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Atlanta, GA
Jason van Gumster mostly makes stuff up. He writes, animates, and occasionally teaches, all using open source tools. He's run a small, independent animation studio, wrote Blender For Dummies and GIMP Bible, and continues to blurt out his experiences during a [sometimes] weekly podcast, the Open Source Creative Podcast. Adventures (and lies) at @monsterjavaguns.
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Uptime - Work machines are at about a week. My home machine is floating at 21 days so far. Servers stay up longer.
Hostname - For my home computers, all of them are named after bodily fluids (spit, mucus, lymph, bile, plasma, etc.). It amuses me to no end. I've used this convention for nearly a decade and haven't run out of names yet! Of course, for work, I've had to take on a slightly more professional air... so I've opted for using the last names of historical polymaths.
Kernel - Most of my machines use the default that's shipped with the distro. I do run a patched kernel on my Surface Pro 3, though. The latest 4.10 kernels apparently make that unnecessary, but I haven't tried yet.
Thanks for reading.