Russ Fink's Webpage! Contact E-mail: CLI (Command Line Interface) is the equivalent of spoken or written language, and the GUI is the equivalent of pointing at something and grunting. - schon, Slashdot comment, Oct 5, 2004.

Content Moving to Wiki! I have established a wiki at .  Most of the content is kept there.  Sorry, you must type this link into your browser to access it, I don't want robots indexing the wiki. Interests CMSC 621, Advanced Operating Systems, project webpage. We implemented a distributed peer-to-peer filesystem in Java and spun a new twist on the algorithm. Libnids network intrusion detection library, to which I contributed some fixes once upon a time. General list of links, including computer science links, internet acronyms, and more. Local Links Adventures in machine translation, some silliness but also a potentially legitimate research area. Samba issue with Fedora Core 5 (FC5), and a solution

Security Linksys security advisory - Security advisory for Linksys cable/DSL routers. McAfee AVERT Stinger - Link to the McAfee website for downloading Stinger, a free tool for scrubbing MyDoom, Sircam, Sobig, Bagle, and other popular viruses from PCs. Identification If you query "Russ Fink" using Google, this WAS the first page that CAME up (but due to Google page ranking, it sometimes loses out to my other wiki involvement). Stalkers, take note: I am a PhD student in Computer Science at UMBC I am an alumnus of UMCP, UMUC/Graduate School of Management and Technology, PGCC, VPI/SU, Eleanor Roosevelt HS I have worked at NAI (which stands for Network Associates Inc., NOT "New And Improved") , BBN/Verizon, Orbital Sciences, and Lockheed Martin. If you know me, drop me a line.

Recent Items

• I have established a wiki at .  Sorry, you must type this into your browser, I don't want robots indexing it.

Coursework/Interests

• CMSC 621, Advanced Operating Systems, project webpage. We implemented a distributed peer-to-peer filesystem in Java and spun a new twist on the algorithm. I hope to add security and authentication eventually, perhaps as a research area.
• CMSC 651, Automata Theory and Formal Languages, personal webpage. Currently empty. Will eventually post homework problems and solutions.
• CMSC 641, Analysis of Algorithms. Will eventually post homework problems and solutions.
• Libnids network intrusion detection library, to which I contributed some fixes once upon a time.
• General list of links, including computer science links, internet acronyms, and more.

Security

Linksys security advisory

Security advisory for Linksys cable/DSL routers.

McAfee AVERT Stinger

Link to the McAfee website for downloading Stinger, a free tool for scrubbing MyDoom, Sircam, Sobig, Bagle, and other popular viruses from PCs. It is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system.

Off the Beaten Path

• Adventures in machine translation, some silliness but also a potentially legitimate research area.
• Cofounder of SSFRAS, which stands for the SSFRAS Society For Recursive Acro-Speak. Also check out its U.S. booster organization, SASSAFRAS, which similarly stands for SASSAFRAS Americans Supporting SSFRAS Advocates For Recursive Acro-Speak. [If you've never had a course in Computer Science, you probably don't get the joke.]

Identification

• A PhD student in Computer Science at UMBC
• Alumnus of UMCP, UMUC/Graduate School of Management and Technology, PGCC, VPI/SU, Eleanor Roosevelt HS
• Alumnus of various schools of hard knocks: NAI (which stands for Network Associates Inc., NOT "New And Improved") , BBN/Verizon, Orbital Sciences, and Lockheed Martin.