User:DouweQuerty

From Gentoo Linux Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] Welcome

Welcome to this page which contains some background information about me. I personally don't look at the personal pages of other users (often) so if this page isn't much help then I messed up again. But I hope it will contain some usefull information.

[edit] My Computer Intrest

Yes playing around with computers is one of my hobbies :P I also like to pretend (like all the other computer freaks) that I have other hobbies (like Judo, Beer, Motorbikes etc) but I must admit computers takes most of my money. I don't work (yet) in the computer business because I still study astrophysics. To give you an impression of what I do with computers I have made a list of things I do on my computer :

  • Computer Play toys :
    • Programming (When I need to impress people I use "Software Development")
      • Mostly in Java (Servlets, JDBC, mostly avoiding a GUI :P)
      • Sometimes in C (for extensive calculations/simulations)
      • When I was just a little boy ... (GW)-Basic and Turbo Pascal
      • Can read other languages too but don't use them myself
    • Scripting Languages (Don't enjoy it much ... But there is really no escape)
      • (X)HTML (Still looking for a woman who can help me out :P)
      • Javascript (I use the 1.5 standard)
      • CSS (to make the webpage development complete :P)
      • Shell Scripting
    • Hosting Games over the internet for my friends (not always legitimately :P)
    • Playing strategy and (online)RPGs
    • Hosting / Organise / Help to organise LAN parties
    • Provide Download service (FTP, SFTP, DC++, curently working on a bittorents tracker for LAN Party use)
    • Hosting my own domains (apache working together with tomcat, postgresql (had more than enough of mysql) and zimbra (mail server))
    • Crunching with Seti currently running on the BOINC platform
    • Software / Hardware RAID systems (0/1/5 curently playing with the software RAID capabilities of the linux kernel)
    • Building my own Computers (Buy the hardware I need and putting it together ... For optimal Performance)
    • Fixing PC's of relatives and friends (When provided enough Beer ofcourse :P)
    • Games Development (currently reading "Designing Virtual Worlds" by Richard A. Bartle)
    • Chatting with relatives and friends on IRC, MSN, ICQ, Ventilo and TeamSpeak
    • Providing Tutorials for things I tested or have done (in the hope people would do the same ...)

Currently out of ideas but with this long list it wouldn't come to much of a surplrise that my pc's are online day and night :P

[edit] Me

Well as soon as I find a decent picture of me I will upload it. It seems that every photo taken of me is a silly one or I just always manage to mess it up. But here is some other info:

  • name Roland de Rooij
  • Gender Male
  • alias Douwe Querty
  • Country The Netherlands
  • City Hilversum (Media City of the Netherlands)
  • email me@douwequerty.com (Yes my own mail server is up and running)
  • Other Intrest Judo (I teach too), Motorbikes (fixing them myself too), Beer (which student doesn't :P), Science (physics, astrophysics, biology and general) and Politics (member of the PvdA).
  • Games Civilisation, Rome Total War, NeverWinter Nights, Guildwars, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2, C&C Generals (just some games I like to play in no particular order)


[edit] My Gentoo Server

Yes my personal webserver is running gentoo ... I have experimented with different distro's (debian, redhat, fedora, SOL and unbuntu) but gentoo was the only linux distribution that I could make do everything I wanted and was highly configurable. It seems that my ideas about linux configuration were either uncommon or just not supported. However I think my config wasn't that uncommon judge for yourself :

Hardware :

  • Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon (with HT)
  • 2 Gb ECC memory
  • 2 36 Gb U320 SCSI Discs (in software mirror)
  • 1 160 Gb IDE disk (for backups)
  • SCSI U160 Hardware Raid Device (For future space expansion)
  • CDROM drive and floppy drive

Software and Configuration :

  • Operating system : Gentoo Linux
  • Disc/partition : 2 * 36 Gb SCSI in software RAID (mdadm)
    • For data/config/log dirs --> in a lvm2 group (for easy maintenance : Writable snapshots for backups, easy partition size changes and easy increased size disk replacements)
  • Email : Zimbra in a unbuntu chroot (zimbra is a complete email suite with calender etc... open source with full AJAX interface!)
  • Webservice : Apache with adds
    • Linked to tomcat with mod_jk (I prefer servlets to php or perl)
    • Linked to zimbra with mod_proxy
    • mediawiki as wiki (connected to postgresql)
  • Database : postgresql
    • With Database-connectionpool Proxool
  • FTP : PureFTPd (proftpd had HUGE security holes in the past)
  • DNS Service : Bind (chrooted for security reasons)
  • Firewall : iptables
  • Maintenace tools
    • Webmin for general administration tasks
    • Editted version of PretendUpdateScript to be informed about possible system updates for gentoo
    • Editted version of UpdateScript for lazy gentoo update
    • Chrony for time/date synchronization
    • ssh ofcourse for remote access

Some other common packages like : samba, denyhosts, tetex, gnuplot, svn, netplug etc.

[edit] Thanks for Reading

Yes thnxs for taking the time to read this and hopefully it was usefully. Got questions or still have some unfulfilled intrest ? Contact me at me@douwequerty.com . Sorry I forgot to change my email adres in the account thus if you emailed me before 17 sep 2007 and not yet received a reply please contact me at my new email adres.

Retrieved from "http://gentoo-wiki.com/User:DouweQuerty"
Personal tools