As the blog title says, I consider myself a BAFM (Wikipedia calls them BOFH). This isn’t supposed to be taken literal, as I ain’t as bad as the original (that’s why I called it BAFM and not BOFH).
I am a 42 year old computer geek (if you don’t know the difference between geek and nerd: a geek only has Intelligence and a bit of an obsession, while the nerd has both as well as social ineptitude). Currently I live in South-West Germany with my family, where I work for a large IT systems house.
When I’m at work, I pretend do be a system administrator/systems engineer handling mostly VMware infrastructure, Cisco UCS/Cisco UCS-X/NetApp and PureStorage systems.
In my past job, I used to be a jack of all trades - as in handling the whole IT for an entire data center (most parts of it) for a rather large University in North-Eastern Germany, as well as some sort of guide for a couple of trainees.
While I’m not working, I mostly spend time with my family. I’m trying to also spend some time at the gym, (you know, to work of the anger and frustration one amasses during the day) or reading (what I would consider " good books"), mostly science fiction or " normal" thrillers (Dan Brown ain’t exactly normal, neither is Frank Schätzing) or modern adventures like Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt Adventures.
Maaaaany books!
If there is some time left, I may end up watching one of my (maaaaaaany) movies. If you’re looking for a way to contact me, try my email address: hello@pakiheim.de
This list shows all the open source work I’ve done in the past, while spending time in front of computer(s):
- Nagios plugin “check_ram” (based on check_swap)
- Some minor adjustments on check_ram.py, I don’t deserve credit for
- various backports for SLES 9/10/11 and VMware ESX 3.5/4.0
- various contributions to the code base of Gentoo Linux