Links

These links were last maintained: 2005/06/01

If one of them is broken or moved, I don't know about it. e-mail me.

Useful Links*

• Google - Very accurate search engine with newsgroup and image search features.
• AltaVisa - Another search engine.
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary - Online dictionary and thesaurus.
• Babelfish - Translate web pages between different languages.
• Netsplit - Internet chat search engine.
• FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages - Read Unix manual pages over the web.
• Maps - Street maps for U.S., Canada.
• White Pages - People finder. Microsoft knows where you live.
• Adobe PDF Conversion - Convert Adobe PDF documents to more easily readable HTML.

News Sites*

Real News*

• BBC World News - News from across the pond.
• Google News - Searchable collection of news articles with today's most popular displayed
• Christian Science Monitor - A good news source with short, in-depth essays.
• Canadian Broadcasting Centre - Canadian news source.
• Inter-Press Service - News source concentrating on Third World nations.
• The Note - ABC News reports on DC politics.
• Governing - U.S. State-level political news headlines.
• The Street - Business news.
• Memory Blog - Highlighting information that some would rather see disappear.
• Conservative News - Politics with a heavy Republican slant and numerous factual inaccuracies.
• The Mojo Wire - Mother Jones populist newsmagazine. Weekly.
• Tom Paine - Left-leaning magazine.
• Capitol Hill Blue - Rumour-mongering political newsmagazine.
• Soldiers for the Truth - Military newsmagazine.
• Defense Tech - Current events focusing on U.S. military and foreign relations.
• Plastic - Discussion and links to news articles.
• The Ethical Spectacle - Essays on culture. Monthly.
• Editor and Publisher - Campaign Desk - Professional news analysis.
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - Daily Howler - Liberal-slanted media analysis.

Weird News*

• Fark - Weird News from all around.
• Boing Boing - Weblog with interesting news
• Brickbats - Odd news from Reason Magazine.

Nerdy News*

• Slashdot - News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
• Ars Technica - Anandtech - Tom's Hardware - Tech news and hardware reviews.
• Linux Today - Linux Weekly News - Linux Format - Linux.com - News about the Linux operating system.
• Techdirt - Slashdot clone.
• CIAC - CERT - Computer security alerts and reports.
• The Register - Flagrantly opinionated computer tabloid.
• Gizmodo - Review of new gadgets and technology.
• Kuro5hin - Slashdot clone with story moderation.
• zIWETHEY - Techie discussion forum.
• O'Reilly Network - News for developers and computing professionals.
• Root Prompt - Unix news and tutorials.
• Advogato - Slashdot clone, geared heavily towards the open-source community.
• Cryptome - Legal matters involving computer technology and censorship.
• Politechbot - Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list archive.
• Solaris Central - News regarding Sun's Solaris OS.
• Fresh Meat - BetaNews - Upcoming and recently released software programs.
• Need To Know - Weekly tech news.
• RISKS-FORUM Digest - The risks of having technology in our lives.
• Daemon News - Monthly news and tutorials focused on the BSD Unix systems.
• A List Apart - Weekly web developers' magazine.
• Circuit Cellar - Hard-core technology enthusiast magazine.

Other News Sources*

• Daypop Top 40 - See what's on the minds of webloggers.
• OverLawyered - Chronicling corruption and stupidity in the American legal system.
• Scripting News - Weblog master's weblog.
• Dynamist - Economist's views on politics and current events.
• Talking Points Memo - Eschaton - Liberals' views on politics and current events.
• Daily Kos - Booman Tribune - Rabidly partisan Democratic Party blogs with active user diaries.
• Live From the Nuke Free Zone - Political and technophilic writings from the Left Coast.

Humourous Sites*

• Bash.org - Amusing logs from Internet Relay Chat.
• The Shark Tank - Horror stories from the IT industry
• Stupid Security - Mocking poorly thought out security measures.
• Customers Suck - Disgruntled employees' weblog.
• The UsenetInternet Oracle - Keep up on the latest Oracularities.
• The Onion - The Best Source of Newsworthy Items in our Great Republic.
• Ironic Times - Quip headlines parodying the news.
• Cruel Site of the Day - Satire of "Cool Site of the Day" sites.
• The Daily WTF - Daily examples of bad programming.
• Hack A Day - Interesting mechanical and electronic achievements.
• This Is Broken - Pointing out badly designed products and advertisements.
• Humorix - Slashdot parody.
• FuckedCompany - Tracking the death-destined dot-coms.
• memepool.com - Weird and interesting links.
• RHF - The latest jokes from the newsgroup rec.humor.funny.
• Uber - Short random essays. Weekdays.
• RouterGod - Humour magazine for network technicians.
• Critical Miss - Role-playing humour magazine.
• Worth 1000 - Image-editing contests.
• The Lycos 50 - Commentary on popular search engine terms. Weekly.
• Web Comic Finds - Constantly searching for good web comics.
• The White House - Brilliant parody of the White House website.
• Illuminated Site of the Week - Reviews of amusing and odd web sites.

