Hello, and welcome
My name is Nik Rivers, and I’m an IT professional living near Reading. This is my personal website, and started as a sort of mini-project in 2004 when I began dabbling in PHP and MySQL. These days the website lives on my own server running Fedora and Apache, and hosts my journal and a photo gallery.
Based on my own experiences, I have written a series of guides for configuring a Linksys NSLU2 network storage device as a low-power, multi-use Linux server. The guides are the result of documenting my own actions and are still popular, even though the device is no longer in production.
In a similar vein, I’ve also documented a series of fixes and improvements I made to my 2005 Land Rover Freelander TD4 between 2008 and 2010, mainly in the name of performance and economy. Ok, just performance – you can’t have both!
Wotcha doin’ here?
You may have arrived here because I was lazy, and said to you “oh, it’s on my website” while waving my hands in an I-can’t-be-bothered kind of way. Sorry about that. You’re probably here looking for the photo gallery or my journal. I rarely update either these days, but feel free to look around the site.
If you received a digitally signed email from me and want to verify the signature, or you want to send me an encrypted message, you are looking for my RSA certificates. If you don’t know how to use these, you don’t need to.
Otherwise, you’re probably here through no fault of your own, led here by Google or a random link somewhere. I hope you find what you’re looking for!
How can you contact me?
If you and I know each each other, feel free to add me as a friend on Facebook.
If we are strangers, but you simply must get a hold of me, use the email address in the Facebook box at the top of this page. If you want to discuss one of the NSLU2 guides, the Freelander TD4 articles, or any other content on this site, I would prefer that you left a comment on the relevant page.
Alternatively, if you have enough geek power you can use the above QR code to email me. Email harvesters and spammers haven’t figured out how to use these yet, and probably won’t for a long time to come – it would take a lot of processing power to examine every image on a web page to determine whether it contains a valid code!
