SQL, Especialy MySQL, Resources
Mike Dobson’s Squeek Machine reference pages, including clips of SQL code for MySQL. FAQts.com’s mySQL resources. Sanders Kaufman explains how to use MSAccess as a frontend for MySQL databases.
Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird
For Firefox: Mozedit text editor extension. Adblock and Flash Click to View to civilize commercial websites, and Linky and Magpie for chasing links and saving tabs. Spiderzilla for mirroring. Firesomething for rebranding. MiniT-drag enables tab rearrangement. Sort your bookmarks. Many more.
IceWM
IceWM theme creation HowTo. Jeff Covey’s “How to Create and Use Themes” page (cross-window-manager information — more on implementing than creating).
Images
Mars Rover images — here, too. Normalized Playboy centerfolds. A daily photo from a farm. A great deal of ASCII art and information about its history and production. The Untitled Project.
Hoarding
“Behind Closed Doors”: Garbage houses in the Twin Cities. A garbage house in Folsom, California. Residential hoarding in Fairfax County, Virginia. Understanding hoarding. “Saving the World” by Fred Penzel. The Usenet group alt.recovery.clutter at Google.
Things
Afghani war rugs. The Classic and Antique Bicycle Exchange. A gallery of Band-Aid boxes. Photos of toy cars in real parking places. Matchstick rockets. Death Stick hammers. The first computer bug. Embedded optic fiber yields translucent concrete.
Flora
Help on growing ornamentals that are native to your (US) region. A weblog that is occasionally about gardening in Minnesota. Digitized rare botanical books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanical illustrations from the University of Delaware Special Collections. Botanical illustrations by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women. The National Agricultural Library’s collection of images from The Botanical Magazine, 1801-1807. The beginnings of the Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations. Links and bibliography about botanical illustration at Western Washington University.
Images
Mars Rover images — here, too. Normalized Playboy centerfolds. A daily photo from a farm. A great deal of ASCII art and information about its history and production. The Untitled Project.
Computing
Steve Litt on Windows-to-Linux conversion — including good advice and assistance for transforming ugly Windows filenames (like Copy (3) of My Letter.DOC) so that they can more easily be manipulated at the command line. Also tips for batch-converting DOS text to Unix text. Archives of alt.msdos.batch.nt at Google Groups. SpinRite data recovery utility. The Ultimate Boot CD. Memtest86. Aida32 system information utility. BitTorrent. Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years. Establish a direct connection (parallel or serial cable) between two computers running Windows. An introduction to GNU Screen. Some shell scripting tricks (pushd, popd, etc.). GNU utilities for Win32. It’s a DOS Life — includes links to a lot of proprietary DOS software. DOSBox is an alternative to DOSEmu that was built with games in mind, but WordPerfect runs, too. Better than in DOSEmu? SDF Public Access Unix System. A Debian 2.6 Kernel HowTo.