User:Bilbo

Personal site: http://bilbo.hobbiton.org/

Frequently Used Tricks

 * Eight Ways to Reverse a File
 * Making Friends With Command Line Perl
 * Sed One-Liners

Oddball Programming Tasks

 * Compiler Options for Creating Odd Binaries
 * Perl Module Mechanics on how to build your own perl module distributions.

Unixy stuff

 * Cepstral -- Easy voice synthesis
 * BAFUG FreeBSD talks
 * Best of ZSH Tips
 * BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual
 * Large databases on FreeBSD -- use RAID 10 with PostgreSQL
 * High performance web servers with Varnish
 * LaTeX
 * gnuplot
 * Graphviz
 * Drawing Graphs With Graphviz (PDF)
 * Visualize function calls with Graphviz
 * Installing FreeBSD On A USB Stick
 * OpenVPN How-To
 * Perldoc manual
 * Socket options -- someone actually documented them!!
 * Subversion

Technical References

 * AMD Literature Order Center
 * AMD x86-64 documentation
 * AT Command Set And Register Summary
 * PF: Firewall Ruleset Optimization
 * Single Unix Specification
 * PostgreSQL's timezone information (Also a useful reference outside of PostgreSQL usage.)

Tech News and "News"

 * ;login:
 * North American Network Operators' Group This is a really interesting mailing list.
 * Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants
 * Why expensive disks are worthwhile
 * Why expensive disks aren't worthwhile

Misc Computer Stuff

 * ATI Trade-Up rebate
 * Blackbox.com -- Funky KVM, networking, video, etc hardware
 * Bugmenot -- Throw-away passwords to sites that require useless registration
 * DNSstuff.com -- Look up various network things like DNS, whois, abuse, spam blackhole lists, etc
 * Mac Boot Key Combos
 * GMANE -- Mail To News And Back Again (a news server that archives mailing lists forever
 * Install multiple versions of IE on the same machine
 * Mini-box.com -- Tiny computers
 * PDFCreator (for Windows)
 * Punch-downs -- Nice article on punch-downs
 * Rapidrun Break Away Wallplates -- nice for snaking VGA through conduits
 * Root G1 With CyanogenMod
 * Squeezebox -- A neato MP3 player
 * Tweaking For Speed -- dslreports.com

Stuff to Study or Investigate

 * FreeBSD - Security Event Auditing
 * GC discussion
 * Programming Optimization, by Paul Hsieh.
 * RTOS article
 * Sorting revisited, by Paul Hsieh.
 * Steve Pavlina - The Self-Growth Guy
 * Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants
 * Tour de Babel
 * Von Neumann - The Scholar