Jim Carter's Documents

Hardware Reviews

Baobei Replacement (Orion, 2024)
Google Pixel 5a (Selen, 2022)
Intel NUC11PAHi5 (Diamond, 2021)
ASUS VivoBook S15 S532FA-DH55 (Xena, 2020)
Sony Xperia XA2 (Selen, 2020)
Acer Aspire A515-54-51DJ (Xena, 2019)
Raspberry Pi 3B (Orion, 2018)
Intel NUC6CAYH (Jacinth, 2018)
Intel NUC7i5BNH (Diamond, 2017)
Piki on Pine64 (2016)
Acer Aspire E5-573G (Xena, 2016)
Intel NUC5i5RYH (Baobei 2018, was Iris 2016)
Samsung Galaxy S5 Pocket Computer (Selen, 2015)
Sony Vaio (Xena, 2014)
CompuLab Fit-PC3 (Jacinth 2013 and Iris 2014) (Iris renamed to Aurora in 2016)
ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity (Mica, 2013)
CompuLab (Fit-PC) Intense PC Pro (Diamond, 2012, expired 2017)
Samsung Galaxy S III Pocket Computer (Selen, 2012)
Zotac Zbox AD03BR (Iris, 2012)
Motorola Droid 3 Pocket Computer (Selen, 2011)
HTC Trophy with Windows Phone 7 from Verizon (Yuna, 2011)
Canon PIXMA MP495 Printer - Scanner - Copier (2011)
Dell Inspiron 400HD Zino (Piki and Aurora, 2009)
HTC G1 Cellphone (Selen, 2009)
Koolu Thin Client (Jacinth, 2007)
Nokia 770 and N810 Internet Tablet (Selen 2006 and Mica 2008)
Dell Inspiron 6400 (Xena, 2007)
Dell Inspiron 6000 (Xena, 2005)
Dell Inspiron 3800 (Xena, 2000)
Processor and Graphics Benchmarks

Personal Documents

New Virtual Machine on KVM-qemu (2023)
Home Automation Upgrade (2022)
Migrating to Nextcloud from ownCloud (2022)
Raspberry Pi Graphics (2022)
Installing WireGuard (2021)
Holly Hosed, Tested Backup (2021)
Wi-Fi Evolution on CouchNet in 2021
New Password Manager: Bitwarden (2021)
Installing Kea DHCP Server (2020)
Unbound, DNSSEC and SSHFP (2019)
Domain Transfer, Dyn.com to Hurricane Electric (2019)
Network Interface Names (2019)
New Alarm System (2019) and related docs
A Server in the Clouds (2019)
Network for Xena's Virtual Machine (2018)
Sun's Network Filesystem (NFS) on CouchNet (2016)
Signing My Mail (2016)
Distributed Denial of Service Defense (2016)
Routing on CouchNet (2016)
VoIP Versus Intrusion Alarm (2017)
VoIP Versus QoS (2016)
Landline Out, VoIP In (2016)
Avoid Getting Hacked (2016)
GPS Clock Source (2015)
Making the Bluetooth Audio Adapter Work (2015)
Setting Up StrongSwan (IPSec) and OpenVPN (2015)
Auditing the VPNs (2015)
Auditing the VPNs (2016)
Offsite Backup (2013)
Jimc's Awesome PIM Server (2013)
Setting Up StrongSwan (2013)
Replacing My XMPP Server (2013)
Setting Up and Debugging OpenID (2012)
Verizon FiOS Installation and Experience (2012)
Failed Foray to Time Warner Cable (2012)
MythTV on Dell Zino with SuSE 11.3 (2010)
Netgear MoCA to Ethernet Bridge (2011)
Power Line Networking (2009)
Healing X Windows Login (2009)
Home Theater PC on Linux (2009)
Setting Up Ejabberd (2008)
Setting Up a FAX Server (2008)
Rant Against Extensions to HTML
Jim Carter's Bugfixes
InetVote Online Voting System (2004)
Bluetooth Bluez, a HOWTO and review of audio players
Installing User Mode Linux on SuSE
Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
No earth-shattering new physics here -- it's a demo of the kind of results you can get with LyX and HeVeA.
Javascript Test
HTML 4.0 Test Suite
Exercises all HTML 4.0 tags and most attributes. See how badly your browser does. Developers, download the whole directory as a TGZ file.
Gravitation in a Klein Bottle.
The connection of a Riemannian manifold is the potential of a conserved source. This work is in progress.
Gua\spi Index
A language artifact that I constructed some years ago. Its documentation has recently been translated in to HTML.
A poem about Schrodinger's Cat

Work Documents

Upgrading to OpensuSE Tumbleweed (2017)
Upgrading to OpensuSE Leap 42.1 (2015)
Responding to the Logjam Attack (2015)
OpenBLAS Installation at Mathnet
Backup Plan for users' private data (2015)
Activating IPv6 on Mathnet (2014)
Heartbleed Bug in OpenSSL (2014)
Linux (3.11.x) Filesystem Horkage (2014)
Samba Authentication by Active Directory (2014)
Procedure to Install from SuSE Build Service (2012)
Disentangling Kerberos from LDAP (2014)
Kerberos Database in LDAP (2012)
Setting Up LDAP (2012)
Installing JIRA ticket tracking and planning software (2012)
Batch Jobs in the Cloud, picking job manager software for our new cluster (2011)
Personal Information Manager Software (2010)
Active Sidejacking, stealing web cookies that identify the victim (2010)
UNIX and Windows LDAP Server (2010-06-21)
IPv6 at the Department Level (2009-10-05)
Defending Against Password Guessing (2008-06-20)
Web Design Policy (2007-10-17, never formally adopted)
Transitive Authentication (2007-02-16)
Installing SuSE Linux on an Uncooperative Dell Optiplex 745 (2007-01-25)
What Software Should Be On Mathnet Machines (2001-08-09)
The User Experience at Mathnet
A checklist of activities that users should be able to do on the Mathnet UNIX machines. (2000-04-27)
The User Experience at Mathnet (II)
An assessment on 2004-09-30 of our new Linux setup.
The User Experience at Mathnet (III)
Checking and planning for SuSE 10.1 on workstations.
Which Certificate Authority? (2006-12-13)
Certificate Authority, Reloaded (2011-01-13)
Strategic Plan for 2006-2007 (2006-09-30)
SuSE 10.1 Deployment Plan (2006-06-07)
Horde Upgrade II (2007-06-22)
Horde Upgrade (2006-04-28)
Issues in Deploying NFS Version 4 (2006-01-09)
Justifying Upgrade to SuSE 10.0 (2005-12-02)
Proposal for Backup Policy (2005-10-21)
Installing UML on SuSE (2005-01-31)
How to Convert ext2 to ext3 (2005-01-06)
Cryptographic Vault (2004-04-12)
Choosing a VPN-Type Program for Mathnet (2003-09-26)
Office Suite Evaluation (2002-11-06)
OpenSSH Migration at UCLA-Math/PIC (2002-05-30)
Security Plan for UCLA-Mathnet (2002-04-05)
Critique of Kerberos and AFS (2002-05-06)
Setting Up the Cisco VPN5000 Client on Linux (2002-01-01)
How the Linux user can use the Bruin Online wireless net.
Network Security in the New Millenium
A discussion of emerging issues in network security involving DSL lines, high security login, and blanket hack attacks. (2000-02-13)

Fiction

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