Notes and debris, part 3

[tangaroa]

Still cleaning out old files...

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Linux-related links from way back when:

• RUTE, a free online Linux book
• Inoshiro's Beginning Security, Part 1
• Inoshiro's Beginning Security, Part 2
• Cracked! - a well written analysis of a computer break-in

The RUTE link had been to rute.sourceforge.net, but a completely different project is sitting there now.

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In 2005 I was tasked to look into inventory systems such as bar code and RFID scanners, preferably ones with GPS. Based on the information that I found on the web, the scanning equipment was too expensive, even the cheap stuff targeted to libraries. Nowadays "there's an app for that".

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A friend of mine at SSU was making a space-based game and was taking suggestions for planet names, so I proposed themed starsystems chock-full of in-jokes.

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SNMP urls:

• SNMP FAQ part 1
• SNMP FAQ part 1
• RFC 2571
• Video tutorials
• Cisco used to have SNMP documentation in their technology handbook, but it now redirects to a Wiki that has no section on SNMP. Even the PDF chapter download has been replaced with a "this documentation has moved" message on a PDF page. The Wayback Machine is your friend.
• SNMP Link - a site with lots of SNMP information.
• Open-source SNMP software

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Notes from when I took a Javascript course circa 2003: (file name: js-aaargh.txt)

The SRJC's Javascript class is geared towards making your pages SUCK. Seriously. Here's a rundown of some of the assignments:

• Lesson 2: Make Popups
• Lesson 4: Resize the browser window
• Lesson 5: Wipe out the status bar
• Lesson 6: Open new browser windows
• Lesson 11: Frames

This is stuff you're better off NOT knowing. Modern browsers block most of it. Meanwhile, we haven't touched on the DOM. In fact, I've been told not to use document.getElementById() by the instructor.

Today, it's better. A JQuery book is expected. Early lessons concentrate on language syntax and the browser environment. Lesson 4 covers the DOM. Lesson 8 covers AJAX, and lessons 9-16 cover different features of JQuery.

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Around the same time as that earlier Javascript class, I took a web development course that had wrong questions in its final exam, asking about features that had been deprecated and removed from the current HTML revision; i.e., things that browsers were supposed to not support any more.