Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.
--Patrick Henry

How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?
--Alexander Solzhenitzyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Published Materials:

UNIX Systems Administration with Self Parsing Shell Scripts   -   (local copy)
    2003-11-01 - Published in November 2003 issue of SysAdmin Magazine


A response to the Feb. 6, 2002 US Court of Appeals ruling on inline linking (Les Kelly vs. Arriba Soft Corp.)   -   (local copy)
    2002-02-10 - Published at: Slashdot.org
        2002-02-11 - Here is the text of a thoughtful email discussion I had with the plaintiff.


An account of my experiences as a firefighter inside ground zero during the week following 9/11   -   (local copy)
    2001-12-15 - Published at: Cult of the Dead Cow T-File #396


Building Embedded / Solid State Systems with FreeBSD   -   (local copy)
    2001-06-01 - Included in FreeBSD versions 4.4 and above in /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state
                Russian translation can be found at /usr/share/doc/ru_RU.KOI8-R/articles/solid-state


Invisible Firewalls Using FreeBSD Bridging and ipfw / IPSTEALTH   -   (local copy)
    2001-05-15 - Published at:


Installing and Running a Usenet News Server with INN on FreeBSD   -   (local copy)
    1999-06-06 - Published at:


Structural vs. Operational Intrusion Detection   -   (local copy)
    1999-04-15 - Published at: www.securityfocus.com
    1999-01-15 - Presented at: CuervoCon III


Windows NT 4.0 System Security for Paranoid Systems Administrators   -   (local copy)
    1998-09-13 - Published at: www.securityfocus.com


Windows NT 4.0 Login Script Tips and Tricks   -   (local copy)
    1998-08-15 - Published at: www.networkcommand.com

Software Releases:

veritas_metrics
Additional entries for kozubik.metrics targeted to veritas (3.x) specific performance metrics.
    2001-02-14
kozubik_pulse v1.0
A customizable, centralized system uptime/health monitor for unix based operating systems.
    2001-01-17
kozubik_metrics v1.2
A performance metric collection and reporting tool for unix based operating systems.
    2001-01-05
kozubik_backup v1.0
A simple client/server enterprise backup solution for unix based operating systems.
    2000-06-20

Instructions and Documentation:

Building Apache 1.3x with OpenSSL and mod_ssl and various options   -   (local copy)
    1999-06-15 (updated 2002-01-15)
Adding Bind Version 9 to FreeBSD 4.x   -   (local copy)
    2001-12-18 (updated 2002-10-14)
Kernel Virtual Memory With and Without Hard-Coded pmap.h and ldscript.i386 Values in FreeBSD 4.x   -   (local copy)
    2002-06-23
Altering wget source to Allow the Tilde (~) Character in Saved Directories   -   (local copy)
    2002-11-23

Other:

readings

testimonials

Misc. pre-compiled binaries

misc. information I want search engines to find