LINUX

• DCLUG/UMLUG meeting room info: A annotated map around CSS-2400 with some instructions where to park for a 7pm meeting and how to find your way from the Rt.1 entrance to CSS. Parking Q is to be preferred, DD is on the other side of the building, where I work. My room is CSS-0237 coming in from the loading dock entrance off parking lot DD. Stop by and say hi! You can find more campus maps on here and here .
• CS Lounge
• mirrorUM
• Visit the local Linux users groups pages:
  • UM-LUG, and my version of the UMOSS page.
  • DC-LUG
  • BWBUG
• My PPP dialup scripts. They use the old (3.4 and earlier) slackware method (ppp-on/ppp-off). I have a tkppp wrapper around these scripts, which one day (just ask me) I will include with these scripts. It's very useful if you switch ISPs a lot.
  It contains various old and new UMD dialup, ricochet, erols, clarknet and other ISPs that I've been working with. But you should also look at :
  • Daniel Friedman's pppdial WWW page.
  • Jerome Johnson's instructions to setup UMCPs PPP dialup, or check his updated instructions for RedHat5.2, and the new expanded instructions for RedHat6.0 (which remain valid for redhat 5.x)
• Other Popular Software that often does not come directly with your distribution, but you likely will want to install.
• my Linux related Projects:
  • Windows for Linux users? : a cribsheet of windows trivia that unix people (me certainly) will never remember before the next version of windows comes out
  • Box of Pentiums project
  • WASP project, with RT-Linux
  • LinuxAstro and the AstroMake project.
  • (sep 1998) UMLUG has a Scurity Working Group, to establish secure linux machine on the UM campus network. I've started to assemble my own list of security links and references .
  • Wireless Networking, in particular the new (in 2001) Mobile at Maryland(MAM) wireless networking mam linux faq.
  • VPN at UMD
  • Laptop info and in particular the AstroLaptop guidelines if you want to use a (linux) laptop in the astronomy department.
  • I'm keeping my list of hardware components online. Mostly for myself, to remember what works with linux. Most of what i buy works with linux, but not everthing.
  • DSL, or CableModem, what shall it be?
  • My grunts with Comcast being total incompetence of providing some basic linux instructions is here
  • Some disk I/O i did comparing SCSI, IDE and USB2.0 on the same machine.
• openwrt experiments
• You can try my UMD-only download area (not always active) or else look at my URLs for often used post-install packages.
• benchmarking on linux
• Ted Yu's GIMPed up panoramic shots of some of my pictures, and sometimes my originals are up in my recent pictures tree.
• Darwin anybody?
• move to Fedora?
• XM Radio?: no linux browser support and only Windows Media Player