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Images or words? I probably should have some photo or image here - all the best blogging advice sites will tell you that pictures are important: people like pictures, people remember pictures, pictures add to content.


Title Date Comments
Sendmail VRFY   2004 09 
- In the process of doing some testing of a mail server, I noticed a piece of spam mail delivered to an address that no one should have known about. This disturbed me greatly, because the only place that address appeared was in the mail alias file on my server. Had my server been compromised? -
label for checkboxes and radio buttons   2004 07 
- you can click on either the text or the checkbox itself -
How can i mount a ISO Image CD ?   2004 07  2010/07/10 TonyLawrence
- You have an image of a CD or perhaps of a floppy disk and need to mount it as a filesystem (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, SCO, Solaris). -
Bash shell $PIPESTATUS   2004 06  2011/04/04 TonyLawrence
- PIPESTATUS array holds the exit status of your last foreground pipeline commands. -
Security Paranoia - restricting ssh access   2004 10 
- I had email from someone today whose system was hacked, apparently by a dictionary attack over ssh. There is no reason to let that happen to you. -
Parallel printer cable length   2004 07 
- The docs for OS/2 stated that 6 feet was the maximum length the printer cable could be for a parallel port connection. So, I guess the OS has something to do with this spec? Limits to Parallel printer cable length. Given that reliable parallel port operation limits one to a cable length of no more than 15 feet, network print servers make a lot more sense. -
FAQ - How can I make a printer that will print to a file?   2004 06 
- Setting up a printer that will print to a file can be useful for any number of reasons. -
Process scheduling   2004 08 
- Process scheduling is obviously important on multi-user systems. It's also important on systems we use as individuals. For example, contrast the startup of my Mac OS X box and my wife's XP system. Both have certain programs set to start up at login, but they obviously handle the scheduling much differently. On the Mac, I can click into any process that has started and can use it while other programs are still starting. On XP, I can't: the other programs will command the CPU's attention until everything is running. -
Using exclude with du   2004 06 
- This comp.os.linux.misc poster wanted to exclude multiple directories from "du"'s totals. -
How and where to start writing first Shell Script in UNIX Part 2   2004 08 
- How and where to start writing first ShellScript in UNIX -
Cloning a directory structure without copying files   2004 10 
- Blog # 1124 Cloning a directory structure without copyingfiles -
How ps works and why   2004 07 
- Almost every Unix variant does 'ps' slightly differently; flags have different meanings and column headers or position also differ. -
 
