Joel Williams' compendium of TOTAL KNOWLEDGE

A collection of useful facts by Joel Williams. Adelaide denizen. Computer tinkerer. Former terrestrial ecology student of Flinders University. Editor for freshmeat.net. Adelaide University Mountain Club committee member and outdoor enthusiast. Temporary comms guy at VInet.

Miscellany

CheapAdelaideRestaurants - My pick of cheap places to eat in Adelaide.

ExamPrep2006 - 2006 exam preparation notes.

ReadingList - List of books I've read recently.

Projects - Things I'd like to do some day.

LibraryFraud - Joel's guide to library fraud.

QandA - Q and A I wrote for an older incarnation of my Web site.

SchoolAnecdotes - Some funny things that happened at high school. Guaranteed not to be amusing unless you went to school with me.

BooksSetInAdelaide - I like reading books set in Adelaide! Here are some.

PaypalIsTotallyArse - I sold something on ebay and offered Paypal as an option. Here's what happened!

Random tips

SharpMM1HardDrive - My beloved Sharp MM1's hard drive failed. I replaced it with a more different model!

SharpMM1LidScript - An acpid script that disables the touchpad when the lid is closed.

Vim7Tips - Collection of Vim 7 tips.

FlashTips - Collection of tips for Adobe Flash.

IrssiTips - Collection of tips for the Irssi IRC client.

SquirrelMail - Advice for using SquirrelMail with Dovecot and possibly other things.

GeneralNotes - Tips that aren't impressive on their own. For CPanel, Mac OS X, etc.

Cisco7xxReset - How to reset the configuration of a 700 series Cisco router.

LaTeXNotes - Things I've figured out about the LaTeX typesetting system.

OSXSoftware - List of things I like on OS X

CiscoTips - Things I've found with Cisco devices

Code snippets

IodineScript - A simple script that kicks off iodine under Mac OS X.

CrusoeACPI - an acpid script for power saving on my Sharp MM1.

LogtailPatch - A patch for Debian's "logtail" tool that makes it handle rotated logs.

MailStats - A script that tells me how much mail and spam I've received.

MaildirSpamChecking - A script that checks a Maildir against SpamAssassin.

UDPProxy - A daemon that forwards UDP broadcasts as unicast packets.

Soap4rUTF8 - A workaround for character set errors when retrieving UTF-8 data using soap4r.

MagicResolvConf - A proof of concept that makes it possible to change your DNS servers dynamically. Use cases welcomed.

RadiantCMS - Stuff for the Rails-based CMS, Radiant.

System admin

RAIDSetup - converting an existing Linux system to RAID.

MuttMaildirCaching - Debian mutt contains a Maildir header caching patch. It's worth turning on! Though maybe not! Some other mutt tips too.

ModemInitStrings - Modem configuration strings that set up modems for dial-in.

OpenswanAnnoyances - Solutions for the NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN and protocol/port errors with Openswan, and other tips and tricks.

PostgreSQLLogging - How to log every query your PostgreSQL server processes.

SubversionSetup - How to start a new repository for a new project.

DovecotVpopmailSetup - How to get the Dovecot IMAP server talking to vpopmail.

IMAPSyntax - Commands for testing an IMAP server.

See also

lardcave.net liedra.net spacepants.org hardy.dropbear.id.au mithis.net boman.biz fornax.net