Collyer.net: people and cats

Geoff
Claudia
Gillian
Tura
Max and Felix, the new cats. Latest pictures added 20 March 2005.

Some genealogy

Collyers around the world

www.collyer.com, owned by our relatives in rural Manitoba.
A college in England run by people who are presumably distant relatives.

Collyers in the classics

Mention in Shakespeare; he also confused Collyers (Huguenots from Belgium via England, at least in Geoff's line) with Colliers (Irish coal-miners).

We're running the Plan 9 distributed operating system, 4th edition, on all the internal collyer.net systems and most of the externally-visible ones. We benefit from the upas mail system and dns nameserver, rather than sendmail and BIND.

We run the Plan 9 cpu servers and terminals diskless, from our main file system on a cached write-once optical-disc jukebox driven by the amazing Plan 9 file server (the original, pre-fossil one).

Our systems contain no TCPA-infected components and no Pentium 4 CPUs. TCPA is also known as Palladium and NGSCB.