The Mandatory Dead Links Page
Welcome to the typical links section of any home page. The mandatory dead links page. Here is where we let our imagination fly and come up with fake URLs to things that maybe one day made any sense, but now only give back a 404 not found.
Now seriously, if you do find a 404 not found or an otherwise dead link somewhere, let me know and I'll fix it. If you speak Spanish, you might want to go see the Links in Spanish
I last added links to my bookmarks on: Mar 7 17:00
Shopping
Admit it. You shop online too.
- barnesandnoble.com (www.bn.com)
- Barnes and Noble. Brick&mortar turned electronic.
- Amazon.com - Books, Music, & More
- Amazon - the patent bully.
- eBay
- So you DON'T know what eBay is?!?!?
- FTD Flowers
- For when you screwed up badly :-)
Entertainment and Leisure
I don't have fun. :-)
Business and Investing
Am I rich yet?
- cluetrain manifesto
- For people in business to get a clue. Very cool.
- E*TRADE - Home
- Stock. The gambling that's legal in all 50 states. :-)
Government
US Government Stuff. Nonclassified :-)
- DMV Field Offices By Location
- Find where to pay up Uncle Ford :-)
Mexico
Mexico! Mexico! Rah! Rah! Rah!
The country I come from. Neat-o place.
- Municipio de Cuernavaca
- The city government. I have a buddy who works there.
- Periódico El Economista
- Good financial newspaper.
- Reforma
- Good, Good newspaper. My main source of information about Mexicalpan de las Tunas.
- Sistema Internet de la Presidencia - México
- The "Jefazo". The "Great Tlatoani". The Mexican President.
It's actually a really good site, and I really like their mexican history section. It's mostly PR though.
- Mexico OnLine - Mexican History Directory
- Interesting
- Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
- This is a really good site if you're interested in Mexican Cultural events. There's a calendar of events in the areas of architecture, dance, movies, literature, opera and lots of other info. In Spanish
If you're a culture buff and are visiting Mexico, it's highly recommended.
- Quepasa.com
- I always think about the movie "The Lion King" whenever I hear these words... "Que Pasa, Mufasa?" :-)
Anyway, this is a site about Latin American stuff in both English and Spanish. It's a little too "pocho" for me, but they can be interesting sometimes.
FunStuff
Have fun.
Comics
- Uh, comics and stuff
- User Friendly the Comic Strip: Main Page
- The best geek cartoon. Linux-friendly, too.
- Welcome to the Dilbert Zone®
- The Other best geek cartoon. More mainstream.
- Coolsig - Find Great Email Signature Files!
- This is extremely funny... Pick one up for your email today!
- The Internet Movie Database. A database of more than 180,000 titles
- This will make you win in 6 steps to Kevin Bacon.
- Hitchhiker's guide walkthrough
- If you still have a C64 and have hitchhiker's guide, here's how to solve the whole thing.
Techie Stuff
Stuff for Propeller-heads like me.
Finding a Job
- To my employer: Treat me right - don't make me have to use these.... :-)
- DEVELOPERS.NET - Computer Programming & Software Developer Jobs
- Ok. So you give your email address to these guys (and check some boxes with your skills) and every day you receive messages with positions that match you. Not bad.
- Monster.com
- I got a job using this once.
- Geekfinder
- Find a Geek - very Linux friendly.
- CareerBuilder--The Most Jobs on the Web
- This one lets you store your resume with them.
- ZDNNews: Page One
Hardware
- The part of computers that stops working if you drop it.
- IBM Corporation
- Big Bad Blue
Software
Operating Systems
- - "Mine is better than yours..."
- "Oh yeah? Well mine is stable!"
- "Oh yeah? Mine came from Bill!"
Okay, I'll stop now. You get the idea.
Solaris
- Sun Solaris. You know, Bill's "Joy" :-)
If you want to run Unix and think all Linux people are just a bunch of hooligans, this is the OS to get. :-)
Of course, you're better off getting the hardware :-)
- SunWorld magazine
- Very interesting articles. Good stuff even if you're a plain Unix or Linux person... Don't you just love open systems?
