Static in the Ether

Recently I had need to produce pdf files of some man pages simple because the are far easier to print and review onscreen. The following snippet added to my .bash_profile does the trick.

# Convert man pages to pdf
man2pdf()
{
m2pfile=”/tmp/${1}-m2p.pdf”
if [ ! -s $m2pfile ]; then # is it there and > zero bytes 
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With the year almost half gone,  and Winter Solstice almost a distant memory, its time to catch up with some of the systems related housekeeping. While conficker seems to still be rampaging around from my scan log inspections, the Conficker Working Group has been quite since late April. A far greater threat to civilization is [...]

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This morning I move the last of the services and data off the system I’ve had at LayeredTech since November 2005. This little AMD XP 2400 has given great service over the years, but the hardware got increasingly flaky and the cost of hosting at LT just keeps increasing for old kit. These [...]

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I was cleaning out some old notes the other day and came across a pile of work relating to the development of some custom FreeBSD firewall solutions that Neil and I developed while at Itouch Labs, many years back in 2002.
The majority of the code is completely out dated, given these were based on the [...]

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Colin Barschel has published a rather complete listing of how to perform common unix related tasks in Linux and FreeBSD, and even some Solaris examples. Even better hes got a booklet version as well for easy printing. Something to keep on the back burner/bookmarks for when you get stuck trying to remember just how [...]

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Daniel Gerzo, has recently published an article as part of the FreeBSD documentation project on how to install FreeBSD on a remote system, when one doesn’t have the luxury of a IP KVM or other remote console. Unfortunately most hosting providers seem to think Linux in its gazillions of flavors (really who would want [...]

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