User:Ols

Oliver Leaver-Smith

Hi there,

My name is Oliver and I am a Network Engineer and Linux System Administrator working at a UK ISP

I built my first website at age 12, and have been doing so ever since. I quickly found that I enjoyed writing code by hand rather than using the drag-and-drop tools of the day -- I actually failed a module in Sixth Form because I wrote the code by hand rather than use Dreamweaver's layout tools (the teacher said the code was "too clean")

I started my Linux journey age 13 with Red Hat 9. I found a "Teach Yourself Red Hat" book on my dad's shelf and proceeded to tinker and unintentionally destroy his Windows partition. This wasn't all bad, as it meant that I got my own computer. Since then, I have chopped and changed with different distros, but have been a Fedora user since Fedora 14.

My current rig is a ThinkPad x61s and a HP ProLiant MicroServer, both running 23. I have 24 in a VM, but I think the sensible thing to do would be repurpose one of the 100 netbooks I have lying around as a test machine

My details

Birthday	9th March 1990
Hometown	Sheffield, England
FAS username	ols
Email	oliver@leaversmith.com
Website	https://leaversmith.com
GPG	C8D16C93
Freenode	muggahtee
Mobile	44(0)7450 217 558

Find me on IRC

Server	Nick	Frequent channels
freenode	muggahtee	#fedora, #fedora-social, #fedora-uk, #centos, #centos-social, #i3
terahertz	oliver-6871	#ix, #linx, #uknof
snoonet	muggahtee	#beer, #britishpolitics, #tea, #uk, #linux, #linuxmasterrace