- COM for Solaris
- Why would you want to do this to your solaris environment, I have no clue.
- Freeware for Solaris
- The GNU tool binaries for solaris (both Sparc and Intel) live here.
Windows
- Windowzzzzzzz....... Huh? Oh, yeah! Windows.
Shell Replacements/Enhancements
- It's kind of depressing that the first category of my Windows section is about how to replace the whole look of it, but there you go.
- LiteStep
- A WindowMaker clone for Win32.
- Chunky Munky - Total Windows Customization
- A website on changing the face of windows and making your Windows computer even more unstable! Isn't it fun to bring Microsoft Code to its knees?!
- E-Sense - News - Home
- An enlightenment Wannabe for Win32.. Nice try. Still, if you're stuck on Windows...
- EWM - Yet another Window Manager
- Yet another Shell Replacement...
- Geoshell
- It IS a community MSN site, which makes it really slow and boring-looking, but the shell replacement it houses is excellent!
Free and GNU GPL, too
- reveal the possibilities
- Another shell replacement. This guy calls it an interface engine. Okay, so the website was very confusing and can't find a screenshot to comment on, but at least "It's about the future of the computer, and
our responsibility."
- Themes.org -- [t.o]
- This site has themes to anything an everything that is themable, especially X Window managers, but also some Windows Stuff.
- . ..( illumination homepage ).. .
- Illumination paints the unpaintable areas of your window borders to make your machine pretty and render it unusable. Cool.
- Cygwin
- Make Windows less Windows with this fully featured bash shell and gcc environment. Ditch Visual C and the DOS prompt and come get this NOW!
- SHELL EXTENSION CITY, millions of free Windows power tools, explorer enhancements, windows add-ons, tweaks, system utilities, freeware, internet explorer
- Systems Internals
Wars
- Some ammo fot the OS War chest.
- Engineers Speak Out: Linux vs. Windows NT, part 1
- This is a very good article that will shed some light on why so many engineers insist (very loudly) on Unix. :-)
- The UNIX versus NT Organization
- A Unix counter-fud organization. They put together all kinds of white papers and press that shows how much better Unixen are than Windows NT.
Palm Platform
- Don't leave home without it.
- Handango!
- These guys used to be palmcentral. It's sad to see that their search engine no longer allows you to search by license.
- The PilotZone - Your source for PalmPilot software on the 'Net!
- This is the best archive of Palm software.
Linux
- Play with Unix. For free. I tell you, kids today have it so easy... :-)
- Open4Success.com
- An Open Source Advocate's web page.
News
- Linux news.
- RedHat.com: Your Online Linux Resource
- Linux - a CNET Topic Center
- ZDNet UK: Linux Lounge
- Linux Today
- The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
- Linux Weekly News, daily updates page
Companies
- Linux Companies. For the dudes who say there's no commercial support.
- Linuxcare - At the Center of Linux
- Welcome to S.u.S.E.
- Red Hat Software, Inc.
Programming
- How to program the penguin.
It's difficult to put stuff here because most of the better stuff is also available for other Unixen or Windows. And I don't do kernel development.
- The GNOME Development Site
- The best desktop.
- GNU make
- The best Make utility there is. I've maintained Delphi projects with this! Go Make!
Compaq Servers
- Man it was hard to find out how to get the EISA RAID array working on that stupid COMPAQ!!!
- Compaq Services - Out of Production - Servers - Systempro XL
- pub/tux/roudier
- Linux on Compaq Server Products
- Linux Compaq Deskpro XL HOWTO
- Red Hat Mirrors
- Download the Red Hat distributions here. You can use a cable modem to install Linux with one of these URLs and two floppies in about three hours total.
- The Linux Documentation Project: Homepage
- Ok, so this is THE place for Linux information. Everything you ever wanted to know about Linux comes here. Not for the slow reader or non-geek.
- UGD: User Guide Dog Project
- Some useful info with a lot of attitude in it.
- FreshMeat.net
- New Linux software happens here.
- [ F i n d i X ] - Everything Linux.
- BALUG: Bay Area Linux User Group
- I go to the meetings of these guys whenever I can.
