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Links

If you want to leave my site, you can visit some other sites that I find interesting. Exits are clearly labeled.

Sites I Frequent

Here are some sites I frequent.

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters.
ticalc.org, news and files (programs/games) for Texas Instruments graphing calculators.
ti-news, another news and file archive site for TI calcs.
CalcGames.org, file archive and news site for TI calcs.
Homestarrunner.net. It's dot com!
Google. Gee, I wonder what this is. :)
Yahoo! Mail. They're pretty good, I guess (1GB storage, decent web client, etc). Much better than Juno (they were good for dial-up, but they've really gone downhill recently).

Computer stuff

Here are some sites about computers, both big and small, new and old.

Regular

Mozilla.org, where you can download the über-1337 Firefox web browser.
GNU Operating System and the Free Software Foundation. This is where the Free Software movement started (not at this web site, as the WWW was not around in the early 80's, but you should've figured that out).
Knoppix (official Web site in English), a distribution of GNU/Linux that runs directly from CD (don't need to install it!). I've been running Knoppix 3.4 for over 82 consecutive days without any major problem (the kinds you expect to have with Windows).
FreeSBIE, a LiveCD based on FreeBSD. This is very similar to Knoppix (above), but it's FreeBSD instead of GNU/Linux. Basically, they're both *nix LiveCDs.
BSD Unix. The three major branches of BSD are FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. All three are very secure, high-performance, portable, and scalable, but the development groups for each tend to favour one or more strength over the others.
- FreeBSD focuses on performance and features. This probably would be a good choice for a desktop or other personal system, as are many distributions of GNU/Linux.
- NetBSD focuses on code cleanness and portability. As such, NetBSD runs on more platforms than the other two major BSD variants (good for embedded devices, for example). I have an old Sun Ultra 2 computer that I got for free from my Linux instructor at school, and I'll probably put NetBSD or FreeBSD on it.
- OpenBSD focuses heavily on security. From the homepage, "Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 10 years!". This is good for Internet-accessible servers where strong security is important.
Mambo, a free¹ software content management system. Looks very impressive from the live demo.
NEdit, very good and very free text editor for systems with an X11 Window server (even Cygwin).
X.Org, home to the X.Org Foundation and a good, free X server by the same name (without the "Foundation" part, of course).
Cygwin, allows some *nix software to run under Windows. I have Cygwin with the X server installed on my 256MB flash drive (which I've named "Gordon" :-D). This allows me to run X on school computers so I can run X applications from my home computer and display them at school. Spiffy.
ReactOS, free operating system designed to be compatible with Windows® applications and drivers (at the binary level).
Wine, yet another escape path from Microsoft Windows. Wine allows many *dows programs to run on a *nix system running on x86.
DOSEMU, a good DOS emulator. I've run Su-27 Flanker, Apache Longbow, Flight Unlimited, QBasic, and Cadkey (a CAD program) in DOSEMU. All of the programs run smoothly, even at full screen (or other window sizes which it allows, unlike WinDOS). Unlike Windows 98, it can run Apache, and unlike XP, it can run Cadkey. I give it two and half thumbs up.
Bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project. This emulates a PC with the x86 processor. I've successfully run Knoppix and FreeSBIE on it.

Z80

z88dk, Z88 development kit. C compiler for Z80-based computers (including TI-82, TI-83, TI-83+, TI-85, and TI-86). How cool is that??
UZIX, UNIX implementation for MSX, the best Z80-based computer ever made.
Z80 Bits. This is a collection of "magic" Z80 routines.

Small/Old

RTEMS, the Real-Time Operating System for Multiprocessor Systems. Cool stuff.
iPic, a complete web server on a match head-sized PIC (just add another match head-sized EEPROM IC for a filesystem). Wow.
"Contiki is an open-source, highly portable, networked, multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained embedded systems." It runs on the Commodore 64, Atari, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Entertainment System, VIC 20, Apple ][, Tandy CoCo, and a few other computers and embedded systems.
The Unix Heritage Society, where you can download several versions of historic Unix (1970's through the 1990's). You can download the source of V3, V4, V5, V6, V7, 1BSD, 2.xBSD, and various other versions by different people. They're not very useful (unless you happen to have a PDP or VAX just lying around), but they're good to learn how Unix works inside. V6 is probably a good place to start for reading the source, because it's commented better than V5 (which has very few comments), and it's still less than 10,000 lines overall, almost half of which is in the device drivers.
ZSock and uIP, TCP/IP stacks for 8-bit computers.
LUnix, not Linux. This runs on Commodore 64's and 128's. Awesome.
Microprocessor instruction set cards

TI graphing calculators

Web stuff

Any Browser Campaign, promoting cross-browser compatibility through standards.
World Wide Web Consortium, developers of standards and other stuff like that for the Web "to lead the Web to its full potential".
The W3C Markup Validation Service. This is a very useful site to validate the HTML in Web pages.
TinyURL, where tiny is better! Free service that lets one shorten a long URL into a tiny one, such as http://tinyurl.com/161, which redirects to http://www.google.com/ (in this example, the "tiny" URL is as long as the original :) ).
HugeURL, just like TinyURL, except it gives huge URL's instead of tiny URL's.

Music

Here are some music sites. I listen to some of these streams fairly regularly.

KBAQ 89.5 FM - Your Classical Companion. This is a classical music station I listen to in my car and on my computer. They stream on the web.
WCPE, another classical station. You can listen to the station worldwide, such as online.
The Cowbell Project. Got Cowbell?
Magnatune. Good music. Free downloads. 'Nuf said. (I really like Bach Violin Concertos, by Lara St John.)
Minnesota Public Radio. They have a stream, but I don't know where a link to that is on the page.

Misc.

Here are some miscellaneous sites that don't fit in any other category.

The Internet Movie Database. Good site to find a plethora of information about movies and actors.
Project Gutenberg. Lots of free e-books to download—about 1/2 million free books as of this writing.

Footnotes

1. The "free" in "free software" means freedom, not zero cost. See this page on the Free Software Foundation web site for more information regarding free software.