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 Some pages are now outdated, and may be eliminated before making it to this wiki.

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)

• emacs
• Samba and WINS
• ppp
• Windows (server)
• Apache with mod_ssl
• Openswan
• various Java acronym definitions, with structure diagram
• misc notes about Java programming
• untitled (misc notes about php)
• FTP
• HTTP (Cox + Router)
• ifconfig
• arp (determine another machine's Mac Address
• Single User Work Product Development Cycle