Christopher B. Browne's Home Page
cbbrowne@gmail.com
- Table of Contents
- I. Overview Info
- Christopher B. Browne's Home Page
- 1. Home Page
- Legal Notice
- 1. Legal Notice Stuff
- Advocacy Page
- II. Personal Stuff
- My Family
- 1. "The Four" - Browne Brothers
- 2. Parents
- 3. Non-Relatives with Remarkably Similar
Names
- Funny Stuff
- 1. Canadian Humourists
- 2. General Humour
- 3. Just Odd Stuff
- 4. Stupidity and Accidents
- 5. The 10 Axioms of Stupidity
- 6. Disclaimer to be used when purchasing software
- 7. Things that ought to be fortunes...
- 8. The 21 Worst
Things to Say to a Police Officer
- 9. Responding To Dumb Requests For Help With Homework Assignments
- 10. The TV Philosophy of Life
- 11. Best-ever resignation letter(An actual letter sent by a fed up U.S
employee)
- Personal History
- 1. Intro
- 2. Education
- 3. Since School
- Hobby-Type-Stuff
- 1. Fountain Pens
- 2. Model Rocketry
- Music
- 1. Choral Music
- 2. Instrumental Music - French
Horn
- 3. Christian Music
- 4. Computer Music and MP3-related Links
- 5. Other Music Links
- Spiritual/Church Involvements
- 1. Church Involvements
- 2. Apologetics
- 3. Bible Study Links
- 4. Other Christian Web Links
- 5. Bible Codes - Have Appropriate
Skepticism
- 6. More Conspiracies...
- 7. Prophecy and Apocalyptic Times
- 8. Spiritual Implications of Year 2000
- Valley Ranch Baptist Church
- Canada
- 1. General Canadiana
- 2. Politics and Economics
- 3. University of Waterloo
- 4. National Anthem (in French)
- 5. Immigration Pages
- 6. You Know You're Canadian When...
- 7. Toronto Stuff
- Texas
- 1. What about Texas?
- Science Fiction Literature
- 1. Dune
- 2. Generic SF Links
- 3. Heinlein
- 4. Movies and TV
- 5. The Prisoner
- 6. David Brin versus Star Wars
- 7. Other SF Stuff
- Travel Links
- 1. General Travel Servers
- 2. Dining
- 3. Travel Tips
- 4. Travel Equipment/Clothing Vendors
- 5. GPS
- 6. The India Trip
- III. Professional Involvements
- What are my Professional Involvements?
- Resume Pointers
- Publishing Links
- 1. My Publications
- 2. Publishing Links
- 3. Library Tools
- Head Hunter Links
- 1. Head Hunter Listing...
- 2. Linux Hunters
- 3. SAP Hunters
- 4. Consulting Ideas
- CORS - Canadian Operational Research Society
- Operational Research Bookmark File
- 1. Operational Research
- 2. Crossreferences to Major OR Web
Pages
- 3. Linear/Nonlinear Programming
- 4. Constraint Logic Programming (CLP)
- 5. Products
- 6. Software Libraries
- 7. OR Companies/Organizations
- 8. Other OR stuff that is not readily
classified
- 9. Techniques
- Corporate Takeovers and Merger Mania
- What Do I Do for a Living?
- IV. General Computing
- Computing and Computer Science
- 1. Data Structures and Algorithms
- 2. Exception Management Schemes
- 3. Memory Management Schemes
- 4. Architecture
- 5. Just Obscure...
