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.