[chuug] Summer Internship

[Christopher Covington]

Greetings List,

I'm looking for a summer internship around Charlottesville. If anyone 
works somewhere that'd be interested in hiring a college kid with a 
fascination with Free Software or can give me any leads, I'd greatly 
appreciate it. I won't spam the list with my resume but I've got it on 
hand and would be happy to send it out at the drop of a hat. I'm not 
picky and I'd probably be ecstatic to get any sort of engineering or 
IT-related job that's more interesting than lifeguarding an indoor pool.

Here's the rambling biography I originally wrote at the beginning of 
this mail that you can easily ignore:

I've been out of the Charlottesville area for quite some time--I spent a 
year in Germany as a high school exchange student, taking a year off 
before college. Now I'm down here in Blacksburg, a freshman working on a 
Computer Engineering major. Although I was born and bred in C'ville, the 
whole Hokie-Cavalier rivalry doesn't phase me as I'm not really a sports 
fan. Anyways, some might remember me from two years ago when I used to 
somewhat regularly to meetings. I'm an avid Gentoo user. I sometimes 
play around with a tiny Internet-facing vserver. My bash skills get 
better through use all the time but I suppose the only real projects I 
can lay claim to are converting an old PII into a home router and 
maintaining an Erlang-language overlay for Gentoo for two months until I 
realized nobody actually cared. I like to recompile my kernel on a 
regular basis. At the moment I'm running the Gentoo tuxonice patchset 
with reiser4 and PaX applied on my laptop.

Did I miss much while I was gone? Any big events happen fall 2006-present?

A random parting question:

Since the announcement of TrueCrypt 5, I've had encrypting my entire 
hard disk on my someday/maybe todo list. Has anyone tried it? Is it 
really any easier than other tools? Would wiping your RAM during OS 
shutdown defend against the RAM-freezing attacks Princeton showcased or 
is the key put into memory by TrueCrypt, completely independent of the 
OS inside the encryption?

Regards,
Christopher Covington

225 Newman
Blacksburg, VA
24060-0011
(434) 466-3255