- CORBA and Object Technologies
- 1. CORBA
- 2. CORBA Implementations
- 3. CORBA Language Mappings
- 4. Other CORBA Services
- 5. CORBA Documentation
- 6. Other CORBA Samples
- 7. Alternatives to CORBA
- 8. Object Oriented and Event Driven
Programming
- 9. UML - Unified Modelling Language
- CORBA and Object Technologies
- 1. SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
- Computer Languages
- 1. General Language Links
- 2. The C Family
- 3. Algol
- 4. The PASCAL Family of Languages
- 5. COBOL
- 6. Smalltalk
- 7. Functional Programming Languages
- 8. Other Families of Languages
- 9. Dylan
- 10. Prolog
- 11. ABAP/4
- 12. Assembly Language
- 13. Macro Programming Systems
- 14. Compiler Construction Tools
- 15. Programming Tools and IDEs
- Lisp
- 1. Lisp and Its Kin
- 2. Common Lisp
- 3. Scheme
- 4. Other Lisps
- 5. Miscellaneous Lisp Advocacy
- 6. Lisp-based OSes
- Java
- 1. Java and Distributed Computing
- Bytecode Systems
- 1. About Bytecode
- Scripting Languages
- 1. Scripting Languages
- 2. Perl
- 3. Python
- 4. TCL and Tk
- 5. REXX
- 6. Ruby: A Gem of a Language
- 7. AWK
- 8. Lua
- 9. ECMAScript
- 10. Other Scripting Languages
- 11. Miscellaneous Shell Stuff
- Mathematical Matters
- 1. Mathematics and Computing
- V. Computing and Political Advocacy
- Linux and Decentralized Development
- 1. Motivation - Why is Centralization an Issue?
- 2. Organization Models in the Linux
Community
- 3. Mandates and Purposes of a Linux
Foundation
- 4. In the Interim - Your Fair Share
- 5. Free Software
- 6. Related Literature
- 7. Patents: Yet Another Problem
- 8. Credits
- The Economics of Free Software
- 1. The Crucial Economic Freedom of Free Software: No
Licensing Fees
- 2. Problem - Recovery of Sunk Costs
- 3. Some Economic Fallacies
- 4. Associate Charges With Costs
- 5. Organizational Changes
- 6. Points of View: Trying to Gain
Perspective
- 7. Other Free Software Economics References
- Free Software (Gift) Exchange Registry - FSEx
- 1. Why the Free Software (Gift) Exchange Registry?
- 2. Free Software (Gift) Exchange Registry
Methodology
- 3. Questions and Answers
- Microsoft... It's a Problem...
- 1. Would you want to use these tools?
- 2. Why Microsoft Might Actually "Crash"
- 3. MS W95 Tuning...
- 4. Computer Piracy
- 5. Humor at Microsoft's Expense
- 6. General Anti-MS Links
- VI. Operating System-Centric Computing
- The Linux Operating System
- 1. A Brief History of Linux
- 2. Linux Information Sources
- 3. Advanced Linux "Research Areas"
- 4. My Linux Projects
- 5. Linux CPU Architecture
- 6. Linux Networking Links
- 7. Fannish/Advocacy Linux Stuff
- 8. Linux Entertainments
- 9. Linux and Christian Stuff
- The Unix Operating System
- 1. The Unix Philosophy
- 2. Unix Trademark and Standards
- 3. Unix FAQs and General Resources
- 4. Unix Shells - csh, ksh, bash, zsh, ...
- 5. Unix Hardware Vendors
- 6. Interoperability Tools
- 7. Networking Stuff
- 8. Unix-based Faxing
- 9. Unix-based Alphanumeric Paging
- 10. Random Unix Links
- 11. 4.4 BSD Lite-based Operating Systems
- 12. init
- 13. NFS - Network File System
- 14. Unix Haters
- 15. List of Unix Variants
- Research and Experimental
Operating Systems
- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 2. Terry Lambert's Top Ten List For A
Non-Proprietary OS
- 3. Microkernel-based OS Efforts
- 4. GNU Hurd
- 5. Not-quite-Unix-Like OSes
- 6. VMS
- 7. Novel OS Work
- 8. Multics
- 9. Various PC Oses
- The Linux Kernel
- 1. Microkernels - MkLinux
- 2. File Systems
- 3. Defragmentation - A Frequently Asked Question
- 4. Memory Fragmentation
- 5. SMP and Clustering
- A Taxonomy of Linux Distributions
- 1. Linux Distributions
- 2. Red Hat Linux
- 3. Debian
- 4. Slackware
- 5. S.u.S.E. Linux
- 6. Network Device Linux Distributions
- 7. Embedded/Tiny Linux Distributions
- 8. End User Linux Distributions
- 9. Attempts at "Secure" Linux Distributions
- 10. Linux Distributions for Special Platforms
- 11. Miscellanea
- Linux System Configuration Tools
- 1. Linux System Configuration Tools
- 2. Package Management Tools
- 3. System State Analysis
- 4. Multiplexing Configuration Managers
- 5. cfengine
- 6. Other Configuration Tools
- 7. Configuration Storage Schemes
- 8. Backup Strategies
- Linux and Year 2000
- 1. Linux and Year 2000 (Y2K)
- 2. Things to Avoid at the End of 1999
- 3. The Telephone Problem
- 4. The 2038 Problem
- 5. Patents and Y2K
- Running Linux on Digital Alpha Systems
- 1. Digital Alpha Systems
- 2. Alpha UDB/Multia System Configuration
- 3. Inadequacies of this
Configuration
- 4. Home Pages of Some People Running
UDBs
- 5. Credits
- Linux VARS
- 1. Linux VARS (Value Added Resellers)
- 2. Vendor Lists
- 3. Server Vendors
- 4. Linux Rack Mounts
- 5. Vendors of (primarily) Desktop Systems
- 6. Vendors of "Thin Clients"
- 7. Vendors of IA-32 Systems
- 8. Specialists in Linux Systems Based on Non-IA-32
Architectures
- 9. International Vendors
- 10. XTerminals/Network Computer Hardware
- 11. Embedded Systems
- 12. Other Stuff...
