Internet Links
From Wikistix
Friends Pages
- Mark Curtis and Katherine Howlin.
- Jorgi's World - Site of George Zamroz.
- Brad "Blunatic" Olds. Site moved, elsewhere...
- Belinda Ullucci's photo album.
- "Missing Jigsaw Piece", Sarah's MySpace page.
- Kim and Nancy, Flickr photo collection.
- Gatorz Racing, for stories on Ian McLean.
- Donkers Wunschbox, buy culinary delights and fine gifts, by Jenny Donker.
Computer-Technical Links
BSD
- NetBSD (and Australian mirror), the best OS out there.
- NetBSD community wiki.
- Darwin source code.
- OpenDarwin, shutting down as of 2006-07-25.
- Dæmon News, for all news BSD.
- BSDFreak, for more news BSD.
- Tutorial on FreeBSD (and NetBSD) kernel debugging.
- B.U.G.S. - BSD Users Group of Sydney.
- hubertf's NetBSD Blog.
BSD Goodies
- NetBSD store at CafePress.com.
- BSDFreak store at CafePress.com.
- Beastie stuff available at Marshall Kirk McKusick's site.
- NetBSD Spreadshirt.net Store.
Apple News and Rumours
- MacOS Rumors, they're sometimes right.
- Mac Rumors, more traffic, less accuracy, IMHO.
- AppleInsider.
- Think Secret.
UNIX
- SysAdminDay, for all of us System Administrators.
- Dave's UNIX/Solaris Tips Page, bunch of handy general UNIX hints and hints for some commercial UNICes.
- UNIX History timeline, maintained by Éric Lévénez.
- Interaction Australasia, IBM Users Group.
Linux
- Kernel Links.
- LXR - Linux kernel source browser.
TSM Links
- ADSM.org. Tivoli Storage Manager public support site.
- ADSM/TSM Quick Facts. ADSM/TSM FAQ as compiled by Richard Sims.
- TSM Wiki.
Industry and Technology News
- The Register. Another great news site.
- Slashdot. What more need be said?
- Ars Technica. Thorough articles on new technology.
Software/Source Archives
- SourceForge.
- GNU.org.
- Savannah aka nongnu.org.
Standards
- Open Group Technical Standards.
- www.unix.org, the home of the Single UNIX Specification.
- JTC1/SC22/WG14 - C - C99 "WG14-N1124", "ISO/IEC 9899:1999" draft standard.
- t10.org, home of the SCSI standards.
- t11.org, home of the Fibre Channel (FC), Storage (Network) Management (SM), High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI), Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI) and Single-Byte Command Code Sets Connection (SBCON) standards.
- cplusplus.com not really a "Standard", but a growing reference and tutorial collection.
Quick Reference Cards
- Rosetta Stone.
- Latex cheat sheet.
- GNUplot Quick Reference (pdf).
- MediaWiki Reference Card.
- awk Reference (pdf).
Aussie Software Mirrors
Aussie Hardware Markets and Stores
- PLE.
- MSY not bad, but renowned worst website.
- staticICE to compare online Australian store prices.
- Shopbot more Aussie store price comparisons.
- Booko to compare book prices.
- Computer Fairs Australia.
- Computer Fairs NSW.
- Aus PC-Market.
- elx.com.au.
- Zytech.
- Eyo.
- DealExtreme. Not Aussie, but free shipping.
Cases
Popular Internet Search Engines
- Google - ubiquitous.
- Dogpile - metasearch engine combining the results of many popular search engines.
- Gigablast, fairly new, shows some promise.
- AlltheWeb (uses Yahoo index).
- AltaVista, the oldest of them all. And now uses the Yahoo index.
- Yahoo.
- Ask Jeeves (uses Teoma engine).
- Internet Archive. Ok, not a search engine, but you get the idea.
- Excite. Uses Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
- KartOO. Too much flash for my liking.
- Cuil. New, launched by ex-googlers, but seems pretty poor.
- MSN Search.
Pastebins
Programmer Fonts
Electronics
- Digi-key electronic component shipping to Australia.
Miscellaneous
- Open Graphics Project to develop graphics cards with "fully published specs and open source drivers".
- "Olson" tzdata and tzcode source files for time zone and daylight saving information, and the source code to process the files.
- Oz Broadband Speed Test.
- PCIDatabase.com PCI Vendor and Device Lists.
- The Hacker FAQ maintained by Peter Seebach.
- FSF - Cards - list of Free Software Foundation endorsed wireless cards.
- Duplicity backup software utilising librsync.
- STM bags.
Photography
- Steve's Digicams. Good reviews on digital cameras.
- Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ.
- Hubble gallery.
Articles
- ACM Queue: Interview with Jim Grey. Interesting article on the future of storage, distributing large data sets, and the concept that a disk is becoming more of a sequential access device rather than a random access device.
- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
- The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. 12 tests to check the quality of a software development team.
- The IEEE 754 Floating Point Standard. Short article about why IEEE 754 is bad. See here for articles on the advantages of IEEE 754.
- Xen and the Art of System Administration presentation.
- Neutrinos vs. Sun Scoreboard, or why Sun needs ECC to fix E-cache parity errors.
- Bikeshed painting in the FreeBSD forums.
- A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection by Peter Gutmann.
- Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?, article published in USENIX.
- Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, published by Google engineers.
Comics and Humour
- The Far Side.
- Dilbert.
- UserFriendly.
- xkcd.
- Garfield.
- The Project Cartoon - How Projects Really Work (version 2.0).
- 26b/6.
- 1.00 FTE - Impressions of a corporate life.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Bargain Stores
General
Books
Batteries
- MDBattery for various computer, hobby and industrial batteries.
Online Learning & Puzzles
Maths
Maths & Computing
Sport
- TennisOne magazine site. Some good online free info.
- Racquet Research. Head-light and heavy is good.
- stringforum.net, all about string.
- Tennis Wollongong.
- Wiseman Park Tennis Club.
- Sydney Tennis Courts.
- Illawarra Alpine Club.
Aussie Wines
Investing
Miscellaneous
- alt.usage.english web site, with much information on this increasingly butchered language.
- Omniglot - Language, pronounciation, writing and font links for most languages.
- The 'Ocracy - local Wollongong theater group.
- Edible Blooms - for chocolate flowers!
- Swarovski Crystal.
- lspace.org, for all things Diskworld and Terry Pratchet.