About duksta.org

duksta.org is the website of John Duksta.

Here's my PGP/GPG Public Key

Why are you here?

If you're looking here, then you're probably either (in order of probability)

If you fall into the last category, drop me an email and I'll send you a copy of my resume. Now that I'm employed again, I don't feel the need to keep my resume up on the website anymore.

Work Stuff

I'm a geek. My primary professional focus of the last seven or so years has been on network, system and application security. Since in order to secure a system, one must also be able to admin it, I also have skills in systems administration (Solaris and Linux primarily, Windows NT and 2000, and a smattering of HP-UX), network management, some development (bourne shell, perl, Tcl/Tk, VB, C), project management, etc.

Open Source

I'm a firm believer in the Open Source movement. I don't do that much coding, but whenever I do I release it as Open Source. You can check out the stuff I've written here.

Gear

In my spare time I do a fair bit of messing around with various toys.

TiVo

I've had a TiVo for four years now and have had it hacked for three. Dropped in a 60 gig drive and the TivoNet board. Pretty standard mods there, Tivoweb, extractstream, etc. Don't want to mess with TiVo too much, as it is a production machine.

HTPC

My desktop machine at home doubles as a Home Theatre PC. The home office is conveniently on the other side of an interior wall from the home theatre gear in the living room, so a couple of holes later and I have a nice hardwire connection to the home theatre gear. This machine serves a number of purposes; playing MP3s, recording and playing back shows off of cable (especially when TiVo can't resolve a schedule conflict.) It runs Win2K, has an All in Wonder Radeon 7500, and runs Girder for remote control using an Irman. I'd like to run Linux on this box, but I'm still not happy with the video tools available for Linux. Plus, you have to have a machine for games, don't you?

I wrote a cheezy VB application that serves as my TiVo style "Now Playing" menu for the HTPC. It's really basic, but it does what I need it to do. Like many projects of this type, just enough functionality gets done to serve the purpose and then it idles until I get back around to it from the gazillion other projects vying for my time.

Music

Having come of age during the late 80's and early 90's, I have a soft spot in my heart for the college radio bands of that time (Pixies, REM, Echo, etc, etc.) These days I listen to just about anything from indie rock to acid jazz to alt country. Some cool artists you should check out are:

Well, that's my deal. Shoot me some mail if you care to.