- Linux Commercial Endeavors
- 1. General Vendors
- 2. Vendors of Linux Distributions
- 3. System Software
- 4. Applications
- 5. Other Software
- 6. Documentation/Books
- 7. Games
- 8. Hardware
- 9. Consulting Groups/Service Providers
- 10. Linux Certification Programs
- 11. Other Linux Commercial Organizations
- Printing Under Linux
- 1. Frequently Asked Printing Questions
- 2. HP PCL References
- 3. Miscellaneous Printing Links
- 4. Printing Frameworks
- Hardware I Use with Linux and Other Free Software
- 1. Hardware Introduction
- 2. chvatal: Homebuilt AMD K7 Duron Server
- 3. knuth: HomeBrew AMD 64
- 4. GrabBag of Hardware...
- 5. godel: IBM Intellistation Pro Z
- 6. dantzig: Digital Alpha

- 7. salesman: AMD-based Toshiba Satellite 2105CDS Laptop
- 8. wolfe: AMD5x86-133 VLB System
- 9. On the Road
- 10. escher: UMAX PPC/603e

- 11. Lenovo Thinkpad X60s
- 12. 64 Bit Linux and Merced
- 13. Other Experimental Platforms for Linux
- 14. Building a Linux Box
- 15. Buses
- The X Window System
- 1. Introduction to X
- 2. Frequently Asked Questions
- 3. X Servers
- 4. Desktop Components
- 5. Window Managers
- 6. Program/File Managers
- 7. GNOME - GNU Network Object Model
Environment
- 8. K Desktop Environment - KDE
- 9. The KDE/GNOME Controversy
- 10. KDE and GNOME: Neither Is A Standard
- 11. X Desktop Configuration
- 12. X Applications (Clients)
- 13. X Font Tools
- 14. X Development Tools
- 15. GGI - General Graphical Interface
- 16. On the Thesis that X is Big/Bloated/Obsolete and Should Be
Replaced
- 17. My Overall View Of X
- 18. Network Computing
- 19. My Xterm/Network Computing Experiences
- 20. X11R6.4 Sample Implementation Changes and
Concerns
- 21. XWindows
- 22. User Interface Discussions
- 23. RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol
- 24. CURSES and other Text-based User
Interfacing
- Linux Myth Dispeller
- VII. Security-Oriented Computing
- Information Security
- 1. Intro
- 2. Unix and Network Security
- 3. Official Security Sites
- 4. The Political Side
- 5. Security Issues Not Yet Well Hierarchicalized
- 6. A Good News Article Summarizing Linux Security
Vulnerabilities
- Cryptography for Information Security
- 1. My PGP Key
- 2. PGP Web Links
- 3. Data Security and Cryptography
- VIII. Databases
- RDBMS - Relational Database Management Systems
- 1. Other RDBMS Web Resources for Linux
- 2. Database Classifications
- 3. SQL Databases
- 4. SQL Database Tools
- 5. xBase Databases
- 6. Other Linux Databases
- 7. The Third Manifesto
- 8. Other Database Stuff
- NonRelational Database Systems
- 1. Variations on DBM
- 2. Various Keyed ISAM DBMS Systems
- 3. Object Oriented Databases
- 4. Database Systems That Don't Fit Other Classifications
- PostgreSQL
- 1. PostgreSQL
- 2. Backing up PostgreSQL Databases
- 1. Introduction
- 2. QuickStart Guide to Tuning PostgreSQL
- 3. Managing System Resources
- 4. Memory Usage
- 5. Disk Usage
- 6. CPU Usage
- 7. Network Usage
- 8. Varying Database Workloads
- 9. Tuning SQL Queries
- 10. Creating Indices
- 11. Using pl/pgsql
- 12. Other References on Performance Tuning
- 13. Other Performance Tuning Literature
- IX. Slony-I Administration
- 1. Introduction to Slony-I
- 2. Slony-I Communications
Costs
- 3. System Requirements
- 4. Slony-I Installation
- 5. Slony-I Concepts
- 6. Defining Slony-I Clusters
- 7. Defining Slony-I Replication Sets
