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Staff

	Kenneth Ingham Kenneth has been working with UNIX since 1980 and networked computers since 1984. He has taught UNIX and Internet classes throughout the world. He was a system administrator at the University of New Mexico for six years, and continues to manage several flavors of UNIX and the networks of PCs and Macs that they are connected to. Kenneth has a MS in Computer Science and is currently working on a PhD in CS specializing in Computer Security with Stephanie Forrest at the University of New Mexico.
	Michael Wester Michael has a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He has been doing systems administration on UNIX machines since 1985. He also was working on the Internet long before most people even knew it existed.
	John Benedetto John has been helping people solve their computer problems since 1986. He has done both PC hardware and PC software. In addition to helping us out, he also maintains the network of PCs at the University of New Mexico's Centennial Science and Engineering Library.

If one of us is unable to solve your problem, we will refer you to a colleague who can.

History

Kenneth Ingham Consulting has been in business since 1990 solving problems and teaching people around the world.

Why i-pi?

Why do we have the domain name i-pi.com instead of something like ingham.com? The simple answer is that ingham.com is boring. The domain name was registered back in the early 1990s; it was available when we got i-pi.com.

Initially, the domain name was to be iπ. However, you can't have italics or greek letters in domain names. Not only that, you can't even see the pi in the desired domain name unless your browser supports HTML 4.0.

The next choice would be i*pi. However, * is not a legal character in domain names either.

Kenneth thought ipi would be mis-pronounced and mis-understood.

So, when Kenneth sent off the registration to get the domain, he requested i_pi.com. However, a _ is an illegal character in domain names, so when the registration confirmation arrived, we had i-pi.com.

All of this still leaves the question, why iπ? The answer relates to a religion Kenneth formed while at the University of New Mexico: The Church of the real Holy Value.

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