Me and Agent Binks hangin' at the local donut shop with the
rest of the EESC secret agents
One of the funniest things about this whole affair is Mr. Churchill's silly attempts to say that I don't exist, am some sort of secret agent, am being forced to speak out against them, etc. Anybody who browses my home page will soon find that I have opinions -- a lot of them -- and my response to anybody who tries to tell me what to say is "Go to hell." You can bet that any such attempt would be swiftly reported on my home page. The closest I've ever gotten to working for the federal government was when I applied for a job at LLNL in 1999, when Linux Hardware Solutions was folded so its founder could jump ship for VA Linux Systems. LLNL needed someone to set up and program their massive Beowulf Linux supercomputer cluster, pretty cool, huh? LLNL got back to me six months later (after I'd already been employed for 5 3/4 months at another employer -- I was out of a job for only a week) and said no thanks. Probably the best thing for both of us :-).
I've been around the USENET for longer than I like to admit. I'm not quite a net.legend -- I'm too inconsistent for that (I jump into one newsgroup, hang there for a year or two, then jump into another newsgroup), but I've been participating in the USENET since 1985, when I was a freshman in college and my guru (whoops, TA :-) introduced me to the wonders of net.flame and the rest of the early USENET. He's now a computer consultant in San Francisco, if you're curious. You can find out altogether too much about my callow youth by searching for my name at groups.google.com.
Shortly thereafter, I learned of a new computer called the "Amiga" that had a slick graphics chip and a multitasking message-passing operating system. Soon enough I was involved in porting the USENET software to the Amiga, and references to this can still be found via Google searches. Again, I'm not an Amiga god, but plenty of people in the Amiga world knew of me or met me over the years. I have an easily verified existence there.
After graduation I taught school for several years, then in 1995 went to work for a vendor of school administration software and computer systems, where I wrote several subsystems of their software and overhauled their systems administration processes. I spearheaded their port to Linux in 1996, and a search of the Google archives will turn up, again, many references to me.
Perhaps my most famous turn was in 1998-1999, when I worked for Linux Hardware Solutions in charge of technical operations. Tens of thousands of people encountered me at trade shows during that era, and I gained a small amount of notoriety in the Linux industry (not famous, but not unknown either). If I don't exist, it's a very visible "don't exist".
Lately I have worked for a vendor of backup software where I architected their network backup solution, and then after that company was folded by its parent due to the dot-com crash, for a vendor of Network Attached Storage devices. I'm not going into more detail here, due to Robin Hood Software's attempts to interfere with my employment (sheesh, what a bunch of scumballs). I have also written a large number of Open Source (free) software programs, that I have released to the general public. These are generally for Linux and other Unix varieties, though some have been ported for other operating systems.
Please feel free to browse my home page, view the home pages for the software that I'm working on ( mtx, Ocotillo, Twofish for Python, AES For Ruby, and AES for Shell Scripts), and to do a Google search for my name to see what I've been up to over the years. Also stop by Slashdot to see what I've been posting there over the years (search for "Eric Green"), and try the archives for LinuxToday, where I have published several items. I'll put my reputation up against Andy Churchill or Robert Ride's any time of the day -- do the same search for their names. You won't find anything. They don't exist, as far as the Internet is concerned, until suddenly at the beginning of 2000 they popped out of nowhere. What rock did these two guys slide out from under anyhow? I'd accuse *THEM* of being disinformation agents out to discredit the cause of personal security, except nobody could ever really take these guys seriously, could they?
Thank you for your support. If you have any information that would be useful for these pages, please email it to me.
Sincerely,
Eric Lee Green
Schoolteacher, software engineer, Linux geek