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Friday, November 30, 2001

The SED FAQ:

posted by j 11/30/2001 09:54:18 AM

Thursday, November 29, 2001

posted by j 11/29/2001 05:24:55 PM

Preliminary research on building asset tracking for CDROMs

CatFish for logging information about the contents of CDs
GNU barcode (or the Win32 version for CygWin) for creating the barcodes
barcoding procedures for future documentation on the procedure
GSView for viewing and printing the barcodes under W2K
and a MySQL and PHP inventory application that I haven't found yet

posted by j 11/29/2001 04:54:33 PM

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

Source code for Scrabble games.

posted by j 11/28/2001 12:43:35 AM

Sunday, November 25, 2001

An application for cataloguing CDs.

posted by j 11/25/2001 11:22:50 PM

Reviewing tools for backing up CDROMs and / or using the ISO images:

VaporCD: CD-ROM volume emulation for Windows NT/2000
A listing of similar applications: http://www.virtual-cdrom.ru/progs.htm

posted by j 11/25/2001 11:19:18 PM

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Something for Ed: the bb client. It looks like most people are running it as bin/bb -S bb.omnigroup.comor bb.u.washington.edu. Documentation is available.

posted by j 11/20/2001 11:44:12 AM

Monday, November 19, 2001

Miscellaneous notes:
I'll start with some systems links. OpenLDAP 2.0 Administrator's Guide: A Quick-Start Guide and
You should edit /usr/pkg/etc/web500/web500gw.conf to your needs
To start web500gw: /usr/pkg/sbin/web500gw [-d debuglevel]
===> Registering installation for web500gw-2.1b3
web500gw-2.1b3 requires installed package openldap-1.2.11
Simplify your life with APG (Automated Pasword Generator) or Diceware Passphrase Home Page for use with pgp. pop3 or imap server suggestions on the Postfix Frequently Asked Questions and Standards-Based E-Mail For The Enterprise. Detect intrusions with LIDS. LWN - The Linux traffic shaper. Linux IPCHAINS-HOWTO: Packet Filtering Basics and possibly again: Setting up a secure RedHat Linux 6.2 server. Port scanning the box for possible vulnerablities: Nmap -- Stealth Port Scanner For Network Security Auditing, General Internet Exploration & Hacking; reviewing the list of exploits from the main page. Trying to lock down the external box for CVS access (see the authentication notes associated with The VPN HOWTO : Doing it) using Setting up a secure RedHat Linux 6.2 server on an IBM-compatible computer and downloading the RPMs from RedHat's 6.2 Security Advisories list. bah.
Moving away from security: ACS Installation under w2k and a CVS setup and administration guide
Next, let's cover some web develoment links. The Web Development Guidelines should start us off. Also, Daemon News 199903 : Managing websites using Unix. Next, we'll look at a sample CVS tutorial: a fun HOWTO Use CVS to work on Speech Lab Projects. Let WebCon - the Libwww Command Line Tool provide you with some useful tools for testing sites. Bugzilla frequently needs a new image; find one here: ARACHNOLOGY pictures. Upgrade to 2.12: Remote Vulnerabilities in Bugzilla.
Some other notes that don't really fit elsewhere: The Spam Bouncer: a Procmail-Based Spam Filter
A quick note on Brian Silas from Musicurry.com. The joy of Indian music. People at Work - The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition). An oddly titled philosophy paper: Analizing David Hume. No, it doesn't appear to be a play on words.

posted by j 11/19/2001 12:07:51 AM

Sunday, November 18, 2001

Securing Your Host -- tcpwrappers

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:46:38 PM

Linux Security Breakout Session

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:44:15 PM

Windows networking tools: WinPcap

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:39:54 PM

Additional CVS links:

Development under Windows: CVS and the Microsoft Source Code Control interface
Administration: cvsadmin 's home page

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:38:57 PM

Another development related article for review / addition to the schedule: Effective code auditing can ease your worries and boost your application security

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:36:01 PM

More build / development notes: Using the Zeus SCC-CVS Interface - my attempt at finding information relating to Homesite integration with CVS. It doesn't look too promising.

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:34:14 PM

Compact Disc Autorun

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:33:02 PM

VNC Contrib Support Page

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:32:22 PM

Using CVS keywords in file headers with templates for Perl and config files

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:31:39 PM

Programmers' Canvas Toolkit has the following mission:
With the Programmers' Canvas Toolkit you can have an 
extensible, feature-rich development environment up and 
running in a matter of days. 
posted by j 11/18/2001 11:31:24 PM

Some VNC utilities:
A&M Software Design provides the following: VNC commander provides a directory type VNC viewer that allows multiple connections to be defined and stored in a list view as icons. The viewer is actually part of the application as a ActiveX control.
Trying an installation of VNCScan from TGCS. Evidently this will scan the network for VNC servers.
Also, demime - A tool to scrub mime from mailing lists looks like it is being used on the VNC mailing list.

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:29:25 PM

The Internet Letter (volume 1.1) mentions a free gopher server called GN:
John Franks, a mathematician at Northwestern University, 
wrote a competing product, called GN, and offered it for 
free on the Internet. GN is the only free UNIX server.
The closest I came to the source for GN was Professor Frank's WN web server.

posted by j 11/18/2001 11:01:49 PM

Notes on the PHP debugger

posted by j 11/18/2001 03:30:36 PM

The DBG Php Debugger is a comprehensive software tool that helps you debugging your php scripts.

posted by j 11/18/2001 02:28:55 PM

Articles on debugging ASP or PHP with PHPEdit or unit tests

posted by j 11/18/2001 02:03:06 PM

Win2k LyX port.

posted by j 11/18/2001 01:43:34 PM

Saturday, November 17, 2001

Norm Matloff's Debugging Tutorial

posted by j 11/17/2001 06:31:32 AM

Friday, November 16, 2001

The previous link was mentioned on J-Software Resources.

posted by j 11/16/2001 06:16:22 PM

Lecture Notes for Great Ideas in Computer Science

posted by j 11/16/2001 06:04:57 PM

Thursday, November 15, 2001

Vector Front Page

posted by j 11/15/2001 10:45:38 PM

Installing SHARP APL for Linux that is listed on Getting Started with APL

posted by j 11/15/2001 05:47:26 PM

Dyalog APL/W

posted by j 11/15/2001 05:38:14 PM

AspTear Component allows you to retrieve, store, and server pages pulled from a web server.

posted by j 11/15/2001 04:53:57 PM

John Chew's Scrabble � Lists

posted by j 11/15/2001 02:30:31 PM

chkrootkit checks for signs of a rootkit.

posted by j 11/15/2001 12:58:25 PM

Monday, November 05, 2001

Venu Vasudevan's A Web Services Primer has a nice summary of the technologies that surround the construction of a web service.

posted by j 11/05/2001 09:50:04 AM

Friday, November 02, 2001

DewN RFC util

posted by j 11/02/2001 10:17:54 AM

Markus Hoenicka's recently updated NTSGML tutorial.

posted by j 11/02/2001 08:11:33 AM

Thursday, November 01, 2001

A summary of the Unix Toolkit from ``Coping with Unix''.

posted by j 11/01/2001 03:09:50 PM