Introducing myself
Being new to the blogging community, I guess it's a polite thing to say a few words about myself before I overwhelm you with that stream of thoughts of mine.
As so many of my "learned" profession (I've graduated in Physics back in '97),
my path lead me away from research and into computing. Having done system
programming and administration on a HP/UX monoculture in the institute of
physics for several years, I shunned that HP offer and joined Sun instead
(hey, even after all these years of Sun not exactly doing well I'm still
happy about this decision)...
So from Sun Service to Solaris Sustaining I went over the next years, and
I'm still there - bugfixing Solaris, as my job description says I should
spend around 80% of my time on.
The big advantage of the Sustaining Engineering role is that you come to
see a lot of different places in the Solaris Operating Environment over
time. So I've worked on the SPARC kernel, various filesystems, threading,
VM, even OBP, and since we turned our focus back onto x86 also on the
x86/x64 kernel. If it weren't for the urgency-to-patch of escalated issues
that now and then interrupt the cosy "what bug can I fix today" state, life
would be paradise ...
There is a life outside of work; as far as that goes, I'm first and formost
into astronomy.
I've started stargazing as a kid - the first book I ever owned was titled
Eine Reise zu den Sternen (A journey to the stars), consisting of
little stories where grandpa explained the constellations to his grandson
over the course of a year, one at a time and always directing to the next
based on those having been shown previously. A wonderful book, it kept me
enthralled for a few months. I keep it to this day, and no it's not for
sale. Like none of the other Astro-gear that I own :)
I do like to travel and see foreign places. And I like good food & wine, if you happen to be German, Wine-Lover and in the Farnborough/UK area, contact me about having a bottle together.
But now, on to more interesting things !
