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Austintek is a small consulting business, based in North Carolina, USA. It services the Triangle (RTP, Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill) area. Service in the Triad and outside can be arranged.
Austintek provides wifi connectivity for conferences, meetings and outdoor events, and installs permanent wifi setups for businesses.
Austintek does sysadmin for unix computers (and clusters of computers).
Bioinformatics is our speciality. I found the DD(35)E motif in the retroviral integrases, showing that the enzymes were a tri-acid enzyme, and made predictions on the enzyme's functionality based on its conserved residues. I found that the retroviral integrases were members of a larger family which includes the bacteria IS sequences.
Austintek can do contract programming, benchmarking and data analysis. We can program in -
Linux Virtual Server (LVS) HOWTOs
The Linux Virtual Server (LVS) Project is a GPL'ed layer 4 router for Linux, which allows you to combine low cost servers (e.g. web, database) into a single highly available, high throughput server.
For my write-ups on LVS (HOWTOs, performance, meeting note, trivia quiz, iron-on labels, presentations, configure script), please see my LVS page
Gnucash is a GPL double entry accounting package. This tutorial is referenced from the Gnucash website documentation page.
This presentation was delivered, on 9 Jul 2001, to the North Carolina Sysadministrator's Association (NCSA), an organisation based in RTP, NC, USA, which has monthly meetings with
I was the treasurer of NCSA from Dec 2000 to Dec 2003.
I've been a ham radio operator since High School (first licensed in 1964 as VK2ZJM). I currently hold the callsign NA3T. I'm interested in VHF equipment design and moon-bounce (communication using the moon as a passive reflector).
I maintain (and co-authored along with Michael NV3Z) the AZ_PROJ azimuthal equidistant projection website. This projection produces maps of the world in which you are at the center. Great circles through your location are straight lines enabling you to determine bearings to anywhere in the world. The code for the map generator is freely available under GPL.
A 50yr plan for ham radio in response to the ARRL's plan for restructing for ham radio.
Analysis of the 1999 Spring Sprints (the sprints are a VHF/UHF contest on the US east coast).
A talk (http://www.austintek.com/outsourcing/outsourcing.html) given to the North Carolina Systems Administrators (http://www.ncsysadmin.org/) 12 Jul 2004. Outsourcing is the replacement of American workers by cheaper labor from overseas. The labor can be imported into the country, e.g. by giving the worker an H1-B visa, or by contracting the job to workers overseas.
I've hiked for most of my life. I wrote up
I'm a scientific programmer working as a contractor at a US Govt supercomputer center. I
I have Ph.D. in biochemistry and had 25 yrs of scientific research, including University of California (Davis), Yale University, US Department of Agriculture, National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institutes for Health (NIH) before turning to programming for a career.