PAUL ROBINSON
ABOUT
Welcome to PJR.cc - Its way past time I actually bothered to produce something here. This be the home of me, Paul Robinson. I work for a small consulting firm in Sydney, AU called Sententia. We do mostly Systems Integrator type work, building, installing, setup of hardware and software. Personally, I code (alot) and most of what I do can be found distributed around the world as I gain interest in different FOSS portals (often just because they look kewl or at least look worth trying out). But, anyway, enough of this. The menu on the left will take you places you want to go - enjoy! If your looking for me, im "takigama" on google and twitter, and my blog (mostly half-cocked rants) are herePersonal Info
Coding
This is my OSS coding page - most of the things I code are either on Sourceforge or google code. Things like:
GIT
My GIT repositoryMinifed
Minifed was a fine example of where bulos started (shell script -> kde application -> web application)DB Hammer
DB Hammer was a generic database load testing tool that was (for a while) quite popular (so popular I couldn't keep up with the code and people emailing me). These days its mostly relagated to history and in case someone sees it and decides "this is a kewl peice of code, i'll use it and build on it", here it is. Originally it was designed on the premise of being able to load test just about any db - it was also binary (c code mostly) and used dynamic libraries for supporting db's. Semi-cutting edge in its time and did a spectacular job of loading DB's to the hilt as well as giving rough stat's on how they performed The code, the change log, and example of its use and the TODO should be below... run spot, run I had even written a page where people could publish their results, sadly it no longer worksScore Archer
Score Archer was one of my first (and only ever released) applications written for the palm platform (such a shame it died). I got quite alot of enjoyment out of the palm pilot and they had wonderful support, hopefully their latest resurrection can bring them back somewhere worth being - who knows? it was really just an app so that I could score myself during a round of archery and compare between rounds, its files are below, for archival purposes, enjoy!Photography
Linux
I LURVE linux - mostly because of what it is capable of that no other OS is. I love most distros and have used linux since '92 (i think), in order of use these be:
Slackware - was one of the first (if not the first) linux distro's and the only one still in existence
Redhat - when i was using it, it was RedHat enterprise linux, it was just plain redhat (9 was their last public appearance I think)
Fedora - when redhat went away into the depths, this is where I went (and without any complaints either). Its a great distro, cutting edge (painfully so sometimes)
Centos - great for "production without the pricetag" where people balk at the price of RHEL or similar, stable, secure and beautiful
Ubuntu - I find I dont *LOVE* the product, but I love what they are trying to do. I do use ubuntu (on my netbook mostly) and quite appreciate it
These days I (personally) mostly use the last 4, though I still play with slackware from time to time, and of course quite enjoy seeing new developments in the linux distro world. Some of the things I have loved include Damn Small Linux, System Rescue CD, Timo's Rescue CD (an old fave), Gentoo and many many many others. There are very few distro's i've looked and said "god thats pointless".
To anyone just getting into this "linux thing", start at ubuntu or fedora and get to know it form the desktop, get on irc on freenode and watch, you'll learn much worthwhile....
Motorbikes
Ahh, i used to be into motorbikes, but no longer have the time. I still love em and ride one every day, but i no longer do the "track"... I'll probably put some stuff here when i get the chance.
3D Printing
Certificate Authority
My certificate authority uses X-CA. This is a brilliant piece of software, very worth while if you looking for some "CA" software. Its very very flexible and complete, the only other thing i've seen that has come close in terms of features has been the Netscape iPlanet CA software (part of the j2ee and web server software they used to ship). But X-CA is capable of doing things i've never seen in alot of CA's before, and well worth a look.
Sadly the owner of the code seems to have decided it was "time to move on" which is a shame, but its probably going to be good enough for some time to come