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Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/people/tepsipakki

Homepage: http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton

IRC: tepsipakki on irc.freenode.net

About me

I'm an UNIX administrator working now fulltime for the Computing Centre of Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) in Finland. Current work involves administering 220+ Dapper workstations and some Tru64-UNIX servers and clusters. When not working, I'm trying to finish my master's degree (major: semiconductors and materials of electronics), other hobbies include singing in a mixed choir and various sports (ultimate, floorball, soccer)

I've been using Linux since 1998; first briefly SuSE, then Debian unstable until in November 2004 I had to reinstall my laptop and decided to try Ubuntu because of the Debian heritage. Now my home computer runs Dapper, and some/most of my friends have installed Ubuntu as well and are very pleased.

Skills

• General UNIX-administration, mostly Linux and Tru64 UNIX (+Trucluster)

• shell & some perl, other languages read-only for now

• deb-packaging (in-house packages for Ansys, Maple, Mathematica, Matlab and others...)

What I'm interested in

• GNOME, in general
• NFSv4 support. Essential for installations behind insecure networks
• making sure that Ubuntu behaves well in a campus network with hundreds of clients
• improving the framework for automatic installations
• improving various tools aimed at system administrators

• VDR (like mythtv/mediacenter but better suited for DVB set-top boxes

Contributions so far

• distributed 650 Hoary CD's for the TKK students in September 2005
• some minor patches, mostly upstream

  • grub-installer https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/17267

  • apt-setup http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348509, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/apt-setup/+bug/29646

  • gnome-session http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149447

  • zenity http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149290

• bug reports here and there

  • launchpad https://launchpad.net/people/tepsipakki/+reportedbugs

  • GNOME http://tinyurl.com/ho3rp

  • Debian http://bugs.debian.org/from:tjaalton@cc.hut.fi, http://bugs.debian.org/from:tjaalton@cc.hut.fi&archive=yes

• bug triaging every now and then https://launchpad.net/people/tepsipakki/+karma

• gtkpod-aac... http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=1908

• testing fully automated netboot-installations since May 2005

• merges: http://tinyurl.com/y9prbb

• syncs: http://tinyurl.com/yfpmsp

• leading ubuntu-vdr team, have been waiting for new upstream versions

Todo

• possibly integrate in-house applications/scripts with Ubuntu, although they need to be released to the wild first
• help make PAM/LDAP/krb5 integration better

• more and better VDR-related packages [http://www.e-tobi.net/blog/pages/vdr-repository/], together with Debian vdr-team, starting with edgy+1

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