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Navigating a large site and finding what you want can be confusing and difficult. I'm trying to make it easier with this page. Here you'll find major areas of content, followed by more specific links broken down into areas, and finally some suggestions for common problems.

Major Areas

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Linux, Mac OS X and Sco Unix tests: Skills Tests
Need to contact me by phone or mail? Contact Info

New to Unix/Linux? : New To Unix
New to Sco? : New To SCO
FAQ : FAQ
Your Comments : Old Site Forum
Your Comments : New Site Forum

Chronological listing of content: What's New?

Certification: Certification Resources
Random Questions to test your SCO, Linux or Mac OS X knowledge: Unix Skills Test

Start Here: Yet another attempt to help you Find what you want by category

General Unix articles, many SCO OSR5: Articles, How-To's, Tips
Unixware 7 specific: Unixware 7 Articles
Linux Specific: Linux Articles
Mac OS X Specific: OS X Articles
OSR5 Specific: OSR5 Articles

Web site marketing etc: Web articles
Business and consulting: Consulting articles

Unix related books: Book Reviews
Unix related software/hardware: Product and Software Reviews
Web/HTML: Web site maintenance

Some selected Newgroup postings: Best of C.U.S.M

Opinions Opinion and Comment

Light, amusing tech related anecdotes, cartoons: Lighter Fare
Techy Crossword Puzzles: Crossword Puzzles

Vendors, FTP sites, FAQ's etc.: Unixish Links
Need some help? : World-Wide Unix/Linux Consultants

Need some help from me? : Before you write to me
Need to buy parts, services or software from me? : Services Offered
Need to know my rates? : Rates
Curious about my background? : No Wizards Here!
Curious about my certifications? : Certifications

Want to advertise here? : Advertising Here
Want to publish here? : Publishing Here

Unix/ Dos Utilities, scripts: Programming

Got something to say? : Site Forum
Tell me what you think: Site Survey

Searches: Search this site
Pre-madeSearches : Some common search terms

Books: Certification
General Linux 1 Exam Prep
Network+ Exam Guide
Prep Kit General Linux 1
Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide
All-In-One Sair Linux and Gnu Certified Administrator Exam Guide

Books: Code
Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom
Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
Linux Application Development
Virus Research and Defense
Buffer Overflow Attacks

Books: Good Starting Books
SCO Companion
Essential System Administration (Unix)
Unix for the Impatient
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web
Unix- The Complete Reference
Perl for Web Site Management
Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz
Mac OS X (second edition) - The Missing Manual
Leo Laporte's Technology Almanacs
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
Running Linux (4th Edition)
Halting the Hacker
Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Mac OS X Hacks
Linux Security Cookbook
Linux and the Unix Philosophy
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition)
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
Creating Cool Web Sites
Linux Cookbook Second Edition
Point and click Linux!

Books: Hardware
The Processor & Coprocessor
Writing Unix Device Drivers
SMP and caches
High Performance Computing
Pentium Pro Processor System Architecture
The Intel Microprocessors-Fifth Edition
The Book of SCSI, 2d Edition
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition)

Books: Kernel/Internals
The Design of the Unix Operating System
The Magic Garden
Configuration and Capacity Planning
Writing Unix Device Drivers
The Devil Book
Panic!
Unix Internals Based on SCO OSR5!
Linux Kernel
Linux Internals
Understanding the Linux Kernel
Linux File Systems
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
Understanding the Unix Kernel
Performance Tuning for Linux Servers

Books: Linux
Linux Kernel
Linux Companion
Running Linux (4th Edition)
Linux Device Drivers
Star Office 5
Under the Radar-Robert Young
Linux (Second Edition) Michael Kofler
Mastering Red Hat 6
Linux System Administration
Maximum Linux Security
General Linux 1 Exam Prep
Linux Firewalls
Learning the Bash
Network+ Exam Guide
Prep Kit General Linux 1
Linux Problem Solver
Caldera OpenLinux
Hacking Exposed (Second Edition)
Linux Internals
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Understanding the Linux Kernel
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Just For Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond
Linux Shells by Example by Ellie Quigley
Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide
Linux File Systems
All-In-One Sair Linux and Gnu Certified Administrator Exam Guide
Hacking Linux Exposed : Linux Security Secrets & Solutions
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
Linux Cookbook by Michael Stutz
TCP/IP Network Administration
The Future of ideas by Lawrence Lessig
Running Linux (4th Edition)
Understanding the Unix Kernel
Linux Security Cookbook
Linux and the Unix Philosophy
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition)
Open Source Network Administration
Linux Server Hacks
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide
How Linux Works
Linux Cookbook Second Edition
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
Automating Unix and Linux Administration
Linux Application Development
Point and click Linux!
Hardening Linux
Intrusion Prevention and Active Response
Peter van derLinden's Guide to Linux
Performance Tuning for Linux Servers
Moving to Linux (Second Edition)
Optimizing Linux Performance
Just say NO to Microsoft

Books: Mac
Mac OS X (second edition) - The Missing Manual
Leo Laporte's Technology Almanacs
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
Applescript in a nutshell
Mac OS X Disaster Relief
Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Mac OS X in a Nutshell
Programming Mac OS X, A Guide for UNIX Developers
Mac OS X Hacks
Sad Macs, Bombs, and other Disasters (4th Edition)
iPod The Missing manual
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Little Black Book
Mac OS X Power Hound

Books: Mail
Sendmail Pocket Reference
Sendmail Theory and Practice
Sendmail Performance Tuning by Nick Christensen
Postfix: The Definitive guide
Spamassassin
Sendmail Milters
Ending Spam:Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language

