http://www.logilab.org/narval/ looks very interesting. It's a framework for building intelligent agents. also
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/soar/ looks more fully-developed.
http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ is a standalone memory tester.
You can put it on a floppy or to add to lilo put memtest86 (the binary) in /boot and just add this to /etc/lilo.conf:
image=/boot/memtest86
label=memtest
Backspace and delete seem to give me problems. The config that seems to work for me (using Gnome terminal) is to select the "Swap Delete/Backspace" option and don't select the "Delete generates DEL/^H" option.
I had a strange problem with Java - JBoss could start up but not shut down. It hung after shutting down the mail service but before any JMX RMI messages. Turns out that I had moved my machine and the network config was FUBAR: my hostname's entry in /etc/hosts didn't match any of the IP's that I had configured. D'oh!
RFC's
RFC2945 - Secure Remote Password protocol
At some point when I get a tape drive I should check out AMANDA:
http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html
Mice
It took a little bit of fiddling to get my Gateway computer's MS IntelliMouse 1.2A to work with both GPM and X, but in the end the config is pretty straightforward.
/etc/gpmdata
looks like:
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
type=imps2
repeat_type=raw
append=""
which ends up running gpm like so:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t imps2 -Rraw
.
X's
XF86Config
"Pointer" section looks like:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
Buttons 3
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
NOTE: I don't have the mouse wheel working (yet).
The pass-through device for GPM is
/dev/gpmdata
.
The Tulip network driver 0.92 on my Gateway box would stop working, usually when I was sending a large block of data. It would put this in the log:
Jun 4 19:30:29 tobypc kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc664010, CSR12 00000000, resetting...
Jun 4 19:31:04 tobypc last message repeated 7 times
Upgrading to Donald Becker's latest driver (version 0.92t) seems to have fixed things.