Contents

Personal

About Richard Kettlewell: A bit of information about me.

Greenend Usual Suspects Mailing List FAQ: The Greenend Usual Suspects mailing list

Photos

Pictures from 2001-05-19: Various photos.

Pictures from 2001-05-28: Photos from various events.

Pictures from 2001-06-09: Some photos from election night 2001.

2002-01-22 Pictures: Photos from a cocktail party

Northern Ireland 2002: Photos from our trip to Northern Ireland in spring 2002.

2002-07-01 Pictures: Photos from Foundation's housewarming

2002-07-24 Pictures: Photos from when Lucy came to visit

2002-08-09 Pictures: Photos from Christi's birthday party

Sky Pictures: Various pictures of the sky

2002-09-19 Pictures: A month's worth of pictures

Garden Pictures: Some pictures from the newly gardened garden

Eleanor's Purple Hair: Eleanor with purple hair

Arbury Camp: Urban decay

Dublin 2001: Photos from our trip to Dublin in summer 2001.

Moving House: pictures from when we moved house

Out And About: Photographic meandering

Reviews

"Something's happened at Blizhny": Archangel, Robert Harris

"Please Don't Think This Was Anything Special": Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

Liberty And Slavery: The Penguin History Of The USA, Hugh Brogan

A Life Of Continu'd Variety: Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe

Barricades and Borders: Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914, Robert Gildea

"Choose any book at the library": Diary, Chuck Palahniuk

Dead Air: Dead Air, Iain Banks

"An Extraordinary Number Of Penguins": The Battle For The Falklands, Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins

"I still find Slobodan Milosevic very attractive": Talk Of The Devil, Riccardo Orizio

Owis Ekwoskwe: In Search Of The Indo-Europeans, J.P.Mallory

"No Popery": A History Of Britain: The British Wars 1603-1776, Simon Schama

Juggling Patterns: Absolution Gap, Alastair Reynolds

"Give me a break Pocohontas, you're not a Nazi": The Twist: Richard Calder

Non Angli Sed Angeli: Origins of the English, Catherine Hills

"Unnatural Practices Yes": Amaryllis Night And Day, Russell Hoban

... And All Sins Are Forgiven: The Road To Perdition, Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner

It Began In Africa: Out Of Eden: The Peopling Of The World, Stephen Oppenheimer

Underground: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack And The Japanese Psyche, Haruki Murakami

Fiction

The Derry Division: A Jerry Cornelius Limerick

Livewire: A cyberpunk short story.

The Red Prince: A short story by Richard Kettlewell, Dan Sheppard, Emma Burt and Peter Ellis

Articles

Trial Of The Century: Implausibly early trials of the century

Strange Games: self-referential games people play

Ancient Germanic Languages: Ramblings about old Germanic languages.

Is This The Way The Future's Meant To Feel?: Glastonbury 2003

A brief history of greenend.org.uk: history of the domain

The Only Intuitive Interface Is The Nipple: Looking for the origin of a quote

Linux In A Small box: Notes on bringing up Linux on a tiny PC

CRC32: notes on CRCs

Why does gnome-panel use 290MB?: It doesn't; it's an artefact of the way its shared libraries are linked.

Gigabyte GA-7VT600L and Debian Linux: upgrade notes

NAT is not a security mechanism: Demonstration of packets traversing a NATing router the ‘wrong’ way

Starcraft And Wine: Problems and solutions

Technical

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

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

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

Reference

IPsec: IPsec on my local network

Orbit URLs: Links to various sites dealing with orbits

Sarcasm Locale: A proposed new locale

Zen Hotdogs: Description and list of Zen Hotdogs

SFTP Implementations: List of SFTP Implementations

SFTP Versions: SFTP Version Summary

Background SSH Forwarding: Automating SSH tunneling on Unix and Windows

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

HTTP Cookies: Notes On HTTP Cookies

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

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

Mac Howtos: How to do it on a Mac

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

MRTG, SNMP and Load Averages: Monitoring the load average over SNMP with MRTG

UNIX File Permissions: A summary of UNIX file permission rules

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

Regexp Syntax Summary: Summary of various different regexp syntaxes

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

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

Shell Mistakes: Notes on programming in Bourne Shell

SMTP reply codes: A summary of SMTP reply codes

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

Traffic shaping: Improving performance using Linux traffic shaping

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

Software

Autoztool: An automatic inline decompression tool

DisOrder: play digital audio files

Greed: Emacs-based GROGGS Client

Lyle: photo gallery CGI script

Mandy: Mandelbrot set plotter

NNTP Tools: gateway Dreamwidth articles into a newsgroup

nps: ps/top reimplementation

patternize: string generator

rsbackup: An rsync-based backup system

SFTP Server: The Green End SFTP Server

Adverbio: I/O redirection with adverbial commands

Elliptic Curve Toy: Plot elliptic curves and find collinear points

Hacks: things that don't fit anywhere else

Index preview: Add rudimentary image previewing to Apache directory listings

inews: program to post news articles

Inplace: Modify files in-place via any filter

Lusers: A program to list logged-on users

numberToEnglish: Convert integers to English in Javascript

Mac OS X Ports: Notes and diffs

RC4: Visualize RC4 internal state

rjkshelltools: various UNIX utility programs

sccs.cgi: web interface to SCCS

text-tools: text rendering tools

Webindex: A Perl program for generating HTML contents pages

Wiktionary Links: Generate links to Wiktionary

with-readline: use readline with arbitrary programs without recompiling

AUTHINFO GENERIC: NNTP AUTHINFO GENERIC support in various newsreaders

VCS: Wrapper for version control systems

Pictures

Road Signs: Made-up road signs

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