Sam's home page on this here internet thing
Welcome! 
There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statue or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. -- Robert Heinlein, "Life Line", 1939 |
Crypto
My PGP key, for paranoid people who wish to contact me.
Creations
Art: pictures I have drawn, or otherwise computed.
Software: interesting/useful programs written by me. Includes Solar, my University project. Mostly moved to GitHub these days.
Is This Image Illegal?: Renders an arbitrary number as an image.
Dotfiles: my configuration files for Bash, Vim, etc. Includes a fancy coloured prompt!
I wrote a letter to NVIDIA, asking them to make the specifications of their graphics hardware so that free drivers could be created for them.
Guides
PasswordGeneration: generate passwords given alphabet and desired entropy
WritingManpages: useful links to documentation
Some notes on performing Continuous Integration builds of Debian packages
... and on my pbuilder firewall setup
The use of wrapper scripts when verifying arguments with sudo
Using udev rules to configure libinput to ignore an unwanted keyboard device
Filtering Emails from Facebook based on the X-Facebook-Notify header
Debian cruft: cleaning up cruft on Debian systems
Debian Release file fields: the correct values to provide in your Release files
CUPS driver list: how CUPS decides which drivers are available
CUPS URL discovery: how CUPS discovers printers and resolves printer URLs
WindowsPrinterDiscovery: pointers to information about WS-Discovery and WS-Print
Booting your own kernel on DigitalOcean (also changing the init system to systemd)
A short, graphical guide to using software RAID with the Debian-Installer.
EpiphanyCookieWhitelist: configure the Epiphany web browser to only accept cookies from certain web sites.
MailSystem: notes on configuring an email system with Exim, PostgreSQL, Dovecot IMAP, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and greylisting.
AlteringProcessName: how to alter the names of processes on Linux.
ApacheSecurity: various methods for configuring Apache to run virtual hosts as separate users.
SamsungQ45: my laptop, and notes on the problems I ran into installing and using Linux on it.
DVD quality reviews: reviews of the picture quality and DRM present on the DVDs I buy.
PortableFilenamesOnWindows: how Microsoft make it painful to write portable programs that deal with filenames, and what to do about it.
WindowsInstallFromUSB: throw out your DVD drive!
DisableCapsLockIndicator from the Widcomm Bluetooth stack
Other
Random stuff, too miscellaneous to index.