- 1. Replicating Your First Database
- 2. Slony-I "Best Practices"
- 3. Slon daemons
- 4. Subscribing Nodes
- 5. Monitoring
- 6. Slony-I Maintenance
- 7. Reshaping a Cluster
- 8. Doing switchover and failover with Slony-I
- 9. Slony-I listen paths
- 10. Slony-I Path Communications
- 11. Locking Issues
- 12. A Task-Oriented View of Slony-I
- 13. Dropping things from Slony-I Replication
- 14. Log Shipping - Slony-I with Files
- 15. Database Schema Changes (DDL)
- 16. Using Slonik
- 17. Embedding Slonik in Shell Scripts
- 18. Not Using Slonik - Bare Metal Slony-I
Functions
- 19. Slony-I Administration Scripts
- 20. Slony-I Upgrade
- 21. Using Slony-I for PostgreSQL Upgrades
- 22. Slony-I Test Bed Framework
- 23. Log Analysis
- 24. More Slony-I Help
- X. Core Slony-I Programs
- slon -- Slony-I daemon
- 1. Logging
- 2. Connection settings
- 3. Archive Logging Options
- 4. Event Tuning
- slonik -- Slony-I command processor
- 1. Introduction
- I. Slonik Meta Commands
- INCLUDE -- pulling in slonik code from another file
- DEFINE -- Defining a named symbol
- II. Slonik Preamble Commands
- CLUSTER NAME -- preamble - identifying Slony-I cluster
- ADMIN CONNINFO -- preamble - identifying PostgreSQL database
- III. Configuration and Action commmands
- ECHO -- Generic output tool
- EXIT -- Terminate Slonik script with signal
- INIT CLUSTER -- Initialize Slony-I cluster
- STORE NODE -- Initialize Slony-I node
- DROP NODE -- Remove the node from participating in the replication
- UNINSTALL NODE -- Decommission Slony-I node
- RESTART NODE -- Restart Slony-I node
- STORE
PATH -- Configure Slony-I node connection
- DROP PATH -- Delete Slony-I connection information
- STORE LISTEN -- Configure Slony-I node to
indicate where to listen for events
- DROP LISTEN -- Eliminate configuration indicating how
Slony-I node listens for events
- TABLE ADD KEY -- Add primary key for use by
Slony-I for a table with no suitable
key
- CREATE SET -- Create Slony-I replication
set
- DROP SET -- Discard Slony-I
replication set
- MERGE
SET -- Merge Slony-I replication
sets together
- SET ADD TABLE -- Add a table to a Slony-I
replication set
- SET ADD SEQUENCE -- Add a sequence to a
Slony-I replication set
- SET DROP TABLE -- Remove a table from a
Slony-I replication set
- SET DROP SEQUENCE -- Remove a sequence from a
Slony-I replication set
- SET MOVE
TABLE -- Move a table from one
Slony-I replication set to another
- SET MOVE SEQUENCE -- Move a sequence from one
Slony-I replication set to another
- STORE TRIGGER -- Indicate that a trigger should not be disabled by
Slony-I on a subscriber node
- DROP TRIGGER -- Return a trigger to default behavior, where it will
not fire on subscriber nodes
- SUBSCRIBE SET -- Start replication of Slony-I set
- UNSUBSCRIBE SET -- End replication of Slony-I set
- LOCK SET -- Guard Slony-I replication
set to prepare for MOVE SET
- UNLOCK SET -- Unlock a Slony-I set that was locked
- MOVE SET -- Change origin of a Slony-I
replication set
- FAILOVER -- Fail a broken replication set over to a backup node
- EXECUTE SCRIPT -- Execute SQL/DDL script
- UPDATE FUNCTIONS -- Reload stored functions
- WAIT FOR EVENT -- Have Slonik script wait for previous event to
complete
- REPAIR CONFIG -- Resets the name-to-oid mapping of tables in a replication set, useful for restoring a node after a pg_dump.
