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Linux/Unix and
Security

My general computer / network security page
How to harden a Linux or BSD installation
How to break into Linux (and how to prevent this)
Analysis of multiple intrusions into a poorly configured Linux system
File System Design for Performance and Security
How to set up and use SSH
Secure Distributed Logging with Syslog, TLS, and Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers
How to set up encrypted storage on Amazon EC2
How to make sendmail use SSL/TLS whenever possible
Integrating a UNIX client into a Kerberos realm controlled by a Windows Active Directory server.

Linux/Unix
Administration

Installation
and booting
Transitioning from Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 5.* to 6
Installing CentOS Linux on an Alpha
How Linux Boots
Rescuing a Linux System with an LVM Root File System
Installing CyanogenMod on an Android Smart Phone
Why I Don't Fear UEFI (Not much. For now, anyway)
X Configuration Issues
Package management and service control Package Management and Service Control on Linux, BSD, and Solaris — A Phrase Book for RPM/yum/urpmi, apt-get/dpkg, pkg*, and pkg_*
Kernel
building
How to Build Linux Kernels
How to Build Linux kernels on Alphas
Exploring the Linux Kernel
How to Build OpenBSD Kernels
Networking TCP/IP Configuration Commands for Linux/UNIX and Mac OS X (and Windows and Cisco IOS)
How to set up and use SSH
Speeding up data transfer with tar and SSH
WPA2 / 802.11i Wi-Fi/WLAN Wireless Networking on OpenBSD
Error messages Fixing Error Messages About Missing GTK Modules
Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Multimedia Fix for: My Microphone Is Not Working
How to Add MP3 Support to Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora
Essential
skills
Linux/UNIX Command Fundamentals and the File System
How to Use vi (or, better yet, vim), an essential skill sadly unknown by many
How to Use FTP, an essential skill sadly unknown by many
Other useful pages on other sites LOTS of details on ext3fs, including recovering deleted files (someone else's page)
IBM Technical Library "Anatomy of..." articles on Linux: loadable kernel modules, file systems, flash devices, SELinux, real-time Linux architectures, SCSI, networking stack, etc.

Raspberry Pi

Hardware and Background Linux and other operating systems on a low-cost 86×54 mm board
Networking Wired and Wireless, IPv4 and IPv6, Static and DHCP, WPA2-PSK Security
Vulnerability Scanning Building an OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner On the Raspberry Pi
Network Storage Building a Network-Attached Storage Appliance with a Raspberry Pi

OpenBSD

Running OpenBSD on low-end Dell laptops:
Compiling Software on OpenBSD
How to Build OpenBSD Kernels
WPA2 / 802.11i Wireless Networking on OpenBSD

Apache

How to analyze Apache logs in detail with basic UNIX commands.
How to enable compression with mod_gzip using the modified Apache web server in OpenBSD.
How to create and install keys and certificates for a secure Apache web server
How to password-protect Apache web pages

Virtualization

VMware Networking
How to Build VirtualBox on Linux
How to install the QEMU emulator and Linux on a USB device, so you can run Linux within a window on a hosting machine running Linux or BSD or Windows
How to install and run Windows within the QEMU emulator on an OpenBSD or Linux desktop

Other Varied
Unix Topics

Linux/Unix tips and tricks
Using BitTorrent Magnet Links with Firefox and Chrome
Digital Cameras, Linux, and BSD
Hardware: EIDE / PATA / SATA / USB / Floppy cable pinouts
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, has made all their conference proceedings available to everyone: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/
An especially useless Windows error message

Windows,
if we must

Installing Office 2007 on Windows XP — Dealing with: "The specified program requires a newer version of Windows"
Fixing the PATH on Windows so you can easily run useful software that you had to add

Oddities

The Gallery of Epic Fail and Crash Dump Screens
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
Как пропатчить KDE2 под FreeBSD?
UNIX the Supermodel
UNIX the Fire Extinguisher
Linux the Laundry Detergent
The Gospel of Tux
Biblical Unix
What might be Windows Vista source code
Stupid Microsoft useless warning.
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