About Me
22 February 2005 @ 14:48
My name is Chris Boot (not the photographer). I finished a BSc (Hons) Computing Science degree at the University of Huddersfield in May 2006 and got a first! I’ve now got a job as a Linux Systems Administrator at Abacus Tree, a medium-sized software and design company based in North Devon.
Previous to my current job I did an Industrial Placement at Oracle Corporation working in the Web Applications Services team, which is part of the Applications IT division. The team I was part of is responsible for running all the critical web applications, including the famous GSI, the internal Service instance, MetaLink, and many others.
I was born in London, but when I was two my family moved near Nice, France. When I was down there I went to the local French school for a few years, but spent most of my school years at the International School of Nice, before moving to the UK and starting my degree. I speak fluent French and Polish, in addition to English. I met Jess at Uni, and you can get the other side of the story on her blog, Revolutionary Rants.
I’m a self-confessed computer geek. I’m a long-term Mac, Linux, and Windows user, and have a keen interest in learning about anything that I don’t yet know about. My home network consists of a great number of computers running Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows (which doesn’t help our electricity bills, but I offset the guilt by thinking it helps the heating bills in the winter!). My favourite Linux distribution is Debian, although I’ve used many various distros including among others Gentoo, Red Hat Enterprise, and more recently CentOS. My Windows and Linux workstations, as well as one of my servers, are home-built PCs. One of the other servers is an embedded-class Soekris net4801 that is my home network router, the other two are Sun UltraSPARC 5’s running Debian Linux.
This web site is powered by WordPress, which uses PHP and MySQL. PHP is loaded as a module into Apache 2.0, and is accelerated by eAccelerator. The whole lot runs atop Debian GNU/Linux Sarge (3.1) on one of my servers (Baldrick), which is currently colocated in London. I had written up a page of info about each of my computers, but most of these change so often that I just couldn’t keep up.
Registered Linux User #198188 and Student Member of the British Computer Society.
