User:Robert Brockway
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Originally from Australia, Robert has worked as a professional system administrator and solutions architect in Australia and North America. He has more than 15 years experience and has worked in permanent and contract roles, for government, at universities and in large and small businesses.
Robert specialises in Unix, networking and security and solutions architecture and is keen to see system administration develop as a profession.
Robert is happily married with one beautiful and very smart little girl.
His favourite books are:
His favourite movies include:
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IRC
Robert is active on the OFTC and Freenode IRC networks as Solver. Despite the fact that he spends most of his time on irc solving problems the nick does not originate in solving.
Talks
This is a quick list of talks I've done or are preparing:
Backups & Disaster Recovery
The talk can be found here
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)
Done but not available online yet
Secure Shell
Done but not available online yet
Network Theory & Practice
Several planned talks which will incorporate the CIDR talk
Introduction to Open Source
Primarily aimed at those know little or nothing about OSS and done from a business perspective. It will cover methods to make money out of OSS and briefly go over different OSS licences.
High Availability
Discussion of high availability, clustering, scalability, redundancy, etc.
Youtube
Some of my daughter's favourite Youtube videos:
