User:Bilbo
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Personal site: http://bilbo.hobbiton.org/
Frequently Used Tricks
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
- Best of ZSH Tips
- BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual
- Large databases on FreeBSD -- use RAID 10 with PostgreSQL
- High performance web servers with Varnish
- LaTeX
- gnuplot
- Graphviz
- Installing FreeBSD On A USB Stick
- OpenVPN How-To
- Perldoc manual
- Socket options -- someone actually documented them!!
- Subversion
Technical References
- AMD Literature Order Center
- AMD x86-64 documentation
- AT Command Set And Register Summary
- PF: Firewall Ruleset Optimization
- Single Unix Specification
- PostgreSQL's timezone information (Also a useful reference outside of PostgreSQL usage.)
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
- Mac Boot Key Combos
- 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
- PDFCreator (for Windows)
- Punch-downs -- Nice article on punch-downs
- Rapidrun Break Away Wallplates -- nice for snaking VGA through conduits
- Squeezebox -- A neato MP3 player
- Tweaking For Speed -- dslreports.com