- SYNC -- Generate an ordinary SYNC event
- SLEEP -- Sleep using system
sleep() - CLONE PREPARE -- Prepare for cloning a node.
- CLONE FINISH -- Complete cloning a node.
- 1. Schema schemadoc
- 1.1. Table:
sl_config_lock - 1.2. Table:
sl_confirm - 1.3. Table:
sl_event - 1.4. Table:
sl_listen - 1.5. Table:
sl_log_1 - 1.6. Table:
sl_log_2 - 1.7. Table:
sl_node - 1.8. Table:
sl_nodelock - 1.9. Table:
sl_path - 1.10. Table:
sl_registry - 1.11. View:
sl_seqlastvalue - 1.12. Table:
sl_seqlog - 1.13. Table:
sl_sequence - 1.14. Table:
sl_set - 1.15. Table:
sl_setsync - 1.16. Table:
sl_subscribe - 1.17. Table:
sl_table - 1.18. Table:
sl_trigger - 1.19. add_missing_table_field( text, text, text, text )
- 1.20. addpartiallogindices( )
- 1.21. altertableforreplication( integer )
- 1.22. altertablerestore( integer )
- 1.23. checkmoduleversion( )
- 1.24. cleanupevent( )
- 1.25. cleanupnodelock( )
- 1.26. copyfields( integer )
- 1.27. createevent( name, text )
- 1.28. createevent( name, text, text )
- 1.29. createevent( name, text, text, text )
- 1.30. createevent( name, text, text, text, text )
- 1.31. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text )
- 1.32. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text )
- 1.33. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
- 1.34. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
- 1.35. createevent( name, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text )
- 1.36. ddlscript_complete( integer, text, integer )
- 1.37. ddlscript_complete_int( integer, integer )
- 1.38. ddlscript_prepare( integer, integer )
- 1.39. ddlscript_prepare_int( integer, integer )
- 1.40. denyaccess( )
- 1.41. determineattkindserial( text )
- 1.42. determineattkindunique( text, name )
- 1.43. determineidxnameserial( text )
- 1.44. determineidxnameunique( text, name )
- 1.45. disablenode( integer )
- 1.46. disablenode_int( integer )
- 1.47. droplisten( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.48. droplisten_int( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.49. dropnode( integer )
- 1.50. dropnode_int( integer )
- 1.51. droppath( integer, integer )
- 1.52. droppath_int( integer, integer )
- 1.53. dropset( integer )
- 1.54. dropset_int( integer )
- 1.55. droptrigger( integer, name )
- 1.56. droptrigger_int( integer, name )
- 1.57. enablenode( integer )
- 1.58. enablenode_int( integer )
- 1.59. enablesubscription( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.60. enablesubscription_int( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.61. failednode( integer, integer )
- 1.62. failednode2( integer, integer, integer, bigint, bigint )
- 1.63. failoverset_int( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.64. forwardconfirm( integer, integer, bigint, timestamp without time zone )
- 1.65. generate_sync_event( interval )
- 1.66. getlocalnodeid( name )
- 1.67. getmoduleversion( )
- 1.68. getsessionrole( name )
- 1.69. initializelocalnode( integer, text )
- 1.70. killbackend( integer, text )
- 1.71. lockedset( )
- 1.72. lockset( integer )
- 1.73. logswitch_finish( )
- 1.74. logswitch_start( )
- 1.75. logswitch_weekly( )
- 1.76. logtrigger( )
- 1.77. mergeset( integer, integer )
- 1.78. mergeset_int( integer, integer )
- 1.79. moveset( integer, integer )
- 1.80. moveset_int( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.81. reachablefromnode( integer, integer[] )
