Welcome to Marc Merlin's Home Page

Introduction

Hi, before starting, just a few words:
Since the purpose of the Web is to convey information, those pages are in English, not in French, my mother tongue. Likewise, I use plain standard (who said boring?) HTML, so that I can reach as many browsers as possible. All my pages are Weblint and Lynx) compliant (or at least, they should be).
Feel free to Email me if you find any English or HTML mistakes.

I also have good news for you: You are not using microsoft internet exploder (or may also have disabled Javascript, which means that you know what you're dealing with) If you had, you would have seen this page instead.

Content

Here is some basic information about myself: I'm 26 year old Unix sysadmin (unless I forgot to update this page)

and work at Taos, the leading Unix/NT/Network sysadmins/Web developers staffing agency in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area.

I am a Linux biggot and I learned Unix and Linux while I was studying computer science at Efrei (French School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science). However, I had to acquire my sysadmin skills mostly on my own since you can't really learn those in a classroom

I am member of the following special interest groups:

San Francisco Bay Area Linux User Group (balug)
Silicon Valley Linux User Group (svlug), and I'm an officer of that group
l'Alliance Française de Santa Clara Valley (afscv), for which I administer two mailing lists, and their associated Web archives

Here are the other things you can find in those pages:

Linux (reports from linux events, software I wrote, and other things)
A whole collection of documents on writing HTML pages, CGI scripts and so forth that I put together. Most of it is old, but that's actually a feature, it's good old compatible HTML
Banks of icons, lines, and images I made while I was webmaster at Efrei
More about me
My CV/Resume
My links (nice stuff there)
A Demo Web server I made during my summer '95 internship

99/08/08 (22:02) Version 3.6: Changed my age, and changed the logo at the bottom of the page, and put my picture in the top left corner
99/08/08 (23:00) Version 3.7: Taos Mountain is now Taos, and fixed some HTML
99/08/09 (00:04) Version 3.8: I'm not a linux fan, I'm a linux biggot :-), fixed stuff about Efrei, and added that I'm an SVLUG officer.