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Statistics on my edits [http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?name=moxfyre&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org], [http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?name=moxfyre&lang=fr&wiki=wikipedia to fr.wikipedia.org], [http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?name=moxfyre&lang=commons&wiki=wikimedia to commons.wikimedia.org].

My user pages on French Wikipedia and on Commons.

My watchlists on French Wikipedia and on Commons.

About

[[File:Steely Dan.jpg|thumb|left|200px|My faithful commuter road bike,

"Steely Dan", built by me starting from a high-quality 1980s touring

bike frame]]

I received my PhD in physics from the

University of Maryland, where I

studied nanotechnology, in 2010. I'm very passionate about riding,

building, and maintaining bicycles: I think

it's good for the environment, good for health, good for communities,

and an enjoyable hobby to boot. I'm also a Free software guy, a big fan of Linux, and an amateur hardware hacker and electronics designer.

I spent the summer of 2008 working for Seagate Technology at the company's research headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I worked on modeling the structures and dynamics of magnetic materials used in hard disk drives with computer simulations.

In December 2007 I got a new Pentax K10D digital SLR camera, and which I've used to take several pictures for Wikipedia and for Wikimedia Commons.

Interests

My interests include:

  • Nanotechnology
  • Bicycles
  • Rock climbing
  • World politics, especially of the US and the Middle East
  • French language and culture, especially bande dessinée
  • Other languages, especially Spanish, Persian, and Hebrew
  • Judaism, Islam, and early Christianity
  • Developing and using free software... especially OpenConnect, Linux, GNOME, Emacs, OpenOffice, GStreamer, Apache, Python, Perl
  • Reverse engineering of proprietary communications protocols
  • Computer hardware design
  • Data storage technology, especially magnetic storage and flash memory.
  • One big interest of mine is in documenting computer hardware and software standards, and in helping to describe interfaces which lack documentation, often because the manufacturers refuse to provide it without a non-disclosure agreement and licensing fees. This information is vital to those who write free and open-source operating systems, so that they can support new hardware devices and file formats as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. It's also important in order to continue supporting devices and file formats which the manufacturers have abandoned. To that end, I've tried to clean up and expand Wikipedia's information on how hardware works, and provided links to external documentation (which has often been obtained only through a painstaking process of reverse-engineering). To that end, I've added information to several articles.

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Contributions

Statistics on my edits [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=Moxfyre&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia to en.wikipedia.org], [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=Moxfyre&lang=fr&wiki=wikipedia to fr.wikipedia.org], [http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=Moxfyre&lang=commons&wiki=wikimedia to commons.wikimedia.org].

These are articles and images which I've created or to which I've made substantial contributions.

=Bikes=

=Computers & Electronics=

Documenting undocumented stuff

  • Inkjet printer (added info on third-party ink and cartridges, chip resetters, etc.)
  • SD card (added info on official specs, reverse-engineered docs, and open implementations)
  • xD card (added info on reverse-engineered docs, hardware interface, hobbyist hacks)

= Digital photography and optics =

=Physics=

=Translations from [[Wikipedia:Translation/*/Lang/fr|French to English]]=

=Linguistics=

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  • {{/com|IPA vowel trapezium.svg}} - use this as a template for making future vowel charts, please!
  • {{/com|Amharic vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Bulgarian vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Catalan vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Farsi vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|French vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Hungarian vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
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  • {{/com|Jamaican Creole vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Croatian vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Cantonese vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Hebrew vowel chart.svg}} (cleaned it up)
  • {{/com|California English vowel chart.svg}} (cleaned it up)
  • {{/com|Polish vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Swedish monophthongs chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Thai vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Turkish vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Slovenian vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Hindi vowel chart.svg}} (cleanup)
  • {{/com|Portuguese vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Karakalpak vowel chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
  • {{/com|Dutch monophthongs chart.svg}} (vectorized it)
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=Animals=

What can I say? I like to take photos of animals!

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  • {{/com|River Otter at the National Zoo.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Captive Mexican Wolf at the National Zoo.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Red Pandas at the National Zoo.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Green iguanas in a bush in Curaçao.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Snowman photographer.jpg‎}}
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  • :File:Female Northern Cardinal.jpg
  • :File:Male cardinal on a branch.jpg‎
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  • {{/com|Canada geese flying.jpg‎}}
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  • {{/com|Juvenile American black bear at Old Rag mountain.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Bee pollinating a flower at the National Zoo.jpg}}

=Places=

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  • {{/com|College Park, MD at night, seen from Memorial Chapel Fields on UMD campus.jpg}}
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  • {{/com|Walla Walla WSF ferry.jpg}}
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  • {{/com|Point No Point lighthouse.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Sunset in Fenner Arboretum on Christmas.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Southwest of Boca Reservoir on Route 73 on a Spring evening.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Boca Reservoir from the Southwest on a Spring evening.jpg}}
  • {{/com|Mount St Helens lava dome panorama July 2014.jpg}}

=Etc.=



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