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All of the articles here are related to some unix variant. If an article concerns security, however, it will be in my InfoSec category.

JFFNMS and debian

posted Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:18 PM by andy
I started trying to test out JFFNMS on Debian months ago and eventually gave up when I couldn't get the poller to work.  It turns out the poller takes advantage of PHP-CLI and that PHP-CLI (and PHP-CGI) has a seperate php.ini file where you need Read More
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Novell Public Service Announcent Part 2

posted Monday, May 30, 2005 10:40 PM by andy
Novell likes to make us all think that we will never have to upgrade to any newer versions of linux...this just in from http://www.kernel.org ...seriously Novell let's be realistic: commit c27d379fe5e7a0709fdb63eeaec5c7c848747d8atree 663a18804af8e66287bd8411e4e54c241027d146parent Read More
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Gentoo is for ricers

posted Saturday, February 12, 2005 5:08 PM by andy
This is one of the funniest collections of quotes I've seen to date. Excerpt from the site: "Welcome, this page is dedicated to the Linux Community's greatest ambassadors, Gentoo users. Like the annoying teenager next door with a 90hp import sporting Read More
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How to get those "missing" fonts to work in xpdf

posted Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:26 AM by andy
It's take a little bit of know how to be able to view pdf's correclty on any *nix platform. This post explains how I configure xpdf on FreeBSD 4.10...it should work for other versions but I'm not making any promises. Also, while the specifics may not Read More
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IPF Article

posted Monday, July 26, 2004 11:40 AM by andy
Yet another firewalling article :) When writing this I actually found that IPF seems to have a lot more features than IPFW does. IPF Basics Read More
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OpenBSD Install Guide

posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:02 PM by andy
Now that I'm working for DePaul's Computer Security Response Team I'm doing a lot with OpenBSD and I've found that if I write things down in my blog I tend to remember them better and if I don't I at least remember that I wrote them down so I can Read More
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Vim Cheat Sheet Article started

posted Friday, June 18, 2004 10:24 AM by andy
I'm starting to use Vim a lot at work now and I am going to use this article to compile a list of commands that I commonly use.  I don't have time to go through a long tutorial or book on Vim so the man file and Vim User Manual is where most of this is Read More
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Changing your default shell

posted Monday, June 07, 2004 9:25 AM by andy
One of the neat things about *nix is the ability to work with many different shells.  As with anything else in the *nix world there is bound to be heated debates over which shell is better.  Whether you want to use good ol' sh or (my personal Read More
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