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Notebook

This is simply an actual black notebook that I maintained with various information related to procedures and syntax to properly use software, servers, operating systems, shells, and anything else that I felt was relevant to write down. Much of this is specific to Linux and/or Mac OSX. The pages were as scattered as my thoughts, but it still kept me organized, and most of all it solved my problem of forgetting what to do and going through the same time-consuming process to find a solution. Many hours were saved simply because of writing information down, no matter how simple it seemed at the time. Some pages are now outdated, and may be eliminated before making it to this wiki.

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Notebook Index by Page (physical book)

  1. Linux Notes (Debian 30r1 specific)
  2. Debian 30r1 install notes and things to remember
  3. Editors
    • dpkg
  4. Apt Notes
  5. apt-get options
  6. Mixed System (stable with unstable packages)
  7. Mixed System (continued)
  8. Samba (connecting to Windows)
  9. Mounting local Windows partitions
    • umount a device that is still in use
  10. Fonts and XFree86 (TrueType)
  11. Keyboard LED's (Numlock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock)
  12. Wine
  13. Wine (continued)
    • initial configuration (manual config)
  14. Bash Loops
  15. dselect
  16. Permissions and Ownership
  17. Permissions and Ownership (continued)
    • Types of files (first character)
  18. Informative Shell Commands
    • Process control
  19. Information Shell Commands (continued)
    • Globbing patterns
  20. Basic Shell Commands
  21. Basic Shell Commands (continued)
    • searching for files
  22. RPM's
  23. Compressed Files
    • gzip
    • bzip2
  24. Keyboard Sequences (command line editing)
  25. Environment Variables
  26. Pipes
  27. Linux Networking with NFS
  28. Recompiling the kernel
    • step by step
  29. Recompiling the kernel (continued)
  30. Recompiling the kernel (continued)
  31. initrd (boot loader initialized RAM disk)
  32. Jobs (foreground/background)
  33. Grub Bootloader
  34. Installing Grub to MBR
  35. Installing just a single module
  36. Inserting modules into a running kernel (modules are drivers)
    • starting modules at boot time
  37. USB Mice
    • LKM Utilities
  38. USB Mice/LKM Utilities (continued)
  39. USB Printer
  40. 3D Video Acceleration
  41. Resizing Disk Partitions and File Fragmentation
  42. Firewire Devices
  43. System Information Tools
  44. top (display running processes)
  45. CUPS Printing
    • CUPS/Samba
  46. User and Group Administration
  47. Samba Users
  48. Logitech Quickcam Setup
  49. Install Camera Driver Properly
  50. Lexar Jumpshot USB Drive
  51. Lexar Firewire CF Reader
  52. Xearth
  53. Movie Files
  54. Network Commands
  55. apt-cache
  56. Burning CD's
  57. Burning CD's (continued)
  58. Firewalls
  59. FTP Servers
  60. Port Definitions (standard)
  61. VI or VIM Commands
  62. VI or VIM Commands (continued)
  63. *nix Filenames
  64. Launch Remote X11 Applications
  65. Secure File Transfers
    • For GUI Based
  66. Fontconfig, xft, and Freetype
  67. Xnest
  68. Imagemagick
    • command line tools
    • examples
  69. GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard)
  70. dpi of X Windows
  71. .htaccess files
    • password file creation
  72. ACPI/Shutdown and APM
  73. nohup
  74. man
  75. IP Forwarding (Linux as a router, a.k.a. IP Masquerading) BLANK
  76. route/netstat
  77. Advanced tar
  78. ppp (Point-to-Point Protocol)
  79. pppd (Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon, ppp server)
  80. minicom
  81. chat
  82. VNC (virtual network computing)
  83. DNS
  84. How to determine Linux system information
  85. Openswan BLANK
  86. Tomcat (Apache Tomcat)

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