User:AlistairMcMillan

My full name is Alistair McMillan and I was born November 23 1975 in Bellshill, Scotland.

Contact

If you need to contact me you can:

• leave a message on my Talk page here
• find me on MSN as alistairmcmillan75
• email me using the "E-mail this user" link on the left

You can also find some stuff I've thrown together on my website http://www.mcmillan.cx.

Watchlists

• Apple (Related changes)
• Microsoft (Related changes)
• OpenSource (Related changes)
• Politics (Related changes)
• Scotland (Related changes)
• StarTrek (Related changes)

TODO

Pages I want to start

• asprintf
• Burnside, Glasgow
• DarwinPorts
• Doug Cutting
• Jim Allchin
• Mike Shaver
• OpenNTPd
• Scott McGregor
• snprintf
• strlcat
• Todd C. Miller
• vsnprintf

Pages I want to add to

• Be File System
• Berkeley Fast File System
• Ed Iacobucci
• Extended file system
• Ext2
• Ext3
• Minix file system
• NTFS
• Reiser4
• ReiserFS
• Unix File System
• XFS

Pages I started (or re-started from scratch)

• Alexander Peden
• Alternate data stream
• American Task Force on Palestine
• Blake Ross
• Cairo (graphics)
• Cairo operating system
• Code Red II
• Dancing tree
• David Camp (programmer)
• Dave Hyatt
• Dominic Giampaolo
• Draper Fisher Jurvetson
• eEye Digital Security
• Extended file system
• Far Eastern Air Transport
• Gary Kimura
• Glasgow Green
• Gordon Letwin
• The Herald (Glasgow)
• HFSX
• HIV Prevention Act of 1997
• Idris (operating system)
• Jens Alfke
• Mac OS 8
• Macintosh Business Unit
• MacNC
• Marc Zell
• Mark Lucovsky
• Mike Pinkerton
• Minix file system
• Musicmatch
• Namesys
• National Cyber Security Division
• Netatalk
• Newsquest
• Quartz Compositor
• Rémy Card
• Rick Sternbach
• Sal Soghoian
• San Francisco Canyon Company
• Salem Chalabi
• Sir William Collins
• Stephen Tweedie
• strlcpy
• Tantek Çelik
• Team America: World Police
• Terminal Services
• Theodore Ts'o
• Tom Miller
• Tony Fadell
• United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
• Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003
• WebCore
• William Henry Draper III
• William Regnery II
• William Turnbull

Pages I made significant edits to (with link to biggest contrib)

• AVI [1]
• Bellshill, North Lanarkshire [2]
• Brannon Braga [3]
• Browser Helper Object [4]
• File Allocation Table [5]
• HFS Plus [6]
• Hierarchical File System [7]
• Internet Explorer
• Internet Explorer for Mac
• Matroska [8]
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Michael Okuda
• QuickTime [9]
• Richard Nixon [10]
• Safari (web browser)
• Stephen Furst [11]
• Terry Farrell (actress) [12]
• Unified lighting and shadowing [13]
• USS Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) [14]
• USS Yorktown (CG-48) [15]
• Video for Windows [16]
• Windows Media Player [17]
• William Henry Draper Jr. [18]
• Winton M. Blount [19]

Images I added

Mac OS X 10.3	Opera	St Andrews Suspension Bridge	William Collins fountain
James Watt stone	McLennan Arch	Nelson's Monument	AntiSpyware
IE Add-On Manager	Windows Media Player for Mac	Bath Abbey	Diet Irn-Bru
Mac OS 8.1

Resources

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Cite sources: Books

Trivia

• 2004 March 7 - First edit on wikipedia, to the AVI page
• 2004 May 25 - Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.
• 2004 September 26 - 1000th edit. Answering a question on Talk:Comparison of operating systems.
• 2004 October 12 - This page was vandalised, by 152.163.96.179 . An AOL user.
• 2004 October 23 - 2000th edit. Formatting links on Systemic functional grammar.
• 2004 November 21 - 3000th edit. Starting the Glasgow Green page.
• 2004 December 21 - 4000th edit. Removing a dup link on Ferdinand de Saussure.
• 2005 January 20 - 5000th edit. Fixing an indirect link on System Management Server.
• 2005 February 17 - Vandalised a second time, by 12.151.162.12 . An Aramco Services user.
• 2005 February 28 - 6000th edit. Citing a source on Mosaic (web browser).
• 2005 March 31 - 7000th edit. Fixing an indirect link on The Destruction of the Twelve Colonies. Groan.