- Linux.com - Jolt - The Journal of Linux Technology
Emulation
- The VICE Emulator
- Commodore emulator for basically every CBM machine, from Pet to C128. And of course our venerable C64 is there. Nostalgic tears in my eyes. :-)
- FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary
- I don't know. Looked cool when I saw the link. I guess it could be worse. I mean, it's not bad, but that logo HAS GOT to change.
Software Development
- Or, the art of automating the screwup of large chunks of data.
Proprietary
- Writing software while chained to the product. Not always fun, but at times faster - if you can afford it.
- MSDN Online
- The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
- These guys publish an excellent book on good practices. I like this book better than XProgramming myself, although they are both full of good ideas.
- mindjunction.com
- Supposedly a sounding board for developers. Looks interesting, although somewhat Win32 centered (but not entirely).
- XProgramming.com
- Extreme Programming. Some advice for heavy coding. A lot of it is really good.
- Demeter / Center for Software Sciences / College of Computer Science / Northeastern University
- The law of Demeter is a very good thing to take into consideration if you do object-oriented programming.
It helps you keep your objects decoupled from each other, which makes it easier to keep "Extreme Programming" practices like pervasive testing and such.
Since this is the Demeter home page you will find *a lot* of resources about the law of Demeter and adaptive programming in general. Very very recommended.
- ! Aware. Programmer's Webliography and Index
- This is an interesting site.. It's ugly, but it does contain quite a bit of info on development
- Borland Community Home Page
- Give this place a try. There's all kinds of good stuff now that Borland is opening up a little more. Free JBuilder Foundation, free C++.. Wow, they've come a long way. No real GPL software yet though.
- Developer.com - Resources for programmers and developers
- This really only looks useful...
Object Technology
- IDL for fun and profit :-)
- OOP.COM Resources
- Cetus Links: 16,263 Links on Objects and Components
- The Free CORBA page
- If you ever wanted to play with CORBA but don't want to have to pay to try it out, this is your page.
Icons, art and other stuff
- GFile icons
- Dean's Icons
- Icon Store
- Icon Store News
Transports and Markup Languages
- XML::Parser
- Declaring Elements and Attributes in an XML DTD
- XML Script - XML Productivity Applications
- This is very interesting... They made a scripting language with XML. Run on Windows and Linux, and there's a thing that reads the Palm Desktop (Windows) databases.
Languages
- The Linguas Francas of computing.
Pascal
- Delphi, my favorite proprietary development tool, uses this language as its base. Therefore, I'm really good at it :-)
The links in this section are non-proprietary though.
- Free Pascal - Home Page
- Get Pascal for free here. Mostly TP7 compatible.
- pasdoc
- Pascal Document generator, not unlike Javadoc. Can comment Delphi code. It's freepascal based, so compiling it on Delphi doesn't really work.
- Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages
- Dang that's a lot of languages!
C
- C is for Confusion
- Programming in C
- This is a decent course on programming in C
- GTK+ Reference Manual
- The reference guide for the Gtk+ library.
Lisp
- Learn to program the language that can make your Emacs editor do Magic!
- Programming in Emacs Lisp - Table of Contents
- This teaches you how to program in Lisp using Emacs as your interpreter.
Perl
- Perl is cool. I have automated a lot of stuff by using code I've found around the net.
- Perl Tutorial
- Learn how to use Perl
- www.perl.com - Documentation
- No Perl? Well get it here! This link is actually pointing to the documentation section on the Perl site. But you can't miss the great big "Downloads" link on the left (if you don't see it, you probably have no use for Perl - or computers).
- ActivePerl Help
- The documentation for the Win32 version of Perl.
Python
- Python looks pretty interesting. I don't plan on making it my main language, but it looks like it wouldn't be horrible for some quick and dirty tasks.
- The Python web site
- Python - a cool Open Source scripting language.
- Pocket Smalltalk
- WWW.SMALLTALK.ORG(tm) Official GNU Smalltalk Page
- Ada Home: the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers (HBAP)
- The language named after the first Programmer (and Lord Byron's Daughter). You go girl!
