About Lev Lafayette

Lev Lafayette is a doctoral candidate at the Ashworth Centre for Social Theory at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne. He holds an honours degree from Murdoch University in Politics, Philosophy and Sociology. With a interdisciplinary approach, Lev's interests include the political implementation of universal pragmatics, the relationship between communications technology and society and comparative economic systems.

Professionally however, Lev is an experienced ICT generalist, specialising in the Linux operating system and networking technologies. Previous employment and clients include several years working as a computer systems trainer and database management for the Parliamentary Labor Party in Victoria. Following this he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Timor Leste (East Timor) managing their computer network and providing training and technical expertise to that Ministry in their first year of self-governance. Dr. Ramos-Horta provided the following comments on his work.

Lev works for the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing as a systems administrator for Linux clusters. As per that organisation, this site is dedicated to issues concerning High Performance Computing, Scientific Computing and Supercomputing, along with advanced collaborative technologies such as the Access Grid and Evo.

Other technologies which are preferred and discussed here include the Drupal content management system, the Python scripting language, Xen virtualisation, various industry networking technologies (such as the TCP/IP stack, BIND/DNS, Apache), the MySQL database management system.

Finally, the crocodile logo was designed by Victoria Jankowski. It was first used on the cover of Neon-komputadór, the first IT training manual for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in East Timor which was printed and translated by the United Nations Development Programme. The crocodile represents the Timorese people and is the emblem of their land. The integrated circuit represents their independent connectivity to the wider world.

That's enough of me talking about myself in the third person like Cerebus The Aardvark. For the rest of this site it will be in first person. After all, I wrote this content.