Acknowledgements

A huge thanks goes out to the OSDN crew for providing the staggeringly cool SourceForge service. I don't think I would have ever attempted to release FICC without it
Larry Wall: Perl rocks. 'Nuff said
Gary Howard, my mentor at Cisco for my summer 2000 internship. He gave me the opportunity, tools, and environment I needed to learn Perl
Purdue professor Eugene Spafford (from whom I have taken a class) and Gene Kim, the original authors of Tripwire
Sean Gies and Mike D'Agosta for "reminding" me that I could turn FICC into a full-blown open source project. It was scary as hell, as are all things worth doing
The amazingly tolerant users of Yoda, circa 1997-1998. I broke that machine pretty much every way you can break a UNIX machine and you put up with it. You all probably should have just formed a lynch mob and strung me up. Instead you let me cultivate my UNIX sysadmin hobby and wreak havoc on...
...The equally-tolerant users of Vitruvian, circa 2001-present. It's not like you needed that /usr directory, right? <Cringe>
Digitally Imported Radio, which provides great tunes for software development (or anytime for that matter)