Tutorials, Tips, and Links

Linux, Mac OS X, Unix & Assorted Open Source Resources and Blogs

• Linux Home Networking - A very comprehensive, detailed, cross-distribution reference.
• Ubuntu as Mac File and Time Machine Server - Explains how to get Linux boxes to work with the Mac Bonjour resource discovery protocol.
• Ubuntu on the ASUS EEE PC. The ASUS is surprisingly unfriendly to the two major Linux distribution. It might be easier to just get an HP or Dell, which have better keyboards anyway.
• Classic Unix Tips and Tricks.
• Learn 10 good Unix habits.
• Learn 10 more good Unix habits.
• I, Cringely.
• A. P. Lawrence.
• Coding Horror.
• Mini ITX. I'm really getting into this concept of super-small, super-low-cost, super-low-power Linux boxes.
• Lucid Imagination, an authoritative site on Lucene, Nutch, Solr and other search topics.
• Search Engine Watch
• Hosting Review.

Lore

• History of Unix.
• Interview with Jon Postel.
• 1968 demo of the first PC and mouse by Doug Englebart, with video.
• Collosal Cave Adventure, the original computer role-playing game.
• Space Wars, A Windows implementation of the classic arcade implementation of the very first video game.
• Dan Bricklin Visicalc page, with a downloadable executable.
• Death of the Hobbyist Game Programmer.
• 100 Common Basic Programs
• The Tao of Programming.
• Real Programmers Dont Use Fortran, Either.
• Apollo 11 program alarms. Another saga of ancient computing.
• Microsoft - The Next Generation.

Projects

• SierraPundit. A guide to the active outdoor lifestyle in Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada.
• The Solar Idealist.Solar and alternative energy activism in the Reno-Tahoe area.