User:Fostermarkd

From ConShell

I am 42 years old and live with my wife and two children in Shoreline, Washington (USA), which is just north of Seattle. I am currently employed as a Support Engineer by EMC Isilon .

My first computer was Commodore 64 with (yep) a whopping 64KB (65534 bytes) of RAM . I was 13 years old & was hacking BASIC in no time. I dialed bulletin boards (BBS) across the country (using my 2400 baud modem) and played door games in the wee hours, racking up a phone bill over $100 for which my parents made me sell my beloved electric guitar to pay for.

Please visit my homepage if you haven't yet been.

• Projects page

Software Development & Packaging

These are software projects I am involved in, either as a package maintainer, tester or developer. Not to be confused with the applications I just (ab)use.

Applications

• XCA - GUI for SSL/TLS certificate management.
  • FreeBSD package maintainer
  • Ubuntu packages available at my launchpad PPA and now available for REVU.
• dnstop - flexible monitoring tool for DNS traffic
  • FreeBSD and CentOS package maintainer
• Scavenge - DNS auditing tool I wrote to help clean up my crufty DNS zones.
  • FreeBSD and CentOS package maintainer
• iscsi-target
  • FreeBSD package maintainer...based on NetBSD's implementation.
• mt-daapd
  • FreeBSD package maintainer as of 2007-11-27 see Firefly Media Server for notes

Other things under consideration: winff

FreeBSD specifics

• FreeBSD Port Tips - notes for port maintainership

Ubuntu/Debian specifics

• DebianPackaging
• Ubuntu Packaging Guide
• How to make deb packages
• Launchpad acct

CentOS specifics

• Building RPM packages for CentOS
  • CentOS-5 i386 RPMs
  • CentOS-4 i386 RPMs
  • CentOS-3 i386 RPMs
• RPM Builder - setup notes for preparing a package build environment under CentOS or Red Hat

Other pages of personal interest

Pages of general interest are better linked to from the HomePage

• Applications that I use a lot
• Articles and Papers
• Before I Die - lest I forget
• Benchmarks - of various systems I've owned or used.
• Books, reading, read or want to.
• Boredom Busters
• Favorite Quotes
• For Sale
• FreeBSD
• IBM PC Camera - notes how to get this webcam working on Linux/Ubuntu
• Ideas, some stuff I come up with to do
• Mailing Lists - these are the Internet mailing lists I subscribe to.
• Music that I'm into, and Favorite songs by bands I like
• Networks
• NodeTracker - deprecated. Someday I hope to replace it with something more modular that hooks into DHCP, DNS, Nagios and the like to provide holistic server management.
• OpenID hints
• Performance Troubleshooting
• Ports
• Presentations I've given, mostly about DNS.
• Registrars - ones I use or have considered
• /Security/Personal tips for staying safe and keeping (personal) data secure.
• SysAdminTips
• Top Ten Lists
• Torrent Sites
• Ughlish - ruminations and what-not on the english language
• Video Antics - notes on encoding from DV, DVD to avi, iPOD and the like.
• Piano