Miscellaneous notes on UNIX/LINUX

To make flippy images from UNIX try 

dd if=* of=/dev/fd0 obs=18k

Older (Sun3 era) Hitacha fixed frequency monitor should be 68.1 kHz horiz, 66 Hz vert, try 85.23M dot clock.
1291363 dots/frame

Usefull modem commands:
&K3 -HW Flow control RTC/CTS
Q0 -Report result codes for chat
S0=0-Tell modem NOT to answer
&C1 -Carrier detect ON after connect
&S0 -DSR on, want DTR

Using FreeBSD as gateway with ppp on modem

In ppp.conf:
default:
 set device /dev/cuaa1
 set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
 set speed 115200
 disable pred1
 deny pred1
 disable lqr
 deny lqr
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1W2\\V1 O
K \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
 set redial 3 10
 set server /var/run/ppp.ctl "" 0177
 set timeout 180
 set openmode active
 accept chap
 alias enable yes

demand:
 set authname uName
 set authkey myPassword
 set phone 2329460|9985999|2941755|2942816
 set ifaddr 198.59.115.245/0 204.134.0.1/0 255.255.255.0
 add 0 0 204.134.0.1
Older settings, review these if/when i need to re-establish these connections 
ata:
 set authname ppp
 set authkey pppPassword
 set phone 7671268|7671269|7671270
 set ifaddr 192.160.144.245/0 192.160.144.2/0 255.255.255.0
 add 0 0 192.160.144.1

swcp:
 set phone ....
 set login "TIMEOUT 5 login:-\\r-login: Paaron assword: myPassword"
 set ifaddr 198.59.115.245 204.134.0.1
 add 0 0 HISADDR

Building FreeBSD Kernel

copy GENERIC kernel config to MYCONFIG, and edit MYCONFIG.
   /usr/sbin/config MYCONFIG
   cd ../../compile/MYCONFIG
   make depend
   make
   make install
Then move /kernel.old to appropriate name if you want to save it past next kernel rebuild.

Typical sendmail.cf changes for me

Dj$w.abq.nm.us    # for ptree.abq.nm.us mail server
DSmail.swcp.com   # smart relay host
DMptree.abq.nm.us
O HoldExpensive=True
O MeToo
O AllowBogusHELO=False
Change delivery mode to "defer" to wait for sendmail -q to actually attempt delivery
UNM nameserver, 129.24.8.1

See www.cs.unm.edu/~uuksan/linux/DHCP-2.html for help with UNM DHCP. Run 

dhclient eth0
to start, 
ifconfig eth0 down
to stop.

Try xwin32 for a windoze x-server

www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html has info on tv-tuner cards that work with LINUX. Links to BT-TV homepage for drivers.

Sony Vaio 505ve Laptop Notes

Notes on LINUX CD Authoring