Steve Beaty's Home Page

If you're interested in the course of my life thus far, here's my vitae.
What i'm currently teaching can be found at http://cs.mscd.edu/beaty
I'm an ENTP personality type, sometimes known as an ntep.
Here are pictures of my family.

Here is my PGP public key.

Professionally, my background is in compilers and architecture. I also have some background in networks, having worked in HP's Network and System Management Division. These days i mostly teach networks and network security. When i can, i consult in these, and other areas.

I have a number of active open-source projects.

1. A Java DNS server http://jdnss.sourceforge.net/ that is a "leaf" DNS server. That work lead me to collaborating with NISCC and their release of an advisory at http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Products/alerts/1187.aspx". Details of affected produces are at http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13729. It was included in a DNS server survey: http://dns.measurement-factory.com/surveys/200504-full-version-table.html using the fpdns tool: http://www.rfc.se/fpdns/
2. A Java RSS ticker at http://jrsst.sourceforge.net/.
3. Java Methodical Unit Test http://jmut.sourceforge.net/.
4. JavArch - a Java Architecture simulator http://javarch.sourceforge.net/.

I talk with local media from time to time about computers. Here are some of the results, in roughly chronological order.

• 2003-03-06-KOA.mp3
• 2003-09-22-KBCO.mp3
• 2004-04-14-Hackers.mov
• 2004-04-14-KOA.mp3
• 2004-04-14-Virus.mov
• 2004-07-13-Txt.mov
• 2004-09-24-BLOG.mov
• 2005-03-14-Toby.mov
• 2005-03-14-Toby2.mov
• 2007-04-16-DST.mov
• 2007-10-21-Rockies.mov
• 2007-10-22-Rockies.mov
• 2007-10-23-Rockies.mov
• 2007-11-19-EMAIL.mov
• 2007-11-19-ET.mov
• 2008-04-05-Google.mov
• 2008-07-01-Bank.mov
• 2008-11-28-Xmas.mov
• 2009-01-27-Conficker.mov
• 2009-02-18-Facebook.mov
• 2009-10-30-Facebook.mov
• 2009-11-20-Flexispy.mov
• 2009-12-04-Texting.mov

My dad keeps track of our genealogy, his efforts can be found at: http://www.nyx.net/~dbeaty/.

I have some weblogs on a variety of topics, such as Linux, Macintosh, Networks, Hobbies, The Web, and Windows.

I created and maintain the Pipes Home Page.

I like music quite a bit and listen to lots of different kinds. Currently, favorite artists include Nanci Griffith, Laurie Anderson, and Bruce Cockburn.

Books i've read that i consider important, in no particular order

• Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
• Tao Te Ching Lao Tze
• The Way of Zen Alan Watts
• God: a Biography Jack Miles
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Karen Armstrong
• Dune Frank Herbert
• The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Theology of the New Testament Rudolf Bultmann
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond

Books i'm currently reading

• A History of Religious Ideas : From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries Mircea Eliade