Interesting Links
Friday 21 May 2004 at 11:21 pm Spare 15 minutes for this fantastic summary of Troy.She also has a couple of other humourous 15 minute wrap ups of current films.Useful statistics on the state of the world - What if you scaled the worlds population to 100 people and represented it as a Miniature Earth?
Useful book Open Source Development with CVS 3rd Edition is available online.
Advanced Windows file manager - A43 is Another Explorer Alternative. Personally I'm sticking with xplorer2 which seems more stable.
Useful now the sun is out - Summer Fashion Tips for Men from Women or Why Shorts are Bad.
Someone has created a Guide to some of Londons Best Grease Joints where you can get the traditional 'eggbaconchipsandbeans' in the URL.
This is nice - A Gentle introduction to SQL. Also shows you how to run common commands on common databases (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2).
Another guide - Yet Another Perl Tutorial
Open Source bitmap to vector convertor - AutoTrace
Simple regex guide - which tool for which job - The Tao of Regular Expressions. Has simple examples on how to do the same search in sed, awk, grep, egrep and vi.
A few nice Visio (free) Stencils at VisioCafe. Bad layout obscures the fact that there are stencils for HP, EMC, SUN and SGI gear buried in here. This site is actually much more comprehensive (who knew people used Visio to create Dog Agility Stencils?).
These guys have built a Flash based rendition of a MacSE. More details in this Wired article.
