mks113's Journal: About Me

I'm a geek of Engineering (Electrical) with an unhealthy interest in computers -- so my wife thinks, anyway.

Home computers include my primary server, a used IBM PII 233 clocked at 266, my old server a 486/66 that served well for several years. Both run Redhat 7.3. The main computer interface I end up using is A PIII/850 which normally runs Win98, and gets rebooted once a day or so. While I can live mostly in Linux, I don't have time to fiddle getting my kids games running under wine, and I'm not ready to switch to a video editing under Linux.

The $10 yard sale special Tandy 102 is my portable computer. My wife wanted to be able to type and edit a journal from a recent trip rather than write it, then type it. The old tandy was great for that. Sixteen hours on a set of AA batteries was a great plus!

I grew up in Kenya, where my parents were missionaries. I'm presently in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, working as an Engineer at a nuclear plant.

My specialty is Environmental Qualification, which has nothing to do with computers other than lots of documents and a few databases. I've still managed to get Apache running on my computer with a web interface written in Perl to our main database!

That's enough about me for now. I'll add in some future plans later.

Michael