Moxfyre

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This user has created a global account. Moxfyre's main account is on Wikipedia (in English).

Languages
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. es-2Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. fa-1دانش فارسی این کاربر در سطح مبتدی است.

Interwiki
- This user is a translator from French to English on Wikipedia:Translation. Je contribue sur la Wikipédia francophone. This user contributes media to Wikimedia Commons. This user participates in Pages needing translation into English. This user converts raster images to SVG format.

Computers

This user is a member of WikiProject Electronics. py-3This user is an advanced Python programmer. C-3This user is an advanced C programmer. Perl-3This user is an advanced Perl programmer. asm-2This user is an intermediate assembly language programmer. This user contributes using Linux. This user hacks happily with Emacs. This user contributes while using Rhythmbox. This user contributes using Inkscape.

Hobbies

This user is a Francophile. ...This user would like to know oodles more languages. ΑΦΩThis user is a member of Alpha Phi Omega. This user takes photographs with Pentax equipment. This user is a proud cyclist. This user enjoys jelly beans. This user loves the Winter. This user enjoys the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. This user enjoys the works of Neal Stephenson. ¡lɐsɹǝʌǝɹ ʎʇıʌɐɹƃ lɐuosɹǝd ɯoɹɟ sɹǝɟɟns ɹǝsn sıɥʇ This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!

Statistics on my edits to en.wikipedia.org, to fr.wikipedia.org, to commons.wikimedia.org.

My user pages on French Wikipedia and on Commons.

My watchlists on French Wikipedia and on Commons.

About

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.

Contributions

Statistics on my edits to en.wikipedia.org, to fr.wikipedia.org, to commons.wikimedia.org.

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

Bikes

• Lugged steel frame construction
  • File:Lug on steel bicycle frame.jpg (local)
  • File:Head lugs on steel bicycle frame.jpg (local)
• Sheldon Brown (famous bicycle mechanic, technical guru, and Internet personality)
• Bike boom
• Local Bike Shop

Computers & Electronics

• Motherboard
  • File:Acer E360 Socket 939 motherboard by Foxconn.svg (local)
  • File:ASRock K7VT4A Pro Mainboard Labeled English.svg (local) (similarly labeled diagram for an older motherboard)
  • File:Motherboard diagram.svg (local)
• Small form factor
• Python Paste
• Rhapsody (IRC client)
• Flash memory
  • USB FlashCard
  • File:Flash_memory_cards_size_comparison_(composite).svg (local)
  • Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group
  • Phison
• Read-only memory
• A23 battery
  • File:A23 battery.jpg (local)
• Field-programmable
• Template:x86 Processor Modes
• FreedomHEC
• Chipset
• Computer case
• Intel PowerTOP
• The Linux Action Show!
• Codec listening test#Results
• Windows Media Audio#Sound_quality
• Low-pass filter#Digital_simulation
• Pulse-density modulation#Algorithm
  • File:Pulse density modulation.svg (local)
• Binary logarithm
• web.py
• Silverthorne (CPU)
• CR-V3 battery
• List of battery sizes
• Lithium-ion battery
• Internal resistance
• File:Types-usb new.svg (local)
• File:AliasingSines.svg (local)
• BS170 and 2N7000 transistors
  • File:TO-92_Front.svg (local)
  • File:TO-92_Back.svg (local)
• OpenWRT
  • File:OpenWRT 8.09.1 LuCI screenshot.png (local)
• Using scripts from https://GitHub.com/dlenski/top500:
  • File:Processor_families_in_TOP500_supercomputers.svg (local)
  • File:Countries_with_TOP500_supercomputers.svg (local)
• Slirp
• Template:Revision control software
• Kyocera Zio
• Motorola i1
• Inconsolata (font)
• Wafer (electronics)#Analytical_die_count_estimation
  • File:Wafermap_showing_fully_and_partially_patterned_dies.svg (local)
  • File:Garmin Forerunner 405.jpg (local)

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

• Rawstudio
• dcraw
• Image sensor format
  • File:SensorSizes.svg (local)
  • File:Sensor sizes overlaid.svg (local)
    • File:Sensor sizes overlaid inside.svg (local)
• Battery grip
• Template:Nikon DSLR cameras
• Template:Pentax DSLR cameras
• File:Olympus C740-UZ battery compartment.jpg (local)
• File:Oregon Scientific pocket camera size comparison.jpg (local)
• Angle of view
  • File:Lens angle of view.svg (local)
• Angular aperture
  • File:Angular aperture.svg (local)
• Numerical aperture
  • File:Numerical aperture for a lens.svg (local)
• Pentax K-7
• Pentax K20D
• Pentax K200D
• Pentax K2000 (aka Pentax K-M)
• Pentax K-x
• List of digital camera brands
• (in French) Stabilisation d'image
• (in French) Indice de lumination
• (in French) Flou de bougé

