| Scot Hacker | Scot Hacker has been obsessed with music since his early teens, and has been a digital audiophile for half a decade. After earning a B.A. in Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, he made a living writing reviews of jazz and improvised music for The Utne Reader and The Cadence Journal of Jazz and Blues before graduating to the role of content manager and production editor at ZDNet. Hacker's interest in digital audio and fine computer systems has evolved into a series of regular articles for PC Magazine, Byte.com, Windows Sources, ZiffNet, Japan's ASCII magazine, and the CompuServe network, as well as television appearances and trade show gigs. Hacker is the author of the definitive The BeOS Bible, a bestselling guide to the high-performance operating system optimized for digital media, including audio compression, encoding, and playback. |