Comics*

• Sluggy Freelance - Worship the comic.
• Ozy and Millie - Consistently funny strip about childhood life.
• Angst Technology - Strip about a wacky software company.
• Nick Anderson - David Horsey - Powerfully pointed political cartoons.
• The Boondocks - Suburbia, paranoia, and political humour.
• Foxtrot - Another good mainstream strip.
• User Friendly - Popular geeky strip.
• Absurd Notions - Strip about a group of young apartment-dwelling RPG fans. Stale
• Avalon - A very good strip about high school life. Daily. Stale
• Kevin & Kell - Strip about an "alternative marriage": A wolf and a rabbit.
• Goats - This strip is weird, and mostly about beer.
• Elf Life - Nice fantasy strip. Daily.
• Sinfest - Very raw humour, consistently effective. Daily.
• Clan of the Cats - A woman learns of her family's curse. Daily.
• Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan - A troupe of ruffians makes do in this fantasy strip.
• Fate Martyr Sapheire - The last male of his race swept up in a prophecy he wants none of. Daily, good artwork. Stale
• Real Life - A strip based on the author's real life. Daily.
• Life's So Rad - Another strip based on the author's real life.
• As If! - 80's high school retrospective.
• Help Desk - A look at the software industry from the tech support desk.
• Adventurers! - Very funny satire on Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest type games.
• Acid Reflux - A young goddess explores her hand-me-down universe. Stale
• The Wandering Ones - Survival in a postapocalyptic world. Daily.
• Shadowfall - Futuristic espionage drama.
• Get With The Program - A set of wackos staff an extremely incompetent software company.
• Piled Higher and Deeper - A strip about college life.
• The Cyantia Chronicles - An amazing output of several furry comics by a single author and artist.
• Bruno the Bandit - The stories of a medieval ruffian. Good artwork and quite funny. MWF
• Freefall - Great futuristic strip. MWF
• Casey and Andy - Two misfits raise havoc in this gag strip. MWF.
• The Flipside - Fantasy comic. MWF
• Vagrant Vivian - A slightly twisted fantasy. MWF
• Wapsi Square - Comic about the lives of a few friends. MWF
• El Goonish Shive - Highly imaginative and amusing strip. MWF
• RPG World - Another Final Fantasy parody comic. SuWF.
• Deathworld - This is one twisted strip, has matured greatly over the years. Mondays and Thursdays.
• Kelen - Fantasy strip about students and teachers at a college of magic. Mondays and Fridays.
• Angels - Fanservice-rich comic about all-female starfighter wing. Mondays and Fridays.
• Space Losers - Naive humans' adventures in outer space. Mondays and Fridays.
• MegaTokyo - Two American otaku/gamer/nerds in Japan. TTh.
• Killroy and Tina - A young Earth woman is bound to the galaxy's most feared villain. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Return to Sender - Letters from nowhere give instructions that lead to tragedy. Sundays. Stale
• Ninth Elsewhere - A conglomerate of muses attempts to influence human imagination. Mondays.
• Mynarski Forest - Strip about some troublemaking forest creatures. Mondays.
• Eversummer Eve - Magical mystery manga. Mondays.
• Nine Stitches - The adventures of a time-traveling witch. Thursdays. Stale
• Zebra Girl - When Satanic rituals go bad. Fridays.
• Kagerou - Colourful fantasy comic.
• Spell Shocked - Goofball fox goes through magic school without learning or using any magic. Twice monthly.
• Waylay - Amusing tales of fantasy and morality.
• Full Frontal Nerdity - Strip about role-playing and other geeky topics.
• Copper - Beautiful and imaginative single-page adventures.
• Kid Radd - A comic making fun of old 8-bit video games.
• Loserz -
• Queen of Wands -
• Mac Hall - Amusing strip about gaming and slacking.
• Dicebox - The lives of two friends in the future. Good artwork.
• Lunch Break - Strip about the author's life.
• Shortpacked - Life inside a toy store.
• Hunter's Moon - An interplanetary war spills out into a neighbouring star system.
• Nowhere Girl - A young woman struggles with her life amid hints of great change.
• Buttlord GT - Crude, amusing parody of Dragon Ball Z.
• Sabrina Online - Furry about an Amiga-loving skunk and friends. Updated monthly.
• Two Lumps - The lives of a pair of housecats.
• Spamusement - Absurd cartoons based on lines from spam e-mails the author received.
• Trouble Windows Translations - Computer operating systems portrayed as cartoon girls.
• Radioactive Panda - The misadventures of mad scientists.
• Sea of Insanity -
• Medium Large -
• Cascade Failure -
• Count Your Sheep -
• The Japanese Beetle - Slacker superhero, odd villians, nice artwork. Ended
• Ancient Messages - A single family is is duty-bound to save the world from demons. Ended

