Mikhail Zakharov

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Mikhail Zakharov was born in Moskow in 1978. He graduated with excellence from the State Institute of Management and Information in 2001. Around 1999, he made his acquaintance with UNIX and has used it since -- especially FreeBSD. After graduating, he began to work in the .Media-Most. configuring FreeBSD as routers and PROXY-servers.

Mikhail is presently the senior UNIX Administrator in a Moscow banks where he administers a wide spectrum of servers running various UNIX-like operating systems.

He has also given a course of lectures on network administration in the State Institute of Management and Information.

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Tales of Rescuing Old Hardware
Publish Date: May. 5, 2005If you're careful, you can often pick up viable hardware from companies throwing out machines too old to run the latest and greatest Windows software. This is viable for free Unixes, if you can get past the installation. Mikhail Zakharov walks through a tale of exploration, discovery, and patch-writing to install NetBSD over NFS through the serial port of a Pentium I-era Toshiba notebook. Building Diskless Clients with FreeBSD 5.2
Publish Date: Sep. 30, 2004The free Unix-alikes make wonderful thin clients. Having explained how to make a FreeBSD diskless server in Part 1, Mikhail Zakharov demonstrates how to configure FreeBSD diskless clients. Building a BSD Netboot Server
Publish Date: Sep. 9, 2004Diskless FreeBSD workstations work beautifully for many users. With recent changes in FreeBSD 5.x, the old methods of building a netbooting lab have changed. In this, the first of two articles, Mikhail Zakharov explains how to build a FreeBSD server for diskless BSD workstations.

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