About Me

I was born in South Africa in 1975 and went to school at the High School Ferdinand Postma in Potchefstroom. I moved to Cape Town in 1998 where I worked in a number of I.T. positions.

I moved to London in 2002 when my employer transfered me to the office there.  I am a Systems Administrator currently running my own consulting company specializing in custom made Linux solutions based on my experience spanning more than a decade in very large multi national companies.

I am usually involved with computers in some way or the other. I have been using Unix and Unix like systems since the early '90s. My Linux Counter entry was created in September 1995, I think I started some time in December 1993 though but did not have an internet connection then, so my entry only came later. I started out with the SLS 1.03 distribution of Linux in the days of pre 1.0 kernels.

I recently made the choice to move all my systems off FreeBSD to the RedHat based CentOS Distribution

My main hobby when not doing computer related work is in photography, you can see some of my photos at my Flickr Page

I do not get much time for reading thesedays but I mostly read technical books or books from the likes of Neal Stephenson, Ian Banks, Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett.
Close