User:Bilbo

From Devpit

Personal site: http://bilbo.hobbiton.org/

Computer Stuff

Frequently Used Tricks

• Sed One-Liners

Oddball Programming Tasks

• Compiler Options for Creating Odd Binaries
• Perl Module Mechanics on how to build your own perl module distributions.

Unixy stuff

• Cepstral -- Easy voice synthesis
• BAFUG FreeBSD talks
• BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual
• Large databases on FreeBSD -- use RAID 10 with PostgreSQL
• LaTeX
• gnuplot
• Graphviz
  • Drawing Graphs With Graphviz (PDF)
  • Visualize function calls with Graphviz
• Installing FreeBSD On A USB Stick
• OpenVPN How-To
• Perldoc manual
• Subversion

Tech Docs

• AMD Literature Order Center
• AMD x86-64 documentation
• AT Command Set And Register Summary
• PF: Firewall Ruleset Optimization
• Single Unix Specification

Tech News and "News"

• ;login:
• North American Network Operators' Group This is a really interesting mailing list.
• Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants
• Why expensive disks are worthwhile
• Why expensive disks aren't worthwhile

Misc Computer Stuff

• ATI Trade-Up rebate
• Blackbox.com -- Funky KVM, networking, video, etc hardware
• Bugmenot -- Throw-away passwords to sites that require useless registration
• DNSstuff.com -- Look up various network things like DNS, whois, abuse, spam blackhole lists, etc
• GMANE -- Mail To News And Back Again (a news server that archives mailing lists forever
• Install multiple versions of IE on the same machine
• Mini-box.com -- Tiny computers
• Punch-downs -- Nice article on punch-downs
• Shuttle XPC with AM2 socket, complete system starting under $500
• Squeezebox -- A neato MP3 player
• Rapidrun Break Away Wallplates -- nice for snaking VGA through conduits

Stuff to Study or Investigate

• FreeBSD - Security Event Auditing
• GC discussion
• Programming Optimization, by Paul Hsieh.
• RTOS article
• Sorting revisited, by Paul Hsieh.
• Steve Pavlina - The Self-Growth Guy
• Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants
• Tour de Babel
• Von Neumann - The Scholar