Proprietary
- The Golden shackles of a hacker.
Java
- Java, for the love of the brew.
- The Java Language Specification Classes
- java programming resources at gamelan.com
- K Virtual Machine (KVM) Home Page
- Java for the Palmpilot... Runs well on mine, too.
- Jump Home Page
- Another Java for the Palmpilot thing
- Java(R) 2 Platform API Specification
- JPEG API: A-Index
- Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition Docs
- Straight from sun's site because they change a lot.
- GJT
- The Giant Java Tree is an open source project whose primary aim is to create a Java source tree consisting entirely of open source.
- TableGen
- Some Table-Generator thingie.
- Cryptix - Welcome to Cryptix
Delphi
- The best Pascal. The best Windows development tool. Period.
- DistribuCon
- These guys know distributed computing.
- Delphi Pages
Security
- Don't look. Really. No one needs to know.
- Security Focus
- The home of the bugtraq archives, which post all vulnerabilities of different OS's. Good stuff to check every once in a while.
Web Servers
- HTTPD How2: Adding server side include features to your web pages
Web Design
- CSS1 box/float/clear tests
- mozilla.org
- HotWired: Webmonkey
- OpenXML
- Stokely Consulting
Web Stuff
- The Internet. Neat-o.
- Free Web Counter/Tracker from TheCounter.com
Newsgroups
- Access the newsgroups from behind your firewall! Don't let people tell you what you can and can't access!
- Developers.href.com: Newsgroup Search Archive for Windows Developers.
- Cool Search engine. Made in Delphi, too.
- Deja News
- When your firewall stands in between you and your news...
Search
- For finding all kinds of stuff
- About.com - Human Guides. Human Interests. Expert guidance from hundreds of Guides.
- This one is not bad.
- FedEx | U.S. Home
- Where's did you lose my copy of VMWare this time, you guys??
- Altavista
- Hotbot
- The super Brute-force search engine.
- Yahoo!
- Open Directory Project
- The Mozilla directory. Open source webpage indexing.
- Google
- Always works by relevance. Very cool.
- Open Directory Project
- MailStart -Your Email Anytime, Anywhere-
- Check your email from here - now that is useful!
Interesting Stuff
Things that make you go Hmmmmm....
- EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Fishman Papers
- The Internet Scientology fiasco is described here by the person who got sued (and won). You can also read some of the weirder scientology stuff here.
- MIT Theses - Reports Listed by Author
- All the MIT Theses. Really interesting stuff here.
Genealogy
- If I have to be a loser, I want to at least be a loser with a history :-)
- Reference Library
- Genealogy of Hispanic surnames
Retrocomputing
- Very Retro stuff. I can run my old C64 games! Wheeeee!!!
- C-64 (www.c64.com)
- LOTS of retrocomputing games.
- ZorkCit Test System
- A BBS with an HTML interface if you can believe it. When I remember how much time I wasted on these things in the 80's I shudder. But I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
- Independent Homeworkers alliance
- Job spam from the great beyond...
- How Stuff Works
- Cool, cool cool... Now I can fix my toilet.
- TextFiles - Underground ASCII-Based writings
- Some of these are very bad, but we we're all young and stupid back in the 80's so we read them (sometimes even wrote them).
Cool People
These are other people's homepages or personal projects.
- Gary D. Robson
- Interesting guy. Old-school hacker. Cool.
- Dan Bornstein
- This guy used to work at Netscape. I think.
- Patrick Combs' Good Thinking Site
- This is the guy who cashed a $100K junk mail check and lived to tell about it. Interesting writings on his site. He's a motivational speaker these days.
- Jamie Zawinski
- Jamie is the type of person I'd be arguing constantly with, but would still like him even though I disagree with him so much. I like his writing style.
- Resources GEEK-GIRL provides
- Guillaume Laurent's HomePage
- KanjiClass - Your Kanji Resource Community
- This is under cool people because it's made by my buddy, Reagan - neat guy all around, and his site is really cool.
- Neal Town Stephenson Home Page
- I have only read one of his books, "In the beginning there was the command ilne". But I liked it a lot.
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