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It's pretty much just all random stuff I've written to random people in the hopes that it'll be of some interest
I'd love to hear from anyone who actually finds them of even remote use
If it's all garbage, don't hesitate to e-mail me corrections, and gain the dubious honor of having your name added to the bottom, here.
Something from a sharper man than I
The Linux Documentation Project has the noble goal to `create the canonical set of free Linux documentation'.
The Open Source Writer's Group wants `to put together a comprehensive "card catalogue" of Open Source and Open Source-related documentation'.
On the other hand, my pet hamster dressed up in a penguin suit, and appeared to me in a dream, telling me to write documentation for random stuff, and include lots of obscenities.
Disclaimer
If you break your machine, it's not my fault. If you e-mail me, I'll be
happy to try and help you out... we all know the routine by now.
In short, there is no warranty
Doing interesting Palm Pilot things - For example, getting a Palm V on the web with SSH going through your machine machine.
Last modifed 2002-12-17
How AAUT Works - I've had a fair bit of technical interest about this, so I thought I'd write about it, quickly...
Last modifed 2002-11-07
Extracting WEP keys, legally - A while ago, I was having major problems getting a WEP key given I already knew the ASCII answer. Here's what I finally learnt
Last modifed 2003-05-13
MIME type voodoo - or Why IE and Outlook insist on breaking your linux downloads
Last modifed 2003-06-19
How Unix Services Work - Some people at work were asking about how services on Unix boxen work/get changed/whatever...
Last modifed 2003-02-12
SysV init - Things just generally...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
Journaling Filing Systems - We've all heard about them, but here's my take on it [and how to use them]...
Last modifed 2003-07-26
Kernel compiling - A couple things about compiling a kernel [like how to do it]...
Last modifed 2002-10-07
Screen - This is possibly the single most useful utility in existence, espcially if you have NT on your desktop. You know how it is when windows goes blue and you lose all the work in your ssh session? This fixes that problem, and does whole stacks more. Learn to use this app.
Last modifed 2002-09-27
Command-line histories - Simple how to search for and edit previous commands you've typed.
Last modifed 2002-09-27
SAMBA domain authentication - How to get samba to play nicely with an NT domain...
Last modifed 2002-07-16
RAM Disks - How to make them do things under linux...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
How to wholesomely use tarballs - A very long-winded version, but if you do this [and with a little thinking it's easier than the "normal" way], life will be that little bit easier for you. It also mentions stuff about backups and getting files through firewalls.
Last modifed 2002-10-15
X things - How to run xeyes on one computer, and make it appear on another...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
Checking/mounting filesystems - ... specifically, when you want to check something below /usr, and it's not letting you...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
MS at LWCE2002 - My take on the sitation with MS at LWCE2002
Last modifed 2002-08-15
Real Time Systems - and my final year project. It sucked, but if you want a crash-course on Real-Time Systems for laymen, this is it.
Last modifed 2003-06-26
Burning CDs - In the computer science department at York University. Now expanded to include a little about burning CDs more generally.
Last modifed 2002-09-26
SSH things - "How to use SSH in the computer science department at York so you can move from one host to another without typing in passwords, and in a secure manner". Note that it's not perfectly secure, but it's as secure as you'll get in the department there.
Last modifed 2002-01-31
Headless Linux boxes - How to make a linux box run using a serial terminal for all it's output
Last modifed 2003-02-06
A short story - about devices a long time ago...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
Why I had a pissy weekend - A short story about my new motherboard...
Last modifed 2001-12-29
Web design 101 - /a la/ Chunky. Most importantly, while you may think my site design sucks, here's some technical information on making yours not suck.
Last modifed 2005-09-21
Thanks Phoenix, Arthur, Greg, Gareth, James, Beardy
In case anyone's interested, this page is being generated with some XML voodoo.
I've had some complaints that the second of those links is producing garbage. Stop using a browser that thinks it's cleverer than the web server, and get one that belives in mime types.
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