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• Unix and Linux
  • Security-oriented (also see the security section below)
    • How to harden a Linux or OpenBSD installation
    • How to break into Linux (and how to prevent this)
    • Analysis of multiple intrusions into a poorly-configured Linux system
    • How to set up and use SSH
    • How to create and install keys and certificates for a secure Apache web server
    • How to make sendmail use SSL/TLS whenever possible
    • How to password-protect web pages
    • Integrating a UNIX client into a Kerberos realm controlled by a Windows Active Directory server
  • Unix/Linux Administration
    • UNIX/Linux Command Fundamentals and the File System
    • TCP/IP configuration commands for UNIX/Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and Cisco IOS
    • How Linux Boots
    • Installing CentOS Linux on an Alpha
    • Package Management on Linux and BSD — A Phrase Book for RPM, apt-get/dpkg, and pkg_*
    • How to Build Linux Kernels
    • How to Build Linux Kernels on Alphas
    • Exploring the Linux Kernel
    • How to Build OpenBSD Kernels
    • How to Add MP3 Support to Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora
    • How to use FTP (essential skill sadly unknown by many)
  • Virtualization
    • How run put the QEMU emulator and Linux on a USB device, so you can run Linux within a window on a hosting maching running Linux or BSD or Windows
    • Virtualization and Clustering
    • How to install and run Windows within the QEMU emulator on an OpenBSD desktop
  • Running OpenBSD on a Dell Inspiron 1000 Laptop
  • Other Unix and Linux Tips and Tricks
  • Digital Cameras, Linux, and BSD
  • X Configuration Issues on Linux and BSD
  • Strange Unix-related stuff
    • The Gallery of Crash Dump Screens
    • UNIX the Supermodel
    • Strange pictures: UNIX the Fire Extinguisher
    • Strange pictures: Linux the Laundry Detergent
    • The Gospel of Tux
    • Biblical Unix
    • Common Windows error message
    • What might be Windows Vista source code

• TCP/IP
  • TCP/IP in general
  • How IP Routing Works
  • How NAT (Network Address Translation) Works
  • TCP/IP configuration commands for UNIX/Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and Cisco IOS
  • Quick Overview of Protocol Header Structures
  • Breaking in, initializing, and configuring a Cisco 2000/2500/2600/3000/4000 series router
  • Breaking in, initializing, and configuring Cisco and 3com switches
  • What is IPsec? — A simple explanation of IPsec, the network security it provides, and how to set it up on Linux
  • WAN Specifications
  • WLAN Specifications
  • Network Attack Analysis — Classifying and Identifying Attack Patterns With Textual Analysis Tools

• Computer and Network Security
  • My public key
  • Fundamentals
    • Just Enough Cryptography
    • How To Verify Digital Signatures
    • TCP/IP
    • How NAT (Network Address Translation) Works
  • Information security
    • Privacy and Data Integrity Tools
    • Government and Industry Regulations
    • Availability Tools
    • Computer Forensics
    • Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) Providers
  • User Authentication Tools
  • System security
    • System Security Auditing Tools
    • OS-Specific Security Issues
    • Intrusion Detection Tools
    • Analysis of multiple intrusions into a poorly-configured Linux system
    • Hardware Exploits
  • Network security
    • Network Security Auditing/Monitoring Tools
    • Network Monitoring / Packet Sniffing Tools
    • What is IPsec? — A simple explanation of IPsec, the network security it provides, and how to set it up on Linux
    • Firewall Tools
    • World-Wide Web Security
    • TCP/IP Stack Hardening
    • Network Attack Analysis — Classifying and Identifying Attack Patterns With Textual Analysis Tools
  • Malware, Social Engineering, and Software Security
    • Why HTML E-mail is Dangerous
    • Analyzing a "Phishing" Scam Attempt
    • Analyzing Hostile Data
      • Gibe-F Worm, also known as the Swen Worm, one of the more interesting pieces of malware I have.
      • Downloader.Tibs.Gen-1 worm
      • Bagel worm
      • Mytob worm
      • Mydoom worm
      • Downloader.Small-1109 Trojan
      • Stration.JH Worm
      • Sober.U-3 Worm
      • Trojan.Agent-59561
      • Trojan.Exchanger.DL
      • Hacking the Human — Bank scam
      • The Russian M.O.B.
    • Fighting Internet Hoaxes
    • Software Security Tools
  • Reference material
    • Security-related RFCs and Mitre Nomenclature Projects
    • Reference Books and Journals
    • Infosec Bulletins
    • General Information
    • Cyberwar
    • Other Organizations' Policies
    • Infosec Response Teams
    • The Government Electronic Surveillance Agencies
    • Keeping Track of the Bad Guys
    • Separatist, Para-Military, Military, and Intelligence Organizations

