Welcome
You've reached the website of Peter Morris, a Computer Science graduate student focusing on information security at James Madison University. I also work as the JMU School of Art and Art History's computer systems administrator.
In this role, I support around 30 faculty and staff as well as several computer labs and servers. The department is around 60% Mac, so I have extensive experience providing support for both OS X and Windows.
One of the labs I manage is used by the 3d animation program. This lab is Windows based and is on its own active directory domain and includes a 19 node distributed renderfarm running Maya and Muster. I am currently investigating using the open source render engine provided by Blender to possibly replace Maya for rendering.
I also manage a Red Hat server, providing http and smb services, and an OS X server providing afp, netboot, system imaging, and software update services.
I am personally interested in Linux, and run ArchLinux on my personal machines. I also enjoy cycling, both road and mountain, and am in the process of renovating our 90 year old home in Harrisonburg.
About This Site
This is mainly a place for me to write about things that interest me at home and at work. The site itself is hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net, a great self-service host for do-it-yourselfers. They run FreeBSD, and offer services like ssh, revision control (including cvs, svn, hg, git), and rsync out of the box.
The html is statically generated from the markdown source via pandoc, a Haskell tool for converting one form of markup to another. Articles are written using vim. History is maintained via git. Please see the navigation on the left to view articles and the source code of various utilities I've written.
Contact
- email: pete dot morris at gmail dot com
- github: http://github.com/PeteMo