bookmarks
a collection of bookmarks I find useful
*nix
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POSIX.1 2008
- Utilities
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Portable Filename Character Set:
[A-Za-z._-] - awk
- sed
- ed (Ed, man! !man ed)
- m4, GNU m4
- make
- unix.SE
- understanding statusline truncation in GNU screen
- tmux, an improvement on screen in many ways
- mutt manual, pattern syntax
- Openbox window manager
- The TTY demystified
- GNU/Linux Distributions Tree
- Unix family tree
programming
- ANSI escapes (WP)
- GDB docs
- IBM developerWorks
- Doxygen manual
- GNU make manual
- VirtualBox User Manual
- Epigrams in Programming, Alan Perlis
- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux, Markus Kuhn
- Draw and Identify Unicode characters: shapecatcher
- Beej's Guide to Network Programming
shell
C
- C FAQ
- ISO C99 standard, and links to other C/C++ standards at stackoverflow. WG14
- C11 draft n1570 pdf
- n1256, an unofficial HTML version of C99 draft including TC3
- Reserved names
- Bit Twiddling Hacks - Sean Eron Anderson
Java
git
WWW
misc
- A useful search engine that respects your privacy: duckduckgo.com, also at ddg.gg. List of bang (!) shortcuts
- WordReference language tools
- OANDA currency converter
- reStructured Text (rST)
- WP trig identities list
- xkcd, an occasionally funny webcomic, with occasionally helpful interpretations
- Despair.com, funny demotivational posters
- InterfaceLIFT, a good source of pretty, hi-res desktop wallpapers
- Lipsum, a lorem ipsum generator
- Security Now
- Wireshark docs
- Anki spaced repetition memorization software
- Opte Project
- LongURL: expand any shortened URL
- WebCite
- Inter-continental undersea cables: cablemap, submarinecablemap
- Lloyd's satellite constellations
- solarized - by ethan schoonover
- ASPRS LAS 1.4 r12 pdf
LaTeX
- TeX StackExchange
- LaTeX Font Catalogue
- LaTeX wikibooks, useful as an online reference.
- Good conceptual introduction of various TeX components: levels of TeX
- Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed., Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly
sudoku
- Minimum Sudoku solved: brute force shows no unique puzzles exist with only 16 hints
- http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/sudoku/exactcovermatrix.htm Exact Cover Matrix for 9x9 Sudoku
algorithms
UB
URGE papers
- Approximation algorithms for a geometric set cover problem, Discrete Applied Mathematics, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2011.11.023 (in press)