What I do for a living

I currently work at http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ as a systems administrator on a high performance computing system. These days I'm doing less sysadmin work and more of the other fun things, like supposed research and development of stuff.

What I do for fun

I play Left4Dead. I used to play urbanterror, COD4 (Call of Duty 4), DoW (Dawn Of War) and Supcom2 (Supreme Commander 2), these games just aren't as fun as L4D

Recommended mailing lists of crap that I use and read

Recommended softwares that I like to use

Well this is really for my own reference really, I should move this into a section of its own so I can just add more and more stuff to a single page of links!

http://www.suckless.org/ - dwm and friends.
http://www.pidgin.im/
http://www.silcnet.org/
http://www.psyced.org/
https://www.scientificlinux.org/ - or your distro of choice, I guess linuxmint or the newer versions of debian based distros like ubuntu aren't too bad. centos isn't too bad either.
http://www.pkgsrc.org/
http://www.openssh.com
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://wiki.github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/
http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/

What I've done for my studies

B.Sc (Hons) Applied Maths and Physics
- Thesis: The Solution of Differential Recurrence Relations by the Method of Matrix Continued Fractions and its Application to Finding the Integral Relaxation Time for a System of Single-Domain Ferromagnetic Particle Displaying Uniaxial Anisotropy.
- Relevant Areas Covered:
  - EM/Laser theory
  - Optical Telecomms
  - Microwave Engineering
  - Classical/Quantum Mechanics
  - Functional Analysis
  - Mathematical Methods? (lots of numerical/applied methods)
M.Sc High Performance Computing
- Thesis: Case Study on the Equinox Cluster, different network topologies for High Performance Computing.
- Relavent Areas Covered:
- Quantum Computing
- Stochastic Methods