MoCA: Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Bad Beijing architecture. Drawings by second graders of the human body. A huge collection of Photoshop tutorials. The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings. Stephen Downes’s Index of Logical Fallacies. Kevin Sherry’s Sweater Project. Jason Patient’s cycling images. Edward Tufte’s argument against PowerPoint presented as a PowerPoint presentation.
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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.
QuickBooks User Community at quickbooksusers.com. QuickBooks FAQs at compasspoint.org. QuickBooks User Forum at network54.com. Keystroke shortcuts for QuickBooks. Intelinfo.com’s Best Free QuickBooks Training Materials. alt.comp.software.financial.quickbooks and biz.comp.accounting on Google Groups. QuickBooks forum at Yahoo! Finance.
Bootdisk.com has boot disks for the various versions of DOS and Windows. The World of Windows Networking, Homenethelp.com, PracticallyNetworked.com, and networking at Annoyances.org. Portable Firefox for Windows.
A FAQ on linking databases to Openoffice.org, another FAQ with answers about specific databases, and links to external resources addressing these issues, all at dba.openoffice.org. OpenOffice, ODBC, and MySQL HowTo (PDF). Using Microsoft Access databases in OpenOffice.org. Rick Morris asks “are there any good reasons to choose PostgreSQL over MySQL?” and answers “yes.” Buy Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez. MySQL Gotchas and Why Not MySQL? Yet another PostgreSQL vs. MySQL review. How to relate tables and databases with MySQL using phpMyAdmin. phpMyEdit — a phpMyAdmin alternative? The MySQL Manual.
“Exploring the Java Archive (JAR) Format” by Kulvir Bhogal. A terse Samba tutorial. Debian’s Apt How-To. Extant Gopher servers at Floodgap.com and Quux.org. Bash programming guides at arachnoid.com and Rutgers University. Furl, an online “filing cabinet” for saved webpages. Ad-blocking host files and advice about curbing ads and spyware under Windows. A big collection of links to online computer books at Ju Rao’s homepage.
Jukka Korpela on footnotes and endnotes in webpages. You can use OpenOffice.org, which records linked notes in its HTML-editing mode just fine. Don’t forget to count the words in footnotes.
The fundamental differences between the Winworld and the Nixworld. A page that explains, in a roundabout way, how to set up the appropriate relationships between /var/www/users and /home. Meanwhile, Apache virtual host documentation. comp.os.linux.misc on Google Groups. A serial laplink howto. IBM’s Windows-to-Linux overview pages. A guide to Linux groups on Usenet.
The beginnings of wiki.linuxquestions.org.
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A script that allows the Knoppix CD to achieve LAMP with a MySQL database stored on a USB stick. A package that allows the CD to access a bundled copy of phpMyAdmin and a test PHP website. A Knoppix Samba FAQ. Using update-rc.d to add services on boot (this is also useful). Use /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh to start the odd hardware driver or other processes. A script and a package list that are both helpful for apt-get-removing clutter from a hard-disk installation of Knoppix. Three knoppix.net discussions (one, two, three) on sorting out problems with mounting removable media. Godot’s Debian/Knoppix page. Klik installs key software to Persistent Home. Apt-get and dpkg tutorial and links. Configuring /etc/apt/sources.list using any number of mirror sites.
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The Text Encoding Initiative: “TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.” Jeffrey Veen on accessible design, with links to examples. Position Is Everything: a CSS site with an emphasis on designing around browser quirks (good links, too). CSS column layouts compatible with Netscape 4.x (and more here, too). How to use CSS to make line spacing consistent when using superscript and subscript characters. Design Detector pulls an extreme CSS stunt.
A Vim regular expressions tutorial. One hundred and one reasons to like Vim. On using macros in Vim. Steve Oualline’s Vim Cookbook. comp.editors, a Vi-dominated newsgroup.