Jun 14, 2004
Interesting Links
Useful Debian install resource - Unofficial Debian Installers.
Visualise website stats in a SimCity style.
Nice online dictionary/thesaurus - no annoying ads or banners.
Useful utility - Sumerize - like a Windows version of Konfabulator or gDesklets.
How to Create Custom 404 Pages.
Use jabber (an IM client) to monitor server logs.
The rule book for arguments. Berkeley have been researching 3D Video Conferencing.
The Unix History Timeline has been updated for 2004.
A terrible web site design mars an otherwise nice resource - Digibarn Computer History museum.
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Useful Windows Tools
Text Tools -
A freeform idea / note taker - KeyNote.
Plenty of good text editors to replace Notepad - Context, NoteTab and MetaPad.
Network -
Firefox and Thunderbird are the browser and mail components of the Mozilla Project.
Mozilla Composer is available as a standalone package called Nvu.
Putty is the must have SSH client.
WinSCP is a gui frontend on SecureCopy for excrypted file transfers.
RSS is the efficient way to browse the web - use SharpReader.
Utilities -
Use 7-Zip for compression.
Dependency Walker shows dll use - depends.exe.
FileMon and ProcExplorer are two of the many useful debugging tools at SysInternals.
For all your Unix needs use Cygwin or a simpler subset of common Unix CLI tools.
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