Nick Christenson at JetCafe
Nick Christenson was once
Senior Technical Consultant/Senior Software Engineer at
Sendmail, Inc.. Prior to
that, he was Senior Architect at
EarthLink Network, Inc..
He also writes book reviews for the
Poker
Player newspaper.
He is the author of the book
sendmail Performance Tuning,
published 2003 by Addison-Wesley.
He is the lead author, with Russell Fox, of the book
Winning Strategies for No-Limit
Hold'em, published 2008 by
ConJelCo.
He is also the lead author, with Brad Knowles, of the booklet
Internet
Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities, published 2006 by
SAGE/USENIX.
He has also written several articles and papers, some of which are listed
here:
- The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) FAQ.
- N. Christenson, D. Beckemeyer, T. Baker,
A Scalable News Architecture on a Single Spool, originally
published in the June 1997 issue of
;login:
magazine.
- N. Christenson, T. Bosserman, D. Beckemeyer,
A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems,
which we presented at the
First Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
on December 9, 1997.
- The transcription of a talk I gave on
Large News Systems at the February 19, 1998
BayLISA meeting.
- N. Christenson, D. Farmer,
From the Trenches: One ISP's Response to the Problem of Spam,
published in the April 1998 issue of
;login:
magazine.
- N. Christenson, Adding RCS to the System
Administrative Toolkit.
- N. Christenson, PDF formatted slides from a talk on
Performance Tuning Sendmail
Systems from the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, August 1999.
- S. Fritchie, J. Larson, N. Christenson, D. Jones, L. Öhman,
Sendmail Meets Erlang: Experiences
Using Erlang for Email Applications from the
Sixth International Erlang/OTP User
Conference on October 3, 2000 in Stockholm, Sweden.
- B. Knowles with N. Christenson,
Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable E-mail Systems
from the 14th System
Administration Conference (LISA 2000) on December 6, 2000.
- N. Christenson,
Linux
and SANs Evolving Into the IT Mainstream, from
Storage Networking World Online,
November 25, 2002.
A list of other, less significant writings are
available.
He maintains information on the sizes of
the larger ISPs and Free Email Providers. Please help keep this
information current.
He is also an avid Poker and Blackjack player, and he maintains some
gambling information resources.
He has written several book reviews on
both computing and gambling.
He also firmly believes in simplicity in Web Page design. His pledge to
you is that you will see no huge slow-to-load graphics, no
blinking text, and no meaningless animated images anywhere in his
space. Maybe the rest of the world has forgotten that the
ML in HTML stands for "Markup Language", but he hasn't.
As such, he is the founding (only) member of
CAUGHT, Consortium Against Unnecessary
Graphics and Hypertext Tags. If you agree, display the Stupid Puce Ribbon
on your page with a pointer to the CAUGHT page.
On occasion he has been known to write about himself in the 3rd person.
He can be contacted at npc@jetcafe.org
This web site is best viewed with ANY web browser, because I'm not
trying to do any childish non-standard HTML garbage.
Site Privacy Policy: I look at the logs when I get a chance, so if I can
match a person with an IP address, I might know when you've visited.
Otherwise, I don't collect any information about anyone.
His PGP public key is:
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