About Me
By day I do Windows Helpdesk, by night I do linux-fu. Ish.
It's really not as glamorous as that. I do desktop support and a bit of server admin for a Windows network during the day. We have some macs, but their failure mode is generally rare and catastrophic. I'm the lowliest of support techs, and I'm doing my best to demonstrate to myself that I can use Windows.
In my spare time, I'm Linuxy. Or Unixy. Most of the time I use Debian or Ubuntu - I like Debian's ethos and Ubuntu's people. I've an odd fondness for OpenSolaris, too (which is probably entirely down to my peculiar attraction to Sun1 ), and I keep having BSD phases. Haiku really is the best thing since sliced bread. If you don't mind the slices occasionally being a bit wonky (it's still in alpha).
It's been said that I take the first 't' of http rather too literally, I've certainly something of an aversion to the 'ml' bit of HTML, and a complete absence of the middle 'S' in CSS. I don't do design, and in my eyes the presentation of something is always secondary to its function. Though I've still not entirely settled on a font for my shell.
I run, help run, administer, advice, spec, discuss, criticize and wield Vim in the direction of servers on the Internet. Currently I run two and I've lost track of how many I help with; five or six. Lamp is the staple service stack2, but mine also host a java-based game server that my brother's a co-developer for (and he'd probably like me to plug it a bit) and mirror bits of things for various projects. For monitoring, I'm currently besotted with Munin.
I'm not completely computer focussed. When I want to be outside, historically it's always been on a two wheeled vehicle of some sort. I rode bicycles - mostly mountain bikes but my fair share of abominations - until I noticed engines a couple of years ago, and it's been motorbikes since. I tinker with bikes and engines about as much as I do with computers, though I'm dimly aware of the the increased risk associated with an engine's equivalent of a segfault.