About Me

AHA!! You have come across this page. I’m assuming that you must be either very bored or very interested to know more about me or accidentally clicked on a link that happens to be this page. Either way, I will satisfy your appetite for information with this “About Me” page. Enjoy! :D
As you can see from my blog’s title, my name is Andryan. I was born in August 11, 1985. I graduated with Bachelor of Applied Science (Information Technology) from RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) in 2006. Prior to my departure to RMIT University, I was a student of Bina Nusantara International University in Jakarta, Indonesia. I was also a teaching assistant/tutor at Bina Nusantara International University. My program was a double degree, but I did not complete my BiNus degree upon returning from Melbourne so now I only have my RMIT degree.

Since my first computer I got for my birthday present in the 1990s (IIRC it was 1992), I have been a fanatic of computer-related stuff. During my junior high, I was introduced to Linux by a classmate. At the time, Red Hat 5.1 was only a few months old. Prior to my encounter with Linux, I have been using the Internet since the sixth grade.

In my high school years, I started to learn more about Linux, although not as much as FreeBSD. Michael Band of Alternative Web Services asked for my help to administer his FreeBSD servers (for web/dns/email hosting), so I learned a lot of FreeBSD stuff including jail.

During my university period, I began to use Linux (again) after years of FreeBSD. This time I tried Ubuntu Linux. Well, I thought that I was finally going to be able to ditch Windows as my desktop OS. After repeated attempts, I couldn’t get the feel even with a desktop-oriented Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, so it failed.. again. I decided that Linux is not going to be my desktop OS ever, it’s an OS of choice for servers but certainly not desktops — some people may disagree but at least this is the case for me. Fast forward a few years, finally I gave up and bought myself a MacBook. I love Mac OS X! This time I felt that I’m comfortable with a desktop OS that is not Windows for the first time ever. Now I get to put Mac OS X in my CV. :P
For the last 12 months, I have been using Fedora Core distributions for servers extensively at this ISP I’m currently working for. As you can see some of the blog entries are actually my real life encounters with a range of scenarios and programs.

In case you wonder why I started this blog.. I got annoyed when people don’t document their problems (specifically computer-related, be it software or hardware) and possible solutions to the problems. Since then I realized that if I can start documenting things, then some people might be able to find them and use them without having to waste time. Therefore if you learn something from my blog, please leave a comment to show your appreciation. Thanks! :)