Fave links
There are other parts of my Web pages that deal with links in
specific areas. These include:
Please refer to those sections if that's what you're
after. These links are things that don't easily fit in those
categories.
These links are things I find fun, useful and
interesting. They're in no particular order
Local stuff
CSE
- School of Comp Sci and Eng
- The School I am part of.
- Local Info @ CSE
- Local info and guides
- Computer Graphics
- A subject I tutor (and I love it).
UNSW
- UNSW home page
- My Uni!
- Library at UNSW
- Online access to the catalogue, databases and other cool stuff.
Reference
Search Engines
- Yahoo!
- Hierarchical index of Web sites. Good if you are looking
for something popular or general.
- AltaVista
- Search-based info on Web sites. Good if you are looking
for something specific or rare.
Dictionaries
- Hypertext Webster Interface
-
Useful for quickly looking up a word.
Entertainment
Television
- What's on
TV in Australia
- A day-by-day TV guide for major cities in Oz.
- Official Babylon 5 Home
Page
- Home of a very original TV show.
- Lurker's
Guide to B5
- An episode-by-episode guide.
Comics
- Dilbert
- Scott Adams'
comic strip about working in an IT company. From my limited
experience, frighteningly accurate.
- User
Friendly
- Yet another comic about working in the IT
industry -- this time at an ISP. Has an
artificial intelligence (Erwin) and a dust puppy(?).
Fun & Silly
- Useless Fact of the Day
- Aaron's Quotes
Deaf links
- Australian Deaf
Directory
- Has contact details and information about the Deaf community
in Australia
- Deaf World Web
- Useful index of deaf organisations and Web pages around
the world.
Research
Techniques, hints, etc
-
Tim Menzies' Students' Guides
- Great stuff! Info on how
to construct logical arguments, what to do at conferences and
more!
Searches and abstracts
- UNSW
Library Electronic Resources
- INSPEC search
- INSPEC is one of the standard article indexes for
computing and engineering. Note: This link only works
from within the UNSW campus network.
Computers
Security and Impacts
- RISKS archive
- The comp.risks archives: A very interesting and important read on
the security and social impacts of computing. You may also wish to
check the comp.risks newsgroup.
News
- Anchordesk
- A reliable source of information updated daily.
- Slashdot
- News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Operating Systems
BeOS
- Be Incorporated
- A revolutionary new OS that starts from scratch and
thus does not have the baggage of Windows, MacOS or Unix.
- BeDope
- 'Cos Be people have a sense of humour too. If only other
OS users were this light-hearted ...
Linux
- FreshMeat
- A comprehensive list of Linux projects; updated daily (!!).
-
- Redhat Linux
- The easiest Linux installation system, in my opinion, of course.
PalmOS and PalmPilot
- 3Com PalmPilot Home
- The Official PalmPilot Home Page. Good for updates and
stuff.
- Ray's
PalmPilot Software Archive
- A very useful archive of
third-party software available for the PalmPilot.
Programming
Java
- Java Home at Sun
- Gamelan
-
A good index of java class libraries, tools, etc.
- ObjectSpace
- Home of the Java Generic Library, a really nice library of
containers and algorithm.
- How to optimize Java
-
Good, useful, practical articles.
Perl
- www.perl.com
- Some good info on Perl, a great "glue" language for
connecting lots of little bits of code.
HTML
- HTML Reference Manual
-
Courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories.
VRML
- Cosmo Software
- Home of CosmoPlayer, plus lots of useful stuff, like
object libraries.
- VRML Repository (Sydney Mirror)
- Another great reference, with tutorials, etc.
- VRML
2.0 Tutorial (Sydney Mirror)
- A nice, easy intro to VRML 2.0
- VRML 2.0
Standards
- Useful for tracking down node properties etc.
Mohammed Waleed Kadous
Last modified: Tue Dec 15 11:02:15 EST 1998