Computer stuff

• Good Linux and BSD sites:
  • The Linux Documentation Project
  • linuxquestions.org
  • O'Reilly's onlamp.com
  • OpenBSD's documentation
  • bsdforums.org
  • Dru Lavigne's columns at O'Reillynet
• Keeping OpenBSD up-to-date: how to follow the stable branch, how to upgrade packages, core OS updates, package updates, and mailing lists (security-announce and ports-security are the lists you want).
• Recovery CDs:
  • Knoppix is the original Linux LiveCD (bootable CD with boatloads of useful tools; you can even run a server off it in a crunch). Also useful for solving Windows problems.
  • Hiren's boot CD (version 7.7, January, 2006) is a Windows recovery CD with lots of useful tools. Unfortunately, I can't handle the bandwidth, so the link points you to a torrent (what's a torrent?).
• Slackware Linux 11.0 on an IBM Thinkpad T23.
• Updating your BIOS without a floppy.
• A Slackware package (md5) of Redhat's Bluecurve theme.
• Al Gore and the Internet: setting the record straight. Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are the inventors of TCP/IP, the communications protocol on which the internet runs. This is their attempt to clear Gore of the Bush/Rove smear that Gore claimed to have invented the internet.