User:Az990tony

About Tony Pearson

Tony Pearson is an IT Storage Consultant for IBM in Tucson, Arizona - USA. He is a "Day 1 Donor" for the OLPC G1G1 program. Blog postings about OLPC and XO laptop on his blog: [Inside System Storage]

Groups

Arizona XO Users Group in Tucson: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AZ_XO

Projects

OLE Nepal

It was a pleasure working with the team in Nepal to deploy the server infrastructure

• XF Firewall/Cache/Filter using Squid and Dansguardian
• XS School server database using Apache,MySQL,PHP, and Moodle
• XB Backup server using rsnapshot

User:az990tony/nepal

EduBlog for Ceibal (Uruguay)

The Educational_Blogger_Project is focused on trying to get kids to blog. My contribution is to build a test server as a development platform.

Hardware details

Software details

[EduBlog Beta Server] is now operational!

Scripts and Configs

This section contains scripts and config files I have developed or modified: user:az990tony/scripts

This has the iptables for XF and XS machines: user:az990tony/iptables

This has the files for creating backups: user:az990tony/backup

Backing up the school server itself: Backup-and-Restore-Using-SysRescueCD

Customizing the XS ISO CD: User:Az990tony/squashfs-surgery

Customizing the SysRescCD to use with XS School Server User:Az990tony/Customizing-SysRescCD-for-XS

Books and other resources

• Book [Fedora 7 Unleashed] an excellent guide on Fedora 7 as a server, with chapters on networking, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Python, Perl, and Squid

• Book [Linux Networking Cookbook] an excellent guide for iptables, IPv6 and other networking concepts.