loh - resources

Links to various stuff, migrated from other places as I get time.

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• #Computing
• #Gadgets
• ./Hardware [2001-04-09]
• ./Linux
• #Open Source Software (OSS)
• #Reference Sites - acronyms, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
• ./Software [2001-09-01]
• #Standards and Organizations
• ./Vendors [2001-09-01]

Computing

• file types (extensions):
  • The Programmer's File Format Collection
  • type list (at whatis.com);
  • type search (at kresch.com)
• Security
  • CERT Coordination Center (CERT Bulletin)
  • SANS Institute (unisog, various other lists)
  • SecurityFocus (bugtraq, incidents)
• Trojan/Virus/Worm Info (this list is unverified, just copied from msg on Incidents list)
  • http://www.avien.org/
  • http://www.antivirus.com/
  • http://securityportal.com/virus/trojans.html
  • http://www.vmyths.com/
  • http://www.secadministrator.com/panda/
  • http://www.wildlist.org/WildList/
  • http://www.viruslist.com/eng/default.asp
  • http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/
  • http://vil.mcafee.com/default.asp
  • http://www.sophos.com/
  • http://www.dslreports.com/forum/security,1
• VMS (OpenVMS): some of my VMS stuff
• Web: bookmarklets
• Windows: Hungarian Notation

Gadgets

• SmartHome
• ThinkGeek

Forums, Magazines, Newspapers, Sites, ...

• Computing: C/C++ Users Journal - Information Week - Network Computing - Network World Fusion - Slashdot - Software Magazine - Sys Admin
• Humor: Annals of Improbable Research - Entropy Gradient Reversals - This Is True - Top 5 List
• News: CNN - myCNN - New York Times
• Science: Science Week - Scientific American

Open Source Information

See Categories of Free and Non-Free Software, which is "... a glossary of various categories of software that are often mentioned in discussions of free software. It explains which categories overlap or are part of other categories." There is also a nice diagram.

"The basic idea behind open source is very simple. When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing." -- from the Open Source Initiative

• GNU Project
• Open Source Development Network
• Open Source Initiative
• Open Source Writers Group

Reference Sites

• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Almanacs, Atlases, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, ...
  • Bartleby - American Heritage Dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, much more
  • Cambridge Dictionaries - Cambridge University Press
  • Encarta (MSN) - atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia
  • Infoplease - almanacs, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia
  • Merriam-Webster - dictionary, thesaurus
  • Wikipedia - fascinating user-maintained encyclopedia project; see my Wikipedia and Nupedia

Standards and Organizations

• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Open Group (about standards, not open source)
• POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface
• SAGE - System Administrators Guild
• SANS Institute - Systems Administration, Networking, and Security
• Single UNIX Specification
• USENIX - the Advanced Computing Systems Association
• X Window System

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