- 1.82. rebuildlistenentries( )
- 1.83. registernodeconnection( integer )
- 1.84. registry_get_int4( text, integer )
- 1.85. registry_get_text( text, text )
- 1.86. registry_get_timestamp( text, timestamp without time zone )
- 1.87. registry_set_int4( text, integer )
- 1.88. registry_set_text( text, text )
- 1.89. registry_set_timestamp( text, timestamp without time zone )
- 1.90. sequencelastvalue( text )
- 1.91. sequencesetvalue( integer, integer, bigint, bigint )
- 1.92. setaddsequence( integer, integer, text, text )
- 1.93. setaddsequence_int( integer, integer, text, text )
- 1.94. setaddtable( integer, integer, text, name, text )
- 1.95. setaddtable_int( integer, integer, text, name, text )
- 1.96. setdropsequence( integer )
- 1.97. setdropsequence_int( integer )
- 1.98. setdroptable( integer )
- 1.99. setdroptable_int( integer )
- 1.100. setmovesequence( integer, integer )
- 1.101. setmovesequence_int( integer, integer )
- 1.102. setmovetable( integer, integer )
- 1.103. setmovetable_int( integer, integer )
- 1.104. setsessionrole( name, text )
- 1.105. slon_quote_brute( text )
- 1.106. slon_quote_input( text )
- 1.107. slonyversion( )
- 1.108. slonyversionmajor( )
- 1.109. slonyversionminor( )
- 1.110. slonyversionpatchlevel( )
- 1.111. storelisten( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.112. storelisten_int( integer, integer, integer )
- 1.113. storenode( integer, text, boolean )
- 1.114. storenode_int( integer, text, boolean )
- 1.115. storepath( integer, integer, text, integer )
- 1.116. storepath_int( integer, integer, text, integer )
- 1.117. storeset( integer, text )
- 1.118. storeset_int( integer, integer, text )
- 1.119. storetrigger( integer, name )
- 1.120. storetrigger_int( integer, name )
- 1.121. subscribeset( integer, integer, integer, boolean )
- 1.122. subscribeset_int( integer, integer, integer, boolean )
- 1.123. tableaddkey( text )
- 1.124. tabledropkey( integer )
- 1.125. tablehasserialkey( text )
- 1.126. terminatenodeconnections( integer )
- 1.127. uninstallnode( )
- 1.128. unlockset( integer )
- 1.129. unsubscribeset( integer, integer )
- 1.130. unsubscribeset_int( integer, integer )
- 1.131. updaterelname( integer, integer )
- 1.132. updatereloid( integer, integer )
- 1.133. upgradeschema( text )
- Index
- XI. Business Oriented Computing
- Finances, Linux, and Stuff...
- 1. Personal Financial Background
- 2. Linux-based Financial Software
- 3. CBB - Check Book Balancer
- 4. Other Personal Finance Packages for Linux
- 5. Free Tax Software
- 6. Proprietary Business Finance Software For Linux
- 7. Software for Investment Analysis
- 8. Free Software for Business Accounting
- 9. Vaprous Financial Software
- 10. Miscellaneous Financial Stuff For Linux
- 11. EDI
- 12. Other (non-Linux-based) Financial Software
- 13. Data Formats
- 14. Taxation
- 15. Other General Finance Stuff
- GnuCash
- 1. GnuCash
- Linux Spreadsheets
- 1. Historical Background of Spreadsheets
- 2. Free Linux-Based Spreadsheets
- 3. Commercial Linux
Spreadsheets
- 4. Other Spreadsheet Tools for
Linux
- SAP R/3 - A 3 Tier Client/Server ERP System
- 1. SAP-Sponsored Sites
- 2. SAP "News"
- 3. R/3 "Resource" Pages
- 4. Third-Party Products that Link to R/3
- 5. Consulting Firms that do R/3
- 6. SAP Support for Linux
- 7. Some technical stuff...
