bookmarks
a collection of bookmarks I find useful
*nix
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
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
- 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
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
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)