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The rectangular black box with a blue LED is http://alonzofretwell.com.

Welcome to alonzofretwell.com. This site is a project created, financed, maintained and hosted by Alonzo Fretwell (AF) . AF maintains this server at his home in Las Vegas, NV USA. The server is fanless, measures 11.5 x 4.5 x 18.5 cm, is powered by a 333 MHz Power PC chip, has 256 MB DDR2 (RAM), 1TB SATA (primary hard disk drive), 2 x 1 Gbit/s network service (however my service connection is considerably less), power consumption 7-12W (disk dependent) it's operating system is Debian GNU/Linux.

Purpose of alonzofretwell.com

The purpose of alonzofretwell.com is to showcase some of AFs' current projects and directions in applied computer science research. And provide a method of hiring AF for consulting or freelance projects that you have or may be considering that require an out-of-the-box approach using Consumer Off The Shelf(COTS) hardware and Open Source Software with a light footprint.

Software or hardware need not be 100% Open Source and in most cases is a mix of closed and Open Source such as the scenario that is likely in use now with vistors to this site using a popular COTS product (Mac or PC) while the XHTML pages from this site are being served by Open Source GNU/Linux Apache server software.

Curriculum Vitae

Alonzo Alexander Fretwell, Jr. (AF) was born January 23, 1967, 10:15 a.m. at The Mary Black Hospital in Spartanburg, SC USA. His parents are Alonzo Alexander Fretwell, Sr. (1921-1982) and Louise Williamson Fretwell (1927-present). AF has one sister and one brother. His mother, sister and brother still live in Spartanburg, SC.

AF holds a BS. in Computer Science from the Howard Hughes College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1997).

AF graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1986, holds an AS. in Fashion Buying and Merchandising and a BS. in Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York (1991).

Since 1997 AF has attempted start several small technology businesses none have gotten off the ground yet...