| Generic Links | Reference Links | Computing Links |
GENERIC LINKS
My Favorite Links
The Doctor Who Homepage.
The Geek Code Homepage (with my code)
The Internet Underground; a hacker’s dream page.
Ninex Yellow Pages’s Business Phone Number Lookup
The Bastard Operator From Hell series.
The Star Trek Fiction Archive.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Homepage
- NASA News
- Flight Info on the Shuttle and the ISS, including realtime data
- United Space Alliance, offering more real time data.
- NASA Select TV
Online Bookstores
- Amazon.Com
- Barnes and Noble
- Bookpool (technical books only)
- FatBrain
Scottish Links
- Scotland.Org, Scotland’s Web site
- Scotweb, a collection of Stores
- The Gathering of the Clans, info on Scottish history, events, and more.
- The Clan Gunn Society of North America
Single Malt Whisky Links
- My personal whisky reviews
- Highland Park, my favorite
- Scotland Whisky, promoting the country and its drink
Ski Areas close to home:
Local Weather
- Weather Channel Forecast
- NOAA Forecast
- Weather Underground Forecast
- Real-Time Weather at Laurel, Maryland
- Real-Time Weather at Silver Spring, Maryland
- Hurricane/Tropical Storm Watch
REFERENCE MATERIALS
Complete list of Usenet FAQS.
The JPS edition of the Tanakh, including a search engine.
Tanakh in Hebrew
Multiple versions of the Christian Bible, also with a search engine.
Libraries
- The Montgomery County Public Library
- The Baltimore County Public Library
- The Howard County Public Library
- VICTOR, the University of Maryland
on-line library catalog. - The Library of Congress On-Line
Catalog.
COMPUTING LINKS
Tom’s Hardware Guide, the place to go if you’re looking to find reviews on computer hardware.
Unix shell scripting with sh/ksh
Linux Links
- Linux Online – The Linux Home Page
- Linux v2 Information HQ
- UK Linux Page (goes to Alan Cox’s diary)
- Linux International
- The Linux Kernel Archives
- Linux-Kernel Mailing List archive.
Distributed Computing Links
Distributed Computing refers to an effort of many computers all working towards a common goal. Recently, this has been used to crack elaborate encryption schemes, which would take an ordinary PC hundreds, if not thousands, of years to crack. Distributed computing has proven that such an encryption scheme, using tens of thousands of computers all working together, can be broken in a matter of months. Now, more uses are being found for distributed computing that don’t deal with decryption, but with actual real-world problems.
RC5-64, seeking to break a data encryption scheme known as RC5:
Mersenne Prime Search, attempting to discover more numbers known as Mersenne Primes.
Other Projects
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