netmeister.org - miscellaneous

• DST '07 @ Yahoo! -- a presentation on how changes in Daylight Saving Time were handled at Yahoo!; Originally given at BayLISA in May 2007. [Video]
• Useless Use of * -- a presentation originally given at SCALE 2007.
• Pondering Live CDs [slides] -- a paper presented at BSDCan 2006
• NetBSD/Soc -- Google's Summer of Code within NetBSD -- a presentation given at NYCBug.
• pkgsrc - The NetBSD Packages Collection -- a presentation given at NYCBug.
• NetBSD/Desktop - Scalable Workstation Solutions [slides] -- presented at EuroBSDCon 2004.

• Managing Third-Party Software Installation with pkgsrc - an article in SysAdmin Magazine
• Here's a little shell script that allows you to watch the movie Memento in chronological order, using mplayer. Drawbacks: the cuts are not 100% accurate; the story is better in the original version.
• Analysis of the Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP) [pdf] [accompanying slides (ps)]
• You've Got Jail! Or How The CBDTPA Might Outlaw Proper Security Practices.
• More than Word(s) - an article, published in LinuxJournal on how to deal with the infamous prorpietary format
• The Missing Man Pages Project
• Life
• HOWTOS
• If you use xplanet, you might be interested in this markers file: it contains most of the world's capitals
• MIB Analysis Etherlike-MIB
• Calvin and Hobbes Fortune Cookie-File - a compilation of quotes from Bill Watterson's fantastic "Calvin and Hobbes" Comic Books. You can download them as tar.gz, as rpm or as souce-rpm.
• Futurama Fortune Cookie-Files - a compilation of quotes from the TV-Series "Futurama" by Matt Groeining. You can download them as tar.gz or as tar.bz2.
• Screenshots
• some funny stuff I found on the web