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Jax RCFB Miscellaneous Links

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Unique

• ASCII Art from the sublime to the ridiculous to the really awful.
  
• Charles Babbage Institute of the University of Minnesota
• Computer History Museum
• Union Mundial pro Interlingua, Interlingua being a proposed international (really European and American) spoken language.
  
• ISO-3166-1 Code List has all the two-letter country codes used on the Internet.
• Lexilogos is one of  the polyglot's dream sites.
  
• Math Forum at Drexel University has just about everything you need in basic math, for those of us who learned it and forgot it!
  
• Open Research attempts to do for academia what open source did for software.
• Perpetual Calendar Toke Nørby tells more than you knew there is to know about the Julian, Gregorian, and other calendars.
• Project Gutenberg is "the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet" in an attempt to put as many as possible of the world's literary classics online.
• Unicode -- The world now has one alphabet.
  • Quick Primer On Unicode and Software Internationalization Under Linux and UNIX
  • W3 Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS (DRAFT)
    
• United States Constitution

Computer Languages

• ADA Reference Manual
  • GtkAda is an open source Ada graphical toolkit.
• AMIGA Assembler WWW Page
• C++ Draft Standard
• Computer Languages by Chris Browne is full of info on all sorts of languages.
• Computer Programming Languages is a fabulous resource, a subtree of the Open Directory Project .
• CVS the Concurrent Versions System is the home site of that indispensible software development tool.
  • CVS Bubbles includes the CVS FAQ-O-Matic.
  • CVSSearch is open source software which lets you search CVS for code fragments using CVS comments.
  • DevGuy has plenty of advice about CVS!
    
  • Open Source Development with CVS is a good book about using CVS on projects.
  • WinCvs.org offers graphical user interfaces for CVS.
  • cvs2cl is a Perl script which generates neat change logs from CVS log messages.
    
• CWEB System of Structured Documention by Prof. Donald Knuth
• Cygwin is a Unix environment running on top of Windows. Cygwin comes complete with the XWindows System.
  
• Haskell "is a general purpose, purely functional programming language. Haskell compilers are freely available for almost any computer."
• HTML 4.0 Reference
• HTML guide
• HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview
  
• Jam is a Make replacement.
• Lisp
• The Operating Systems Handbook gives you working knowledge of Unix, OpenVMS, OS/400, VM and MVS. Formerly in print, now a series of freely downloadable PDF's. Great! Recommended!
• Perl
• Python
• Regular Expressions
• Ruby , an object-oriented scripting language from Japan.
• SGMLS is the SGML parser used by many tools and for some reason isn't well referenced on the Net, hence this link.
• SNOBOL the ancient string language by Griswold is still around!
• FluffyCat SQL Reference
  • FluffyCat also has other language references, JavaScript, Cobol II, etc.
• SubVersion is the new configuration management tool slowly edging out the venerable CVS.
• Tcl/Tk Resources , lots of 'em.

• See also our RCFB pages about:

• CORBA
• C++
• Forth
• Java
• Prolog
• Rexx
• XML

Interesting Stuff

• ADSL French programmer's site.
• ANT is a Java-based next-generation replacement for the 'make' utility.
• Henry Baker 's Archive of Research Papers has many interesting comp-sci papers by various authors.
• Base 64 Encoding Algorithm used by Mime and others.
• Beej's Guides include guides to various aspects of programming, such as:
  • Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  • Beej's Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication
• Big Nose Bird has HTTP/SSI/CGI tricks and techniques
  
• Boycott Microsoft Page
• Ralf Brown 's Files has a great x86 interrupt list and other low-level PC programming stuff.
• ChipDir.org lets you search worldwide for that silicon component you're looking for.
• CoSource puts together proposals and funding committments for open source software projects.
• Crucial Technology has helpful pages to find memory types for various machines.
• CXX2HTML generates HTML docs from C++ code.
• DataSheet Archive has a huge (>5*10^6) silicon components (CPU, chip, etc.) datasheet collection in PDF format.
  
• DaVinci World home site of Royal's DaVinci hand-held computer .
• Devil's IT Dictionary is a Bierce-like or Kelly-Bootle-like satire of modern IT. Some great links, too!
  
• Esoteric Programming Languages Ring
• Diana Mertz Hsieh's Definitions of Logical Fallacies
  
• Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
• FourmiLab is Autodesk founder Jack Walker's site. Interesting stuff on a wide range of sci/comp-sci.
• Wotsit's Format has info and tools regarding hundreds of file formats for word processing, palmtops, spreadsheets ...
• Sharky's Netscape Frames Tutorial is a friendly, five-lesson tutorial in frames programming.
• ICQ Registration & Java Client
  • GAIM is a nice ICQ client.
    
• The IEEE Computer Society
  • ParaScope, a listing of parallel computing sites.
• Prof. Jose Emilio Labra Gayo maintains two pages of interesting links:
  • Advanced Programming Languages
  • Logic for Computer Science
• GLOBAL is a powerful source-browsing system that can generate HTML from C/C++ source.
• Midnight Commander is a two-panel text-mode file browser and F-key driven command environment which I find useful.
  
• Monty Kamath's Goodstart is a great site about the programming language Smalltalk.
• New Hacker's Dictionary is both historically informative and hysterically funny!
• Hobbiton points you to secure Telnet-SSH for Win32.
• A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator
• IBM Developer Works and AlphaWorks are the main pages for tons of open-source software, as well tools and tutorials.
• Idiom's Catalog of Free Compilers is not complete, but is pretty good.
• LEO - Link Everything Online where "everything" includes quite a bit of free software.
• Numerical Recipes Books On-Line presents the two classics, Numerical Recipes in Fortran and Numerical Recipes in C.
• OpenCores is open source licensed hardware designs.
• Open P2P is an O'Reilly -sponsored exploration of modern Peer-to-Peer computing.
• Open Source Institute is Eric S. Raymond's &al.'s site supporting the concept of open source software.
• Operating Systems focusses on, you guessed it, all kinds of operating systems.
• The OS Ring takes you to sites focussing on the creation and development of operating systems.
• Pascal's Programming Site has assembly-oriented tools for writing your own protected mode x86 OS.
• Pen Computing Magazine
• PFE Programmer's Editor
• PLM2C PL/M to C Translator
• Quine Page is about self-reproducing programs.
• RFC Database Search to locate any Request For Comment (effectively, international standards).
  • RFC2795 is the Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS). You need to read this now :-)
• Spread is a reasonably-open-source cross-platform message bus.
  
• Standard for Robot Exclusion is about Web 'bots, not physical world automatons.
• Active Media Robotics has robots for your home.
• SGML Tools Lite is free software for handling Structured Generalized Markup Language documents & source.
• SNMP & CMIP Introduction
• San Diego Supercomputing Center
• W. Richard Stevens Home Page is the site maintained posthumously for the noted Unix and TCP/IP author.
• Tidy is a neat HTML/XHTML reformatter.
• Tucows is a shareware downloading site. I'd normally ignore this sort of thing, but they have good Windows data recovery utilities.
• The Twelve Networking Truths is a pseudo-RFC which presents witty "laws" of networking.
• U.S. Internet Council makes recommendations on 'net policy to state legislators.
• Valid HTML 4.01
• Video Terminal and Emulator Information is a great resource for those weird terminals you don't know anything about!
• Vintage Computer Festival
  • Jim's Computer Garage
• VMWare Virtual Platform allows multiple virtual operating systems running simultaneously on your PC.
• Web Robots Pages
• X2 Programmer's Editor is one of the greatest keystroke-interface-only editors.

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