name: Martin Vermeer email: mv@liisa.pp.fi url: privateEmail: tag: updated: Martin is a European citizen born in The Netherlands in 1953 and living with his wife in Helsinki, Finland, since 1981. He is professor of Geodesy at the Department of Surveying, Helsinki University of Technology. His first UNIX experience was in 1984 with OS-9, running on a Dragon MC6809E home computer (64k memory, 720k disk!). He is a relative newcomer to Linux, installing RH4.0 February 1997 on his home PC and, encouraged, only a week later on his job PC. Now he runs Red Hat 6.2 exclusively at both home and work. Special Linux interests: LyX and Tcl/Tk.