07 Jul 08 Tumblelog: 080707
JSVI is a Vi clone written in JavaScript. You can download it here.
Home of the Underdogs is a great place if you are looking for old PC-games. They have plenty of information including screenshots on each entry. If you find yourself bored one day just download DOSBox and give HOTU a visit.
19th Hour from Eric M. Gustafson’s Antilimit.
Rosetta Stone for Unix if you have been using Unix all your life and now find yourself lost in another implementation of it use the rosetta stone to find your way.
19! = 121645100408831984, a bug in Google Docs spreadsheet.
POSIX Shell Command Language is a good resource if you want to write shell scripts that are POSIX compliant rather than requiring a specific implementation.
What Makes 100% is a mathematical analysis on how a human can give more than 100%.
Weapon Generator (Arms Generator/Buki Generator) will generate various weapons based on a persons name.
Faster than the speed of Light? Can the earth be warned in time if the Sun is collapsing?
Logging Incorrect SSH Passwords, an attempt at tracing what the bad guys are doing. I wouldn’t recommend this on a production server though.
Re: UNIX jokes: Here goes… contains a collection of Unix jokes collected from rec.humor during the summer of ‘88.
04 Jul 08 Tumblelog: 080704
$ cheat bash, a Bash cheat sheet.
Programmer competency matrix, in case you want to know what your good and bad traits are.
The Ultimate Guide to Rock, Paper, Scissors, if you find the original game somewhat lacking.
FlyBack is a GUI to provide similar functionality as Apple’s Time Machine for Linux using existing tools.
PDF format becomes ISO standard ISO 32000-1.
Computerworld - Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 contains some useful tricks that apply to, you guessed it, Firefox 3. Such as having gmail handle mailto: URLs or installing extensions designed for Firefox 2.
DIY Drones is a community of people who are building their own unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Martian Headsets is an interesting analysis of the state if IE8 being “standards compliant” by default.
My first but awesome NESp is a portable NES in a NES cartridge and I want one!
RailsConf Git Talk by Scott Chacon.
02 Jul 08 Tumblelog: 080702
code_swarm is a software visualization tool showing source contributions made to a specific project. Here is an example of a visualization of Eclipse.
When all your troubles seems so far away…
An Introduction to TCP/IP, written so that most people should be able to grasp the concept.
HowTo: Create a Reverse SSH Tunnel is a handy guide for those times when you need access to a machine protected behind a firewall outside of your control, i.e. at work.
Gary’s weather forecasting stone
Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits and save yourself some time by doing it right the first time.
Elevator Psychology, fascination and hilarious all at the same time. (Flash required)
Logic Goats, even your children will understand how a CPU works thanks to the logic goats.
An lsof Primer for those of us who have happened to walk past this excellent little tool.
Miss iPhone Piggy tries to buy several thousand dollars worth of iPhones only to discover there is a one phone per person limit. (Flash required)
RBuild is a build system similar to Linux’ kbuild written in Ruby.
List of problems solved by MacGyver, found via xkcd 444.
01 Jul 08 Tumblelog: 080701
Roland TB-303 teardown, the wrong people managed to get their hands on a TB-303 and did the unthinkable.
SystemTap is an instrumentation framework for Linux and a reinvention of DTrace.
Linux EEPROM Programmer is a description on how to build a really cheap EEPROM programmer that you can use in Linux.
MorphOS 2.0 release notes, apparently hell froze over in the middle of the summer. After 3+ years of waiting a lot of people should be celebrating right about now.
Interactive Linux Kernel Map provides a graphical overview of the Linux kernel source. You can even click on specific parts of it to locate the related source code.
vNES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator written in Java. They have several games available on their website which you play simply by clicking on them. Apparently support for non-x86 is sketchy.
VX32 Virtual Extension Environment is a library which provides a sandbox for executing untrusted x86 code.
pw0nd.com - Internet humor and funny pictures, the title says it all.
Ubuntu appreciation, always welcome.
Why I Run UNIX is an insightful collection of arguments why this particular person has chosen UNIX over other operating systems.
YTMND for the Blind, crazy blue balls accompanied by a vocal explanation of what is going on.
