Alan B. Dee

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	location	Salt Lake City, UT
	age	35
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I'm an aspiring Java EE engineer. I started developing PHP web applications in 2003. I found that I like the enterprise challenges and decided in 2010 to complete my Bachelors degree and pursue a career in enterprise engineering.

I'm a firm believer is using the right tool for the right job. Some of my favorite authors are Steve McConnell, Adam Bien, Martin Fowler, and Jeff Atwood.

I'm a Linux user and have a fair amount of experience in system administration but have chosen not to focus on that area. I wouldn't want to become a "Jack of all trades, master of none"

I have a simple policy for asking a question. When I run into an issue, I try to find a solution for about half an hour. If I can't find anything, then I'll start to ask a question. Often, stackoverflow's system will find "related" questions and I find my answer from those about 2/3rd of the time.

I very much appreciate other people's help when I have issues. I take constructive criticism very well. If I post a question that is ambiguous, difficult to understand or includes bad grammar don't hesitate to inform me. My grammar is very poor, just the way my mind works and I'm alright with that. My mental strengths lie elsewhere.

Above all, I want to be one of the best software engineers and StackOverflow will be an imperative part of that.

Thank you everyone for making the stackExchange network so wonderful.

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Oct 12	accepted	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F?
Jan 13	accepted	Raid5, what could happen? Partition corruption, now what do I do?
Jan 12	comment	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F? Alright, I removed the old xev output and kept the window focused where it did register the keys
Jan 12	revised	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F? Updating information to help troubleshoot
Jan 12	awarded	Promoter
Jan 11	awarded	Tumbleweed
Jan 10	accepted	Is there a way to tell the system to keep a folder to reside in memory?
Jan 10	comment	Is there a way to tell the system to keep a folder to reside in memory? Sorry, I didn't think which distro mattered. It's Linux Mint
Jan 10	asked	Is there a way to tell the system to keep a folder to reside in memory?
Jan 8	revised	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F? Revised Output, added comments at different stages
Jan 8	revised	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F? Additional information upon request
Jan 7	revised	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F? Added more information
Jan 7	asked	How can I find what is interfering with CTRL+F?
Jan 4	asked	Why don't all Mint 12 applications show up in my cairo-dock menu?
Dec 29	comment	Raid5, what could happen? Partition corruption, now what do I do? I'm afraid that didn't work. I wiped all partitions but the primary one. It just doesn't seem to recognize the partition type. Thanks
Dec 26	revised	Where should I place a downloaded tarball? edited body
Dec 26	revised	Raid5, what could happen? Partition corruption, now what do I do? Update status, changed title to better reflect the problem (Now that I know what the problem really is)
Dec 26	comment	Where should I place a downloaded tarball? I hadn't even considered the /opt folder. I included that in my answer as it's probably the best place. Thanks
Dec 26	revised	Where should I place a downloaded tarball? Grammar correction.
Dec 26	comment	Raid5, what could happen? Partition corruption, now what do I do? Just a typo, good catch. I've corrected it. Thanks.