Obscure Links
Table of Contents
- Essential Launch Devices
- Other Obscure Places
- Cool Places
- Going Places in the Real World
- Software Resources
- UNIX and Linux Resources
- Secure Shell Resources
- Mail and Anti-SPAM Resources
- Web authoring Resources
- Perl Resources
- Win32-UNIX porting resources
- Multi-User Dimensions
- Essential Launch Devices
- Other Obscure Places
- Cool Places
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Going Places in the Real World
- MapQuest - maps plus driving directions
- Travelocity - airline reservations
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Software Resources
- The Mozilla Project
- Open Office Project
- Red Hat
- Stroud's CWSApps Windows software directory with reviews
- Walnut Creek Software (ftp.cdrom.com)
- Cheap Bytes - Open Source software CDs for less
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UNIX and Linux Help
- UnixHelp for Users
- LinuxCommand.org - a fine tutorial on shell scripting
- The Unix Reference Desk
- The Linux Archives at iBiblio
- Choosing Good Passwords
- The Bugtraq Mailing list
- See also our SSH section
- SSH (Secure Shell) and Related Programs
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Web Authoring Resources
- The Obscure Web Page Self-Starter Kit
- General References
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C Technical Reports and Publications including the HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, PICS, and PNG specifications. This also has working drafts of standards-in-progress and many other technical documents of interest to deep Web magicians.
- World Wide Web FAQ
- Jaws' HTML Toolkit
- Gamma Correction Home Page
- 10 Myths about Copyright
- Web Pages That Suck (a primer on how to avoid this predicament)
- The Web Page From Hell
- HTML Validation Tools
- Why Validate your HTML
- Yahoo's list of validation tools
- W3C HTML Validation Service - check your HTML syntax.
- HTML Tidy - Clean up invalid HTML (installed on Obscure!)
- Doctor HTML
- Bobby
- Linklint - Check validity of links (installed on Obscure!)
- CGI and Forms
- Perl Resources
- Pythonic Resources
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Win32-UNIX Workalikes and Porting Resources
- Red Hat's Cygwin project (bash, GCC, cvs, openssh, etc. for Win32)
- VIM (Vi IMproved)
- XEmacs has an excellent Win32 port
- GNU Emacs for Win32
- UNIX to NT Resource Center
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Mail and Anti-Spam Resources
- Filtering Spam and Mailing Lists on Obscure
- Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- The Filtering Mail FAQ (procmail is installed on Obscure)
- SpamAssassin (installed on Obscure)
- Vipul's Razor
