About Lindsay

LindsayDruett works for FxNetworks Hamilton office as a Senior NetworkEngineer providing technical support and customer delivery in the central and upper region of the North Island (basically Waiouru upwards). He also owns an internet hosting service, Wired Networks Limited.

Projects

• WM-918 automatic weather station using WX200d for gathering data and submitting to Wunderground

Goals (not necessarily in that order, and with no given timeframe)

• Become a Land Lord
• Become a Queen St. farmer
• Get CCIE certification (Long Term......)
• Find a live Asian Gypsy Moth within the WaikatoUniversity Campus

ReligiousWar Positions

Computer Geek Stuff...

• Switching

  • Cisco > * - For performance.
  • Linksys > * - For cost.
  • Cisco > * - for medium to large sites.
  • Linksys > * for non-critical medium to small sites.

• Routing

  • Cisco > * - For reliability and efficiency.
  • Linux > * - For sheer performance (depending on hardware).
  • Linksys > * - for low end stuff.
  • Linksys WRT54GL > * for doing really cool things.

• VoIP

  • Cisco Call Manager > * - For large sites.
  • Asterisk (including Trixbox, etc) > * - For sites where CCM isn't really needed.
  • Linksys > * - For IP Phones.
  • Linksys > * - For small VoIP gateways and analogue termination.
  • Cisco > * - For large VoIP gateways and analogue termination.
• Cisco Call Manager Express is cool, but Asterix is better.
• Linksys SPA 9000 is cool, but Asterix on a WRT54GL is better.

• General

  • Linux > Microsoft
  • joe > vi
  • NoReplyToMunging > ReplyToMunging

Petrol Head Stuff

• Subaru > Mitsubishi
• Subaru > *
• GM > Ford

Household Appliances

• Altas/Simpson > Fisher & Paykel
• Conventional Dishwashers > F&P Dish Drawers

Wishlist for Christmas

• An Air Tractor AT-602 Aircraft
  
• A Fendt 930 Vario Tractor
• A Subaru Outback 3.0R LTD
• Lifestyle Block
• A truck complete with cherry picker
• A nuclear power plant (to keep the servers going)

Extra stuff to stick into the stocking... (I've got a /56 IPv6 block to fill)

• Cisco Catalyst 3750G-24TS Switch
• Cisco 2851 Router (x2)
• Cisco 7970 IP Phones
• Dell Rackmount servers
• MGE Rackmount UPS (4000 VA)
• 20" TFT LCD Monitor (Phillips 200P3G)

How to contact Lindsay...

E-Mail lindsay@wired.net.nz

Mobile 021 92 90 92
Hamilton 0-7-974 9300
Wellington 0-4-498 3473

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