TimoAaltonen

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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 Smile :)

  • X.org

Contributions so far

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

  • better Xperience Smile :)


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