I guess i’m supposed to fill this page with some useful content.
I’m Alexander W. Janssen and I’m an engineer working for a big IT-outfitter.
It’s my job to plan clusters based on Primepower- and Sun-hardware, basically everything from room-planning, electrical-schematics and rack-layout, defining requirements for air-conditioning, elevated floor and electricity up to high-level stuff like IP-network definitions and firewall-rules. I’m also a heavy UNIX-nerd and do a lot of programming – mostly small useful scripts. I’m also quite confident in IT-security issues, firewalls and safe network-design.
I’m married to Kerstin, who i already met back in highschool; we both live together in Düsseldorf, a mid-sized town in the west of Germany, together with two cats, Spot and Gonzo.
I used to have two blogs in the past, my first on – still hand-written – back in 1997 on my private homepage; this one eventually vanished due to a harddrive crash, but you still can see some content in the Wayback-machine.
Later i blogged at Bloglines, but got sick of the flaky service eventually.
This blog is mostly about high-performance computing, cluster-issues, civil rights, TOR, the Free Software Movement, general IT stuff and any now and them about myself, what i’m currently doing and where i am… my job involves a lot of traveling.
Hope you enjoy my blog, if you got any questions, meet me as “yalla” on #sgi in IRCNet or on #lbw in oftc.net. Or just use the contact-form below.
August 6th, 2006 – Alexander ‘Yalla’ Janssen.
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September 17, 2007 at 4:14 pm
[...] alexander w. janssen has been running a tor node in germany, and now has faced the face of repression… read the whole story here, about how the police crashed into his home after the adress of the server was used to post a threat in a german police forum. [...]