Observations of a geek.

Sun Freeware.com

Posted Sat, 2003-03-01 14:14 by geekwisdom
If you're running SunOS or Solaris you need to know about SunFreeware.com

Practical PostgreSQL (the book is online)

Posted Sat, 2003-03-01 09:09 by geekwisdom
Command Prompt and O'Reilly are providing their Practical PostgreSQL book online. Here's a quote from the book's preface: PostgreSQL is one of the most successful open source databases available. It is arguably also the most advanced, with a wide range of features that challenge even many closed-source databases.

/etc under cvs

Posted Thu, 2003-02-27 07:49 by geekwisdom

Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers

Posted Thu, 2003-02-27 07:45 by geekwisdom
Do you have your own CA? Need to distribute your CA public key to client browsers? Here's how: Distributing Your CA to Client Browsers - Installing your shiny new Certificate Authority certificate to client browsers is just a click away In order for your client browsers to trust your new Certificate Authority, they must be configured to accept your CA's public key.

Alternative Nameservers

Posted Wed, 2003-02-26 09:46 by geekwisdom
Look at DJBDNS by the author of Qmail (Dan Bernstein). It works for Lycos. It works for citysearch.com. It works for pobox.com. It works for 1.85 million more .com's. It works for several of the Internet's largest domain-hosting companies: directNIC, MyDomain/NamesDirect, Interland, Dotster, Easyspace, Namezero, and Netfirms. It'll work for you too. [Dan Bernstein's site]

Webalizer

Posted Tue, 2003-02-25 22:03 by geekwisdom
My friend Brad wrote the Webalizer to be a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. [Webalizer]

Linux Documentation Project

Posted Tue, 2003-02-25 21:49 by geekwisdom
The Linux Documentation Project is working towards developing free, high quality documentation for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in all of the issues of Linux documentation. [The Linux Documentation Project]