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Abstract Information (not directly HW/SW related)

The Wired Article on Transcontinental Cable Laying and Stuff by Neal Stevenson called Mother Earth, Mother Board - weirdly enough, that was one of two Wired editions I ever bought, so somewhere in the house of my parents the original should be lying around
hypertext/http/web resources
- Complete list of XXX to HTML converters
- The W³C (World Wide Web Consortium) HTML 4.01 Standard Documentation online and its HTML 4.0 entity/chracter representation list
Multicast Routing
- Linux Multicast HOWTO at the vienna university sunsite/linux mirror
- MBONE faq
- nearest multicast archive
Bill Gates Interview on Bug Fixing in Microsoft Products by FOCUS Magazine
Douglas Adams article published in Guardian on Windows 95 shortly after its launch in 1995
RFCs/STDs/FYIs ...
- landfield rfc, fyi and std search engine
- The more or less official faqs.org site
- RFC search at Uni Oldenburg
cypherpunks ftp
[gone] HKS - Hell's Kitchen Software: Coderpunks Archive
You thought you had got a GOODTIMES virus by mail? nope, couldn´t be ... here´s why it's only a social virus if any
Web authoring, html, relevant standards and protocols
open cisco ios 11 router from a cisco grant

software links

OS and other System/Admin Software

irc_2003-08.log:01:05 #jutesack: <@gefi|muh:#jutesack> btw:  http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt

dtmf tone generation via linux isdn_audio: almost easy with dtmf_dial, but volume has to be reduced to 0.3: eg to generate a uLaw file for 0#

dial# make
cc -O -c dial.c
dial.c: In function `main':
dial.c:135: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
cc -O dial.o -o dial -lm
dial# ./dial --output-dev np.raw --use-audio 0  0\#
dial# sox -r 8000 -t raw -c 1 -u -b np.rawa-v 0.3  np.ul

this file can be used after enabling isdn audio with eg

> ATZ 
< OK
> AT&B512S18=1S23=0&L... 
< OK
> AT+FCLASS=8 
< OK
> AT+VSM=6 
(wait for CALLER NUMBER: ... and RING)
< RING
> ATA 
< VCON
> AT+VTX
< VCON 
(send np.ul)
...

script might follow some day ;-)

hard disk recovery/rescue (tested with a IBM IC35L040AVER07-0, a 40 GB almost 3 year old disk that could not even mount the root fs any more, nor any of the other file systems)
for the bots: I used dd_rescue, debugfs, mke2fs, fdisk, hdparm, a perl script and some sed magic
checkpointing, redundancy, clustering (in both meanings)
- Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Sytems - 1996 paper on a timer based userspace approach
- Linux Support for Transparent Checkpointing of Multithreaded Processes - a recent (2003) paper about using linuxthreads with a new system call "checkpoint" - however, the actual checkpointing has to be done in user space (local backup copy)
- http://kernelswap.sourceforge.net/ - of course this would depend heavily on checkpointing (epckpt or similar)
- checkpointing package - semi-stable and used by quite a few projects?
- NOMAD (vaporware? the site says source code would be available in a few months time ...) - A Scalable Operating System for Clusters of Uni and Multiprocessors: one of the projects using epckpt (local backup of their paper)
Remote booting
monte, the linux linux loader, is not directly related to remote booting, but interesting eough by itself (and it is directly related to booting, anyways)
- rpld by Chris Lightfoot and James McKenzie for Linux; only does IBM style rpl on a very few boot roms (We tried two that didn't work well, maybe it's a timing problem)
  Update: with a small patch it works very well with the Lanworks ROMS for 3COM 3c509 Etherlink III Cards (rev 1.7)!
- Etherboot (formerly located here) produces 32 bit (and 16 bit with ELKS) boot roms for many cards, it also comes with a floppy loader so you can test the rom before burning it (or if, like most of us, you don't have an eprom burner). The package includes netboot, which can produce netbootable "tagged images" from linux kernels, dos boot floppies, block devices and menu generation language (unluckily I've been having problems with the latter two ... Etherboot doesn't seem to supply th relevant hooks for mgl)
  I've also had fascinating results booting Etherboot ROMS via rpld with this rpld.conf (3c509 and DE220 cards, the former couldn't even be bullied into booting kernels rpl-style and always got stuck half way into the process)
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO to be
Linux Online, with links to beowulf etc. to high performance/availability computing
mips linux
IPv6 (or should that be IPng?)
links found on the way. A View from the heart of Europe
- [borken]linux specific, HOWTO
- general
- tunnel brokers (see also ...)
  sixxs.net (multiple eu pops)
  xs26.net (multiple eu pops)
  ipv6.he.net (us)
  hexago.com aka freenet6 (us, apt-get install tspc; /etc/init.d/tspc start; ping6 www.kame.net)
SSL-Links
- Mailinig list SSL-talk-faq
- The free SSLeay by Eric A. Young
- International Law Crypto Survey
- you can get SSLREF 3.0 here if you are citizen of the us
- SSLRef (The Netscape Reference Implementation of SSL)
ppp links
- latest pppd (usually more recent than metalab)
- PPP-HOWTO from metalab (more outdated than your average phone book, though)
esoteric mail configuration where your MX is behind a firewall (sendmail and ipchains cookbook)

