About me
Hi there.
Either you’ve been googeling my nickname for some reason or you’re a passing-by bloghopper, I’m glad you found it.
Mimor is actually my internet-nickname, so feel free to go and cyber-stalk me a little bit to figure out what’s keeping me bussy.
In real life, I’m more likely to be addressed as Mike. In full, Mike Morraye.
Born on 28/10/1986 (Roeselare, Belgium). Since then, I’ve passed some time in Dentergem, Lede, Gentbrugge and Ghent (Yes, they can all fit in a tiny Belgium)
The last 17-ish years I’ve been living in the wonderful city of Ghent.
I became rather interested in informatics. Configuring and operating the Linux OS and networks to be more specific.
I started off working at P&P Software Solutions back in 2006 as the all-round guy.
Providing customer service, setting up and maintaining the servers and networks of KMO’s.
Most of the setups consisted of a Microsoft Domain Controller, SQL Server, File- and printserver, MS Terminal Server and an Exchange server.
In general most of them ran Windows Server 2003 sbs or standard. Amongst the old server, there were some scruffy NT servers still doing their thing.
On the side, I had to maintain some ASP websites, some plain html websites and consumer desktop/laptop devices.
Late 2008 I started working for Digipolis, a company that handles the IT of the city’s of Ghent and Antwerp.
Over here, I have a rather less interesting Job. I’m doing first line technical support.
On the other hand, the network and used technology is far more complex than what I was used.
It’s also nice to know I’m one of the guys preventing the city staff to drop their computers from the 6′th floor.
It is awesome to see how the enterprise environment manages to split all tasks into little chunks and let them cooperate like a well oiled machine.
Currently, I’m following evening classes (computer-science, option networking) to obtain a bachelor degree that I’ll use to get back to a more hands-on technical Job (and a better payroll).
My 9 to 5 job gives me the comfort of doing it and my employer is supporting me in this, which is nice. Thx guys 
In my spare time, I’m fiddling around with various hard- and software configurations.
Somewhere 2005 I installed Suse Linux 9.0 on my dad’s Pentium 3 computer. (he didn’t like that a bit)
I’ve spend lot’s time dual-booting as his bloody ASUS AAM6000UG USB ADSL modem didn’t work natively on Linux.
That’s the point I started to ‘fiddle’ with linux.
From Suse I went to Fedora Core as my main desktop OS.
A little after Fedora Core became Fedora and they added plasma to KDE, I found myself willing to switch to something new.
Going over CentOS, Debian and Mandriva (+some spin-offs), I stranded on Ubuntu (7.04).
Ubuntu has proven itself a worthy desktop environment for my needs.
On my netbook (Samsung X360) I’m currently running Arch linux. And so far, I find it the second best thing that ever happened to me. (I have to think about my Girlfriend reading this)
The Arch linux is set up to be as minimal as possible.
Using Slim as a login-manager, Awesome Windows Manager (tiling), feh as image manipulator, Xterm, mplayer-nogui, alsamixer, Crhomium, etc…
Next to all this, I’m a member of the Whitespace, the Ghent local hacker space and member of the Ubuntu-be LoCo team.
That’s it for now.
If you have any further questions or remarkts, feel free to contact me.