Greetings,
Let’s see. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite movies. I have others, but that just sort of came to mind. Been doing Linux for quite a number of years. Actually started with FreeBSD in my very first IT gig. Fedora was my go to for quite a few years until a friend tempted me with Debian, Knoppix I think it was.
At my last place of employment I found myself contributing a lot to the corporate wiki. Really enjoyed it. I had the opportunity to write up a lot of different sorts of IT related docs, from disaster recovery to how to manage the IP phones.
But I think I really got the bug after helping to review and update the company security policies as part of the annual security audit. Who’d a thunk that rewriting and revising for conciseness and clarity could be so satisfying?
Anyway. Presently, I’m between gigs. Been taking this time to explore technical writing more seriously, working through a couple tech comm books, practicing writing generally, and looking into some of the tools of the trade, like DITA and AsciiDoc -- which I have no idea how to use just yet. The whole idea of a document tool chain is pretty wicked though.
Recently I came across the beginners resource post on the relevant subreddit, and here’s me. Looking forward to helping out however I can.
Cheers,
-tim
Ah, I seem to have just noticed the detailed page describing the various bits and bobs desirable in the introduction note.
For the GPG key, I'll look into that soon.
My Time Zone: Pacific Topics of Interest? Ah, well I guess things like system hardening, firewall, disk and raid, virtualization KVM/OpenStack, general system configuration, anything Bash related. I'm pretty wide open though. Low level stuff like kernel architecture and writing device drivers is a bit beyond my ken just to say.
Other Skills? Python and Bash, a touch of C/C++. A fair bit of Windows/Linux interop, domain management (ActiveDirectory, Samba) and the like. Vmware. Asterisk. pfSense. Cisco and General networking. RAID and clustering. HTML, CSS, and Javascript. MySQL. LAMP and web dev kind of stuff (but I don't do web dev). Git and SVN. And there's even some people skills in there somewhere =)
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:08:13AM -0000, tts wrote:
Let’s see. Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my all time favorite movies. I have others, but that just sort of came to mind. Been doing Linux for quite a number of years. Actually started with FreeBSD in my very first IT gig. Fedora was my go to for quite a few years until a friend tempted me with Debian, Knoppix I think it was.
Hello, and welcome! I certainly hope we've tempted you back. :)
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Matthew Miller -
tts