Funny Static Pages*

• The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce's great work of cynicism.
• Diary of an AOL User. - Classic of Internet humour.
• Wolfstone&Ellickson Discourage Frivolous Lawsuits - Funny story about Apple and Carl Sagan.
• Quotes of H. L. Mencken - Some of the most memorable quotes came from this man.
• Sysadmin Price List - I'll fix your computer, but that's gonna cost ya...
• The Complete Guide To Cows - Cow ASCII art. MooOooOoo
• A Grandchild's Guide to using Grandpa's Computer - If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port...
• Computers in Movies - Hollywood's take on technology.
• IADL Archive #410 - This picture rocks.
• Satanic Sysadmins - Sysadmins that worship Satan. Great logo.
• Buffer Overflow in Maruchan Instant Lunch - "This seems to effect Cup O' Noodles too..." Mirror
• Happy Face Crater - The otherface on Mars.
• The Illustrated Guide to Breaking Your Computer - How Not To Install Computer Hardware - How to destroy your hardware.
• Suckdot - Slashdot parody.
• Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide - Dangerous substance responsible for thousands of deaths annually.
• Mothers Insisting on Licensed Tools - It's For The Children!
• Windows NT vs. CP/M - Yet another rigged benchmark.
• Linux Quotes - An archive of humourous quotes about Linux.
• 404 - A poetic 404 error message.
• Windows for Telepaths - Some jabs at Microsoft, courtesy of the Oracle.
• Stupid Tech Support - Tales of underqualified line jockeys.
• Layman's Guide to Operating System Security - DilDog's response to Slashdot interview question.
• Flame Warriors - The different kinds of flamers occupying discussion groups.
• Funny Pics for Online Use - Graphical examples of the bad logic you find on Internet forums.
• UNIXUX - Funny advertisement for the Unix Hater's Handbook.
• Microsoft Pie - o/` Bye, bye to your system uptime o/`
• FlexNet - An ISP with a BOFH support policy. This is not a joke.
• Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass - The joys of chemistry.
• Silly Molecules - Some oddly and nigh-vulgarly named things you may run across in chemistry.
• Tim's Chemistry Exam - If you can't pass your quiz, the next best thing is to be a smartaleck.
• Jesus Christ Superstore - Religious action figures. Offensive to everyone.
• The Web Page From Hell - The frames! Augh!
• UCSD Math Club Fun and Games - Some math jokes.
• Nerds 'R' Us - Engineering humour.
• Server 54, Where Are You? - If Novell can't get an ad campaign out of this, they deserve to go under. (They couldn't)
• The Invisible Pink Unicorn - Are you a believer?
• E-Mail attachments: the DENIAL OF SERVICE Exploitation Tool of Choice - Parody of Steve Gibson's overblown writing style.
• Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick - Mocking the idea of a "Bible Code".
• Worst Cars of the Millenium - Former owners offer hilarious comments on their junkers.
• The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches - Hilariously accurate.
• Suicide Squid - Squiddies - What happens when someone makes a typo on Usenet.
• The Head of Vecna - Hoax precious D&D artifact makes for hilarious tale.
• Software War - How goes the war? Updates about twice a year.
• Flo Control - Feline biometric security system.
• The Credentialing Con - The tale of Zoe D. Katze, PhD.
• The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation - What if Abe Lincoln used a slideshow?
• Libertarianism in One Lesson - Learn all about this great philosophy.
• The Propaganda Remix Project - World War 2 posters updated for the War on Terrorism.
• American Crusade Trading Cards - War on Terrorism trading cards! Collect 'em all!
• 666bios - The CMOS from hell.
• The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Cliches - Categorized by plausability, overuse, racism, sexism, and whether Star Trek did it.
• Skippy's List - The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the US army.
• Tales for the l33t - Romeo and Juliet for script kiddies. SWF
• Star Wars Gangsta Rap - We Got Death Star! SWF
• The Everloading Story - Neverending Story this ain't. SWF
• Fight #3 - o/` Kung fu fightin' o/` SWF

Humour Archives*

• 100 Top April Fools' Day Hoaxes - Some of the more ingenious pranks played on April 1.
• The Dead Documents - "The History of the BBS User" was just the beginning.
• The YucksDigest - Humour digests.
• 0xDEADBEEF - Jokes and culture mailing list archive.
• Wacky Packages - Great parodies of popular product packages and advertising.
• BLAZEMONGER - THE FASTEST GAME EVER WRITTEN!!
• The Stephen Ratliff Misting Archive - Mocking a fanfic writer's work in MST3k style.
• The IRC Bible - Biblical passages translated into IRC conversations.

Weird Sites*

• Vigor - A vi editor with a paperclip assistant. This is a real program.
• The Most Useless Pi Algorithm - Sheer brilliance. This man would make an excellent Congressman.
• The End of the Internet - Don't fall off.
• $95,093.35!!! - This guy recieved a legal "fake" $95,093.35 check, and decided to deposit it..
• Hello? - In the middle of the Mojave Desert, 15 miles from the nearest highway, was this phone booth...
• Spatula City - Home of the Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything.
• CSH Coke Machine - Networked cola machines at the RIT CS house.
• HitlerCities - The fascist-growing community on the Web!

Hoaxes*

• NetLore - A comprehensive site about hype and hoaxes.
• The AFU & Urban Legends Archive - The alt.folklore.urban archive.
• Snopes - An entertaining list of legends and hoaxes.

Geeky Stuff*

Basic Net Knowledge*

• WWW For The Clueless - A short and basic introduction to the Web.
• Zen and the Art of the Internet - A classic guide to the Internet for newbies.
• RFC 1855 - An etiquette guide for the Internet.
• How to Write Like a Wanker - Sarcastic guide to poor Internet etiquette.
• Country Code Index - A list of top level domains.
• Anonymous FTP FAQ - Ascii/Bin FTP explained - Some information about File-Transfer Protocol.
• Mozilla Command Line Options - Firefox Tips - Hidden Mozilla Preferences - Useful things that can be done with Mozilla's browsers.
• CAUCE - NANAE - Abuse.net - Sam Spade's Library - Spam-fighting organizations and resources.
• Telnet to POP port - See what your email client does behind the scenes.
• Daryl's TCP/IP Primer - An introduction to how the Internet works.
• Digital Certificates and Encryption - The what and why of secure web sites.
• MIME links - All that Content-type stuff.
• Unicode Chart - The Internet's character set.
• IP to Long IP Converter - Translate hostnames into decimal and less-used octal IP addresses.
• Network Time Servers - Where to go to set your computer's clock using NTP.
• Internet FAQ Consortium - FAQs are excellent, FAQs are good, not everybody reads 'em, but everybody should.

Net History*

• The infamous "Green Card lawyers" - Canter and Siegel and the birth of modern spamming.
• The ZumaBot's Tale - An interesting piece of 'net history.
• Good Times Hoax FAQ - Before Microsoft Outlook, you could not get a virus from reading e-mail.
• Al Gore "invented the internet" - Or did he? The facts about the candidate's claim.
• Unisys/CompuServe GIF Controversy - For a long time, it was a patent violation to use the popular GIF format for website images.