Application Software

TeX and LaTeX
- Using LaTeX and TeX at University of Southern Mississippi
- The Classic A Gentle Introduction to TeX from 1993 by Michael Doob in ps, pdf and tex
- Another?! "Gentle Introduction to TeX" from duke.edu includes a Link Collection
internet distiller by Andy Babinszki - converts Postscript files to PDF Format. Pretty pointless according to Anton Ertl (even more so since he switched from acrobat distiller to ghostscript -- a great step for the open software community, but a step backwards for those who'd want to test the compliance of their software with the original adobe products)
LDAP (light weight directory access) ressources
- overview including online manual and link to src
- Perl-LDAP page (new hostname)
- Ldapp package, also a ldap module for perl from netscape
- oh, and by far the most stable ldap implementation in the open source was the ldap gateway for x.500 (though I cannot remember the name of the stuff, Yellow Legged Tortoise anyone? I still prefer my dish to ldapget ...)
- there once was a ldapadmin perl cgi script somewhere here, remaining from experiments with the aforementioned beast
local webterm and flnis version
local mindterm ssh applet and access to swi from mindbright
speech related stuff and mbrola mirror
I would have liked to include a link to a download page of star office from star division here (never used it, but then there might be people who "need" an office suite for linux), and subsequently got lost in their frames jungle with my trusty lynx - which is an exceedingly rare event. Star Division Inc.'s web site definitely sucks planets!!
my favourite music software: TiMIDIty; one good patch site can be found here (eawpatches), John Sankey's Harpsichord Patch he personally recommends for the 500+ Scarlatti sonatas is also available somewhere. All in all timidity works with just about any kind of sample or sound.
My Desktop (does this belong here?)
- fvwm1 as always
  Without GoodStuff, fvwm1 is quite stable and does not detract from the window content (except my background and window decorations are shades of red). With one small cosmetic adaptation the fvwm1 decorations suit me fine.
  #ButtonStyle 1 50x10 ButtonStyle : 1 17 21x10@1 42x31@0 45x31@1 68x10@1 76x21@0 57x41@0 57x45@0 76x68@0 68x76@0 45x57@0 41x57@0 21x76@0 10x68@0 31x45@1 31x42@1 10x21@0 21x10@1
- getting mozilla firebird 1.x to conform to unix bindings
  This is not trivial, since (besides the unification of the ^F and / search functions) not only general cut and paste in traditional X11 style with the left and middle mouse buttons were broken, but also the "go to URL" function for pasting a URL into the main browser window is now disabled by default. This can be changed using the about:config page, namely changing clipboard.autocopy, middlemouse.contentLoadURL and middlemouse.paste from their (now) false defaults to true.
  The other annoying problem are the key bindings, which now seem to use Gnome defaults. Switching back to Emacs editing mode with ^U for clearing the line (which are Unix default - that's why I don't use desktop environments like Gnome or KDE, and mozilla should not rely on those) is only supposed to be happening through calling gnome-keybinding-properties. What it does, however, is add an entry like the following one to $HOME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml:
```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="gtk_key_theme" mtime="1101005954" type="string">
                <stringvalue>Emacs</stringvalue>
        </entry>
</gconf>
```

groupware links

link collections
- Collaborative Groupware Software on nexist.sourceforge.net
- groupware with open source software links
projects
- phpgroupware
- phproject
- amphora
- http://www.bynari.net/ - commercial (old versions available as freeware)

