About me
Hello, my name is Steve Lee. I used to be a student at
Robinson College,
Cambridge, but I'm now out in the
Real World.
I work for Brown & Sharpe's
Custom Metrology division
in Halesfield, Telford,
and live in Madeley.
Users of Acorn systems can view a map of how to get here,
although it would probably be best to at least
introduce yourself if you were
wanting to visit.
I am a founder member of the RCPS, along with
Eric,
Matthew and
Daniel,
as I enjoy eating, especially where puddings of
a suitable size are involved.
My PGP public key still needs a few more signatures
on it... currently only signed by
Matthew.
RC5 and
DES contests
I am involved in distributed.net's
distributed computing effort, and have been mostly responsible for the
optimisation of the ARM/StrongARM processing cores - as found in the
RISC OS clients
and also the ARM Linux and RiscBSD clients, and doubtless any ARM based
clients which pop up in the future...
You too can distribute your unused CPU cycles. Check out the links in the
above paragraph and download
a client. If you want to show support for RISC OS machines, you could join the
ant.org Cambridge Cracking Collective, which
was started by Acorn employees and still has many on its books, or
the Acorn Users Group which has now
succeeded in its mission to become a permanent feature in the top 100, thereby
giving (a little) more exposure to the platform.
Programs
From time to time I write programs for the Acorn. Most of them don't get
finished or are only relevant to my setup. There don't seem to have been as
many proper ones recently (i.e. after I started a full-time job), but a here's
a couple from a few years ago:
- PackDisc - creates extra space on a FileCore
based filing system where before there were wasted sectors. Please read
and observe the warnings in the Help file.
- Midnight - a programmable screen saver. Not
really properly finished but it works satisfactarily and looks pretty.
That's all for now - maybe I'll add some more later.
Page put together by Steve Lee <steve@banoffee.co.uk>