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version 47

This is a collection of useful (and not-so-useful) bits of information.

Groups

• FreeBSD notes
• Various scripts for fun and profit
• SS4200 notes
• WebOS notes

Sundry Notes

• Packet writing in Linux
• NetQmail 1.05 + Patches
• Useful OpenSSL commands
• USB insert/remove sounds under linux/udev
• nslu2-linux OpenSlug network-attached storage
• Mencoder Commands for encoding video
• SecondLife Updater
• realpath.c because Linux lacks a realpath command.
• Moonshell DPG-compatible encoding on linux
• Innards of Infantile Paralysiser's DSM format: IP-DSM
• Using PAR2 to fill up unused space on a CD/DVD
• Apache22 single log source to handle log rotation and splitting automatically

• copysparse.php was built to copy a block device to an image file, while preventing the allocation of all-null blocks (sparse file) to save space

  • Also contains examples of a thousands-separator number formatting function and a function to display human-readable magnitude numbers (i.e. 10.0GB)
• Empty the Linux buffer cache
• Compute the Adler32 checksum of data, in bash!
• Add a colorful flag to your bash prompt, to help distinguish hosts at a glance
• Programming a cheap generic USB LED badge within linux
• Linux iSCSI using ietf (target) and open-iscsi (initiator)
• Build your own Dynamic DNS zone
• Crafting a bootable DOS filesystem
• VirtualBox Notes
• PHP extension load order can cause shutdown crashes or missing symbol errors. fix-extension-order.sh
• sparseify filesystems, to keep VMware/VirtualBox disk images nice and tidy
• Using COWs on linux to test out possibly harmful changes safely
• Good information on the Dell System Restore crap
• Ruby binding for LibC statvfs
• Chrooting OpenSSH users
• Palm Internet