Geek Culture*

• The New Hacker's Dictionary - Bookmark this and read it.
• Net Culture Archive - The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Net Culture archive.
• USENIX - The Advanced Computing Association and System Administrator's Guild(SAGE).
• The Hacker Purity Test - I'm "computer illiterate" =(
• The Hacker FAQ - How to care for your hacker.
• The Right To Read - Where our copyright laws might take us.
• The Story of Nadine - The life of a nonexistent e-mail account.
• Attention Fat Bastards! - A short essay on corporate versus net culture.
• Miracles, An epic of Transformation - Or, "Boy, did my jobs suck".
• Anarchism Triumphant - An essay against software copyright.
• Clue Train - All Aboard!
• My Secret Weapon - A CEO better understands modern technology through his childrens' experience.
• Journal Of Applied Misanthropology - Alex Haley versus Nazi Sluts.
• DogCow Answer Page - Moof!
• The great +ORC hunt - The search for a cracker.
• The Principia Discordia - Hail Eris!
• Final Exam - Some thoughtful questions regarding the future of computing.
• CYA for System Administrators - Basic legal advice for sysadmins.
• Negotiating for Nerds - Things to keep in mind when job-seeking.
• Declaration of the Independance of Cyberspace - Written in, uh, Microsoft Word.
• Unix as Literature - Command-line culture.
• Management by In-Flight Magazine - Why PHBs order working systems replaced with non.
• The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists - A look at the evolution of communities.
• You Are Forbidden to Read This - Resale, reading aloud of public domain book forbidden. Mirror
• Characterizing People as Non-Linear, First-Order Components - ... and still delivering software, anyway.
• Admin Horror Stories - rm -rf * .o
• Gloatware - Programs that interfere with your ability to use your computer.
• Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval - Usenet software standards of excellence.
• RFC-Ignorant - Publicly humiliating sites that fail to comply with Internet standards of accountability.
• Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Spam - The first unsolicited mass e-mailing, and current anti-spam solutions.
• Printers too smart for dumb jobs - Modern printers can't.

Web Development*

• NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML - Creating Your First HTML Document - The XHTML Language and Design Sourcebook - HTML 4.0 Reference - Learn XHTML By Learning XML - Guides to learning the language underpinning the Web.
• Web Authoring FAQ - Answers to common Web design novices' questions.
• Differences with HTML 4 - How to convert from older versions of HTML.
• HTML validator - Check a web page for errors.
• How to Read W3C Specifications - Learn to understand the web's standards documents.
• Web Pages That Suck - Morons In Web Space! - Learn how not to design web pages.
• Campaign for a Non Browser Specific WWW - Your web pages should work in any browser.
• The Web Standards Project - Dogma W4 - Good practices for well-structured website design.
• Flash is Evil - Reasons not to implement in Flash what can be done in HMTL.
• Web Reference - WebMonkey - Informative articles for web developers.
• Demoronizer - HTML Tidy - Tools to clean up error-prone program-generated HTML. Tidy is more up to date.
• PNG Tips - Using the superior alternative to the color-limited GIF format.
• DjVu - A lossy file format withe better compression than JPEG.
• IE7 - An Intenet Explorer module/stylesheet which improves IE6's CSS support.
• The HTML Terrorist's Handbook - Evil ways to annoy NS/IE 3.x users. Stale
• Beginning CGI Scripting - How to process input from a Web browser.
• UnCGI - A library for accessing CGI input with a C program.
• WebDAV - HTTP extensions to make managing websites easier.
• XHTML 2 - The future of HTML, not yet implemented in any browser.

Web Server Administration*

• Apache FAQ - A wealth of information about this popular web server.
• Using .htaccess - Comprehensive guide to .htaccess - Using .htaccess - Configure an Apache-based website by directory.
• mod_rewrite - URL Rewriting Guide - A powerful feature of Apache.
• Robot Exclusion Standard - How to keep polite robots from viewing portions of your site.
• Enabling modDAV on Apache - How to configure web site user management with the Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol.
• AWStats - Webalizer - Webserver log analysis packages.
• HT Dig - Free site search engine utility.
• PHP Session Management - How to keep track of your users with PHP/ODBC.

CSS*

• Complete CSS Guide - CSS1 Reference - CSS2 Reference - The mystical incantations of Cascading Style Sheets.
• CSS2 Tests - Abridged Guide to CSS2 Support - CSS2 browser compatibility table.
• CSS Bug Ring - Web developers tracking bugs in browsers' CSS implementations.
• Pure CSS Menus - Create dropdown menus without using Javascript.
• The CSS Anarchist's Handbook - Part 2 - Methods of misusing cascading style sheets.

Javascript/Ecmascript*

• Scripting For The 6.0 Browsers - Basics of Document Object Model.
• ppk's Javascript Section - Solutions to common Javascript problems such as event handling.
• Mission Impossible: Mouse Position - How to detect the mouse position with Javascript
• DOM CSS Interface - How to access CSS styles from Javascript.
• Javascript 2.0 Proposal - ECMAScript 4.0 Proposal - What to expect in the next version of Javascript.

Programming*

• Linux Programming Newbie - Introductory programming texts, with a good list of useful tools.
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code - Then see the alternative.
• Algorithms and Data Structure Implementations - Implementations of common algorithms.
• What I Hate About Your Programming Language - Upsides and downsides of different languages.
• Automatically configuring software to the runtime environment - Code to find the max and min int and float values on any system.
• Hello, World! - 99 Bottles of Beer - Object Orientation - Examples in various languages.
• GUI Toolkits for the X Window System - Overview of GTK, Qt, FOX, FLTK, and WxWindows.
• Writing Cross-Platform Software - Tips on how to do this.
• Computer Language Shootout Scorecard - Benchmarks of language implementation performance.

