Articles

Value Clarification Exercise: Response to a ``value clarification exercise''

poll() and EOF: What does poll() do when end of file is detected? What should it do?

How fork(2) ought to be: A description of some problems with the UNIX process handling model, and a proposed solution.

Protecting Against Some Buffer-Overrun Attacks: A description of how buffer-overrun attacks (a common security hole) work, and some thoughts on what to do about them

SMTP reply codes: A summary of SMTP reply codes

mkfs: Not enough space: A note about an error message from mkfs

Ensoniq Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI128: A note about the Soundblaster 128 sound card

C Language Gotchas: A description of some easy-to-make mistakes in C

Shell Mistakes: Notes on programming in Bourne Shell

hdc: lost interrupt: A note about an error message from Linux

Using Squid With NTL: How I configured my Squid web proxy to play nicely with NTL

SAUCE Policy For Hosted Mail Domains: How to change the SAUCE policy for addresses in greenend.org.uk and terraraq.org.uk

Regexp Syntax Summary: Summary of various different regexp syntaxes

Orbit URLs: Links to various sites dealing with orbits

Inline Functions In C: Notes on GCC and standard C inline functions

UNIX File Permissions: A summary of UNIX file permission rules

Traffic shaping: Improving performance using Linux traffic shaping

Sarcasm Locale: A proposed new locale

SFTP Implementations: List of SFTP Implementations

SFTP Versions: SFTP Version Summary

Zen Hotdogs: Description and list of Zen Hotdogs

HTTP Cookies: Notes On HTTP Cookies

putenv() and setenv(): Notes Modifying The Environment

Creating System Users And Groups: ...on various UNIX platforms

Mac Notes: Various Mac notes