About + Contact

This is the personal site of Colin Murphy, a network administrator/IT guy from des moines, iowa. I am currently in college studying network administration, focusing on cisco networking as well as maintaining windows and linux servers. In my free time, I enjoy playing video games, watching tv shows and movies, and sometimes repairing computers and sometimes cars.

This website mostly serves as a place for me to keep and organize all of the notes that I have taken over the years. You can read them here. In the future I also plan on relaunching my personal blog, but that will come as time allows.

I am not much of a programmer, but I do have a few projects that I have created over the years. You can see them here. One of my biggest projects of the last few years was Pebble Commander, an application for the Pebble smartwatch that turns it into a remote control for your Linux PC.

My computers

(because that’s important, right?)

Desktop:

• Intel Core i7-6700K
• 16GB DDR4
• GTX 1060 6GB
• 1x 500GB Samsung 970 EVO
• 2x 250GB SSDs (1x NVMe, 1x SATA)
• 2TB HDD
• Windows 10 Pro

Laptop: Macbook Pro 2015

• Intel Core i5-5257U
• 8GB DDR3
• 256GB SSD
• macOS Catalina

Home server/NAS: HP Z230 Tower

• Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
• 16GB DDR3
• 120GB SSD
• 2TB, 3TB SAS HDDs
• Alpine Linux
• Runs my Plex Media Server, TV streamer, file server, and local DNS server

Others in my collection: HP Pro 6200 SFF, AST Bravo 486, 2011 MacBook Pro, ThinkPad T400, Dell Latitude E5420

Contact me

If you’d like to contact me, my email is .