C*

• Ground Zero Guide to C - Programming in C - Unix System Calls and Subroutines using C - The lingua franca of programming languages.
• Bulletproof Integer Input using strtol() - For newbies: How to input ints from the keyboard.
• Optimization of Computer Programs in C - How to write better-performing code.
• Getting Started with POSIX Threads - Threaded programming tutorial.
• Embedding Python - How to put Python scripting into a C application.
• Gnu C Extensions - The Free Software Foundation's incompatible extensions to the C language.
• Writing Programs with Ncurses - Library for text terminal screen handling.
• Query Object Framework - A query generator.
• Diet Libc - A version of the standard C library optimized for small file size.
• GetOpts - Library for easily handling command-line arguments.

C++*

• C++ Manual - A good reference for C++.
• Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide - An intro to the C++ STL.
• Template Metaprograms - Programs run at compile-time to improve performance.
• Programming with WxWindows - WxDesigner - Guide to and tools for the WxWindows cross-platform GUI library.

Perl*

• Robert's Perl Tutorial - Intro to the popular hackers' language.
• Comprehensive Perl Archive Network - Documentation and modules for doing anything in Perl.
• Perl Monks - Perl tips, tricks, and support.
• GD::Graph - Create chart graphics with Perl.

Other Languages*

• Objective C - Guide to the language commonly used in NEXT and OS X.
• Ruby Programming - Guide to programming in the Ruby language.
• Python Documentation - Instructions for using the popular scripting language.
• Squeak - The Joy of Smalltalk - Introduction to Squeak - A Smalltalk-compatible language.
• Techniques and Algorithms - A few algorithms implemented in Lisp.
• AutoLisp Function List - Reference of functions available to AutoCAD's scripting environment.
• Linux Assembly - Guides to programming in assembly language.
• Assembly Gems - Algorithms in assembly code.
• Random Programming Languages - Insane and downright evil languages.

Databases*

• Comparison of Oracle, MySQL, and Postgress DBMs - Different SQL implementations - Comparison of common top, bottom, and midrange databases.
• Designing a report in Oracle - Examples of Oracle's report formatting syntax.

SQL*

• SQL Standards - Unofficial collection of SQL documentation.
• Database Normalization for the Average Jane and Joe - A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms - Overview of relational database design theory.
• Getting Started with SQL - Part 2 - Introduction to databases.
• SQL Zoo - SQL references and introductory guides.

XML*

• XML Links - XML Fundamentals - Links to information on Extensible Markup Language.
• XML Utilities - Useful tools for building DTDs and schemas from XML files.
• XML Security Library - A programming library to support XML Signature and XML Encryption.

Geographical Information Systems*

• SRAVUG - Sonoma County ArcView/ArcGIS Users' Group
• Grass GIS - Free Geographical Information System software.
• Mapserver - Free web-based internet map server with PHP, Perl, WMS support.
• Free GIS - Site with links to free GIS software.
• Shapelib - Library for accessing ESRI shapefiles and DBF data tables.
• OpenGIS Specifications - The standards for GIS.

Operating systems*

• Review of Operating Systems - There are a lot of them.
• Operating Systems Comparison - More detailed survey of operating systems.
• Unix commands and Netware equivalents - Quick notes for those learning Unix from Netware.

DOS/Windows*

• Windows 95 Downloads - Windows 98 Downloads - Patch your system.
• Windows Annoyances - Awesome Windows site with plenty of tips and tricks.
• Dos 7 Commands - The command line is still the quickest way to get things done.
• Batch File MiniFAQ - Links to several sites with batch programming information.
• Regedit.com - Site with registry hacking info.
• How to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98 - Infoworld article gives detailed directions.
• Peer to Peer Networking Document - Local mirror of Steven Putnam's doc on Win95 file sharing. Mirror
• TVDog's Internet Archive - How to get a DOS box hooked up to the Internet.
• Computing.Net Forums -- Windows9x - A bulletin board for Win9x users.
• Disabling Windows File Protection - Microsoft declares Notepad a vital operating system component.
• $TMPDIR - Get pipes to work in bash.

Unix and Linux*

• How to Pronounce Linux - From the man himself.
• Linux Tutorial - Good tutorial to get familiar with Linux. Read it if you're interested.
• Basic Unix Commands - How to use a shell account.
• The Unix Programming Environment - Welcome to Unix. Here's your accordion.
• Rute - A comprehensive guide to Linux.
• Inside the GNOME 2.6 Desktop - Deep Inside KDE 3.2 - Reviews of the two most advanced Unix desktop environments.
• Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Free Desktop Standards - There is a method to the madness.
• North Bay Linux Users Group - Every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 7:30 PM, O'Reilly building, Sebastapol.
• Unix Rosetta Stone - Differences in common operations.
• Linux From Scratch - Guide for hardcore Linux hackers.
• 100 Good Linux Websites - Sluggy is a Linux site?
• Window Manager Roundup - The different pretty pointyclicky interfaces available for Linux.
• Gnome Administration Guide - Instructions for running Gnome.
• Setting up Samba 3.x - Setting up Linux to serve NetBIOS shares.
• Running Windows Applications on FreeBSD - Using the Wine Windows-compatibility layer on Unix.
• Emacs for vi users - Common Emacs commands, many of which also work from the shell.
• Open Source Desktop Technology Roadmap - The future direction of Unix desktops.
• Using and Customizing Knoppix - A guide to the Knoppix Linux test CD distribution.
• Access Control Lists - Using a more advanced permissions system.
• SELinux Fedora Core 3 FAQ - Using the US National Security Agency's security-enhanced Linux features in Redhat's product.
• Secure Shell Filesystem - Kernel module to mount remote filesystems through SSH.

