Linux and Me

After painful years with DOS and windows, back in the days when they were really bad (don't like them now, think about how much worse it was 10+ years ago), I finally got introduced to, and tarted with Linux 0.99pl15 and I have since then been a die hard fan.

Besides, Linus is a cool man :

Yeah, it's scary how people change in 6-7 years

After using Linux at school, at home and at work, I became a linux advocate. Soon after I moved to the Silicon Valley in 1997, I became a member, and a little later, an officer, vice president, and president of the Silicon Valley Linux User Group, which I served in various fashions for 7 years.
I have also had the chance to work at SGI when it was switching to linux, VA Research/VA Linux, back when it was a cool company, and I got to work with some of the brightest linux folks around, and I currently work at another really cool company: Google

Software I use and worked on

Linux wouldn't have existed without the free software community, therefore, even if I'm more a sysadmin than a programmer, I've tried to help by providing code/bug fixes/bug reports to many open source projects, including the following:

• RedHat Linux, see the list of tickets I opened with them
• Debian Linux (reported many bugs and provided fixes for some of them. Here's a list of outstanding bugs closed bugs and with my new Email address: outstanding bugs closed bugs)
• Slackware (back when there weren't any better distributions to use)
• Vim
• Midnight Commander
• Xgmod
• Gmodplay
• Procmeter
• WWWoffle
• Gallery
• watchdog
• Mirror
• Enlightenment
• Eterm
• Linux kernel NFS
• Mailman
• Exim (my patches are here)
• UW Imap (my patches are here)
• SFS
• SpamAssassin
• logcheck
• amanda
• linux autofs
• Security patch for Excite for Web Servers (well, that one isn't really open source)
• Newsgate
• Assemble Usenet Binaries (aub)

• Linux kernel ARP patch for duplicate MAC address and IP detection
• Rhupgrade is a script that helps you update your redhat system by hand (kind of outdated now that RH finally wrote up2date)
• Mailman patch to run with a securelinux kernel (linux 2.2 securelinux or 2.4 grsecurity) (you need this if you have restricted hardlinks turned on)
• Way too many small programs and scripts that I never took the time to release (shame on me). No documentation, but you can browse them here
• My patches for UW Imap
• My patches for exim 3 and 4
• SA-Exim (SpamAssassin in Exim at SMTP time)
• Mp3 renaming tools Tools I wrote to rename mp3s with correct and consistent filenames, and set tags (ID3 v1 and v2) from properly named files
• Linux Farm Maintenance with Getupdates, with a few details in this article
• The Linux Xfree Videomodes setup HOWTO I wrote (sorry, it's in French, I know, I should have known better when I wrote it).
• X10 mouseremote / sendxevent / lirc documentation
• Blogger archive output parsing tools
• Tips/how to compress camera videos with mencoder
• How to convert raw cr2 pictures with linux, and merge pictures by date and Exif data with jhead
• Or a joke doc about raid 45

Other Misc Pictures

• My license plate
• Linux VR shots
• Miscellaneous Pictures from SVLUG