hardware links

Computers

UCB/LBNL/VINT Network Simulator NS
Technical data on the sun3
- general info
- linux/sun3 port info (with `current status' and `how to get started'
- The Sun Hardware Reference FAQ with lots of info about all kinds of old suns
- linux diskless booting howto, you might need it
- xkernel info for booting small sunos kernels via rarp/bootp/tftp/nfs on sun3 and sun4 models
VAXstation 3100 and VMS (or Ultrix 4.2)
- VS2000/VS3100 patches against various (mostly scsi-related) bugs. Link from VaxStation 3100 page; patches are to be found at gwdg.de
- OpenVMS Version 7.2-1 Documentation online!
- vmscd utility to read (and interpret, producing dcl jobs where appropriate) OpenVMS ODS-2 CDroms and other disks on unices
- The VMS Hacking FAQ features a weird tone, but gets across the basics about VMS from a unix pov (local copy)
- DEC VMS and DEC FAQs at uu.net
- POST messages illustrated and more
- DECnet on Linux and instructions on how to enable DECnet in your X/XFree86 server (this might be about the only way to access foreign filesystems other than nfs and iso9660 from the VAX, btw)
- OpenVMS is available for a nominal charge of USD 30 including shipping for DECUS members. Update: I received my membership card 2 weeks ago and the hobbyist site finally accepted my CD order. Update: the order took about the expcted 10 days to deliver. I've installed VMS on one disk and TCP/IP on the other, however @tcpip$config keeps complaining about the tcpip-components not being on the system disk. I must be the dumbest VMS admin in existence, but then I don't have the manuals, either ... On a happier note: the Magnetical Optical Storage CM-401 CDROM (OEM labelled RRD40 or similar (I don't have the VAX here) as expected), theoretically requiring a special type of caddy or rather a brace to insert/extract the disc, proved quite happy to accept the distribution medium when it was inserted "brute force" (with the aid of two screwdrivers to lift the mounting unit and a bit of fiddling). Naturally the 7.2 hobbyist CDROM is going to stay in there for a very long time, as extracting it would be far more stress than the insertion process was.
- freeware from montagar, also available on cdrom
- more freeware, including the Logical Disk driver on DEC's ftp site (this would be a nice way to get around the 1 Go boot disk limit in the early buggy boot rom revs. of course, the identifier of my 2 Go disk seems to be too long, too. there are patches, but I don't have an EPROM burner ...)
- FreeVMS - proposes to become a Mach 3.0 based VMS Workalike as much as possible
- The VAXbook in various formats including ps (local copy)
- VMSbook with history about VMS from DEC (now Compaq) (local copy (2 MB))
- mine is on line, if you are interested in a developer's account on the box, mail me. I'm still trying to get around the SSL/SSH segfaults, though ...
- decvax.org - Virtual Address Extension by a member of the monastery
- my ovms webring page
linux on AS400 with letters from IBM people explaining why it's not feasible
Decstation 5000/200 (mine has no ram and no PMAG, spares (or interest) anyone?)
- unix ag decstation info
- History of the DECstation
Linux on Power Macintosh Links and Whining page
playstation stuff. update: there now is linux for playstation, krist tried out the disk from runix (down?) ...
[borken] MSX, the old wannabe standard ... my memories are more nostalgic than anything else, but ... after all my first home computer WAS a SVI-728 ...: many links, emulators and an in-depth technical description of MSX, MSX-2, MSX-2+ aso.
[outdated] The Clone Hardware Guide for installing Unices on PC hardware
[outdated] Building the Perfect Box: How to Design Your Linux Workstation

Components

SMD Code and partly Data Book marsport.demon.co.uk/smd
Linux Embedded Systems Links
- linux (embedded) companies
- Et-Linux - libc5 distribution for 386 embedded environments
chips
chips (CAVEAT: login)
Smart Cards Tutorial
tom's hardware guide
electronics repair guide
Collection of lcd panel links
- pdf data sheets for electronic assembly displays (hd44780 parallel and serial interfaces)
- sharp data sheets/new products
- [borken] large drivers&data sheet collection by c hirsch
- another good reference on the hitachi hd 44780 based industry standard lcd panels by peer ouwenhout
- lcd panel data sheet index!!! all you'll ever want (or all i'll ever need, i hope ..)
- matrix orbital computing produce quite beautiful lc displays
- application information from sharp
- see also the distributors below
chip directory: original site, karlsruhe mirror
IR links
- IrDA actually seems to work with linux!! (v2.0, v2.1 modules)
- Temic IrDA components
- Danilo Beuche's IrDA project
- LIRC - Linux InfraRed Control: simple serial or parallel port hardware, remote controls can be added
MCSI embedded computers&((E)PROM) disk simulators
Ethernet links
- Charles Spurgeon's Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) Web Site
- Ethernet vendor codes (24 bits)
Windows NT Adaptor Card Help - since it's a hardware ressource, usable independent of the OS used. great!
System Optimization
Apple Macintosh Clock Chipping Home Page
Modem Resources
- +++ing rockwell at command reference for recent 56kflex/v.90 modems
- 56k.com 56kflex, x2 and v.90 info site
hardware troubles? what was this cable or that plug's pinout? Consult the hardware book by Joakim Ögren or one of the mirrors (Goodie Domain Server TU Wien (Austria), Zettweb -, local backup mirror list)
Illustrated Guide to EIA/TIA 568 A versus B versus USOC in structured cabling systems with statements from different countries' standards organizations and ascii art version thereof

Network Services

Official Registrars for DNS Domain Names (from icann?)
OpenSRS from Tucows if you intend to purchase more than 20 domains p/m (.xyz starting at USD 10.00, bulk pricing only)
cheap registrars (no ads): namesarecheap starting at USD 14.00, gandi (france?) starting at EUR 12.00 + tax

Distributors

b. g. micro have lc displays, serial adaptors for them, ... (ssl, cc accepted)
emj - m-sys products (doc, ide2000 ...), matrix orbital (cool serial backlight lcd panels) and many more embedded systems components(ssl, cc)
RS Components Austria (online catalog and ordering, no ssl though. besides they need cookies. yuck. not your average secure transaction shop, obviously ... they offer a vast range of electronic, electric and mechanic components and tools and usually the postal service manages to deliver the other day in eastern Austria, so you might still want to order by phone or fax (+43-2852/505 and +43-2852/53223 respectively))