Nerd Stuff

• My Linux On A Dell Inspiron 4150 page
• Linux
  • Linux Documentation Project
  • Fresh Meat: lots of free software links
• CD-R
  • mkisofs, an amazing program that lets you generate a hybrid (rockridge/joliet/HFS/iso 9660) CD image. It's a command-line program, and that's how I like it!
  • cdrecord, the program I use to burn a cd image onto a cd
• Java
  • BlueJ, a Java development environment designed for education that reduces the barrier to entry to Java
  • Jikes open-source fast Java compiler from IBM DeveloperWorks
  • Java books I've found helpful:
    • The Java Programming Language, by Ken Arnold and James Gosling
    • Java Swing, By Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy & Dave Wood
• Windows/Unix integration (square peg/round hole dept)
  • Cygwin, a port of many GNU tools to Win32
  • NT Emacs (works on Win9x too)
  • Samba, GPLed software that makes a Unix server appear to Microsoft clients as a Microsoft server that "somehow miraculously fails to suck"
  • VNC (Virtual Network Computing): remote desktops, multiplatform (Unix, Mac, Win32, Win CE...). Also see duelin' distributions RealVNC and TightVNC.
• Web design
  • Bobby, a web accessibility checker
  • Willcam's Comprehensive HTML Cross Reference
  • World Wide Web Consortium
• Ergonomics
  • Typing Injury FAQ
• Little computers
  • Sharp Zaurus SL-C7xx: tiny (4.7 x 3.3 x 0.7 in, 7.9 oz), VGA resolution, keyboard, Linux, Java. What could be bad, except it's only sold in a Japanes version (though it's sold in the US by Dynamism)? (actual-size PostScript file)
  • HP 100lx/200lx: DOS, CGA mono display, keyboard. Amazing machine for its time (1993). I still use mine occasionally.
  • Acer TravelMate 312t (old info). I bought this in 1998. It still chugs along, now running Linux.
  • Toshiba Libretto (old info). I never bought one of these.
• Misc
  • Grokking the GIMP, an online and printed book

Last modified: 2004-05-14

Jon Dreyer