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Everything is Crazy has published an article that asserts that ever increasing bandwidth will eventually overcome Microsoft’s Operating System monopoly. In other words, the application platform moves from the Operating System to the Internet itself.

There is some evidence to support the notion that Operating Systems will matter less and less. Google’s Gmail […]

OpenBSD doesn’t have portupgrade like FreeBSD. Many OpenBSD users just take a snapshot of installed ports/packages by first running pkg_info and then deleting their package database as described in OpenBSD’s upgrade documentation. OpenBSD does offer a script though, to check what ports are out of date: /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date. The script seems to work […]

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My blog tool of choice

broadband » The ‘bible’ for Information on DSL, Cable and Other High Speed Internet Services
Best site for broadband information troubleshooting

!InetDaemon.Com - Tutorials: Internet, Telecom, Satellite, Computers, Troubleshooting
Tutorials and documentation for networking/protocols etc.

The Moron’s Guide to Kerberos, Version 1.2.2
Good description/documentation of kerberos

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cygwin, perl, ssh with X11 forwarding on a single cd. All of it runs from the cd too. Another CD for the toolkit. Get it here.

Sometime around the release of Firefox 1.0, the default use of Emacs-style keybindings in the URL bar was changed. Here’s how to put it back right.

Also found a really handy feature for reading RSS/Atom feeds in Thunderbird. I like this much better than the Live bookmarks method employed by Firefox or the sidebar […]

Since this past summer, compromised machines have been attempting to brute force user accounts via ssh. Mostly this is annoying but it would be nice to detect and block these IPs. Francisco de Borja Lopez Rio made a Python script that watches /var/log/authlog on OpenBSD and adds IPs to a filter table for […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]