July 2004

Computing

/ Computing

File managers for X: X File Explorer and Emelfm2. Xwinman.org compares X window managers and desktops, including Icewm, which is also discussed at Osnews.com. Network security information at Insecure.org, including a list of the top 75 network security tools Wireless network detection information at Netstumbler.com. Kismet, a wireless network sniffer. Graham Williams’s Debian Desktop Survival Guide. Optimize Windows XP in various ways. A Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess. The Vim Outliner. Dotfiles.com. PHPBuilder.com for PHP things. MPlayer plays movies in many formats for Windows and Linux computers. .htaccess tips and tricks. How to read e-mail headers. Donovan Rebbechi’s grep tutorial. Grep for Windows. SQL syntax reference at the home of the Mckoi Java SQL Database. Unix Tips and Tricks. Vim cheatsheet. Edi Weitz’s Regex Coach. Gord Braun’sWindows XP repair page. Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables. O’Reilly’s Unix Power Tools online. GNU Screen resources. How to bypass Internet firewall restrictions. David Rayner’s Vim Tips. Basic tips for administering a MySQL server.

Election

/ John Kerry, Politics, Social Sciences

Electoral-vote.com tallies state-level polls as they are released and maps them. You can move through the reports and watch states turn pink and baby blue. The New York Times 2004 Election Guide is an interactive map of the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial races. Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth. The presidential election at pollingreport.com. Systematic Bias by Polling Organisation, as measured at goringe.net. Electoral College Meta-Analysis by Sam Wang. A manipulable electoral college map. Larry Sabato’s election website. Stephen Lorimor’s election website. Dale’s Electoral College Breakdown 2004.

Bush’s “hometown” newspaper endorses Kerry. Re: elections, Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem on Wikipedia. Electionmethods.org. Republicans know less about what Bush stands for than Democrats know about what Kerry stands for. More electoral college forecasts: Pollkatz’s Electoral Landscape, RealClear Politics, and
Rasmussen Reports’s Red Blue Chart. A BBC international presidential preference poll. The Election Incident Reporting System’s map of nationwide election incidents.