Christopher K. Garrod, Minister of Networks, 858-534-4870

Chris is the network engineer and architect at IGPP -- The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics on the Scripps Oceanography campus of the University of California at San Diego. He provides network infrastructure design and support throughout the Institute.

The network layer is primarily TCP/IP with some Appletalk, with a few other odd protocols. Installed hosts are mostly Macs but nearly half are Unix boxes - from Sun, HP, SGI, IBM, and clones. Our installed base of Windows/Intel platforms is growing. Hosts are beginning to appear on the net which do not fit the traditional stereotype of a computer -- repeaters, switches, xterminals, power strips, cameras, printers, PDAs, to name just a few. These networks exist above a physical layer of mostly 100Mbit and gigabit ethernet, with some copper and fiber FDDI (now being phased out).

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I write programs mostly for the Bourne Shell. Their use is intended mostly for computers, not for users -- i.e. to be called by cron or in a pipeline of a Makefile. In fact, most lines of code I produce are in Makefiles, and I let make write the script I need whenever I need some work to be done. I am willing to share the sources to my programs and Makefiles -- man pages cost extra. My programming style is to create small reusable tools which work as well alone as they do within pipelines. Many of my programs behave in different ways when called by different names - via symbolic links. A few programs are acquiring options, I just learned how to do that in 1997. May the source be with you.

I am interested in operating system design, and constantly investigating new developments in the field, my current favorite is Inferno. I disagree with the Microsoft design philosphy; I would rather be asking "What do you want your computer to do for you today?" than "Where do you want Bill to go today?" I agree with the musings of Ken Thompson when he said: "Unix isn't fun anymore." I am constantly following his group and their developments into newer and better operating systems - i.e. Plan 9 and Inferno.

I am an avid nature observer: birds, flowers, tracks, sounds. I sometimes write down or sketch my observations in a journal - it's hard to be out there and writing online at the same time .

I discovered The Original Wiki in early 2000. I edit there and some of the Wikipedias in both English and Swedish, and use a wiki of my own.


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Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225
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