Maxima is a cool symbolic algebra system based on software which has been around since the 1960s and which has been continuously updated since. Available under the GPL, it has survived even the death of the maintainer. Very cool, if math is one’s thing. And neat no matter what.
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MIT have put online the entire text of How to Design Programs, an excellent guide to software design.
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MIT have put online the entire text of How to Design Programs, an excellent guide to software design.
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dillo is a small but capable web browser written against gtk+ (and hence running on Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/&c.). It’s pretty basic, but I kinda like it. Among its advantages is the fact that it can run on a handheld such as an iPaq (the binary is but 350K). One has to give the fellow behind it a lot of credit. He’s looking for funding, so if you’ve a few extra bucks, forward them his way.
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dillo is a small but capable web browser written against gtk+ (and hence running on Linux/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/&c.). It’s pretty basic, but I kinda like it. Among its advantages is the fact that it can run on a handheld such as an iPaq (the binary is but 350K). One has to give the fellow behind it a lot of credit. He’s looking for funding, so if you’ve a few extra bucks, forward them his way.
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freebooks.by.ru has a plethora of technical books available online, free of charge. Very nice indeed.
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freebooks.by.ru has a plethora of technical books available online, free of charge. Very nice indeed.
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Mark Pilgrim realises that free software is useful software. He had been blogging with Movable Type, which is proprietary but was free enough: a new version came out, the pricing got restrictive and he was stuck. But then he discovered WordPress, which is and always will be free.
2 February 2018: update link
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Mark Pilgrim realises that free software is useful software. He had been blogging with Movable Type, which is proprietary but was free enough: a new version came out, the pricing got restrictive and he was stuck. But then he discovered WordPress, which is and always will be free.
2 February 2018: update link
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Ever been concerned about what life without the Internet might be like? Never fear — an Internet-less existence survival guide is here.
4 February 2018: updated URL
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Ever been concerned about what life without the Internet might be like? Never fear — an Internet-less existence survival guide is here.
4 February 2018: updated URL
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RFCs (Requests for Comments) are the working standards of the Internet; while a very few are eventually promoted to official Internet Standards, most never do, and yet are no less important for that. Some are superseded; some obsoleted; but most are still in effect.
RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (dating back to 1995) is one such RFC. It’s an important document, and should be read by all newbies.
Its guidelines are not mandatory in letter but rather in spirit (e.
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