Articles that I've written

• My Book, Multitool Linux. Quite an excellent read, if I do say so myself.
• I got hacked, through awstats.pl
• How can your windows box run and boot faster? look here
• Still finding umask confusing? Maybe this will help
• Don't use a precompiled kernel. Note that this is somewhat outdated, and as a matter of course, I use precompiled kernels these days. Perhaps it's my lack of spare time, but I attribute it primarily to the distribution vendors doing better work with their kernels.
• A quick reference on the speed of IDE/SCSI/USB and firewire. Thanks to Eljay!
• get an SSH client for OS/2
• Tired of your same-old keyboard? Behold, there is a way out.
• Once upon a time, I bought an Eagle Micro-Keyboard, and set up fluxbox to use the multimedia keys. This involved setting up an xmodmaprc file:

  !JDA 2003/10/08 setting up the multimedia keys for this tiny little keybd
  keycode 163 = XF86Back
  keycode 151 = XF86Forward
  keycode 164 = XF86HomePage
  keycode 162 = XF86Mail 
  keycode 152 = XF86AudioMute
  keycode 176 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
  keycode 218 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
  keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
  keycode 146 = XF86Stop
  keycode 174 = XF86AudioPlay
  keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext
  keycode 227 = XF86WakeUp
  keycode 223 = XF86Sleep
  keycode 222 = XF86PowerDown
  

  Also, the 'keys' file, which goes in ~/.fluxbox/keys:

  mod1 Tab :NextWindow
  mod1 Shift Tab :PrevWindow
  mod1 F1 :Workspace1
  mod1 F2 :Workspace2
  mod1 F3 :Workspace3
  mod1 F4 :Workspace4
  None XF86HomePage :ExecCommand /usr/bin/mozilla &
  #
  #the above line causes mozilla to be started up whenever I hit the WWW key
  #
  None XF86Mail	:ExecCommand aterm -vb -title mail.angelar.com -e ssh jeremy@mail.angelar.com 
  # I ssh into another machine to check my email.  This starts up an ssh session in a new aterm window
  None XF86AudioRaiseVolume :ExecCommand /usr/bin/aumix -v +1
  None XF86AudioLowerVolume :ExecCommand /usr/bin/aumix -v -1
  None XF86AudioMute	:ExecCommand /usr/bin/aumix -v M
  #
  # Unfortunately, hitting the Mute button twice does NOT unmute volume.  After it's been muted, you have to manually increase the volume again.
  #
  #Note that I haven't figured out functions for most of the other keys yet.  I'm sure that'll change as time goes on.  I'll probably set one of them up to launch America's Army or something ;)
  

Things I haven't written, but recommend

• Take a look at Ars Technica's article on why the command line is so damned cool.
• I've found putty to be the best Windows SSH client in existence.