Alberto D'Ambrosio (aka Gandalf)


It's me..

...before LNGS!
...at LNGS!
...after LNGS!


Hello, Misterious Traveller!

I'm Alberto. I was born in 1960, April 22nd, in Arpino (County FR), homeplace of Cicerone and Caio Mario. I used to live in Isola del Liri (FR), but now I've been living in L'Aquila since 1992.

I'm one of the spiders that look after the LNGS WEB, the cobweb you are walking on. I stitch up the lines in order to prevent heavy travellers from falling down into the Nothing...

Once upon a time, a gipsy told me that, in my previous life, I had been a chinese grave-digger. Take care! "Statv'akkuort!" (Naples slang...).

My first job was at "La Sapienza" University of Rome as (unpaid) programmer. Since I needed money (it took me 2 years to realize this...), I successfully started working for a nice little Company (Grazie Antonio!) in Turin; but, then, I tried working for one of the most important italian car industries (can you guess which one that might be..?!?!). The industrial automation was very interesting, but they made me work just like a slave, so I left the slave market for the INFN/LNGS Computing Centre. Here I perform several tasks, from programming to keeping the Computing Centre tidy... ("Nothing changes on New Year's Day" - U2). At the moment, my main task is the Administration/Management of the UNIX Cluster.

Works/Publications:

  • Alberto D'Ambrosio
    "TAPEWATCHER: Monitor delle unita` a nastro disponibili in un VAX Cluster VMS Digital (V1.0)"
    LNGS - 93/54 - MARCH 1993

  • Alberto D'Ambrosio
    "TAPEWATCHER: Digital VAX VMS Clusterwide Tapes Monitor (Release 2.0)"
    LNGS - 93/78 - AUGUST 1993

  • D'Ambrosio, Donati, Palma, Taborgna
    "Individuazione di un malfunzionamento sulla rete locale"
    LNGS - 93/58 - APRIL 1993

  • A. D'Ambrosio, S. d'Angelo
    "GNOsys. The Data acquisition system for the G.N.Observatory."
    ROM2F/98/07 (Feb.98) (ps, pdf, dvi)

  • A. D'Ambrosio, S. Parlati
    "The LNGS AFS Cell"
    INFN/TC-98/07 (26 Febbraio 1998) (ps, pdf)
  • I'm also interested in music (mainly Jazz, Blues & Celtic Folk), photography & graphics, travels (my Irish heartbeat...), HRH, and other thousands of things... My family-tree will be available shortly!


    Opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer or anyone else, living or dead, real or imagined.

    E-Mail: gandalf@lngs.infn.it

    Things, to their perfection come
    not all at once, but some and some...
    (From a XVIII Century English gardening manual)