hit vs. ignorance and stupidity.
Computer:
I don't need a computer. With my brain alone I can emulate a 400MHz PII-based machine running Windows NT. The only problem is finding a place to plug in the perhiperals.
Alias: Panders

Education: A total of 3 summers in Rangoon
Languages: Rhetorese, Sarcazbonics, and Midwestern American-English.
History: There is a time and place for everything.
Computer:
I hijacked the SGI Magic Bus and rendered the "Million Mushroom March."

Reviews:

ATI Rage Fury

Apple Mac G3-350

Performance Tuning MS Networks

ERD Comm-
ander Pro

SIMD shootout:
K6-III vs. PIII

PalmPilot modem

KDE 1.1

SuSE 6.0

PDA shootout

Pentium III: Slot 1 Battle Royale

InWin Q500A

Kenwood TrueX 52X CD-ROM

Articles:

Life after SP4

Behind the benchmarks

A brief history of clock

Is code free speech?

Who wrote Melissa?

Anatomy of a re-marked PII

Interview w/ the UO Addict

RAM identification

VMware preview

P6-Core: Honoris!

More clocking & locking the PII

A first look at OS X Server

/etc:

OpenForum

Take the Poll Technica

FAQ: Celeron overclocking

A PII in III's clothing?