Freek Dijkstra

Compulsory picture of Freek

Physicist by education. Network specialist by profession. Amateur programmer by hobby.

About my name

Freek comes from Frederik whose origin Frede means peace. In Dutch ee is pronounced like /e/, so Freek rhymes with Lake. A US customers officers, after checking my passport, declared to his colleagues that "we have a freak in the house", and so there I was (no, he did not know I could listen in).

Dijkstra is a typical Dutch name. It origin comes from Dijk-ster-a, meaning Dike-er (Dike habitant).

E-mail

webmail2018@macfreek.nl (only valid this year in a futile attempt to stop some spam)

Marital status

Married to Caroline Mattheij, proud father of Lonneke Dijkstra (2009) and Jasper (2012).

Occupation

Group leader and Network Expert with research tasks, or so says my official title.
Our group is called Infrastructure Services, previously known as Network Innovation and Support, previously known as High Performance Networking. We're responsible for the datacenter network at the Dutch academic compute center SURFsara.
While I previously did network research, I'm curently mostly involved in networks for researchers. I'm still doing innovation, with interest in the topic of multi-domain, multi-layer transport networks as well as data-centric networks.

Hobbies

Computers (Mac OS X, Debian and FreeBSD), Board games, Comic books (Uncle Scrooge by Carl Barks or Keno Don Rosa in particular), Computer games, Trains (the real thing, not the toys). Previously dancing with Caroline. These days, spending time with my children.

More Information

If you like to get some more information about me, please consult one of the links bellow.

Exterior Memory

My external medial temporal lobe, a repository of notes and howtos I wrote on the topic of networks, computers, and the web.

How have I spent my life so far?

My résumé at LinkedIn. Only to view if you feel really bored.

Scientific achievements

Personal website about my scientific work at the University of Amsterdam (outdated)

Interactive Communication

If you like to interactive communicate with me, I suggest you to phone me. There are other options at your disposal as well:

I gladly receive signed or even encrypted mail. My PGP public key is D0EE 5BEA, with fingerprint 1062 DBF1 AFBE 51B6 A293 F7BA 5F14 E385 D0EE 5BEA. You can retrieve the key from most key servers. My previous PGP key B804CF07 is now superseded.

A little warning: the above screen names are not email addresses. In fact, by sending email to these or to ISpamThereforIAm@macfreek.nl, you will automatically be added to a spam black-list. So only use these screen names if you know what they mean.

Social Networks

If you once knew me, and got out of touch: nice to see you around. Feel free to drop me an e-mail. I appreciate it!

Beside the PGP "web of trust", I added a profile to a few social networks: FOAF (inline), XFN (inline), LinkedIn (I've skipped on FaceBook, Hyves, Friendster, and MySpace). However, I rather maintain a list of friends myself instead of outsourcing friendships, thankyouverymuch, so I do not regularly maintain those pages and even have a light aversion against being called "friend" by people I don't know up close. That said, there are more kinds of relations, and I surely appreciate it if you take the time to get to know me better.

It's a Cruel Crazy Beautiful World — CD title by Johnny Clegg & Savuka (South Africa, 1989)