Biography
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Ferd Frederix
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Group
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Volunteer Mentor
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Avatar
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Usually Bender, from Futurama, or a small tough guy.
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Home
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Phaze Demesnes🖈
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RealLife
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Fred K. Beckhusen, President, Micro Technology Services, Inc. www.Mitsi.com email:fred@mitsi.com
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Skills
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Microcomputer and microprocessor hardware design and programming
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Languages
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My software work is primarily in C and its variants C++ and C#, with lots of perl, lsl script, Visual Basic, 3-D modeling in Solidworks, and lots of other languages and tools I'd rather forget, dating all the way back to the early 1970's. My first computer was the Rockwell Autonetics Recomp-II, a 1K word, 40-bit drum-memory military computer. I took it apart, rebuild it, and wrote John Conways "Game of Life" for it, from careful study of the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. I still read and love Scientific American, which first published the rules for the game of Life in 1970. Yeah, I know. It dates me.
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Hobbies
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Programming, reading mass quantities of anything, sci-fi, and more programming.
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Projects
- Serious stuff
- Ferd's free translator - a universal translator that will work in any language to as many people as are speaking. Had to be simple to use and operate
- The Game of Phaze Source Code- a Secondlife role-playing game based on Piers Anthony's The Blue Adept.
- Mentor Meta Map - clickable maps of areas where Volunteers are needed. (Hopefully complementary to Lum Pfhol's wonderful Mentor HUD). I hope my work on the Mentor Meta Map will help new and old Mentors alike to help "New Residents" more efficiently.
- Fun Stuff
Useful things on my desktop
- Second Life Animated Texture Creator - Creating a Second Life animated texture is now SIMPLE!
- Step 1. Select an animated GIF file from your hard drive using the "Browse" button below.
- Step 2. Enter how many frames per second you would like the animation to play at in SL.
- Step 3. Press "Process".
- Astonomy Picture of the Day and Week- Based on Nasa's web site, only prettier!
- MIT's new Scratch for Secondlife - for those new to scripting. An easy way to add scripts to your objects in Second Life™, even for beginners who do not know scripts.
- Flikr in Secondlife - Add Flickr pics to your Second life Profile Web tab
- Shameless plug
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