Geoffrey D. Bennett

About me

Things I do

• I'm the Senior Systems Engineer for NetCraft Australia. We do network and systems consulting (mostly Linux and/or Cisco related), outsourced system administration, ISP Management systems, and software development. I get to do bits of all of that, so I like my job :-).

• I'm the organiser of the LinuxSA User's Group. I maintain the web site, run the mailing list, and occasionally give a talk at our monthly meetings.

TiVo

A few slice files that could be useful to people trying to control stuff via IR with a TiVo.

PostgreSQL

I've done some work with PostgreSQL and have written a few notes that may be of interest to some people.

Personal Triumphs

• Getting Toshiba to honour the ``End User License Agreement for Microsoft Software'' included with my notebook.

My skills

• Extensive experience in most aspects of Linux system administration, including managing WWW, FTP, named, NFS, X, sendmail, fax, lpd, BIND, majordomo, SmartList, Samba, and PostgreSQL services.
• Experience in managing TCP/IP based networks.
• Experience in various programming languages, including C, Perl, PHP, Pascal, Ada, Bourne Shell, 68000 & 8086 assembler code.

Awards/Prizes/Degrees/Qualifications/Certifications

• Winner of the IBM HackFest at linux.conf.au 2004
• Red Hat Certified Trainer (first in Australia)
• Red Hat Certified Engineer
• Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering with First Class Honours
• Celsius Tech Australia Computer Communications & Networks Prize
• British Aerospace Australia Computer Systems Engineering Scholarship

Current Interesting Quote

``School's goal is to prepare them to be anything they want. But the process is so dullifying and kids haven't explored the possibilities of what they could be that many set their sites as low as possible. They go to college to get a job to buy stuff.'' -- Joyce Fetteroll

Here's a bundle of other interesting quotes I've collected.

Family

As of the 8th May, 1999 I've been married to my sweetie, Lindy. Our (novel) wedding invitation included a CD, the contents of which can be viewed here. The CD contents are copyright 1999 by Geoffrey D. Bennett and Belinda Nayda. The images on the CD are copyright their respective photographers.

I now have two beautiful children: Cameron was born in October 2003 and Emily was born in July 2006.