• Textual Analysis
  • Network Attack Analysis — Classifying and Identifying Attack Patterns With Textual Analysis Tools

• 3-D Data and Image Analysis
  • 3-D Laser Scanning for Biology, Anthropology, and Archaeology
  • 3-D Range Scans of Trilobite Fossils
  • Composite Light-Stripe Images
  • Multi-Viewpoint Data Registration
  • Raytracing
  • Localized Contrast Enhancement

• Publications
  • Bob Cromwell's publications

• Basics of Turkish Grammar
  1. Introduction
  2. Background, list of real reference texts
  3. Word order, orthography, vowel classes and variable vowels, HTML codes for Turkish characters
  4. Pronouns, nouns, possession, adjectives, adverbs
  5. Verbs
  6. An attempt at an alphabetical list of Turkish suffixes (really morphotactics)

• Russian Grammar and Typesetting
  • Russian Grammar
  • Cyrillic in Latex and Postscript and Unicode

• INFOSEC History and Military Tourism
  • WWII German Enigma Information Security
  • UK Cabinet War Rooms
  • Bletchley Park
  • WWII and Cold War Military Tunnels in the White Cliffs above Dover
  • Swingate Chain Home Radar Station
  • WWII glider base outside Harwell
  • UK WWII Military Communications Gear
  • The Battle of the Bulge — Bastogne and the Ardennes Forest
  • Washington DC — Arlington Hall
  • Washington DC — Naval Security Station
  • National Security Agency museum
  • Historical Electronics Museum (radar and military radio, just outside Baltimore-Washington International Airport)
  • USS Chaumont (AP-5)
  • DL3G — Delta Lima 3 Green — Cold War watch tower

• Travel Suggestions
  • Alaska
  • Belgium
    • The Battle of the Bulge — Bastogne and the Ardennes Forest
    • Comic Book Art in Brussels
    • Surreal Statues in Brussels
  • Canada
  • Egypt
  • Estonia
  • France
    • Renting a canal boat in France
    • The D-Day landing beaches and other sites in Normandy
    • Jim Morrison in Paris
  • Greece
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Mexico
  • U.S.A.
    • Baltimore
      • Baltimore — Edgar Allan Poe & Mid-Day at The House of Omnivores
      • National Security Agency museum
      • Historical Electronics Museum (radar and military radio, just outside Baltimore-Washington International Airport)
    • New York
      • My encounter with NYPD
      • Touring the Ghostbusters locations in New York
      • New York residences of Hunter S Thompson
      • New York home of Humphrey Bogart
      • Looking for the home of the current Ottoman Sultan
      • Edgar Allan Poe's home in the Bronx
    • Philadelphia — Edgar Allan Poe's House and Two Scoldings
    • Washington DC
      • Looking for the National Christmas Tree behind all the security fencing
      • Arlington Hall
      • Naval Security Station
      • Some goofy Masonic Sights
  • People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Guanzhou, Yangshuo)
    • Getting There, and Dealing With The Languages
    • Hong Kong
    • Teaching a Courer in Hong Kong, and Visiting Macau
    • Guangzhou, Part 1 — Logistics, Shamian Island and the Pearl River
    • Guangzhou, Part 2 — Qingping Market, Temples, Street Scenes
    • Yangshuo, Guangxi Province
    • Up the Li Jiang, or Li River
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Syria
  • Trinidad
  • Turkey (lots of details and many pages here!)
    • General information
    • İstanbul
    • Aphrodisias
    • Ephesus — the ruined city
    • Ephesus — A walk from Selçuk to Ephesus
    • Ephesus — The Temple of Artemis
    • Ephesus — Maryemana
    • Gallipoli
    • Göreme and Cappadocia
    • Bodrum and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
    • Silk Road Hans
    • Hatuşaş
    • Konya
    • Mountain Treks in the Beşparmak Mountains
    • Nemrut Dağı — Mount Nemrut
    • Olimpos and the Chimera
    • Pamukkale, Hieropolis, and Laodicea
    • Turkish food
    • Getting around Turkey on buses
    • Getting around Turkey on trains
  • U.K.
    • London
      • London — Cabinet War Rooms
      • London — Bletchley Park
      • London — Lee Ho Fook's
    • Megaliths and Stone-Age Structures
      • Stonehenge
      • Avebury
    • Hiking along Hadrian's Wall
    • Oxford
      • C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford
      • WWII glider base outside Harwell
    • Dover
      • WWII and Cold War Military Tunnels in the White Cliffs
      • Swingate Chain Home Radar Station
    • Scotland
      • Fort William area
        • An ascent of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain
        • A walk through Glen Nevis and the Water of Nevis
      • Orkney Islands
        • Skara Brae, a Neolithic Village
      • The Grit Boxes of Scotland
    • Navigating with the National Grid system and Ordnance Survey maps
    • Places to stay in the U.K.

