Jason (Jay) R. Fink

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This page/site/whatever provides details about mui (Jason Fink). Here one can find hobbies, interests, recreation and for those who might need it reference information. Most people visiting have probably come via systhread.net. I also keep some pictures for those looking for me at conferences or to make the lives of assassins easier. We wouldn't want you to get the wrong person. Currently pictures are split between this site and systhread. I am working on separating the personal ones at systhread out and leaving the geekcentric ones on it. In any case they can be found in the pics section here or the pics section at systhread.

mui

Family, friends, recreation, fun, work ...
in that order. Reference Resume

`a/s/l`

I currently reside in an area called North Shore, MA.. I practically live in New Hampshire. I have lived in Vallejo, CA., Norfolk, VA., Salisbury, MD., Newport News, VA. and Mason, OH. I work in Boston, MA. and use the state commuter rail or telecommute.

I have traveled quite a bit too. Some of the places I have been to are the UK, France, Greece, Turkey and Israel.

Surfing

I enjoy surfing more than I do hacking or almost anything else. Well there is one thing I like more than either of those. Gentlemen do not discuss such things :-) I surf year round.

I surf from Maine to northernmost Mass. For those interested in the most excellent New England surf scene checkout NEsurf.com and the shop I like to resupply at Zapstix and Pioneers Board Shop.

I exclusively ride a Lost Rocket 6'4" now. It pretty much works in anything. I welcome any comments from fellow surfers about different board styles. I also bodyboard from time to time.

Skater

The style I have, if I had one, outside of my own unique feel comes off as surfing on pavement. Although I do search for out of the ordinary places to ride. I currently ride a 10x14 Alva Hyperkick with Powell-Peralta 60mm/94a wheels. That is pure coincidence by the way. I also have a 8.5x32 standard CA deck with no name 51mm/94a.

Snowboarding

Being a New Englander I had to find something to do during the winter that didn't involve being parked on a couch (although at times, that has merit). Snowboarding is the logical alternative for me seeing as how I either strap or jump on practically every other kind of board I can. Believe it or not just a little inland are a lot of free places to snowboard, cross country ski/snow shoe or just sledding. Especially in the North Shore area.

Open Source Programming and Hacking

I have written well over a hundred scripts, programs and utilities. Of those maybe about a dozen are worth anything to anyone other than myself. Over at my open source website there are more details about those and projects I have contributed to. Otherwise I like to spend a little off work time every week just goofing around with a program, script or perhaps some interesting technology.

For more information, source code and descriptions see systhread.net/coding.

Layout

I found this layout on the web at a CSS template site. I spent a lot of time looking for a cool lined up column layout when I stumbled across this kind of chaotic one. Perfect! If you want to use it - feel free the style sheet is in the header. Just download the page.

`nmap` & `dnet`

I do contribute code to various projects but the most notable of those are Nmap and Libdnet. Points of interest being:

File based UDP Payloads: I did the legwork for setting up file based UDP payloads instead of compiled in.
Ports: I often integrate port patches from other projects into both Nmap and Dnet. Mostly BSD based ones.
Sync: Nmap often makes improvements to Dnet by neccessity. I periodically sync those changes over to Dnet.
Buildtesting: When the occasion arises multiple platform (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, FC etc.) buildtesting.
General Bugswatting: When possible deal with bugs that crop up on lists.
And many more...

Career

My career while not quite as interesting as my hacking or outdoors recreations has been interesting nonetheless. I progessed from a technician to now a Sr. Networks/Systems Administrator & Programmer. The split is about 1/4 each allowing 10% time for infrastructure documentation.

Take a look at my resume for more information.

Published Author

I am a published author of sorts. Of course I run my own publication which generates some revenue. I have also contributed to other publications:

Books

Co authored one book on performance tuning.
Contributed Chapters to two books on the topic of performance tuning.
A few chapters in The NetBSD Guidebook

Magazines

Contributed several articles to 2600 quarterly.
Freelance writer for Internet.com for two years.
Probably other places I can't remember ATM...

Online

Systhread.net: my own site about Administration and Programming.
LinuxToday/LXer: I have contributed news and stories to both sites.
Rootprompt: Same as LXer. have written some material directly or provided links from/to.
Slashdotted Once....

More information along with ISBNs etc. can be found at systhread.net/texts.

Operating System Programming

I have contributed code great and small to Operating Systems in addition to my own activities which never had a reason to go public.

NetBSD

The NetBSD System is derived from BSD Unix which was developed at UC Berekeley by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) up until the mid 1990s.

I am a non-active NetBSD Key Developer. In short I have commit access to the NetBSD Operating System and Repository.

I have worked on a variety of projects, the most notable of which was the first implementation of Verified Executable Kernel Modification. Essentially a tripwire in kernel. I also have updated file utilities, performed a wholesale update of whois, patched/fixed a variety of network libraries and rototilled several filesystems.

Linux

I have primarily been a consumer of Linux. I did port a few drivers in Linux for my own purposes. I do write a great deal about Linux at my writing website.

More information along with better descriptions can be found at systhread.net/coding.

Contact Information

I can be reached via email using jay dot fink at gmail dot com. Questions, comments and/or bricks are always welcome. Dead trout not so much.

Technical questions about systhread are great but if you can please reference the article or text in question. Questions about code can be directly addressed (they are usually pretty self evident).