Nix Bits

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 […]

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 […]

I’d done this a long time ago and pretty much forgotton all about it. I’ve used procmail for a long time to pre-sort all my mailing list mail among other tasks. I also use it as a mechanism to distribute my gpg public key. If you send me a message with the subject “get key”, […]

I have decided to start using my GPG key again to sign emails and such. It’s a good thing to use encryption and digital signature technology. Consequently, I’ve gone ahead and posted my key here

If you’re like me, you’ve taken the time to rip your entire music collection to mp3. I have a huge collection of CDs and like to listen to them in the car with my portable mp3 player. I also like to listen to them at work. Since I have a PC and net access, I […]

I’ve had a few questions lately about my lab. I no longer host NOLUG on my personal equipment. My company OTIS hosts it on a FreeBSD box that Mikey and I set up. Nonetheless I do have a pretty extensive little personal lab for testing and development. My primary workstation is an Athlon with 512M […]

Installed Squirrelmail today for the company. I first used ApacheToolBox to build and install Apache with php4, SSL support, and even IMAP. I’ve used that a few times and this is the first time I had a build go with so little trouble. The only thing I had to do was install GNU sed to […]