Physics

• Second sound
• High-temperature superconductivity (cleanup)
• Barycentric coordinates (mathematics)
• File:Pfeiffer turbopump.jpg (local)
• File:Edwards turbopump.jpg (local)
• File:Cascade Microtech probe station.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Cascade Microtech probe station close-up.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Desert Cryogenics probe station.jpg (local)

Translations from French to English

• Jean Fourastié from fr:Jean Fourastié
• Breton nationalism and World War II from fr:Le nationalisme breton et la Seconde Guerre mondiale
• Ernest Mercier from fr:Ernest Mercier
• Samuel Bernard from fr:Samuel Bernard
• June 29, 2007 assassination attempt on Guillaume Soro from fr:Attentat contre Guillaume Soro du 29 juin 2007
• Raul Pateras Pescara from fr:Raul Pateras Pescara
• Jacques Adam from fr:Jacques Adam
• GNU GLOBAL from fr:GNU GLOBAL
• Vupen from fr:Vupen
• Laurent Louis from fr:Laurent Louis

Linguistics

• File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg (local)
• File:Blank vowel trapezoid-three-height.svg (local)
• File:IPA vowel trapezium.svg (local) - use this as a template for making future vowel charts, please!
  • File:Amharic vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Bulgarian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Catalan vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Farsi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:French vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Hungarian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
    • File:Hungarian vowel chart with rounded short a.svg (local)
  • File:Jamaican Creole vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Croatian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Cantonese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Hebrew vowel chart.svg (local) (cleaned it up)
  • File:California English vowel chart.svg (local) (cleaned it up)
  • File:Polish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Swedish monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Thai vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Turkish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Slovenian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Hindi vowel chart.svg (local) (cleanup)
  • File:Portuguese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Karakalpak vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Dutch monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Dutch diphthong chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Igbo vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Tukang Besi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Italian vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Czech vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Sindhi vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Taba vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Japanese vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Australian English vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Australian English diphthong chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Korean vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Korean long vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Korean short vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:RP English monophthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:RP English diphthongs chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Ulster Irish vowel chart.svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Thai vowel chart (monophthongs).svg (local) (vectorized it)
  • File:Thai vowel chart (diphthongs).svg (local) (vectorized it)

Animals

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

• File:American Beavers at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
• File:River Otter at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
• File:Captive Mexican Wolf at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
• File:Red Pandas at the National Zoo.jpg (local)
• File:Green iguanas in a bush in Curaçao.jpg (local)
• File:Snowman photographer.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Arboreal snowman.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Chickadee.jpg
• File:Female Northern Cardinal.jpg
• File:Male cardinal on a branch.jpg‎
• File:Fat squirrel on roof.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Fat squirrel on roof 2.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Canada geese flying.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Mallards in motion.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Pelagic cormorants.jpg‎ (local)
• File:White-tailed doe.jpg‎ (local)
• File:Juvenile American black bear at Old Rag mountain.jpg (local)
• File:Bee pollinating a flower at the National Zoo.jpg (local)

Places

• File:The McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland at night.jpg (local)
• File:College Park, MD at night, seen from Memorial Chapel Fields on UMD campus.jpg (local)
• File:UMD Stamp co-op, food court beams.jpg (local)
• File:Walla Walla WSF ferry.jpg (local)
• File:Seattle waterfront at night 2.jpg (local)
• File:Seattle waterfront at night.jpg (local)
• File:Point No Point lighthouse.jpg (local)
• File:Sunset in Fenner Arboretum on Christmas.jpg (local)
• File:Southwest of Boca Reservoir on Route 73 on a Spring evening.jpg (local)
• File:Boca Reservoir from the Southwest on a Spring evening.jpg (local)
• File:Mount St Helens lava dome panorama July 2014.jpg (local)

Etc.

• Ruth de Krivoy
• Traffic pumping
• File:Ridouane Harroufi winning the 2009 Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-mile race.jpg (local) (taken by my friend Ruzbeh while I was running :-p)
• File:Vusi Mahlasela.jpg (local)
• User:Moxfyre/Personal gravity reversal (userbox!)
• User:Moxfyre/com (template to link to images on Commons)
• Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting
• Hyperbolic discounting
  • File:Hyperbolic vs. exponential discount factors.svg (local)
  • File:Hyperbolic vs. exponential discount rates.svg (local)
• Template:Georges Perec
  • Things: A Story of the Sixties
  • Ellis Island Revisited