User:Mirwin

This user contributes to
 * Lunar Boom Town
 * cisLunarFreighter

Educational Background
 * Valedictorian, Coquille H.S., 1979.
 * B.S. Engineering Physics, Oregon State University, 1984.

Work experience:
 * Systems Analyst/Program Manager, 5 ys, Edwards AFB
 * Instrumentation and Control Engineer 1.5 yr CH2M-Hill
 * Sole Proprietor, Irwin Consulting, 10 yr
 * Discontinued, peaked at 12 working computer professionals, Systems Analysts, CAD, Animation & Multimedia


 * Currently: At liberty. Studying commercial opportunities in  free/open paradigms with a view towards engineering resources or projects.

Wikiversity participant since wayback. Authority to proceed minus a couple of years.

Current Personal Study Zones

 * Lunar Boom Town
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Statistics
 * http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/Book_1&oldid=476315

Technical papers that have attracted my serious interest and attention ...
Subject:heat into light 209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:MdU42903udkJ:www.gamasutra.com/features/gdcarchive/2000/baron.doc+online+game+services+heat&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us

Speculative Fiction Written and Copyrighted by Me
Terran Tankers

/musical activities

Learning trails in which I have a current interest:


 * A Hands-On Introduction to Game Design and Production Processes
 * Modeling and Animation Clips using Art of Illusion

Personally Useful Links

 * http://http://me.oregonstate.edu/facilities/machineshop/index.html
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#Journals
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User's_Guide
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Java
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online
 * http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Teaching_Educational_Games_Resources
 * The above is a list of links to specialized knowledge involving use of games as educational resources

http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/1015/Wanted-Simple-Science-Experiments-for-Kids
 * http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Check these out

 * http://online.sagepub.com/cgi/search
 * http://www.managementhelp.org/ Practical information on managing nonprofits.

Online open textbooks of interest:
http://controls.engin.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Java Links:
 * http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
 * http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html
 * http://www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/javatutorial.html
 * http://www.duke.edu/~trc7/cps/

Object Oriented Design Links
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Object_Oriented_Software_Design

Game/MUD Development Tools and Links
 * Java
 * Audicity
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Creating_music_with_your_PC#Activities
 * jFreeRails

HTML Code Test in progress
user:mirwin/sand box

open fault investigations

 * 1) 1 Unexpected Exception

Consider submitting a bug report using the sourceforge.net bug tracker at the following url: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=9495&atid=109495

Please: 1. Use the following as the title of the bug report: Unexpected Exception: null line -2 2. Include steps to reproduce the bug (attach a save game if  appropriate). 3. Copy and paste the details below into the bug report: Windows XP 5.1 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.5.0_09 Freerails build 20060903-0355 compiled by Luke

java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.bind(Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket. (Unknown Source) at java.net.ServerSocket. (Unknown Source) at jfreerails.network.InetConnectionAccepter. (InetConnectionAccepter.java:44) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.prepare2HostNetworkGame(Launcher.java:394) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.nextButtonActionPerformed(Launcher.java:628) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher.access$100(Launcher.java:41) at jfreerails.launcher.Launcher$5.actionPerformed(Launcher.java:470) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)