Linux/Free Software Advocacy*

• The Case for Linux in Universities - Broad overview of the state of Linux in 2002.
• Geeks bet big on Open Source - What people who know the technologies available choose, and why. Gone
• Comparing Windows ME and Linux - ZD: Suse 7 a better desktop system than Windows ME. Gone
• Beyond Windows 98 - SBC: Mandrake 7.2 equal of Windows XP. Mandrake at 8.0 when magazine shipped.
• Windows to Linux Conversion - Reasons and methods of converting.
• Should your business use Linux? - Andrew Grygus's essay.
• The Best Windows File Server: Linux! - ZDNET tests NT against Linux with reverse-engineered Samba.
• Advantages of the Linux Community - More good evangelism from Paul Ferris.
• 1997 Infoworld Award for Best Technical Support in the Computer Industry - Won by the Linux volunteer community.
• Linux in the Enterprise - A collection of accounts of Linux being used for major applications.
• Linux: It's not Microsoft - Linux advocacy by lawyers, for laywers. Gone
• Linux Responds to 911 Call - Emergency-line dispatchers find Windows's frequent crashing unacceptable. Gone
• Firm Takes Linux Route to Computing - Much lower cost a factor. Gone
• Kicking the Windows Habit - Try carrot sticks or lifesavers. Gone
• Making a High School Intranet - One teacher's experience.
• Linux is more popular than sex - Believe it or not...
• The Economics of Open Source and Free Software - Why do people share the source code to their programs? PDF
• Open Source and These United States - Why open source is good for the .mil.
• The Future of Open Source - And IP, and computing in general. Gone
• Two Case Studies of Open Source Development - How open-source development works. PDF
• A Microsoft Guy Tackles Linux - Includes chart of alternative software

BeOS*

• Be Bits - Archive of downloadable BeOS programs.
• The Be Book - Developing for the BeOS environment.
• BeKaffe - Java-like language for BeOS.
• BeWine - Wine and X11 ports for BeOS.

Security*

• Top 75 Security Tools - The most popular security tools.
• Beginning Security - Inoshiro's intro to security: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Know Your Enemy - Several very informative papers on network security.
• Cracked! - It happens to everyone eventually. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Attrition.org Mirror - Mirror of vandalized web sites, with OS statistics. Stale
• German Government recommends immediate actions for a secured Internet - Recommended security measures.
• Security issues of Auto-Upgrades - Are auto-updates a vector for trojans?
• Freenet Development Page - An idea for a free sturdy encrypted network that would be difficult for the government to censor or take down.
• DShield - Site that tracks the most active port-scanning IPs and target ports.
• Securing an Unpatchable Webserver - When the vendor wontfix the program, you have to fix the data.
• Hardening OpenBSD - Removing unneeded services from Unix.

Software*

• Open Office - Freely downloadable alternative to Microsoft or Corel Office.
• Mozilla - Netscape's open-source web browser and e-mail client projects. See the latest bugs.
• GIMP - Windows-native GTK and GIMP - Image editor comparable to Adobe Photoshop.
• Rekall Revealed - A free clone of Microsoft Access.
• AbiWord - A free clone of Microsoft Word.
• Dia - Diagramming and flowchart creation software.
• XNView - A good program for simply viewing images.
• QCad - Free Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software.
• Sodipodi - Vector drawing program.
• X-Chat - A good Internet Relay Chat client.
• Image Magick - Command-line utilities for editing images.
• Bzip - Free, multiplatform, better compression than gzip.
• Amaya - The w3's web browser and HTML editor.
• w3m - A better text-based web browser than Lynx.
• VideoLAN - Free video software for multiple operating systems.
• TightVNC - VNC+xinetd Howto - Free remote connectivity server and client software.
• Celestia - 3D space simulation software.
• Distributed.net - Help with the OGR cracking project.
• Bootdisk.com - Free boot disk images.

Unix Software*

• DummyNet - Bandwidth-throttling software.
• RDesktop - An X Window System based NT Terminal Server client.
• djbdns - A Look at djbdns - Setup Guide - Alternative to BIND, with security guarantee.
• Lyx - Lyx Tips - Program for producing professionally formatted documents.
• SED FAQ - FAQ about the powerful non-interactive text editor.
• xpdf - Extremely fast reader for Adobe PDF documents.
• GnuCash - Financial software for Gnome.
• Anjuta - An IDE for Unix.

DOS/Windows Software*

• Kernel Toys - Power Toys - Useful Win9x utilities such as WinTop and TweakUI.
• WinZip - A good archive extraction utility.
• K-Meleon - Small, fast web browser based on Gecko engine.
• Pegasus - Eudora - The Bat - Free e-mail clients.
• MINGW and MingSys - GNUWin32 - Native Win32 ports of GNU toolset and libraries.
• Dev-C++ - A free IDE for Windows.
• PuTTY - A free secure shell client for Windows, with SCP addon.
• iXplorer - WinSCP - SCP frontends. Don't use FTP to upload files!
• SiSoft Sandra - A very good diagnostic program. Find out everything about your system.
• Pirch - A nice Internet Relay Chatclient.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader - Portable Document Format, equally unsupported on any system.
• Zone Alarm - Firewall software for Windows. Can make Win9x unstable.
• GnuWin2 - The Open CD - Open-source programs for Windows.

