A bit about me:
My name is Richard E. Cox III. I've been working as a systems administrator almost since out of highschool (2000-ish). I've worked in many different fields from mulitmedia delivery to sytems dealing with credit cards. I'm at least fairly up to date with most current Web Technologies, and I can admin the hell out of most things thrown at me.
Hopefully this site will be helpful in evaluating some of my work. I will keep trying to put up general scripts and configs that will be helpful to the Linux Community as examples, or just things I find to be interesting that might spark new ideas.
Some of my skiils
- MySQL
- Apache
- Basic Networking Equipment
- GRSEC Security Policies
- Postfix
- Bind Nameserver
- Xen Virtualization
- PHP
- Python
- Bash
- Flash Media Streaming (Progressive Download and On Demand)
- Audio Streaming (Shoutcast / Icecast)
- Windows Media
- Squid Proxy
- Graphic Utilites (Gimp / Inkscape)
- Samba
- Gentoo Specific Utilities (Ebuilds / Administration)
- Familiar with most current day monitoring systems
Other things about me.
I'm a big fan of the Gentoo operating system. I love the customability it provides to allow me to do exactly what I would like with my own systems, I'm extremely proficient when it comes to admining these boxes. I personally use it on all of my servers / laptops / desktops (The machine hosting this site is running Gentoo as well).
I'm used to being a part of an On-Call rotation, however I would like to get away from it if possible. I would preferably like to join a startup enviornment, or at least a small company. I've found these to allow for more flexability to figure out interesting solutions to problems. I like to be able to think a problem through and figure out a better solution without being constrained by company policies. The reason for this is that I've found these usually keep you from implimenting x,y, or z because you're not able to sell a non technical person in the company on why they're a better solution then the current one, or just because maybe someone else doesn't feel like it needs improvement.
