About Michael Sullivan

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
- A. C. Clarke

(Note: Manuals and FAQs located here - I think all the links are working, if you find one which is not, please email me at: mps@discomsys.com )

I am president of Distributed Computing Systems, LLC. and have a number of years experience working with various Wall Street firms, Telecommunications Companies, Internet Service Providers, and Sun Professional Services.  My background has primarily been in distributed computing technology and architecture with heavy emphasis on Unix.  By not being focussed in any one particular business area and maintaining my area of concentration in distributed client/server computing, I have been able to move from one industry to another.  From a distributed systems point of view, one industry's needs are very much like any other's.  My primary area of expertise is with Unix system architecture.  Also, I have done many things with Perl - including CGI forms, Perl/Tk XWindows applications, and integrating Perl with Oracle for data extraction and insertion.

If you'd like to know more about me personally, I'm working on putting together a personal biography. This will be available from this page. Then again, you could mail me at mps@discomsys.com and ask me just about anything. Until then, let me leave you with this thought:

Don't waste your life...

If you want to know about my background, you can look at my resume.

Some things I'm working on. Among other things...:

• My CD Collection [*BROKEN* for now until I can get things moved to new Oracle and Web server] cataloged and stored in a database accessed by a CGI script. This is an on-going project. This section will be undergoing changes, as well as growing in size as I add more of my CD collection to the database.
  
  
• System Information A way to gather information about systems on a network. It uses modular agents and information handlers to gather and display information dynamic CGI script.
  
  
• Alpha Verion of Perl-CLIPS (V 0.20a) This is a work - in progress. My project to build a Perl interface for CLIPS. Only for the brave currently.

Various Manuals and FAQ material I find useful, you may find them useful as well.

At the moment my homepage is mostly just a collection of online documentation which I have put on my web server for ease of access for me.  Some of the information may be out of date, and I'll probably begin replacing some of the documents stored here locally with links to external sources.

Perl Information:

• Perl FAQ (all-in-one monolithic 262KB file... Not Recommended - long download time)
• Perl FAQ (broken into manageable pieces - recommended)
• Perl Manual
• HTML Version of John Vromans' Perl 5 Desktop Reference (courtesy of Rex Swain)
• WWW, CGI and libwww Reference
• Perl/Tk Documentation
• The Perl Homepage

Apache Documentation:

• Apache Home Page
• Apache Manual

CLIPS FAQ and Manuals

• CLIPS FAQ
• CLIPS Manual Index
• The Official CLIPS Homepage
• Alpha Verion of Perl-CLIPS (V 0.20a) This is a work - in progress. My project to build a Perl interface for CLIPS. Only for the brave currently.

General Text FAQs:

• PGP FAQ
• Solaris 2 FAQ (HTML Version)

Just plain useless:

...and now for something completely useless, but a nice diversion from time-to-time.   I present you with the one, the only, accept no substitutes for the: Useless Pages.

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