About me
How to contact me
You can reach me at: Weblog_at_TonKersten.com or at Weblog_at_pa1ton.nl
My GPG key fingerprint is:
83C9 2481 D471 4FA4 B460 C449 B0BA ACA1 1B75 966C
Where the last 8 characters are the key-id.
I also like to receive books, whisky, gadgets and CD's 
and I talk about and "do" technology, don't like politics and love food and
coocking for friends and quiet dinner parties.
UNIX/Linux
I live in Groesbeek, near the German border and I run all kinds of Linux and UNIX. For instance my laptop runs Ubuntu and my servers run a variety of stuff, like CentOS, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
I started using Linux way back in 1992, when the kernel version was at 0.96alpha. This was a 40 floppy SLS distribution, the predecessor of Slackware, running on my Intel 486 PC with only 8MB of RAM. And it worked like a charm. I was completely sold. After a lot of work of the OpenSource community configuration and installation of a Linux machine is much simplified and I believe it’s almost there to take over Windows.
Even after all these years I’m still charmed with the simplicity and tweakability of a Linux system. It does what I want it to do and not the other way around.
Making my hobby into work I joined forces at AT Computing in 2001 as a UNIX/Linux consultant and as a UNIX/Linux teacher.
What Not To Do
HTML formatted mail has a high chance of ending up in my spam folder - where it will probably be discarded. Also, please use a subject line in your message.
I will not authenticate messages sent to people with strict anti-spam tools, like Mailblocks and stuff. I have better things to do with my time. We all hate spam, but don't push the problem to other people.
Please, do not send me spam e-mail (doesn't everybody want that??). I will charge you a dollar or a euro for every spammail sent to me for transport, storage and annoyance. So if you send spam, be prepared to pay.
HAM Operator
I'm a licensed HAM operator (with CW included) with call sign PA1TON and my
QTH is in Groesbeek, The Netherlands. The Maidenhead locator is JO21xs.
Geek info
Have a look at Geek Code to see what it means. And, yes, I do think that I am a nerd. And I am proud of it. (I'm glad I'm not a sports-jock. I would get rather bored with asking: "Would you like fries with your burger, sir?")
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS/E/IT d- s-:+> a+>? c++ ULSHA*++++$ P++ L+++ E--- W++ N++
O- K- w--- !O M V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP++ t++@ !5 X+ R-> tv+()
b++>+++ DI++ D G++>+++ e++ h r+++ y+ C++
-----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
(If you find it difficult to decode this, here is a decoded version)
You can see my personal and public profile on LinkedIn
CA Cert
I am a certified CA Cert assurer (CACert) with assurer certificate number 000507.
If you do have a CACert account and would like to be assured, just send an email to make an appointment. (Living near Groesbeek would be handy, of course)
Prince2
On May 13 I took the "Prince2 Foundation" exam and succeeded.
So, now I do have a "Prince2 Foundation qualification".
Maybe, when time comes, I will do the "Prince2 Practitioner"
as well.
No comments
Technically is it possible to use nanoblogger with comments, but I don't want to run a database just for this site and all the javascript stuff needed looks fragile to say the least. So, no comments for now.
Copyright and stuff like that
This site is created with the complete source and help of Mieks site. Therefore all things that work are made by Miek and everything that's broken, was broken by me.
HTML and CSS Compliant
Care has been taken to make this site XHTML 1.0 (transitional) compliant.
Last time I checked [2010-08-25] it was.
How it's created and maintained
This site is generated with Nanoblogger, Markdown (patched by me) and (of course) Vim.