The contents of this website are Copyright (c)2004 by Brian Manning <brian at antlinux dot com>. Please do not reuse any of the content on this website without permission from the author.
What's here:
Overview Pages (Links to more specifc pages on a topic) ::
Cheat Sheets ::
Apple Computers ::
Book Notes ::
Linux Notes ::
Specific Hardware ::
Other Software (Besides Linux and Mac OS X) ::
Windows Apps ::
X11 Fonts ::
Website Design ::
Crypto ::
Scanning ::
Misc
Overview pages
- Wikipedia
- GuiToolKitLinks - links to various widget sets and applications that use them
- ArduinoLinks - Links for Arduino, the open-source hardware experimentation kit
- Programming Links - links for programing in different languages (different than the links below)
- XmlSchema - links to pages that describe XSD
- ProjectPlanning - Ideas on how to plan your next project, questions to ask, roadmaps, etc. Includes links to object oriented diagramming.
- Object Oriented Programming and Object Design
- Database Design
- Solaris Tips - tricks and tips from using Solaris
- OracleTips - good things to know when working with Oracle 10g
- LinuxEncryption - How to encrypt things in Linux
- EXIF Notes - notes on how to set up EXIF parsing tools both on the command line and in Perl
- DocBook - links on how to create and parse documents written in the DocBook SGML/XML markup languages
- OpenDocument Fellowship- An open standard file format for office documents. It is designed and maintained by experts from several organizations with a stake in electronic document management.
- ApacheLogParsing - Mini-scripts for parsing specific things from Apache logfiles
- A page of LinuxJournalArticles that I'm saving for future reference/research
- WirelessApplicationProtocol, or WAP, which is used on web-enabled mobile devices like cell phones and PDA's for giving them access to the Internet
- SoftwareTesting - links about software testing as part of software development
- Google's API's are available online
- a collection of links dealing with Virtual Worlds
- LDAP Authentication, or how to get various computers to speak LDAP for authentication and logins
- RoboCode - Build robots that fight each other using the Java programming language
Cheat Sheets
Cheats sheets for various applications
Apple Computers
My collection of all things Apple
- ApplePowerBook - notes from using my Apple G4 Powerbook and other associated Apple toys
- AppleiBook - notes from using my Apple G3 iBook, which dual-boots Mac OS X and GNU/Debian PPC Linux
- AppleSoftware - Applications that I use in OS X, including sites for theming and icon sets for the Mac.
- MacBluetoothDialup - setting up a Verizon phone with Bluetooth for dialup with your Bluetooth-enabled Mac
Booknotes
Notes I've taken from technical books I've read
Completed and/or In Progress book reviews; see " Submitting Kernel-Panic Book Reports", for a primer on what's expected in a book report
Linux Notes (Local and External)
Specific Hardware
Other Software pages
Notes about software packages that I am working with or have worked with:
Puppet FAQ
- Using
bc for ConvertingToHexadecimal
- Gallery - setting up and modifying the Gallery image gallery application
- Drupal - everything you wanted to know about hacking Drupal. Well, no, not everything, but some good stuff on hacking up themes and whatnot.
- Qemu - Compiling, installing and running QEMU, the free virtual machine emulator; the page includes some information on KQEMU, the Linux kernel emulation accelerator
- GrubSplashScreens - How to convert your favorite images from their current format into the 'XPM' format for use by
grub
- CompilingGCC - how to compile, mostly for the
gcj compiler
- Re-encoding audio files into MP3's for Ringontes
- Using mencoder to generate movies of different sizes for use with Apple's iMovie
- MlDonkeySetup - Setting up GNU mlDonkey
- LinuxDVDNotes - scripts/applications that will let you work with DVD's in Linux
- AwStats - my notes from setting up
awstats, a web server log parser
- LAMPsig (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) special interest group in Los Angeles
- How to work with Faxes using
mgetty's image tools
- RecordingEditingAudio , the toolchain that I used to tape shows off of the radio recently
- GnuGettext - working with GNU gettext in C/C++/Perl/Python/etc.
- GNU Mailman commands used to check and remove users from a mailing list on sparkplug
Other software packages that look interesting:
- Use the Pandora GIMP plugin for stitching panoramic files together into one image
- vCard, a script that can send contact information to Nokia cell phones that are on a digital network
- Flash Players for Linux
- Gobby is a collaborative text editor for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X
- FCKEdit - a text editor for web browsers, with multi-language support
- AnyTerm, an SSH client that runs in a web browser using JavaScript/Ajax
- ArgoUML is a UML tool written in Java, and has a Java WebStart runnable download available, so you can run it on any machine that has Java an an internet connection
- Diceware is a way to generate passphrases for use in cryptography. You use dice to roll up random numbers which correspond to words on a list.
Windows Applications and Issues
- BuildingWindowsImage - how to build a Windows image, including a list of things to delete to make more free space
- ChangingLoginBackgrounds, so you don't have to stare into the same thing all of the time when you're logging in
- CompilingWindowsApplications, or how to get cool software to work in a really bad place.
- DisablingAutoPlay in Windows
- GTKForWindows
- Windows POSIX Toolchains
- Windows Utilities/Programs
- WinRoll - minimizes windows like a windowshade
- A page on how I set up CdRecordForWindows, which is now not worth anything as I use burnatonce on Windows XP instead, and it works great.
- How to KillWindowsLoginApps, or which registry entries to edit to prevent applications from running once you log in to the machine
- In order to get Windows Explorer to open an old style Explorer window with a specific folder highlighted, use the following:
explorer /e,/select,<Selected Folder Name>
X11 Fonts (External)
Website Design Links (External)
Crypto/Security
- OpenVPN is a userspace implementation of an encrypted VPN. OpenVPN uses SSL libraries instead of IPSec for encryption.
- Security Resources
- Crypto Drop Box
- Use asymmetric keys to allow access to public things like wikis and blogs, so that only people with keys added to an allowed list will be allowed to edit things. Prevent wiki spammers.
- http://www.sans.org
- Reading room - including white papers written by people who are
Scanning
Misc
Portaboom