- 8. Some critical CTS stuff
- Application Frameworks
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Wild-Eyed Ideas
- 3. Query and Reporting Tools
- 4. "Middleware" - Interfaces to
Databases
- 5. Transaction Processing Monitors
- Personal Information Management Systems
- 1. Palm Computing
- 2. Interoperability of PIMS with Unix/Linux
- 3. Linux Scheduling Tools and vSchedule
- 4. Linux PIM Stuff
- 5. Various Conceptual Approaches to
Personal Information Management
- 6. Scheduling and Project Management
- 7. GTD - Getting Things Done
- 8. Hipster PDA
- 9. Other Links/Info
- Mac Matters
- 1. MacOS
- XII. Internet-Related Computing
- The Internet
- 1. Overview of Internet Standards/Documentation
- 2. HTTP - The Protocol of the World Wide
Web
- 3. Mail/SMTP
- 4. Internet: News - NNTP
- 5. Time Synchronization
- 6. Other Protocols
- 7. Internet Service Providers
- 8. The Information Stuporhighway
- 9. Filtering
- Internet Data Filtering Talk - October 11, 1997
- 1. Internet Data Filtering Talk
- 2. Overview
- 3. Why Filter?
- 4. Why is Linux Good for Filtering?
- 5. How to Filter
- 6. Mail Filtering
- 7. News Filtering
- 8. Web Filtering
- Web Agents
- 1. Web Agents/Robots
- XIII. Document Oriented Computing
- Document Formats
- 1. Document Presentation
Languages
- 2. LaTeX and TeX
- 3. Postscript
- 4. What Does Chris Use?
- Linux Word Processing
- 1. Linux Development Projects for Free Word
Processors
- 2. DTP - Desktop Publishing
- 3. Proprietary Word Processors for Linux
- 4. Running "Foreign" Word Processors on Linux
via Emulation
- 5. An Opinionated Discussion About Word
Processors
- 6. An Alternative Approach: Text
Editor/Presentation Language
- 7. How to Use Inelegant Systems Intelligently
- 8. Crossreferences
- SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
- 1. Introduction to SGML - Standard
Generalized Markup Language
- 2. General Information about SGML and
Related Standards/Languages
- 3. Vendors of SGML Products
- 4. Other SGML-Related Standards
- 5. XML
- 6. Free SGML Tools
- 7. Some Notable DTDs
- 8. DocBook
- 9. Metadata Applications of SGML/XML
- HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Languages and Standards
- 3. Cascading Style Sheets
- 4. HTML Style Issues
- 5. Web Browsers
- 6. HTML Tools
- 7. About Hypertext
- Compound Documents
- 1. OpenDoc
- Text/Document Databases
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Document Management Projects for
Linux
- 3. Search Tools
- 4. Text Analysis Tools
- 5. Web Search Engines
- 6. Structure Tools
- 7. SCM / Document Version Control
- 8. EDMS - Electronic Document Management
Systems
- 9. Integrated Text Database Systems - Lotus
Notes
- Text Editors
- 1. Text Editors
- 2. Emacs
- 3. TECO - The Original "One True Editor"
- 4. VI Clones
- 5. Other Editors
- XIV. Legacy Computing
- Old/Obsolete Computer Stuff
- 1. Atari Stuff
- 2. Various Old OSes and Computing Platforms
- 3. Sun 3 Stuff
- 4. SGI Stuff
- Computer Gaming
- 1. Computer Games and Entertainment
- GnuStep/NeXTstep/OPENSTEP
- 1. GNUStep - A Route Somewhat More Likely to
Succeed
- XV. Ill-Defined, Manifoldly-Connected
- Footnotes
- 1. Linux and Standards Compliance
- 2. Availability of Source Code
- 3. OS Jokes
- 4. The BOGUS Distribution
- 5. MicroChannel Architecture
- 6. Slurping news
- 7. Charismatics
- 8. Liars, **** Liars, Statisticians, and
Benchmarks
- 9. What is the Moscow of New York?
- 10. Hosting
- 11. Belling the Cat
- 12. Apple: Software or Hardware Vendor?
- 13. IBM: Don't Cannibalize My Market!
- 14. WINE Configuration
- 15. Transmeta
- 16. Client/Server Computing
- 17. 32 Bit Computing
- 18. Software "Piracy": Abuse of a Word
- 19. Massive Transformations
- 20. The Holmesian Fallacy
- 21. Godwin's Law
- 22. What's GNU?
- Internet Commerce
- 1. Stuff Resembling Food
- 2. Coffee
- 3. Miscellaneous Computer Commerce
- 4. Other Goods
- 5. Consumer Issues
- 6. Spam Bait
- 7. Taiji / Tai Chi
- Colophon
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