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Nationmaster and Statemaster are excellent sources of basic statistical data.
Wikipedia is the source of all knowledge.
AnyWho and Superpagesare sources of phone numbers and related data like reverse lookups. Linc Madison tells all about North American area codes and numbering plans.
Many DoD specs are available from DODSSP (Department of Defense Single Stock Point for Mil Specs and Standards) Tech Manuals
FCC ULS (Universal Licensing System) and ASR (Antenna Structure Regitstration) Database search pages
Microwaves 101 is a very practical and useful RF
and microwave site.
DSP Guru is hosted
by iowegian, a maker of DSP filter design and FFT software.
Python is rapidly becoming my favorite
utility language
Linux Format is a pricey British magazine that's worth it.
WinSCP is hands-down the best SCP/SFTP/FTP tool I've found for Windows. Even better, it's fully open source and free.
PuTTY is a great cross platform (win/mac/*nix) client package for SSH, SCP , SFTP, as well as things you shouldn't be using like Telnet and FTP. It has a very good SSH authentication agent in the form of Pageant.
NoteTab is a really good and simpe text editor that comes in three grades. I use the light (freeware) version for a lot of my note taking and text cleanup. They offer several more capable versions that I'm tempted to buy.
Irfanview is a lightning fast image viewer. That's it - but it will view most any image format known. It'll also let you translate between formats and do some limited scaling and processing. And it's free.
PureText is one of those things you probably never knew you needed. It removes formatting from data you are cutting and pasting. I'm forever cutting text from documents or spreadsheets. It's great that windows carries formatting along by default, but I almost never want it. PureText lets me set up a hotkey that lets me paste unformatted text regardless of the source formating. If you do much document editing you want this and may not even know it. It's free, so it's easy to try.
Multimon Taskbar puts taskbars/toolbars on your additional monitors. When you drag an app to an alternate monitor you get a taskbar button for it on that monitor's taskbar. Even better, it gives you buttons next to the minimize/maximize/close buttons on that window that let you move a window to the other monitors. You are running more than one monitor, right? If you aren't I really suggest that you dust that old monitor off and give it a try. Oscar has free and more capable paid versions.
Cobalt RAQs are small servers that were discontinued by Sun. They available very cheaply and are perfect for small dedicated server applications. I have several running current kernels under Debian.
Tim Wiley has some great information about installing Debian Linux and recent kernels on RAQ3 and RAQ4 machines. I've used this to good effect on a number of machines.
The Dincom RaQ Resource has quite a bit of useful informaiton about ROMs, CPU upgrades, and power supply problems.
Jeff Walters' site Parvi.us is a great source of ROM information and Linux Kernal patches for the Cobalt machines.
HardwareSoekris Engineering makes a line of single board computers that are great platforms for specialized servers, routers, and wireless applications. .
The Blame Displacement
Form [BDF]
Some days
you're the bug, and some days you're the windshield.
A mildly funny experience setting up a 58 Ghz Microwave link
My life on
April 1st, 2000