About
Genrally I’m just a cog in the machine, but I’ve been involved with OpenSource since 1996 ever since I spent weeks downloading Slackware on to 1.44mbps floppies. A short hop over to 1997 I picked up Perl and implemented open source technologies for the USAF, which was an uphill battle in 1997, more so than now, I’d imagine.
Since then I’ve applied OpenSource technologies to the aerospace, insurance and, of course, technical industries. Advocating the, well, superiority of FOSS solutions over commercial solutions I’ve been exposed to.
Personally I use OpenSource to run my effectively defunct and languishing Blog(Mnemonic Technology). Which is an OpenBSD server I’ve maintained and upgraded since 2000. Meaning it’s made it through one complete hardware upgrade(even switching architectures!) but I’ve never had to start the system from scratch. Additionally it hosts all my private monitoring applications which is just info porn for my eyes only.
I’ve also programmed various things to maintain an electronic music sample library(8 years & growing), done wacky things like parse firewall logs in to MIDI events & notes and stream various device files to audio files for use in electronic music applications(cat /dev/entropy > /dev/audio if you hate your ears).
Basically I dabble in interesting applications of FOSS, gain an understanding of it, and squirrel it away until the opportunity arises and then I pounce!