Welcome to the Carlson's Home Page

Public Links

Book: PPP Design and Debugging

I have written a book on PPP (the standard Point-to-Point Protocol used for network access over serial links) which is published by Addison, Wesley, and Longman.

AIX Software: CD-R Mastering

There's no need to pay the $1000 that Jodian and GEAR are asking for CD-ROM mastering software on AIX! There is a very good and free utility which does the same thing.

I have the following versions of mkisofs/cdrecord available for download:

• Modified version 1.6 source
• Original version 1.6 source
• AIX 4.1.5 binaries of modified version 1.6 in installp format

Of course, you can also retrieve the original cdrecord version 1.6 from the server in Germany.

My modified version of cdrecord uses standard Gnu autoconf so that it should be much, much more portable. I've eliminated it's dependency on a "proprietary" version of printf(), and I've removed the unnecessarily complicated and non-portable Makefiles.

Here are some usage notes for cdrecord on AIX.

I also have older, hacked 1.5 source code and installp format module, though you probably don't want these.

Do not use the stock version of cdrecord from Jörg Schilling's ftp site, even though it claims to support AIX. It does not. It WILL unceremoniously panic your kernel, and the README file included with it is wrong.

If you don't already have Gnu's gzip, you'll need to fetch either the self-extracting precompiled or source code version of that utility and install it first in order to decompress these files.

Other AIX Software

Links to several other AIX sites

Family Links

Here are some sports-related links for Michael Holsberger.

And here are some construction-related links for Matthew Holsberger.