About me

I am David J. Pryke, a Systems Administrator living in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.  I work at a small company, and as the solitary sysadmin, I do it all: from desktop support and application installations to setting up new servers, from network topology and pulling cables to company-wide security, from file pushes on web servers to corporate backup & disaster recovery solutions.  There is plenty more I do as well.  As a “Jack of all trades,” I still manage to be a master of some, and continually seek to learn more.

This site chronicles some of my journeys and will also be a personal repository of knowledge.  Feel free to poke around, and if you are interested in more details regarding things I have done, check out the Resume page; I have posted much of my skill-based history there.

Also, regarding the blog, it is not setup for monetization.  What that means for you is: no ads.  I once toyed with a blog containing ads, but, in all honesty, I never click on ads on people’s blogs, and I don’t expect you to, either.  I use the FireFox extension NoScript, which prevents me from even seeing most ads on websites.  (Though that isn’t the reason I use NoScript; I use it for enhanced security.)  And I just want to speak my mind without anyone thinking that I’m writing for profit, which could add a level of mistrust to my words.

Enjoy, and feel free to leave comments, or get in touch via the contact form.  I do my best to respond to every e-mail, though there may occasionally be delays as I do get swamped from time to time. (Heh – as a SysAdmin, I’m swamped most of the time, honestly, but I’ll try to respond ASAP anyway.)