Dan Kegel's Web Hostel

Environment

• Local California Climate Action Plans - because google currently only finds an out of date list, here's a link to the latest
• Los Angeles Street Light Efficiency - about half are LEDs now, what about the rest?
• Oil Well Emissions - the problem and what people are doing about it
• Burt Rutan and Climate Change - mostly just about one fact he got wrong
• Local Climate Tax Cuts - aka revenue-neutral carbon taxes. Could introducing them at the local level break the stalemate?
• Climate Change and Los Angeles -- What it is, and what we can do about it. An evolving presentation.

Games

• A Grownup's Guide to Minecraft and Writing Minecraft Mods
• Using Minecraft Mods -- for those who already know how to use minecraft
• Mech2.org - forum and discord for Mechwarrior 2 fans

Speed

• NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Data - summaries of results of recent benchmarks comparing NT and Linux
• On Mindcraft's April 1999 Benchmarks - beyond the FUD and the hype, Mindcraft's results reveal a performance issue in Apache running on Linux.
• The C10K problem - Why can't Johnny serve 10000 clients?
• Poller - Thin OO wrapper around select(), poll(), /dev/poll, /dev/epoll, kqueue(), etc.
• dkftpbench - FTP benchmark program
• dkcorbabench - CORBA benchmark program
• SSL/TLS - SSL APIs and SSL accelerators
• Updated example code for Unix Network Programming, Volume 1 - my patches to try to add Linux support to the examples in Richard Stevens' classic book

Linux Resources

• Crossplatform development tips - for ISVs who want to ship on all three major desktop platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux)
• Hunting the Wily HP Linux Laptop, or, why HP's not going to be able to sell many of these via their web site
• Intro to Embedded Linux Programming, or, Embedded Linux Programming is easy
• Spell-Checking the Linux Kernel
• Network Booting with PXE
• Network Storage for Universities or, "gee, looks like OpenLDAP+OpenAFS+Kerberos+NTP is the way to go for campus-wide authentication and network file service"
• Short notes I've written about learning and using Linux
• Los Angeles Linux User Groups

Advocacy

• Notes from the OSDL Desktop Linux Architects Meeting
• Towards Linux Desktop Comfort or, Why Doesn't Johnny Run Linux
• How To Contribute to Open Source Projects
• The Case for Linux in Universities
• Corporate Ethics -- a look at what kind of ethical statements are online at big companies like Microsoft, IBM, and HP
• On the Remedy Phase of the Microsoft Antitrust Trial
• OpenOffice Needs YOU! -- how you can help make a high-quality free office suite a reality.
• Leave Windows Behind - but bring your apps with you - an introduction to the Wine Project (talk for CeBIT 2009)
• The Wine QA Project -- How to help the Wine project, even if you can't program
• Software Engineering with Wine -- lab projects for CS students
• How to run Lotus Notes on Linux with Wine
• California's Proposed Energy Efficiency Standard for Televisions - who's for it, who's against it, where to go from here

Misc technical

• Validating email with DKIM - check whether an email is forged or genuine
• Finding memory bugs in Win32 applications with Valgrind - Valgrind's not just for Unix anymore
• That time again: Buying a new computer in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2015.
• Buying a new laptop in 2015 - $600 for an entry-level gaming laptop, dual-booted between windows and linux
• How much RAM does Windows XP need? (quick answer: more than 256MB)
• OpenOffice 1.1.1 Changes - a quick look at what's fixed in OpenOffice 1.1.1
• OpenOffice 2.0 Issue Overview - a quick look at what's left to do in OpenOffice 2.0
• Digital Cameras (especially the Canon Powershot A40)
• Open Source Friendly Phones with Cameras - want to take pictures with Java on your phone?
• Linux Heap Contention in free(), by David Boreham - a preliminary patch for glibc version 2.2.4 to improve malloc() performance on SMP systems.
• Building a binutils/gcc/glibc cross-development toolchain really from scratch for a large subset of gcc-{2.95.3, 3.2.3, 3.3} x glibc-{2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.3.2} x {alpha, arm, cris, i686, ia64, mips, ppc750, ppc405, sh4, sparc, s390}.
• gcc's -fstack-check option - tips for slimming down thread stacks
• gprof and glibc - workarounds for glibc's problems profiling multithreaded programs and programs with more than 64000 or so symbols.
• khttpd patches - a patch for a khttpd stability problem
• Getting Started with PHP and MySQL on pair.com - notes to help beginners get a quick start developing active web pages at my favorite hosting site
• Anet - a peer-to-peer network game programming library I wrote while at Activision; used to ship quite a few games
• Extreme Programming - why all my code has unit tests
• my CORBA presentation and accompanying resources
• Remote Debugging with GDB
• SNMP resources, including fsubagent, a helper library for ucd-snmp
• A cheesy tool to log Egroups chat sessions
• Using CVS to manage a web site
• Security for Web Developers
• Interesting bugs in Netscape 4.7x
• IP addresses ending in .255 can cause odd routing problems - just say no
• Name Mangling in C++
• NANSI.SYS: a cool MS-DOS console driver; versions 3.4 and later released under the GNU Public License. Still used in some embedded systems and by the FreeDOS project.
• A few notes on Java
• C++, C, and Assembly Language Tutorials
• Origin and Properties of the Bow and Arrow -- a use case for the web, from "As We May Think"
• Dan and Liz's Solar Retrofit -- we went solar, here's what we did and how it turned out
• Dan & Liz's 2nd Solar Retrofit: this time it's about carbon

Community

• Los Angeles City Council File System index
• Guerilla guide to nurturing new trees in Los Angeles - how I kept our street's new trees alive
• Visiting Los Angeles -- or, hotels we have known and loved (or not)
• Los Angeles Transportation Issues
• Issues with BRE's Wilshire / La Brea Development
• Los Angeles is bankrupt, and its streets are in tatters. What to do?
• Using video cameras to catch taggers and thieves - with mixed results

Politics

• Horowitz vs. Gore - Horowitz's essay "Why We Went To War In Iraq" picks three points made by Al Gore in "The Assault on Reason", and claims to disprove them. In this page, I do a little fact-checking on Gore's three claims to see if they hold up (it seems they do, and Horowitz seems to be wrong.)

Health

• HPV-related cancer prevention and treatment - why to vaccinate against HPV, when to test for HPV, research on HPV cures
• Smallpox - since some folks say the vaccine didn't work, I had a look.
• Typing Considered Harmful - tips on dealing with typing pain

Professional

• My resume -- for the curious only; I'm happily employed
• Internship Opportunities -- wanna code?
• Change the world! -- my weak attempt at a poster advertizing my internship in Los Angeles
• How To Get Hired -- advice for budding software engineers

Personal

• Caring for your Introvert
• My university home page

Old Resource Pages

• Dan Kegel's ISDN Page - All you ever wanted to know about ISDN, but were afraid to ask
• Dan Kegel's ADSL Page - Lots of info about ADSL, and other ~1 Mbit/sec phone line technologies
• Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page - Lots of info about Fast Ethernet aka 100BaseT, and other ~100Mbit/sec technologies
• Dan Kegel's Fast Hard Drives Page -- Lots of info about the kind of hard drives that make fast workstations sing

Other Kegels in the world

• The Kegel Company - bowling equipment, Florida, USA
• Kegel Motorcycle Co. - Harley dealership, Rockford, IL, USA
• Kegel's Produce - groceries, Lancaster, PA, USA
• Kegel Bootsimport - boat engines and equipment, Hamburg, Germany