name: Hassan Ali email: url: privateEmail: tag: updated: Hassan is a Ph.D. degree holder in numerical techniques applied to electromagnetics from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is presently working with NORTEL NETWORKS in Ottawa, Canada, as a specialist in software tools used to predict signal integrity, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) on printed circuit boards. Having been introduced to Linux by a friend about 2 years ago, he has never stopped having fun with it. Hassan loves to write about whatever little he knows about for others to learn or to correct him.