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

!!! Groups
* [FreeBSD|KnowledgeBase/FreeBSD] notes
* Various [scripts|KnowledgeBase/Scripts] for fun and profit

!!! Sundry Notes
* [Packet writing in Linux|PacketWriting-Linux]
* [NetQmail 1.05 + Patches|NetQmail]
* [Useful OpenSSL commands|OpenSSL]
* [USB insert/remove sounds under linux/udev|UdevSounds]
* [nslu2-linux OpenSlug|OpenSlug] network-attached storage
* [Mencoder Commands|MencoderCommands] for encoding video
* [SecondLife Updater|SLUpdater]
* [realpath.c] because Linux lacks a realpath command.
* Moonshell [DPG]-compatible encoding on linux
* Innards of [Infantile Paralysiser's DSM|http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/2007/05/dsmplay.shtml] format: [IP-DSM]
* Using [PAR2] to fill up unused space on a CD/DVD
* [Apache22 single log source|Apache22SingleLog] 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|dropcache]
* Compute the [Adler32|adler32.sh] checksum of data, in bash!
* Add a colorful [flag|flag.sh] to your bash prompt, to help distinguish hosts at a glance
* Programming a [cheap generic USB LED badge|USBBadge] within linux
* Linux [iSCSI] using ietf (target) and open-iscsi (initiator)
* Build your own [Dynamic DNS|dyndns] zone
* Making a [2.88MB Boot Floppy|2.88Boot] with dosbox and win98seboot
* Thwart silly password resuage restrictions in usermin with [UserminPasswd|KnowledgeBase/Scripts/um-passwd]
* [VirtualBox Notes|VirtualBoxNotes]
* PHP extension load order can cause shutdown crashes or missing symbol errors. [fix-extension-order.sh]
* Silly little extension to du: [pigs.sh]
* [sparseify] filesystems, to keep VMware/~VirtualBox disk images nice and tidy
* Using [COWs|CopyOnWrite] on linux to test out possibly harmful changes safely
* Good information on the [Dell System Restore|KnowledgeBase/DellSystemRestore] crap