Site map of http://www.cromwell-intl.com/

• Unix and Linux
  • Security-oriented (also see the security section below)
    • How to harden a Linux or OpenBSD installation
    • Analysis of multiple intrusions into a poorly-configured Linux system
    • How to set up and use SSH
    • 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
  • Linux Administration
    • How Linux Boots
    • Installing CentOS Linux on an Alpha
    • How to Build Linux Kernels on Alphas
    • 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
    • How to use FTP (essential skill sadly unknown by many)
  • Running OpenBSD on a Dell Inspiron 1000
  • Digital Cameras, Linux, and BSD
  • X Configuration Issues
  • Virtualization and Clustering
  • 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

• 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
  • WAN Specifications

• Computer and Network Security
  • Fundamentals
    • Just Enough Cryptography
    • 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/Monitoring 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
    • LAN Monitoring Tools
    • Firewall Tools
    • World-Wide Web Security
    • TCP/IP Stack Hardening
    • SSH Attacks Observed on the Internet
  • Malware, Social Engineering, and Software Security
    • Why HTML E-mail is Dangerous
    • Analyzing a "Phishing" Scam Attempt
    • Analyzing Hostile Data
      • The Downloader.Tibs.Gen-1 worm
      • The Bagel worm
      • The Mytob worm
      • The Mydoom worm
      • The Downloader.Small-1109 Trojan
      • The Stration.JH Worm
      • The Sober.U-3 Worm
      • 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
    • Security-Related Mailing Lists
    • General Information
    • Policies
    • The Good Guys
    • Big Brother — The Government Listening Agencies
    • Keeping Track of the Bad Guys
    • Separatist, Para-Military, Military, and Intelligence Organizations

• Textual Analysis
  • Textual analysis for author or topic recognition

• 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
  • WWII German Enigma Information Security
  • UK Cabinet War Rooms
  • Bletchley Park
  • UK WWII Military Communications Gear
  • DL3G — Delta Lima 3 Green — Cold War watch tower
  • National Security Agency museum
  • Historical Electronics Museum (radar and military radio, just outside Baltimore-Washington International Airport)
  • Washington DC — Arlington Hall
  • Washington DC — Naval Security Station

• Travel Suggestions
  • Alaska
  • Egypt
  • Estonia
  • France
    • Renting a canal boat in France
    • Jim Morrison in Paris
  • Greece
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Mexico
  • North America (U.S.A., Canada)
    • New York
      • Touring the Ghostbusters locations in New York
      • My encounter with NYPD
    • Washington DC
      • Arlington Hall
      • Naval Security Station
  • People's Republic of China (Hong Kong, Guanzhou, Yangshuo)
  • 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
    • Hadrian's Wall
    • 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
    • Places to stay in the U.K.

• Radio stuff
  • HF QRP operation — KC9RG
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Converting Audio Files from WMA or FLAC to MP3
  • Attempting to Recover Data from QuickDisk Media
  • Measuring AC Power Usage
  • How To Recover A Digital Camera That Has Been Submerged In Beer
  • 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

• Nonsense
  • Toilets of the World
  • The Gallery of Crash Dump Screens
  • Signs That Make No Sense
  • All You Need to Know About Oliver Cromwell
    • Crom-Fu, a fighting technique invented by Oliver Cromwell
  • A Comparison of Various News Sources
    (Statistical analysis showing that Fox "News" is as worthless as Pravda)
  • The Dead Bunny Hat Page
  • How it all connects
  • TCP/IP Haikus
  • The Theology of Santa Claus
  • Brewing Beer, Mead, and other Beverages

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