Resources for learning more about UNIX/Internet
- UNIX and
Internet
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- UNIX (Linux) Software and
Documentation
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- GNU
FTP Site - offers GNU and other software,
arranged for no-fuss download
- Linux
Documentation Project - excellent
HOW-TOs, FAQs, book-length Guides, etc., in multiple
formats
- UNIX
Tutorial for Beginners - nicely done
collection of step-by-step tutorials on basic UNIX
commands
- Sun's Java Site
- a lot to chew on concerning the Java
language and associated technologies
- Perl Language
Site - about the flexible and
ubiquitous Perl scripting language
- X.org -
the worldwide consortium dedicated to the
development of the X Window System
- XEmacs -- Emacs:
The Next Generation - all about that
mighty editor, xemacs
- UNIX (Linux) Books
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- O'Reilly Unix
Books - good, practically oriented
books; code examples from texts available from
here
- O'Reilly Linux
Books - ditto
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Modern Operating Systems by A. S. Tanenbaum
- much on UNIX (and Windows 2000);
Tanenbaum writes well
- Internet and the World Wide Web
(WWW)
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- Internet
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Origins of the Internet -
well-informed (but not infallible) historical
discussion
- RFC
Search Page -
Fetch RFCs via search strings
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Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia -
Every RFC ever published (Internet protocols, etc.) and more
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CERT Coordination Center -
Federally-funded Internet security center at Carnegie-Mellon U.
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SpamWatcher@Somewhere.Com -
help for victims of spam (noxious broadcast advertising)
- World Wide Web
(WWW)
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- Searching the Web
- many links below
- The World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) - standards
from the people who brought you the Web
- W3C: HTML
Home Page (includes XHTML) - the
latest on HTML and its successor, XHTML
- W3C:
Extensible Markup Language (XML) -
the latest on the meta-language used to define
XHTML
- W3C:
XML in 10 points - very quick
introduction to XML
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Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML -
tutorial help from a key architect of Web
mark-up languages
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The Web Robots Pages -
all about Web robots (also called crawlers or spiders)
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NCSA (at UIUC) Beginner's Guide to HTML
- excellent coverage and
links
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Barebones Guide to HTML - concise
HTML "cheat sheet"
- Clean up
your Web pages with HTML TIDY -
utility that fixes sloppy HTML, converts to
XHTML
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Web Pages That Suck - "learn
usability and good Web design by looking at bad
design"
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Web Style Guide - evolved from earlier
versions developed at Yale
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The ANU Electronic Publishing Page -
excellent tutorials on developing Web
content, from down under
- Sun's Java
Home Page - good starting point for
learning about Java
- Internet/WWW Books
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- O'Reilly
Web/Internet Books
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Computer Networks by A.S. Tanenbaum -
the full story from a master expositor
- Searching the
Web
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- General
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- Search
Engine Watch - tips and information about
searching the Web
- Subject Trees
(most offer search, too)
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- Yahoo! -
the original, and largest, subject tree (searches
yield "category matches" in subject tree,
too)
- Open Directory
Project - goal: "to produce the most
comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a
vast army of volunteer editors" (about 22000); used
by several major search engines
- About -
expert coverage of 100s of topics (Web search used if
no "in-house" coverage); good tutorials and
links
- Search Engines
(enough to get started; most offer subject trees,
too)
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- Google -
clean and spare; easy search refinement;
good search algorithm; current leader
- Yahoo! -
the #2 search engine at last writing
- Ask -
good organization of search results; clever search
refinement model; up-and-coming
- Alta Vista
- one of the first; good search
customizations
- Excite
- AllTheWeb
- FindWhat
- Go
- HotBot
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- WebCrawler
- Technorati
- searches blogs for information
- Meta Search Engines
(conduct search over several search engines
concurrently)
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- DogPile
- can include FTP archives in searches;
doesn't rank hits across search engines
used
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MetaCrawler - I found the "advanced"
search help poorly organized, but judge for
yourself
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Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Books
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- Refdesk -
agglomeration site for reference materials
- A
Dictionary of Units of Measurement - there
are more than you might imagine
- Wikipedia
- a free, editable encyclopedia (entries of
uneven quality, often lacking references)
- Webopedia
- excellent dictionary/search engine for short
blurbs on computer and Internet technology;
good links
- About -
semi-encyclopedic coverage of topics for which
"in-house" experts are available
- Project
Gutenberg - online library of books in the
public domain
- Clearinghouses
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- Freshmeat
- a large catalog of "UNIX and cross-platform
software" (much of it free)
- Tucows -
another well-known software clearinghouse
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