• Radio stuff
  • HF QRP operation — KC9RG
  • Morse Code
  • J-Pole antennas (end-fed half-wave Zepps)
  • Small HF antennas — shortened doublet designs for 10.1 and 14 MHz
  • The Radio Spectrum for Beginners
  • Radio Frequencies — Ham bands and various utilities
  • Radio propagation
  • Construction / repair / modification references
  • Repairing a Tektronix 2445A oscilloscope
  • Building your own oscilloscope probes
  • Modifying an Icom IC2-SAT transceiver for wide frequency coverage, Part 1
  • Modifying an Icom IC2-SAT transceiver for wide frequency coverage, Part 2
  • Modifying an Icom IC-229 transceiver for wide frequency coverage
  • Modifications for the Icom IC-3220 VHF/UHF transceiver
  • Internet "Radio"

• Various Technical Topics
  • Converting PAL DVDs to NTSC, Creating and Burning DVDs, and Other Video Conversions
  • Converting Audio Files from WMA or FLAC to MP3
  • How to Extract MP3 Audio from a Video File
  • Rotating Digital Camera Movies by 90° and Converting to DVD
  • Some Vaguely Steampunk Projects
    • A Light Fixture with an Early 20th Century Esthetic
    • How to Interface a Soviet Багта-50 1955 rotary-dial telephone with the GSM network and VoIP
    • How to Control a Stereo with a 250-volt 100-amp Double-Pole Knife Switch
  • Attempting to Recover Data from QuickDisk Media
  • How To Recover A Digital Camera That Has Been Submerged In Beer
  • Measuring AC Power Usage
  • How To Remove Bluing (an anti-corrosion surface treatment) From Steel
  • One Way To Parkerize Steel (an anti-corrosion and lubricating phosphatized surface treatment)
  • Assembling an M1 Garand From Parts
  • HTML Tools
  • How To Use Google Adsense Within XML/XHTML

• Nonsense
  • Toilets of the World
  • The Gallery of Crash Dump Screens
  • Signs That Make No Sense
  • Everything You Need to Know About Oliver Cromwell — Free Download for Term Papers and School Reports
    • Crom-Fu, a mixed martial art fighting technique invented by Oliver Cromwell
  • Brilliant movie concepts overlooked by Hollywood — "The Odyssey" and "Iliad" as remakes of "Gilligan's Island", "Battlestar Potemkin", "Show White and the Magnificent Seven Dwarves", Jane Austen as a spy-assassin, and worse.
  • Some Thoughts About Writing Technical Material: In no particular order, as they occur....
  • A Comparison of Various News Sources
    (Statistical analysis showing that Fox "News" is as worthless as Pravda)
  • Useful Latin Phrases
  • The Dead Bunny Hat Page
  • How Everything Connects Through Movies
  • TCP/IP Haikus
  • The Theology of Santa Claus
  • How to Brew Your Own Beer and Mead

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