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Friends and Relatives
These are sites of friends and family. They are all worth a visit. So
visit them!
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Anne
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An experimental Web site that's only just started
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Dac
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Hardware upgrades from hell
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Chris
Griggs
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Photos of Life In The Tropics
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Paul Maynard
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Recumbent bicycles, Lasik surgery and philosophical discourses
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Humour
These are the sites that I visit often for a bit of humour.
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Dilbert
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The daily Dilbert cartoon, for life in a cubicle farm.
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User Friendly
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The daily User Friendly cartoon, for life with geeks.
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Fresh Meat
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On the Red Meat site, about once a week there appears Fresh
Meat, a very sick cartoon. These impressed me so much I have
bought the two available books.
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Daily Bikini
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A daily photo of a girl in a bikini. Plus a great assortment of
odd links to other sites. The links change frequently and
there's always something interesting to read about.
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Tech Tales
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Read what tech support have to put up with from users. The four
main items are changed weekly, but you should read through the
backlog of tales under the top left icon called Tales From The
Techs.
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Bastard Operator From Hell
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Read the weekly saga of Simon, the Bastard Operator From Hell.
The archives at this site have the complete saga. You can also
read old bits from Simon's
New Zealand site.
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Museum of Bad Art
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I have been to MOBA, the Museum of Bad Art. This is the online
gallery. View some of my favourite works of art. Well worth a
visit.
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News
These are the news sites that I regularly visit. Computer news, nerd
news, Australian news.
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Slashdot
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Geek news in a tight format. Always updating and always
interesting.
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Wired News
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More mainstream computer culture news.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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This is how I stay in touch with Australian news.
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Pilot Online
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Local news. This is how I find out what's on at Virginia Beach,
the movies, the concerts and the festivals.
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ClickTV
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My local and cable TV guide.
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Need To Know
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A British site, with a very plain format and a sardonic slant on
the news of Britain, mostly technical.
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Software
This is the software I use. This is here more for my benefit than yours,
so I can easily check latest versions of the software I use.
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Vim
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Vim, the improved vi. Best text editor I've used. Comes with
source code. Works with Linux, Solaris, and most other Unices.
There are even executables for Windows if you are being forced
to use that crappy system. Powerful and flexible. Not as
powerful and flexible as Emacs, but it suits me. And by the way,
it's free.
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Midnight Commander
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Midnight Commander. THE orthodox file manager. Again, there are
versions for a lot of operating systems, even Windows if you
happen to be that way inclined. If you want to read about why
File Managers are so popular, read this article about the
Orthodox File Manager Paradigm.
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Mutt
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A mail reader, based on elm, but with lots of other influences.
Hence, a mutt of a mail reader. Unix only.
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Irfan Viewer
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One of the few Windows utilities I use. It's a graphics file
viewer. It's small and fast and works very well and allows some
manipulation and conversion of the images.
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fetchmail
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fetchmail fetches the mail.
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LifeLines
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Great genealogy software for Unix systems. It's super flexible,
fast, and produces a vast array of amazing reports. Allows
custom written reports too.
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GIMP
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Gnu Image Manipulation Program. The name says it all.
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Star Office
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When I have to work with someone else's Microsoft Office
documents, I use Star Office. If I can't work with TeX or LaTeX,
then I work with Star Office. I like the way it works. And it
doesn't have that Microsoft taint. Versions for Linux and
Windows and other OSes. It's free for home use, and site
licenses for organisations are very cheap.
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ImageMagick
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ImageMagick manipulates images. I use it to modify all the
photos on my home page. I tried various Windows products and
none gave me any satisfaction. From the moment I started using
ImageMagick, all my image problems were solved. There are
versions for Linux and Windows and others. And it's free.
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WordPerfect for Linux
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I keep looking at using this. If I could get the old text mode
version of WordPerfect for lInux, then I would be very happy.
I'm not fond of GUIs.
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FreeCiv
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A free version of Civilisation for Linux. Source code included.
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Lyx
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Adds a GUI front end to TeX and LaTeX.
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GTK+
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The GIMP Toolkit. Used for programming the X Window System.
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FVWM
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The Window manager that I use. It's old but it's a favourite.
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Window Managers
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Check out the various Window Managers for X.
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Oddities
Strange sites that I come back to visit.
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Silicon Creatures
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Ever wondered about the things engraved on chips and in
microprocessors. View them through the electron microscope.
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Geek Decoder Page
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Geeks have a shorthand for describing themselves. This page
decodes the codes. There's links to the meanings and how to
build your own.
This is mine: GCS d+ s+:++>+: a+ C++++ ULS++$ P+++$ L++ E--- W++
N++ o-- K- w-- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X- R* !tv b+++ DI+++
D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++
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BBS Textfiles
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Back in the days when BBSes ruled, there were lots of text files
floating about the ether. This site has collected many of them
and made them available.
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Some more quick strange items:
Free Software Advocacy
Links to Links
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