Books: Misc
Spring into Technical Writing

Books: Misc.
Accidental Empires
The Innovator's Dilemma
High Performance Computing
MySQL and mSQL
Under the Radar-Robert Young
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Just For Fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond
The Future of ideas by Lawrence Lessig
Mac OS X (second edition) - The Missing Manual
Leo Laporte's Technology Almanacs
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
Running Linux (4th Edition)

Books: Networking
Unix Network Programming
Managing IP Networks
SCO OpenServer-The Windows Network Solution
Windows NT and Unix Integration
Cisco IOS Essentials
Implementing LDAP
LDAP Programming
In Search of Clusters
Internet Core Protocols
Network+ Exam Guide
Hacking Exposed (Second Edition)
Network Programming with Perl
SSH- The Secure Shell
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
Network Printing by Todd Radermacher & Mathew Gast
TCP/IP Network Administration
The Future of ideas by Lawrence Lessig
Sendmail Performance Tuning by Nick Christensen
Linux Security Cookbook
Open Source Network Administration
Samba-3 By Example and The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide

Books: Performance
Performance Tuning for Linux Servers
Optimizing Linux Performance

Books: Perl
Programming Perl
Learning Perl
Advanced Perl
Web Client Programming with Perl
Sendmail Pocket Reference
Perl for System Administration
Perl Annotated Archives
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web
Network Programming with Perl
Network Intrusion Detection
Perl for Web Site Management
Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom
Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
Pro Perl

Books: Programming
Programming Perl
Learning Perl
Advanced Perl
Unix Network Programming
Termcap & Terminfo
Writing Unix Device Drivers
Unix Programming
Sed & Awk
The Unix Programming Environment
Web Client Programming with Perl
Unix for the Impatient
Linux Kernel
Sendmail Pocket Reference
The Practice of Programming
Exploring Expect
Linux Device Drivers
MySQL and mSQL
Learning the Bash
XML by Example
Perl Annotated Archives
Linux Internals
Core PHP Programming
Network Programming with Perl
Understanding the Linux Kernel
KornShell Programming Tutorial
Managing Projects with Make
Linux Shells by Example by Ellie Quigley
Linux File Systems
Perl for Web Site Management
Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book
Applescript in a nutshell
Programming Mac OS X, A Guide for UNIX Developers
Linux and the Unix Philosophy
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
The Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide
How Linux Works
Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom
Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5
Linux Application Development
PHP 5 Power Programming
Virus Research and Defense
Buffer Overflow Attacks
Pro Perl
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Pro Perl Debugging

Books: SCO Specific
SCO Companion
Writing Unix Device Drivers
SCO Performance Tuning Handbook
SCO OpenServer-The Windows Network Solution
Unix Internals Based on SCO OSR5!
Essential SCO Unix Administration
UnixWare 7 System Administration
SCO Unix in a Nutshell

Books: Security
Intrusion Detection-Network Security Beyond the Firewall
Internet Security- Risk Analysis, Strategies and Firewalls
Fundamentals of Computer Security Technology
Practical Unix & Internet Security
Maximum Linux Security
Linux Firewalls
Hacking Exposed (Second Edition)
SSH- The Secure Shell
Network Intrusion Detection
Hacking Linux Exposed : Linux Security Secrets & Solutions
Halting the Hacker
Linux Security Cookbook
Sendmail Milters
Virus Research and Defense
Buffer Overflow Attacks
Hardening Linux
Intrusion Prevention and Active Response
Apache Security
Silence on the Wire
Snort Cookbook

Books: Web/HTML
Programming Perl
Learning Perl
Advanced Perl
HTML-The Definitive Guide
Web Client Programming with Perl
Sendmail Pocket Reference
Sendmail Pocket Reference
Web Performance Tuning
Apache- The Definitive Guide
Web Site Usability
Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotion
Dynamic HTML
Grokking the Gimp
Poor Richard's Web Site
XML by Example
Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web
Hacking Exposed (Second Edition)
Core PHP Programming
Network Programming with Perl
Network Intrusion Detection
Perl for Web Site Management
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning
The Future of ideas by Lawrence Lessig
Apache Cookbook
Creating Cool Web Sites
PHP 5 Power Programming
Apache Security

Books: Windows
SCO OpenServer-The Windows Network Solution
Windows NT and Unix Integration
Samba
Using Samba (O'Reilly)
Windows 98 annoyances
Unix and Windows 2000 Integration
Perl for System Administration
Hacking Exposed (Second Edition)
Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book
PC Hardware in a Nutshell (3rd Edition)
Windows XP Annoyances
Samba-3 By Example and The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide
Just say NO to Microsoft

Suggestions for Help with Common Problems

These are unorganized- just random problems and suggestions for where to look.

Patches, Versions, etc.: New to Sco

System won't boot: Booting Articles

Modem won't answer: High Speed Modems

Can't make PPP work: Quick PPP setup

Out of disk space, No space on dev 1/42: No Disk Space

Mounting or fsck problems, backup complains about .slog0000 file, dividing filesystems: Filesystems

Terminal won't work: Terminals 101

Network won't work: Networks 101

How to set default route: Routing

Printer Problems/Solutions: Unix Printing

Recall and edit typed commands: Using the Korn (ksh) Shell

Tape drive hangs with tar but Arcserve works: Unixware 7 Tape Drives (same issue with OSR5)

Network Neighborhood: Visionfs

Browse Internet from Windows clients: Setting up a Small Office Network

Print to Windows printers: Visionfs and Visionfs Printing and the related JPR's Diff file for Windows Printers

NAT/Masquerading and Security: IPFILTER Firewalls for OSR5

Using SSH: DSL and Cable Modem Security with SSH

Script won't work when run from cron: Cron, At and Batch Personal Stuff:

Personal Blog
Other personal writings

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More Specific Links

Suggestions for Help with Common Problems