About Tom G.

I am Tom Goulet, a person highly skilled and knowledgeable in computer technology residing in the Waterloo Region area of Ontario, Canada.

I have...

• passed two semesters of computer repair in high school
• been paid for professional setup and maintenance servers running UNIX or Linux
• been paid for professional software development
• been thanked and praised for my work by my clients
• a very high degree of experience in GNU/Linux, mostly in Red Hat, Debian, Slackware and derived distributions
• won the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Program award in the 2004 OCLUG Programming Wars contest
• been mentioned in Wired Magazine's website and had a project I authored mentioned in Wired Magazine's paper edition (screenshot)
• received a confirmation e-mail from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after I pointed out a small problem with their e-mail format
• received a thanks from the W3C Validator team for telling them about a security issue in their official W3C project (reference)
• contributed recommendations and code that were accepted to
  • Mozilla, which is responsible for Firefox, Thunderbird, and other software;
  • Gnut (references 1/2);
  • Debian (reference);
  • the first KNOPPIX DVD;
  • Endeavour Mark II file manager from Wolfpack Software; and
  • the Hdup filesystem backup software

The Mozilla project e-mailed me several times to get my permission to change the copyright licence for Mozilla. I gave it to them.

I registered the tomg.computer domain name myself, and I host this website on a cloud computer I rent and set up. I also set up the Web server and wrote the HTML.

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