I have a soft spot in my heart for technical writing, partly because I edited a local computer magazine for a few years here in Portland. Below are some articles or resources I've written.
Address rewriting with sendmail genericstable (January 25, 2006)
How to make locally generated mail appear to come from an e-mail address in a foreign domain.
Alpine on Mac OS X (July 27, 2011)
Notes on building and running alpine under Mac OS X.
An Open Letter to Microsoft (September 28, 2004)
Microsoft-borne worms and viruses are a boon to IT workers!
Apache/FrontPage Cooperation (May 12, 2000)
Apache and FrontPage/IIS can be made to cooperate using mod_proxy and mod_rewrite.
BIND for the Small LAN (May 24, 2007)
How to configure BIND 9 to act as a caching nameserver or as the nameserver for a local domain.
Building Sendmail Mailing Lists in LDAP (June 4, 2004)
If you already keep e-mail addresses in an LDAP database, it’s possible to tweak things a bit so that sendmail can lookup mailing list addresses in it.
DiG HOWTO (May 11, 2006)
How to use dig to query DNS name servers.
Exim as an SSL/TLS client (May 4, 2005)
How to configure exim version 4 to provide a client certificate when transfering mail over an SSL/TLS connection.
Extracting Google Queries from Apache Logs (March 13, 2006)
How to extract from your Apache logs the Google queries that lead people to your web site.
Failover with ISC DHCP (April 11, 2008)
How to set up the ISC DHCP daemon with load sharing and failover capabilities.
GPG Quick Start (July 20, 2011)
A quick gpg HOWTO for getting started with GnuPG.
Notes on UTF-8 and locales (March 23, 2005)
Notes on using UTF-8 and locales on Linux systems.
OpenSSL Command-Line HOWTO (January 3, 2013)
The openssl application that ships with the OpenSSL libraries can perform a wide range of crypto operations. This HOWTO provides some cookbook-style recipes for using it.
Pine+OpenSSL HOWTO (November 6, 2006)
This little how-to is about getting pine and, to a lesser extent, fetchmail to work cleanly with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. There’s some OpenSSL trivia explored along the way, too.
RCS HOWTO (March 16, 2005)
How to use RCS, the Revision Control System.
RPM .spec Files (August 12, 2005)
For work and pleasure, I sometimes build binary rpm packages. Here’s a little intro to rpm building, with lots of example .spec files.
Sendmail SMTP AUTH Quick Start (January 26, 2010)
How to enable SMTP AUTH on a Linux system running sendmail.
Setting Up Trac on CentOS (October 3, 2006)
How to install and configure Trac on CentOS 4.
Sort IP Addresses with GNU sort (August 3, 2004)
How to sort IP addresses using the GNU sort utility.