Theodore Zuckerman

I have created a number of web sites. The site you are now at, TheodoreZuckerman.com, is my personal space on the web.

Click here to open my résumé in Microsoft Word.

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Instead of making my email address available to spammers, I've set things up so that you can send me an email message here. Just put your message in the "How can we help you" text box. I will receive your message, and you will receive a copy mailed to the email address you provided.

I have CompTIA A+ certification as an IT Technician. I'm studying for my Cisco CCNA and Microsoft Server certifications. I'm trying to keep up-to-date, and make the switch from Windows XP to Windows 7 and Windows 2003 Server to Windows 2008 and 2010. I know a bit about Unix and Linux too.

Perhaps you might like to see pictures of my vegetable garden?

I like technology. When Volkswagen was making cars with air-cooled engines, they didn't last as long as water-cooled engines, before needing a major overhaul, and I learned how to completely rebuild them. I did a substantial number of rebuilds. I replaced the exhaust valves with new ones, and farmed out grinding of the intake valves to a machinist. However I resurfaced the valve seats myself, using a precision carbide cutting tool. I replaced valve guides myself too. The engines were completely disassembled, to the last nut and bolt, and every part that received wear was inspected, and measured for wear, with vernier calipers or micrometers and if necessary replaced or resurfaced, before the engine was reassembled. Crankshafts were resurfaced if necessary and crankshaft bearings and connecting rod bearings were routinely replaced.

Many years ago I took classes in television repair. That was when televisions were first starting to become "solid state" and there were still televisions with vaccuum tubes around, often needing repairs. I learned about inductance, capacitance, resistance, reactance, and impedence, voltage, current, power, and energy consumption, and how to make measurments and calculations. Over the years I worked as an electronic technician for several companies.

I recently decided I was going to take apart a microwave oven and see if I could repair it. Indeed, all it needed was a diode. I've been known to check out automobile "alternators" and replace parts rather than buy a new or rebuilt alternator.

One of my favorite hobbies is tuning pianos by ear. I did this professionally for awhile, as well as doing piano action regulating. Tuning a piano requires calculating the fundamental pitch, and overtones, of each note of an equally tempered interval, and a just interval, and then calculating what the beat rates should be between the coincident overtones of the interval, when the piano is correctly tuned to a 12-tone equally tempered scale - sometimes abbreviated as "equal temperament." You can use this to php program to calculate the fundamental pitch of each of the 88 pitches on a piano. You may wish to start from A49 = 440 hertz, the international standard, or if you wish you may assign A49 another value, and then see how all the other notes change as a result. I like learning about the mathematical principles that describe the relationship between things.

Another hobby is learning about the Earthly Origin of commercial materials: learning about what raw materials go into all those commercial products that we use every day; about where those raw materials came from; and about what physical or chemical changes happened, if any, along the sometimes complex and convoluted path from sometimes numerous raw materials to a single commercial product.

I like networking everybody's computers together.

I like talking and writing about what I do.

Here are my A+ Study Notes. Many of them have been edited for clarity, others are not much different than how I originally wrote them in the classroom.

Here are my notes on subnetting and ip addressing. It covers the basics of what you absolutely need to know about the subject, to be a network administrator. It doesn't go into much further detail than that. I haven't had time yet, to format the page nicely, but I think I've begun to make the concepts clear, as I read over the first third.