Keith's Home Page

Hi, my name is Keith Johnston and I am a support staff member in Science IT, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Contact

Job_Title:

Senior IT Services Support.
My tasks include support for staff and graduate students usually in the Sector 300 area but further a field from time to time, and of course any other duties as required:-).

Email:

ka.johnston@auckland.ac.nz

Phone:

xtn 87977 (SIT), xtn 86501 (Optometry)

Office:

Room 371, Building 303s (Science IT). Room 2218a, Building 502 (Optometry)

Work

I work with peoples computers, their operating systems, software, networking, printing, and all those sorts of things. I am involved in supporting Windows, Linux, and OS X desktop users also.

I have made a localised package for the OpenAFS client for OS X.

Research and Studies

I am not an academic staff member, so don't do academic research. I am however interested in cryptography, computer security and Linux.

I have been working for several years with afs for Mac both Arla and OpenAFS, and at various times had one or both of them working on OS X.

Hobbies

I enjoy family life, reading especially science fiction and fan fiction, music, the outdoors. I have had a long interest in things geological and paleontological.

Computers (of course ;-)

I wrote my first computer program and generated my first syntax errors in 1972 using PORTRAN, and owned my first computer a Z80 based development board in 1981. I have dabbled a bit with 8 and 16 bit assembler, BASIC, Pascal, C and Java but am not programming these days.

I currently run Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP and Windows 7on PCs and OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on a mac mini and iMac at home, at work I use both OS X and Windows 7..

Territorials

I was a territorial soldier in the New Zealand Army one of the Royal New Zealand Engineers mostly in 1 Field Squadron based at Papakura Military Camp. I recently received My New Zealand Defence Service Medal, which is available to former service people.

Links

• Fanfiction.net's a well known fan fiction site, with something there to read for everyone.
• There is a lot of Harry Potter Fan Fiction and other Fan Art around for example Mugglenet Fanfiction, Fiction Alley and Harry Potter Fanfiction a third example.
• Debian's Website - The main page for the debian Linux Development site
• The Ubuntu website a great place to get information and ideas for this great Debian based Linux Distro.
• The Linux Counter -a place for Linux users to be counted, at home and at work!
• NZ Sappers Association - I was a Territorial Force Engineer (Sapper) for nearly 10 years and did construction work both in New Zealand and overseas with the New Zealand Army
• Territorial Force for information about them today
• NZDSM New Zealand Defense Service Medal.
• Department of Geology, University of Auckland, where I once worked.
• And of coures the excellent Department of Computer Science site.