Unclassified Geeky Stuff*

• Live Journal - Keep a diary.
• Full ZX-81 Chess in 1K - A complete chess program in 672 bytes.
• Enabling High Performance Data Transfers - Quite technical.
• trigjava - Learn about sines, cosines, and tangents. Java
• Euclid's Elements - The fundamentals of geometry.
• Periodic Table of the Elements - Pictorial Periodic Table - The stuff that makes up stuff.
• Unicode Test Page - Does your browser support it?
• RAID.edu - Intro to different RAID levels.
• Dinosauricon - An encyclopedia of dinosaurs and the Mesozoic time period.
• No Cat Network - A local wireless cooperative and links to 802.11b info.
• Ping Graphs - See how healthy PacBell's DSL service is.
• Data from Old Domain Surveys - What it says. Old host tables are neat.
• ResExcellence - An archive of OS X tips.
• Secure Mac - A Macintosh security site.
• Unix Hardware Buyer HOWTO - A large guide of things to keep in mind when buying a computer.
• Wotsit - Information on computer file formats.
• Phrack Magazine - Classic computer security magazine.
• OpenNIC - A new Top Level Domain name server. Another one.
• How Sword Making Works - The manufacture of pointy things.
• Getting Started with LDAP - LDAP Roadmap - Introduction to directory services.
• Reiser4 - Concept document for next generation file system.
• x2 - Archive of technical documents.
• Etherkiller - Devices to fry networking equipment.
• Mesopotamian Mathematics - How math was done in ancient times.
• HAKMEM - What's Special About This Number? - Lots of interesting mathematical stuff.
• LART - A low-powered computer.
• Configuring VTP and Virtual LANs - A guide to VLANs and VLAN Trunk Protocol.
• Management of Internet Names and Addresses - Copies of NSI's agreements with the Department of Commerce.
• YAML Reference Card - Hint sheet for Yet Another Markup Language, an alternative to XML.

Informative Links*

• Everything 2 - Wikipedia - User-contributed encyclopedias.
• Online Etymology Dictionary - Learn how words attained their meaning.
• CIA World Factbook 2001 - Country Study Guide - Political and geographical information about the world's countries.
• Historical Atlas of the 20th Century - Maps and information on the last century's governments and major events.
• The Elements of Style - William Strunk's guide to the written English language.
• Evaluation of information sources - Logical Fallacies - Propaganda Critic - Upgrade your bullshit detector.
• The McDonald's Case - As usual, the media lied.
• Student Press Law Center - Got a school newspaper?
• ASCII Chart - A chart of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
• Today's Date and Time - Next time someone asks what time it is...
• Nikola Tesla - An article about some of the scientist's inventions.
• SSN Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ about Social Security Numbers.
• TEXTFILES - An archive of text files.
• Internet Wiretap - An E-text archive.
• Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter - See whether your OS Sucks or Rules.
• Mike's at the Yard - Where to find the best hamburgers in Sonoma County.
• Haze Grey and Underway - A great site about modern naval history.
• The Reluctant Gourmet - Cooking site for beginners, with recipies such as "Mashed Potatoes"
• Recent Earthquakes in California - See if you should begin looking into beachfront property in Nevada.
• Universal Currency Converter - Planet-wide, at least. Currency exchange calculator.
• A Questionairre - Sci-fi author asks about fundamentals of philosophy.
• Flags of the World - History about various nations' flags.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - An index of ancient mythology.
• Readability Test - Calculate Gunning-Fog readability scores for a web page.

History*

• The War Scholar - A timeline of all wars in recorded human history.
• Political Maps of Europe - Maps of historical national boundaries.
• Early British Kingdoms - History of Britain in the first millenium AD.
• Articles on Ancient History - A collection of articles on ancient Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia, and other classical Western nations.
• The History Net - Old war stories.
• Evolution of Alphabets - History of western languages.
• De Imperatoribus Romanis - Histories of the Roman emperors.
• Textkit - Guides to learning ancient Greek and Latin.

