| locations: |
| Sonora, CA |
| site: |
| Front Porch |
| servers: |
|
Not really applicable at the moment. My current
responsibilities are testing our network appliances and developing
tools for IDS integration.
|
| site overview: |
| We make network appliances for ISPs. |
| job title: |
| Network Test Engineer |
| time at this job: |
| 9 months |
| | |
| years as a sysadmin: |
|
Since 1998, I've spent perhaps two full-time
equivalent years as a sysadmin.
The rest has been spent programming.
|
| first computer: |
| Apple IIc |
| first OS: |
| PRO-DOS |
| favorite OS: |
| FreeBSD |
| first computer with root/administrator access: |
| 486/25 running Monkey Linux. |
| first programming language: |
| Apple BASIC |
| favorite programming language: |
|
My favorite language is C. I get
really nostalgic when I think about assembly language though;
I just don't have much need for it anymore...
|
| most often used programming language: |
| Perl |
| first sysadmin job, computer and os: |
|
My first job was at a local ISP.
I ran two 166mhz DEC Alpha Servers, running Digital Unix.
I adopted those servers when they were retired and
still have them.
|
| ideal sysadmin job: |
| Something large scale, challenging and fun. |
| favorite sysadmin tool: |
| rm |
| most interesting sysadmin tool: |
| snort |
| sysadmin tool I couldn't work without: |
| tcpdump |
| education: |
|
I dropped out of high school during my senior year (there
were some complications) and went to Merced College in Merced, CA.
I got an A.A. in Gen Ed.
|
| when I was growing up, I wanted to be: |
|
At different times, I wanted to
be a writer, doctor, physicist and sysadmin.
|
| If I wasn't a sysadmin, I'd be: |
| a writer |
| when friends and family ask me to
“fix” the computer or
“fix the internet”.... |
|
I just cringe and hope that it's all a bad dream. |
| when I first meet someone,
and they ask what I do, I say: |
| I break stuff. |
| system administration is ...: |
| Making it work, no matter what. |
| advice to a junior admin: |
|
Learn as much as you can and don't be afraid
to admit what you don't know.
|
| advice to a senior admin: |
| You tell me |
| | |
| favorite food/cuisine: |
|
My wife's chicken and my enchiladas.
|
| pizza topping: |
| Meat |
| work music: |
| Currently, Nirvana and Evanescence. |
| crisis music: |
| none |
| ___ gets me through the work day: |
| Pepsi |
| hobby/other job: |
|
I write (fiction and non-fiction) when I have the time.
|
| | |
| my office is: |
| Too small for five people. |
| co-workers say my desk is: |
| covered with Pepsi cans |
| learned the most from: |
| W. Richard Stevens (through his books). |
| wish list: |
| I want a PowerBook and to attend LISA again. |
| daily web sites: |
|
cnn,
www.schneier.com/blog,
taosecurity.blogspot.com,
sharktank,
blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/,
slashdot (every other day).
|
| backups to tape or disk? |
| Both. Backup to disk/NAS for quick
recovery. Backup to tape for offsite storage.
|
| editor: |
| Pico |
| mail user agent: |
| Outlook at work. Gmail at home. |
| web browser: |
| Firefox |
| gui or cli: |
| Is that a real question? CLI |
| computers at home: |
| 7 |
| (primary) home computer and OS: |
| Windows XP for games, FreeBSD for
programming and research.
|
| oldest hardware in your garage or basement: |
| Two 166mhz DEC Alpha Server 400s |
| anything else? |
| I like math, specifically number theory and abstract
algebra. I used to program on PDP-11 clones (it started out as a Y2K
thing).
|
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