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Credits
About the Authors
Nicholas Petreley began his career in computing in 1983 as an Assembly-
language programmer for a signal-processing research and development
firm called Adaptronics, located in McLean, Virginia, and he hasn’t been
able to escape the field since. After getting a taste of writing as a weekly
columnist for the Times in New Jersey, Nick began spending more time
with the English language than with Pascal, C, C++, and the dozens of
other languages that previously dominated his life. Nick’s former lives also
include conference advisor for LinuxWorld Expo, creator of the Golden
Penguin Bowl quiz show, editorial director of LinuxWorld, editor-in-chief
of Network Computing World, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Cen-
ter, award-winning columnist for InfoWorld, and regular technical colum-
nist for ComputerWorld. You can find his current articles on Newsforge
and in other publications under various pseudonyms. He is a columnist for
Tux magazine, the author of the Official Fedora Companion, a part-time
Evans data analyst, a freelance writer, a creator and maintainer of the
VAR-oriented web site (http://www.varlinux.org), and a professional open
source consultant.
Jono Bacon (http://www.jonobacon.org/) is an established writer, developer,
and musician. Jono has been working as a full-time writer and technology
consultant/developer since 2000, for a variety of publishers and