Name: Christopher Masto
Member since: 2001-01-12 17:31:36
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Homepage: http://www.masto.com/

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I co-founded and work for NetMonger Communications, which is now a division of In-Tel-Tec. I currently have too many jobs, include system administration, network engineering, programming, project management, and occasionally customer service.

I am a strong believer in free software. All my computers run FreeBSD; the only proprietary software left on them is Netscape, which will soon be replaced. My favorite operating system is FreeBSD, and my favorite language is Perl; I've contributed minor bits and patches to both.

I haven't written any major free programs, just bits and pieces. The most widely used is the Perl RADIUS module, which I hacked together in a couple of days back when we started NetMonger in 1996. Based on the feedback I get, it appears to be used by a fair number of ISPs.

At work, I am currently the lead programmer on a very large web-based database application. It uses exclusively free software, including FreeBSD, Apache, Perl, and PostgreSQL. We have developed some very cool object-oriented Perl systems in the course of building our app. Once the application ships, we will be releasing most of them to the free software community.

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15 Feb 2001 »

Spent most of yesterday trying to stop ypbind from going into a CPU-eating loop and stop serving requests. It mysteriously started working properly after about four hours, which probably means it will happen again next time I don't have time for it. But at least the slave server is back up and running. I hate yp.

It seems like every time there's a deadline coming up, things start breaking. Today the T1 from hell has gone down again.

 

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