The Home Page of Jon C. LeBlanc

    Occupation

      Nokia Mobile Phones
        Manager, PCPS Americas Region
        Nokia Mobile Phones
        Richmond, BC, Canada

      Duties
      • Data Replications Between R&D Sites Worldwide
      • WAN/LAN design & connectivity to/from global corporate systems
      • Formerly IT Department manager in Vancouver site
      • Workstation, server, laptop, and lab services & support in mixed UNIX/Linux/Windows environment
      • WAN/LAN design & connectivity to/from global corporate systems
      • Telephony (Mobile and PBX) provision and support
      • End user support and customer relationship management
      • CAD/CAM Application support
      • File, web, and messaging services
      • Capacity planning
      • Computer-related purchasing, asset, and licence management
      • UNIX & Linux instruction
      • Staff management and assignment
    
    

    Professional Certifications & Memberships

      HP Certified IT Professional 
(HP-UX) HP Certified IT Professional (HP-UX), and Certified Instructor: Hewlett Packard

      Certified Sun Solaris System 
Administrator Certified Sun Solaris System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Sun Microsystems

      Certified UNIX/Linux System 
Administrator Certified UNIX/Linux System Administrator, and Certified Instructor: Learnix Limited

      IEEE Computer Society Member: IEEE Computer Society

      SAGE, The System Administrators' Guild Member: SAGE, The System Administrators' Guild

      USENIX, The 
Advanced Computing Systems Association Member: USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association

      CUUG, The 
Calgary UNIX Users Group Member: CUUG, The Calgary UNIX Users Group

    
    

    Previous Career Experience

      Instructor

      • Over 5,000 hours classroom teaching experience in UNIX/Linux, Windows, Networks
      • Specialization Areas:
        • workstation and server system administration
        • security
        • network administration
        • logical volume management and storage capacity planning
        • UNIX shell scripting (Bourne, Korn, POSIX, BASH)
      • Solaris System Administration Instructor for Sun Educational Services
      • HP-UX System and Network Administration Instructor for HP Education
      • UNIX & Linux System Administration Instructor for Learnix Ltd.
      • Author of text book and course material for the course "UNIX/Linux System Administration" for Learnix Ltd.
      • Seminar presenter at "The Bazaar" as a Faculty member (Dec. 1999, Topic: Migration from NT to Linux)
      • UNIX instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
      • Sun Microsystems Education instructor for Auto-trol Technology (Canada) Ltd.
    
    

    Technical Experience With Computers

      Linux

      • Kernels 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6 (32 and 64 bit on either iNTEL, Sparc, Alpha & AMD x86 architectures)
        • Red Hat
        • Mandriva
        • S.U.S.E.
        • TurboLinux
        • Debian
        • MythDora Multimedia PC
      • KDE & Gnome desktops
      • Support of Open Source and Linux-based development environments (GCC, etc.)

      UNIX

      • SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x through 10 (Sun Sparc & Ultra, x86)
      • HP-UX 10.10 through 11i (Hewlett Packard PA-RISC 700 & 800)
      • AIX 3.x through 4.x (IBM RS-6000)
      • IRIX 5.x through 6.x (SGI MIPS)
      • OS-X 10 through 10.4 (Apple G4)
      • DEC(Compaq) UNIX (a.k.a. True64) (Alpha)
      • SCO UnixWare (x86)
      • *BSD (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD on x86)
      • SQL Database support (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Informix)
      • Support of UNIX-based development environments (compilers, etc.)

      Microsoft Windows

      • 3.1, 3.11, & Windows For Workgroups
      • 95 (OSR1, OSR2), 98 (First & Second Editions), ME
      • NT 3.51, 4.0 (Workstation, Server)
      • 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
      • XP (Professional & Home)
      • Windows Services for UNIX (2.0 & 3.0)
      • Support of Windows-based development environments (Visual C++, etc.)

      Other Operating Systems and Major Applications

      • OS/2 (IBM)
      • QNX RTOS (Real Time OS)
      • Data ONTAP 5.x, 6.x (on Network Appliances F7XX, F8XX, F9XX Filers)
      • Apollo Domain (pre-Hewlett-Packard)
      • DOS (PCDOS, DRDOS, MSDOS, FreeDOS)
      • MacOS 7 through 9 (Apple Macintosh)
      • Remedy AR 5

      Networks and Connectivity

      • Cisco, Bay Networks, 3Com
      • Ethernet (10BaseT, 10Base2, 100BaseTX, 1000BaseSX)
      • SONet, T1, OCR3, ISDN, *DSL and Cable Modem
      • IEEE 802.11x Wireless LAN
      • VOIP (Voice Over IP)
      • ATM, FDDI, Token Ring
      • FC-AL, SCSI
      • Switches, routers, firewalls, gateways, proxies
      • Modems, terminals

      Telephony

      • Mobile (GSM, TDMA, CDMA, GPRS)
      • Support of development environments (Symbian, TI, ARM, etc.)
      • Support and service of VOIP (Voice Over IP)
      • PBX (Nortel and Mitel)
      • Local Telco and Long Distance environments

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    Click Here for my 1999 white paper "Migrate With Confidence From Microsoft Windows Servers to UNIX/Linux"

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    Click Here to email me. NOTE: I do not provide free advice or free computer consulting. I reserve the right to answer email inquiries at my leisure (of which I have almost none).



    As you can see here on Netcraft this web space is running on Windows with IIS! How could this be?!!!
    Well, my ISP has provided this web space as part of my account, so I am at their mercy regarding their choice of server architecture and software.
    This web site is not running on Apache, world's finest HTTP server, nor is Apache running on top of UNIX or Linux. It damned well should be!

    Apache, World's Finest 
HTTP Server!


    No Microsoft products were used in the making of this site.
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Thunderbird! UNIX 
Inside!