what's here

Open source (GPL) awk and bash scripts for linux, linux kernel .config and dmesg files, and some miscellaneuous information. There's IP to country (geo-location) scripts and database, log file analysis, firewall tools, etc. Even an obscure hardware monitor driver for the linux kernel I rewrote and finished in 2005, it's been in the mainline kernel since 2.6.13.

For windows users there's an article on running the Xming X server so you can run linux graphics applications seamlessly over localnet on windows, but probably not much else of interest.

recent projects

background

I prefer to use the WinXP desktop, with PuTTY terminals to several linux boxen usually run headless. I've been running windows since version 3, and linux since 1997. I also ran os/2 back in the early '90s. I started working with PCs before they were called that, with microprocessor development kits in the late '70s, a diskless MicroBee I built from a kit, then cp/m machines also built from kits -- the Ferguson Big Board and Big Board II with 8" floppy drives.

First contact with a PC was a PC-AT '286 box at work in late 1984. I bought a '386 box with '387 co-pro and all of 8MB memory and a 100MB hard drive in 1990. In 1997 I met unix at uni, had to run something like that at home and it was suggested to me to try linux. Since then I've run a local networked system of windows plus linux machines.