Josh Cogliati's Home Page

Old Dead homepages: Digisys Rupert.montana.edu RIP Geocities

I came from Columbia Falls, Montana. I got a masters in Computer Science from Montana State University - Bozeman in August 2004. I currently am an employee at INL in Idaho Falls (And any views here are my own and not my employer's). I am married to Elizabeth Cogliati.

Contacting Me

I live in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Postal Mail:
Email me if you need my mailing address. Or use a phone book.

Phone

(208) 522-5752

Email

My primary email address is my yahoo address with jrincayc as the name which is checked daily (except on Saturday, my hide from computers day). Valid subject lines will greatly increase the chance of me not tossing it in the spam bucket. Also available is my freeshell one (jjc at sdf dot lonestar dot org). Please use the yahoo.com one first.

Other methods of contacting me

If you don't mind your message being publicly available until the heat death of the universe (or maybe January 19, 2038), you could add a comment to me on my talk page on wikipedia Jrincayc Talk Page. This gets checked more or less daily. You could also message me in Orkut (if I have met you in real life, I will gladly give you an orkut invite if you want). You could get me something cheap from amazon (or maybe from my wishlist) and put a cryptic message on the gift note. Also you can message me on myspace or on facebook

More about me:

I am a computer programmer. Here are the programming languages I have used:

Borland C++ 4.5/5.02, Windows Star Empire and Study were programmed with these.
GCC, I use this on Linux
QuickBasic 4.5, Dos Star Empire was programmed with this
TI-85, TI-92, HP48 RPL, If I have touched a calculator, I have probably programmed on it :) (However I can't read RPL)
Gnat 3.10 Ada 95 , Learned mainly so I could test out of CS-160
Python 2.x, Cool little scripting language. Learned so I can finally get around to writing all those dumb little programs that are too difficult for a batch file but to simple to take out the C/C++ beast. Currently I am working on a Python Tutorial for non-programmers. Here's the Non-Programmers Tutorial for Python but the wikibooks python tutorial version is usually more up to date.
Java, I use this at work.
Fortran 77 and Fortran 95, also used at work.
Scheme and Common Lisp.
Ocaml is a programming language that I learned so I could have something to use when I want something with compile time type checking and speed.

The game I USED to play the most is Earth 2025.

Descent on Linux

Freecraft Graphics Page

Projects I have been involved with as a minor participant

Python Created patch for directional colored turtle. Also wrote the other tutorial introduction to Python
Freeciv Created patch to add multiple bonus techs.
Freecraft Multiple bug fix patches early on in the project. Created initial graphics for FCMP (fortunately most of them have been replaced ;)
Wikipedia Worked on several pages. Most significantly is the Supply and Demand page.
Kuro5hinWrote an introduction to economics of intellectual property with the goal of raising the level of discussion. Wrote Patent Status of MPEG-1,H.261 and MPEG-2 because I couldn't find a good summary anywhere else (wikia mirror).
Webworks. I worked on a Pumping Lemma FSA java applet to illustrate the pumping lemma.
Played Temple Bells on my recorder

Programs I have written or hacked on: Source Code and Executables

Star Empire for Dos version 1.09L is a character based strategy game. It is public domain. I am no longer planning on working on it.
- Zipped Star Empire Executable 64.8KB
- Zipped Star Empire Basic Source 8.7KB
Riemann Sum program for TI-92
Star Empire For Windows Beta 1.902 is the windows version of Star Empire. It includes graphics. It is unfinished and does not include a help file or README file. I am no-longer working on it as I no longer use windows much.
- Zipped Windows Star Empire Executable 221.8KB 04-12-1997
- Zipped Windows Star Empire BC 4.5 Source 103.2KB 04-12-1997
SpaceWars is a program I have done some programming on and currently am trying to not maintain SpaceWars Home Page
SpaceWars3d is a program Michael Milvich and I wrote to try and make a 3d spacewarsd SpaceWars3d Home Page
JJC's Spacewars is a program I wrote to learn FLTK. Download spacewars-0.6.tar.gz
Study 1.0 is an aid to self studying and includes a help file. Here is a link to Study's Homepage
Minitetris is a micro version of tetris that I wrote to learn about Ada. It requires a ANSI terminal (for DOS use ANSI.SYS). Requires Ada compiler and will run in both Win32 or Linux.
- Zipped Gnat Ada source for minitetris 3.4 KB 1998-Oct-5
Palm Pilot Disassembler is a modification of Disassembler 0.6.3 to show the kind of resource
License for all my programs
Unzip is available at http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/Info-Zip.html

Geek Code

Link to Geekcode

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Public Key

If you would like to send things to me encrypted, here is my public key. Expires: 2011-02-01

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Resume

I have a job. If you are contemplating hiring me, any job you offer would probably have to be more interesting than my current position. Contact me if you want an updated resume.

Valid XHTML 1.0!

I have been told that this web page is too bland (no color, pictures, or sound). Tough. This is a pragmatic webpage designed to load fast, and not waste your time waiting for pointless pictures or sound.

Here is a link to a page That may be able to satisfy B those lusers that think this site too plain

Old quad d page

Example Motion JPEG AVI file

People are extraordinarily creative, both in the ways that they solve problems and in how they create problems. -- Watts S. Humphrey

Technology forges on, not from any need of the species, but from the need of certain of its more brilliant members for interesting games to play. -- Kenneth Brower

Sole of shoe is easy, Soul of man is hard. -- JJC

Argue with me, I will defend myself
Scare me, I will flee
Lecture me, I may listen
Live your lesson, I will see
Only love can change the soul

If faith can move a mountain, tell me, what can move my faith? (Storyhill)