 
Kerio Connect Mailserver
 
 
local security policy won't permit interactive logon   2004 12 
- local security policy won't permit interactive logon -
Cartoons:Inspiring Confidence   2004 10 
- Inspiring Confidence - don't hum 'If I only had a brain' while working on our computer. -
Badram, Badmem, and Memtest86.bin   2005 02 
- when you get almost-random stuff going wrong like that, and you know that your using what should be a fairly stable OS the likely culprit is going to be flaky hardware -
Writing Shellcodes in Linux   2004 09 
- Shellcoding is a skill to write your machine codes in hexadecimal form. Many people lack it. From the view of security it is very important, as hackers use it to exploit vulnerable applications -
Motivation Through Job Recognition   2004 12 
- One of the most important requirements of a leader is the need to motivate employees to be more productive and help them achieve their goals. -
How and where to start writing first UNIX Shell Script   2004 08 
- The article doesn't cover the shell scripting it only gives a brief idea about what is UNIX shell and how and where to start writing first shell script. I shall cover variable, expression, control structures, function, file handling, awk programming, debugging one-by-one in my subsequent articles on the UNIX shell scripting. -
Syslogd MARK option   2004 06 
- The MARK provides reassurance that syslogd is listening and doing its job even if it has nothing else to do right now. -
Determining clients IP address by service and PID   2004 11 
- I wrote this thing several years ago for use with a program where I needed to know a client's IP address, given the TCP service on which they were connected and the program's PID -
SCO broadcast messages   2006 04 
- People get confused so easily. A message from a UPS is not a message from the operating system. -
Copyright Changes   2005 10 
- Absuse by scraper sites forces me to change my copyright policy. This is really annoying and disappointing, but there it is. -
So, UNIX is registered to who?   2005 09 
- UNIX is registered to whom? Who really owns Unix and do any of us really care any more? -
file replication over WAN   2005 08 
- I am curious if anybody had any lack with real-time asynchronous file replication for SCO OpenServer over WAN? There are a lot of Windows programs that do that very nicely (Double Take, for example), but nothing that I could find for SCO. One way would be to set up Samba and use a Windows machine as an intermediary, but there must be a more economical solution. -
Please HELP!! Help someone understand: SQL db's   2005 08 
- I need to help someone understand that MS Access is not the worlds best database -
SPAM: Can anything realistically be done about it?   2005 08 
- I personally doubt that the legal system in any country will ever spring into action in a concerted effort to take out spammers. -
Tiny Suite   2005 07 
- First time I actually subscribed to a online resource and I was actually pleasently suprised -
Business Basis code   2005 07 
- Let's understand what source code is and isn't. This definitely isn't source code. -
Componentized Linux   2005 07 
- Componentized Linux is a conceptual Linux distrobution that is designed to provide reusable parts for making custom Linux operating systems. -
OpenServer 6 - Who will buy it?   2005 07 
- I honestly do not think spending money on SCO is worth it. -
Rob Enderle again   2005 05 
- The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux? No, not really - at least not in the way Rob tells the story. -
Netcraft security toolbar for Firefox and IE   2005 05 
- Netcraft has released a toolbar recently for Firefox -
Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide   2005 05 
- Togaware's free Desktop Survival Guide and other Debian support/reference links. -
Sun and Open Source   2005 05 
- I guess I really just don't trust corporations. Sun's goal is income, not producing open source. -
Netscape 8 beta for win32 is out   2005 04 
- Renders pages much faster than Firefox, Mozialla, or IE on the same XP machine -
Apple OSX Tiger   2005 04 
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of an IPU (in place upgrade) vs. a fresh install? -
clever bash tricks   2005 04 
- One thing that has always bothered me is having to type in long pathnames. I guess I should have read the documentation since there is indeed a better way -
Adobe Acrobat Reader ver.7 for Linux (beta)   2005 04 
- Where do you find Acrobat Reader for Linux? They do have it, though it's not always easy to find. -
Looking for Barcode vendors, that work with Linux   2005 04 
- I cannot seem to google any vendors that have linux based bar coding solutions -
PreciseMail Anti-Spam Gateway   2005 03 
- Probably the hardest part of this is configuring its web interface. While I know how to add something foreign like this to an existing webserver, I suspect at least a few admins would fail or need help. -
Win4LinPro released: Support for Win2K, WinXP   2005 02 
- This product no longer exists. VmWare, Parellels and a few free virtualization products replace it. -
File does not exist error from Microsoftt Save As   2005 02 
- Microsoft save as produces annoying junk in my error logs. Can those idiots do anything right? -
scsidev: SCSI utility for linux   2005 02 
- I recently built an external SCSI enclosure, using an old tower. I used 3 SCSI drives, and built a LVM, so I could concatenate the drives together into one large drive, to host my temporary video scratch files. -
Testing new comments system   2005 02 
- I haven't been happy with our Wiki based comments system for some time. -
Comment Spamming   2005 01 
- nofollow tags in hrefs - will they accomplish anything useful for comment spam? I don't expect so, but I'll use it anyway. -
Keeping Microsoft Exploits out of your apache log files   2005 01 
- Another new Microsoft IIS exploit, for WebDAV is hitting the net pretty hard, and each request adds 32k of junk to your apache logs. Since I have a few web servers on the net, that log to a logging host, the disk space started getting filled up quicker than usual. -
An example of poorly commented code...   2005 01 
- This one is a little amusing, and deserves some kind of award for perl "one-liners", and belongs on a tee-shirt! -
SCO gets to see the code   2005 01 
- Sco lawsuit: IBM has to cough up the code and any notes or other documents that the folks involved in making code changes might have. -
Speed of IOMEGA REV with Microlite BackupEDGE   2005 01 
- Blog # 1231 Speed of IOMEGA REV with MicroliteBackupEDGE -
Goal seeking code   2005 01 
- Playing with evolution in code isn't very scientific, but it still can be fun. Here's a Perl plaything. -
 
 
Kerio Control Firewall
 
 
Site Review at Newsforge   2005 01 
- Newsforge has a review of this site. Overall it was positive, though I wish the reviewer had checked some things with me. -
More on self-modifying code   2005 01 
- I first heard of self modifying programs years ago - it was frowned upon - but back then I was programming commercial applications. Then someone showed me Life, which was an interesting bit of interesting bits, but I soon lost interest. -
Avida (Digital Life Laboratory )   2005 01 
- Avida (Digital Life Laboratory, own your own little piece of digital life -
SCO User Surveys   2005 01 
- Late in the game, SCO decides to contact users and ask some questions. Will they ask how many SCO systems the company USED to have? -
PhpBB security attacks   2005 01 
- I happened to notice a series of strange entries in my web access log, trying to exploit PhpBB scripts. -
Microsoft's MSH shell   2005 01 
- We all know that command lines are evil, and GUI is the future. That "awful command line" has been slated for extinction because point and click is SO much easier -
Eating your own dogfood   2005 01 
- Drag already answered the main point here: it's about eating your own dogfood. But there are two other points that need to be made here. First, yes, Linux is a kernel. But Linux systems embrace a Unix philosophy, and THAT is what makes them preferable to Windows. I AM anti-Microsoft, for a lot of reasons, but if we separate the political objections from the pure operating system points, we're still left with an ugly, clumsy philosophy and it is THAT which I dislike. -
Graphing Calculator (Mac, Windows)   2005 01 
- I vaguely remember understanding some of this kind of thing way back when, but I get very lost beyond two dimensions -
The Information Age   2005 01 
- Is inaccurate and misleading material on the internet dangerous? Are 'experts' always right? Remember that experts said that traveling faster than sound would kill you, that heavier than air flight was impossible and that the world was flat. -


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