Jay's bookmarks

• Google (http://www.google.com/)
• Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/)
• Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/)

• Bookmarks on writing (and viewing) on-host documentation (e.g. man pages)
• MacOS X bookmarks (new)
• Web publishing bookmarks
• Data transfer and file format bookmarks
• Printing and PostScript bookmarks
• Virus-related bookmarks
• Unix backup-and-restore bookmarks (many relevant to Windows as well) (new)

• CCIS home page
• CCIS welcome page (how to log in and use your account)
• CCIS announcements page
• CCIS scheduled downtime page
• CCIS HOWTO documentation (and FAQs)
• CCIS Systems-group documentation (Systems staff only)
• CCIS network information
  • Cricket
• Ian's Wiki -- random stuff of interest, including CSS and MacOS X links.
  • (Ian links to glish.com's and csszengarden.com's CSS examples.)
• Pete's site (new) has some slides and other material from his computer security presentations
• Northeastern University
  • Campus map of Northeastern at http://www.campusmap.neu.edu/. (Doesn't yet show Building H, the new building where CCIS is housed.)
  • An academic calendar in HTML, courtesy of the semester conversion project.
• Near CCIS
  • New England Conservatory of Music
  • A number of institutions (including Northeastern) participate in the Fenway Culture District project, whose home page is at http://www.fenwayculture.org/. (new)
  • Betty's Wok & Noodle reviews with info: here and here.
• How Many Administrators are Enough?, a dated but worthwhile write-up by Mark Verber. He has some other interesting-looking early drafts of papers up at http://www.verber.com/mark/sysadm/.
• The Unix Rosetta Stone at http://bhami.com/rosetta.html (new URL) is a table that translates between different varieties of Unix. It's also available in a PDF version.
• Unix System Administrator's Resources at Stokely Consulting
• securityportal.com has weekly security digests by platform/topic.
• IBM's developerWorks collects various useful articles about software development and system administration. Unrepresentative examples include articles on Linux Unicode Programming, on installing a very lightweight homebrew Linux distribution on older hardware with limited resources, and on using the Stow package manager.
• Mail related bookmarks
  • Spammer Deterrrent, based on Optuse SMTPD, has some features for blocking spam and slowing down operations commonly used by spammers.
  • SURBL - Spam URI Realtime Blocklists (new)
• Sun bookmarks
  • sunhelp.org
  • Solaris 7 Setuid/Setgid files (from U. Waterloo)
    • An annex with new files in Solaris 8
• Software
  • Wietse Venema's postfix MTA
    • Postfix configuration notes (reference material) by Alessandro Dotti
    • TLS patches for Postfix
  • CVS lives at cvshome.org, and there's a free online book about it at http://www.red-bean.com/cvsbook/.
  • radmind, at http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/, is `A suite of Unix command-line tools and a server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines.'
  • The Glib reference manual is hosted at www.gtk.org.
  • Speaking of CVS, here's a message about setting the cvs binary setgid to limit access to a local CVS repository through the filesystem. I haven't explored this very much.
  • SWIG (`Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator') is a tool to wrap arbitrary C (and C++ and Objective-C) libraries so they can easily be used from scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, and Python. It lives at http://www.swig.org/. I haven't used it yet, but it looks pretty cool, and I've heard good things about how easy it is to use.
  • Jim Davis' Cfengine and rsync page is at www.cs.arizona.edu
  • Another rsync-like tool is Unison, at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/. It runs under Unix and Windows.
  • The Perl Cfengine Daemon lives at www.nas.nasa.gov
  • The Spam Bouncer lives at www.spambouncer.org
  • stunnel is a universal wrapper that adds SSL (read `encryption', and therefore greater security) to any network service. It can be installed site-wide, or used on an ad-hoc basis by an individual user for an individual service for port forwarding (like SSH). It lives at http://www.stunnel.org/. At CCIS, we use it for the web server that serves mailing lists at http://lists.ccs.neu.edu/, so people's mailing list passwords aren't transmitted in the clear.

    There's a handy cheat-sheet for using stunnel along with thttpd (or any other non-SSL-capable HTTP server) at http://halplant.com:88/server/thttpd_FAQ.txt, about two-thirds of the way down. You can also use it (with some trouble) to access SSL-secured pages with a non-SSL web browser; I've used this on my iPAQ to access CCIS' Nomad login page, for instance.

  • PDFlib (http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/index.html) is a multi-platform library written in C (with bindings for many languages) for producing and processing PDF files. It's available for noncommercial use under the Aladdin Free Public Licence (like current versions of Ghostscript) or for a fee for commercial use.
• Geektools at http://geektools.com/ (includes stuff like a whois proxy and anti-spam tools; also available in text-only format)
• Luke Scharf has some sysadmin tips and tricks collected at System Administration Made Difficult.
• Greater Scroll of Console Knowledge at www.gnac.com
• The screen documentation has some information about VT100 and ANSI control codes.
• CCIS toasters crew project dox archive
• TIP (Tcl Improvement Proposal) format, an interesting Wiki-like plain-text documentation format
• Jens Schweikhardt's man-page HOWTO (for Linux, but mostly applicable to any Unix variant)
• There used to be information here about how to pronounce the names of our Solaris machines, but that's now moved to my CCIS nomenclature page.
• Programming languages
  • Eric S. Raymond compares Unix programming and scripting languages in Chapter 3 of his book in progress, The Art of Unix Programming.
  • Éric Lévénez has a page of links to lots of different programming languages, along with a chart of programming-language history you can download in several formats.