Nix Bits

We completely rearranged the online photo album and put up all the digital wedding pics we’ve received so far as well as the honeymoon pics. As always, the album is here.

I’ve always kept a copy of my resume posted online. It’s just easier to point requesters at a URL link. I can also cut and paste it quickly and the format I have it in prints well. I like this because I don’t have to maintain a separate copy in a word processor. A couple […]

is the leading cause of wrong answers.” That’s what my .sig says. Here’s a well-written page on researching and asking technical questions. The insights esr provides can be applied in other ways as well. Click here for more.

Way back in 2001, Barry McCormick and I wrote up this document and taught a two session class for NOLUG on the basics of TCP/IP. Looking at my web stats lately and after doing some googling about, I’ve found it’s quite a popular download. Since my site has been rearranged often, I’m just posting this […]

Enterprise network admins are probably familiar with Cisco’s HSRP which allows for router redundancy and VRRP for firewall redundancy. This article describes a way to achieve the same thing using features in the upcoming OpenBSD 3.5 release . Other commercial firewalls certainly have similar capability. However, OpenBSD’s feature set is becoming rather compelling. Smaller businesses […]

This is a truly rediculous patent. Apparently a company called ideaflood.com has managed to patent subdomains. *boggle* So if I decide to set up, say, Jennifer.scottharney.com, I’m supposed to pay a licensing fee to this company. How did they get this patent in the first place? Christopher Falkowski, a legal specialist in these topic areas […]

Well, I haven’t posted in a while but I’m planning to change that. The biggest news I have to report is that I’m getting hitched to Jennifer this September. The wedding is going to kept real small but, per family requests, I’ve started a separate site here. Out of town guests, (ie. her family), should […]

Been plowin’ away at a whole bunc of projects of late, both home and work oriented. I upgraded a while back to OpenBSD 3.3 on my firewall and that gave me some nice advantages. The new pf code has plenty niceties in it. Probably the nicest of which is the TCP ACK prioritization capabilty as […]

I like to use album to make my picture albums The command to generate the static picture pages is: ~scotth/album/album.pl -medium 50% -medium_type -known_images -theme ../album/Themes/Blue once i’m in a directory full of pictures. Makes it simple, really.

Writing up the procedure I use to stream music got me thinking about problems with it and alternatives. One problem that it has is that I must be logged in on the console, in X, running xmms. A power-outage forced reboot could end my musical bliss at work ;). Someone else pointed out that I […]