The Printing HOWTO homepage Printing HOWTO Support Database
What makes Unix users so smart? or, Why I don't clutter my page with animations and graphics.
"The common thread was wordsmithing; a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words. They were adept readers and writers, and UNIX played handily to those strengths. UNIX was, in some sense, literature to them. Suddenly the overrepresentation of polyglots, liberal-arts types, and voracious readers in the UNIX community didn't seem so mysterious, and pointed the way to a deeper issue: in a world increasingly dominated by image culture (TV, movies, .jpg files), UNIX remains rooted in the culture of the word.
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"NT was definitely much too close to image culture for my comfort: endless point-and-click graphical dialog boxes, hunting around the screen with the mouse, pop-up after pop-up demanding my attention. The experience was almost exclusively reactive. Every task demanded a GUI-based utility front-end loaded with insidious assumptions about how to visualize (and thus conceptualize) the operation. I couldn't think "outside the box" because everything literally was a box. There was no opportunity for ad hoc consideration of how a task might alternately be performed.
Debian.org The Pure of Heart. Guaranteed Free. Slickest package management system. Debian is my dirstribution of choice now. It has it quirks, and it's not particularly newbie-friendly, but once set up and running it is easy to maintain, and extremely easy to keep up to date.
Debian Help
Debian Planet
Webmin -- a web brouser based administration package for Linux/Unix -- recommended. Freshmeat daily Linux news and new software downloads. O'Reilly & Assoc. has put Using Samba online. Samba is what Linux can use to talk to SMB networks (like Windows95/98/NT and OS/2). Linux Gazette Red Hat More Open Source: Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright by Eben Moglen Netmax sells Linux packaged to set up a server appliance.Brave Gnu World from gnu.org. Linux Professional Institute achieving credibility Linux Training Materials Project Justlinux Slashdot Linux.org Linux Parallel Portpage. Can you get that nifty parallel port Zip drive, tape drive, or whatever, to work with Linux? Maybe. Linmodems.org there is an effort to get some of the various "Winmodems" to work with Linux. I still think they suck. Spend a few FRNs more, get a realmodem. They're much easier to work with.
Linux.com Linuxworld Linux-68K Linux on the <ulp> 68K Macintosh (Amiga, Atari, . . . .) See also http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org Slackware What printers work under Linux? How can I avoid those nasty Winprinters? The Printing HOWTO homepage Printing HOWTO Support Database The Dos/Windows to LINUX HOWTO Linuxarchives.com Linuxapps.com Linux Cuba en espanol
Demigods, mighty thewed heros and legends from ancient days
InternetThe XanaduProject. Linus Torvalds' home page (not much to see) Richard M. Stallmanand the GNU project Bjarne Stroustrup Dennis Ritchie Donald Knuth TEX, The Art of Computer Programming The Obsolete Computer Museum
The Center for Online Addiction -- Do you need to get a life? Take their test and find out.Mail-abuse.org, home of the Real Time Black Hole list.
"When a professional spamamer gets a leased line, we find out about it when they start spamming us, and we track down every network object they own and we blackhole all or nearly all of them. Mail servers, web servers, name servers, terminal servers, usenet servers -- everything. If a professional spammer owns it, we don't want it talking to us, no matter what the protocol."When an ISP sells a shell account to a spammer, we try hard to reason with the ISP. Please disconnect them and strengthen your AUP, we often say. Go to hell you fascist censoring dog! and Stop whining, a little spam won't hurt you are the usual replies. Welcome to the MAPS RBLSM is our final statement in that kind of conversation. But note: we try. " God bless them!
Frequently seen frauds, hoaxes and scams -- pesky memes
Network Solutions (the domain name people). Their WHOISservice (who's behind that website?). Under LinuxAnd what are they running? Netcraft's whats service
Behind Enemy Lines claims to be a hack against Premier Services, a spam company.
Web site design and usability -- there's lots of ugly bad sites out there
Useit.com Web site usabilityWeb Pages that Suck (dot com)"An excellent resource for understanding the physical layout of the internet--and how data moves around--is http://www.cybergeography.org"
OS/2 Supersite OS/2 EzineBMT Micro
IBM's main OS/2 site (go here to download Netscape Communicator for OS/2), on line device driver pak
What OSs suck/rule? Objective! MS training and certification Microsoft Certified Perfessional (sic) Brainbench -- get certified online. I don't know if this is accepted many places, if at all. Sylvan Prometric the folks you go to to pay for and schedule the certification tests. It's a racket. A good idea. (boycott the Evil Empire) Windows 95 annoyances of which there are many, both aesthetic and functional Emacs for NT from the GNU people
Microsoft Support page -- the Knowledge Base is close to indespensible
Apple's famous 1984 Macintosh ad. Apple Parts of their support pages don't always work, and you sometimes have to be clever to find what you need. It can be hard to find something again that you've found once. The first place to look anyway. MacOS up to 7.0.1 (and the upgrade to 7.5.3) free for downloading. Getting it to a Mac readable disk is your problem <snicker>. Mac Resource page
Slide Rules
Sphere Researchs Slide Rule UniverseNo web site about computers and the people who "use" them would be complete without a link to The Dilbert Zone.The online Museum of HP Calculators
The BOFH-- my hero. ("What's your userid?" <clickety-click>). Tech support with an attitude.
Byte used to be (back in the 70s though maybe the late 80s) a good general magazine about computers. Over the years it got more and more business oriented, less and less interesting. In 1998 McGraw-Hill sold it to CMP, who promptly killed it. This is all that's left. They still owe me for 6 months undelivered issues.
Did I mention that you shouldn't buy a Winmodem?
CP/M and the GEM GUI (now GPLed)
Ars Technica The PC Users Resource
Palmtops It was, like, extremely unusual for me to open up this shrinkwrapped box and find all this Microsoft softwar
Memoware -- premade documents for Palm Or make your own with Pyrite Publisher handhelds.org "Our goal is to encourage and facilitate the creation of open source software for use on handheld and wearable computers." Palmopensource.com
Windows CE Knowledge Base
Job Search! Geekfinder.com. For whatever good it might do you. For a contrary view see. . .
Tom Nadeau's Seven Lean Years. Exerpts on the author's home page. We've been told that these are good times. The author thinks this is a lie. After 8 months of trying to find a job in a field with a supposed 1 megabody (or so) shortage during supposed good economic times I'm inclined to agree. A nice cathartic rant.