Information Regarding Microsoft*

• Antitrust in the Internet Age - Prof. Felton's links to information about the 3 U.S. vs. Microsoft trials.
• June 6 Letter - Microsoft demands Compaq support MSN and IE or lose license to sell Windows. Mirror
• Microsoft plans Stealth Blitz to Mend Its Image - Local mirror of the Astroturf report. Mirror
• Microsoft lobbying campaign backfires - Microsoft caught sending faked grassroots letters again.
• Microsoft calls video demo a "simulation" - Faked video introduced as evidence in trial. Mirror
• Examining the Windows AARD Detection Code - How Microsoft screwed DR-DOS.
• He Who Controls the Bootloader - How Microsoft prevented Be from being able to give away their OS for free.
• Microsoft Hall of Innovation - Microsoft claims many technologies as their own, but is it really their idea? Stale
• Microsoft Knew About, Ignored Problem - MS ignored bug limiting W2k to 51 clients.
• Overseas Invasion - The Business Software Alliance forces unlicensed software users into MS-only solutions.
• Halloween - MS lays plans to attack hobbyists by destroying the Internet's established standards.
• Microsoft Pays $200 For Mentioning Its Tools - Bribes paid to educators who promote Microsoft.
• Who Are You Gonna Sue Today? - Not Microsoft.
• Toshiba/Microsoft Saga - How the "Refund Day" craziness got started.
• Novell Advantage over W2k - Novell tires of MS's FUD and lies, responds with some of its own.
• Obligatory Microsoft Article - Simon Cozens puts it simply: It's all about the standards.
• Dirty Tricks - The Blue Mountain story is an excellent example of Microsoft's product leveraging.
• Windows 2000: Blueprint for Domination - Methods that Microsoft is using to leverage Windows 2000. PDF
• Why You Might Decide To Run Away From W2K - "The new OS carries a hefty price."
• Common Sense about Windows 2000 - A more balanced article. Consider pros, cons, alternatives.
• Microsoft: A Proven Danger to National Security - Richard Forno's hostile essay. PDF
• Bill Gates: No bugs in MS Software - Portion of infamous interview with Juergen Scriba.
• Microsoft leans on political levers - Article about MS's PR department.
• From MSWord to MSWorld - How Microsoft came to dominance, and predictions for the future.
• W2K at Center of Security Storm - Microsoft tries to break Kerberos, Biometrics API.
• Microsoft Licensing Confuses Consumers - MS charges some customers twice for one copy of Windows.
• The Dweebspeak Primer: Moody - A piece attacking columnist Fred Moody's pro-Microsoft positions.
• Microsoft Lacks Motivation To Change Security - Being a monopoly, why fix?
• MSN Turns Users Into Spammers - Ads covertly attached to outgoing change of address notices.
• Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and Desist - Competitor says their products are better, Microsoft threatens to sue.
• The Microsoft Method of Reducing TCO - 23 AS/400 servers vs. 1200 NT and a year of labor before giving up.
• Microsoft limits users' unlimited free support - Read the contract to see what you're buying.
• Microsoft Patents ASF Format - VirtualDub forced to remove support.
• Active Directory Fix to Require Significant Upgrade - Microsoft won't release bugfix to W2k customers.
• Can Your Palm Do That? - Yes. Can your WinCE device? No. MS claims opposite in ads.
• Nifty Prizes from Microsoft - Computer makers asked to send MS any orders requesting systems without Windows.
• Smart Tags - IE to add links to other peoples' web content, directing users to Microsoft's properties.
• Microsoft-AOL talks end - MS demanded AOL drop support of competitor Real's multimedia format.
• Silenced By Microsoft? - Popular Infoworld columnist wonders why he was fired shortly after speaking out againt Microsoft.
• The Scoble Story - Weblogger stops updating his site after predicting Linux/Mac .NET ports.
• WSJ on Windows Activation - Logic bomb shuts down XP after 30 days if you don't register with Microsoft.
• MS/Intel Exclusion - MS makes deal to not support AMD's 3dx technology in exchange for Intel not supporting Java.
• A Punitive Puppeteer - FrontPage 2002 license forbids making a site that disparages MS or its partners.
• Microsoft Disseminates False Statements About Novell - Fallacious ads sent to Novell customers. Mirror
• Open source advocate gets telling off - Microsoft contacts employers of persons who publicly support its competition.
• Microsoft Timeline - History of the Microsoft case back to 1990.
• Pathetic Witnesses - Microsoft's witnesses openly admit to illegal business practices.
• Microsoft Make-up - Microsoft Insider publishes false story about Mac user switching to Windows.
• What makes IE so fast? - Microsoft breaks TCP standards to keep IE/IIS connections open.

Microsoft: Not the Best*

• Netcraft Web Server Survey - What's the most popular web server? Not IIS by a long shot.
• Internet Operating System Counter - What's the most popular server OS? Not NT. Stale
• Defacements by OS - Microsoft sites defaced far more often than would be inferred from market share. Stale
• Linux vs NT as Web Server - c't tests show IIS good at serving static pages, poor at dynamic content. Stale
• How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop - Do you have to be drunk to run Windows?
• Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus Unix - A blasting report on NT's failings.
• Web server availability - From c't: NT has twice the downtime of more established server OSes.
• How do Linux and NT compare in real life? - Bloor Research runs both systems side by side for a year.
• Linux 2.0, Linux 2.2, and Windows NT4 TCP stack evaluations - What it says.
• Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water - Could give new meaning to "mission critical".
• Nuke Software - MS SQL Server 6.5 drops Russian nuclear tracking records.
• Robust Windows? - Some highly visible examples of Windows's stability in production environments.
• Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server - Lucent(nee AT&T Bell Labs)'s howto.
• Close the Windows on Virus-Prone Outlook - The single greatest security hole on most corporate networks. Mirror
• Remember Ed Curry - Nerd martyr refused to lie about NT's security certification.
• The Right Tool for the Right Job - NT admin rants about it.
• Pentagon Cracks Down on PowerPoint - Bloated Office documents clog DoD networks.
• Word Documents - Reasons to avoid sending documents in Microsoft Word format.
• Just Say No to Microsoft - The Alternative - Analogs of Windows software in Linux - Alternatives to Microsoft and Windows-only software.

Unconventional Information*

• Waco Holocaust Electronic Museum - A case that evidence was destroyed or covered up after Waco.
• Disinformation - All sorts of odd stuff.
• Groom Lake - How this officially nonexistant U.S. Air Force base has changed over 30 years.
• Seperatist, Paramilitary, Military, Intelligence, and Aid Organizations - Websites of undesirables.
• European Commission Report - European Commission declares that Echelon does exist.
• The Technologies of Political Control - Description of surveillance technologies.
• Culture, Communication, and Control - "Why is the NSA spying on Amnesty and Christian Aid?"

People*

People I know*

• Zip's World - Asst. Sysop of Physics BBS.
• Elvine - Keebler's homepage.
• Mussolini's HomePage - Another friend of mine. Too bad Phiefer disbanded.
• Patrick Stewart's Neck of the Woods - IRC friend, and an even bigger Hell Fighter nut than me.
• Priomh - IRC friend Primis's personal weblog.
• Between A Rock and A Hard Place - IRC friend J-Rock's weblog.
• Error - Jake's page.

People I don't know*

• Alan Cox - Programmer's diary.
• Thor's Page of Recalcitrancy - Gamer's page, funny videogame lookalikes section.
• Douglas Winslow - A cool hacker with a great sense of humour.
• WonkoSlice - Geek's blog.
• John C. Dvorak's Universal Home Page and Personal Portal - Tech columnist's page.
• Maddox - "The best page in the universe." Sarcastic and hilarious.
• Pharyngula - Biologist's blog.