Favourite links

These are links to interesting places, projects & organizations on the Net.

The goal of this list is to provide an highly selected and relatively restricted number of links. Each link, to be included, must be interesting, reliable and mostly no profit. Comments and suggestions are welcome, reports on broken links are really appreciated.

Index of Categories

Links

Books
British Literature.com Anglophile.org	British Literature and Anglophile Resources. This is a resource for British Literature fans, students, and teachers, and for anglophiles in general. Articles on books, eras, periods, history, music, criticism, art.
Concordances of Great Books	A lot of books, with fully searchable word indexes.
Project Gutemberg Index	The goal of the project is to put every book without a pending copyright into electonic format and made it avaiable to everyone. In English.
Liber Liber	Books, in Italian. Also home of Project Manuzio, which is the italian version of Project Gutemberg.
Communication
Asterisk PBX	The open source Linux based PBX.
ETSI	The European Telecommunications Standards Institute, home of GSM & UTMS standards.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Home Page	The ITU is an international organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services.
LinuxTelephony	Bridging the Linux and telephony paths.
MTN SMS	To send free short text messages (SMSs) to GSM mobile phones.
Games
ADOM Central - The Official Website	One of the most detailed computer RPGs ever created.
Flight Gear Flight Simulator	This project is a free, open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project.
freegames.org	Over 400 freeware PC games to download.
Official NetHack Home Page	Congratulations adventurer! Your quest is at an end for you have reached the home of NetHack. Within, the Wizard of Yendor has no power, the Oracle speaks with utmost clarity, and the grid bugs do not bite.
ORBIT	A Freeware Space Combat Simulator.
Tim Mann's Chess Page	Information about GNU Chess, XBoard, WinBoard and related programs.
Home pages
Hofstadter, Douglas [cs.indiana.edu] Hofstadter, Douglas [psych.indiana.edu]	College professor of cognitive science and computer science; adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology.
Knuth, Donald	Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Poccia, Fabrizio	My brother! ;-)
Minsky, Marvin	Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics.
Stallman, Richard	Richard Stallman founded the GNU project in 1984. He is the principal or initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He is the President of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and maintains GNU Emacs.
Stroustrup, Bjarne	Bjarne Stroustrup designed and implemented the C++ programming language.
Internet
Deja	Free web access to the Usenet (i.e. newsgroups).
Internet Scout Project	Surf smarter, not longer. Let the Internet Scout Project show you the way to the best resources on the Internet--then you can choose what's best for you.
The Internet FAQ Consortium	The best place to get & search FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) and RFCs (Request For Comments).
Internet Software Consortium	This is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to developing and maintaining production quality Open Source reference implementations of core Internet protocols.
W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium	The place where HTML, XML, CSS, SMIL & a lot of other WWW standards come. You can get here very interesting official documents in HTML, PostScript & PDF format. There are also translation of the main documents into other languages.
Web Caching	Brian D. Davison's Web Caching Resources
Linux
The Linux Kernel Archives	This is the primary site for the Linux kernel source, but it has much more than just kernels - we have 20 GB of disk space set aside for mirroring the largest Linux-related software archives.
Linux.com	A Linux Community Production. Great Portal.
Linux Online	A free Operative System. It runs on many platforms.
Linux Virtual Server	Virtual server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers. The architecture of the cluster is transparent to end users, and the users see only a single virtual server.
Linux Weekly News	Bringing you the latest news from the Linux World. Dedicated to keeping Linux users up-to-date, with concise news for all interests.
LinuxHQ	Good for kernel source & patch.
Rpmfind.Net	A good searchable index of RPMs.
The Blackdown Organization	Home of the Java-Linux porting project.
The Silicon Valley Linux User Group	The Silicon Valley Linux User Group (SVLUG) is the oldest and one of the largest Linux user groups in the world.
Music
Harmony Central	One of the biggest resource for computer & music.
International Lyrics Server	Amazingly comprehensive archive of lyrics searchable by artist, album and song.
OLGA Home Page	The On-Line Guitar Archive is a library of files that show you how to play songs on guitar.
News
Slashdot	News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
Programming
DJGPP	A free C/C++ DOS DPMI compiler.
genetic-programming.org	A source of information about the field of genetic programming
Java Home	All you need to learn & use the Java programming language.
LCC-Win32	A free compiler system for Windows
OMG	The Object Management Group, standards for Object Oriented Programming (OOP). Here you can find CORBA & UML specifications.
PERL.COM - The Source for Perl	The Source for Perl, an interpreted high-level programming language.
The Perl Institute	This is a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping Perl available, usable, and free for all.
Python Language Website	Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.
SourceForge	This is a free service to Open Source developers offering easy access to the best in CVS, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total web-based administration.
sourceware.cygnus.com	Free the Software! Projects: EGCS, Cygwin, etc.
Science
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery.
AI-related FAQs	Frequently Asked Questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Life (AL) & lots of related stuff.
ALife.org	ALife.org just started out trying to be the number 1 web site for ALife information.
Artificial Life On-line	Santa Fe Institute documents & software about Artificial Life (AL).
Complexity On-line	This is a scientific information network about complex systems. You will find access to sites, publications (including the Complexity On-line Journal) and other sources of interest.
arXiv.org e-Print archive	Mathematical, Physical, Nonlinear Sciences & Computer Science e-Print archive. Huge and updated.
EcoLab	Ecolab is both the name of a software package and a research project that is looking at the dynamics of evolution.
Eric's Treasure Troves of Science	Here, you will find the extensive on-line encyclopedias of math and science compiled by web encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics	This is (one of) the web's most complete mathematics resource, assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities.
Mathematics Archives WWW Server	The goal of the Mathematics Archives is to provide organized Internet access to a wide variety of mathematical resources.
NCSTRL	Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.
The Open Lab	This is a not-for-profit foundation established to sponsor open collaborations in research and software development in the scientific field of molecular bioinformatics.
Periodic Table of the Elements	This table gives information about the chemical elements.
Quantitative Population Ecology	On-Line Lectures, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
SETI@home	SETI@home is a scientific experiment that will harness the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
sci.nonlinear FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions document for the newsgroup sci.nonlinear.
SimScience	A web site devoted to areas of science where computer simulations are at the forefront of discovery.
The Statistics Homepage	This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics.
Theoretical Ecology: Simulation Server	The Simulation Server will allow you to interactively investigate the behaviour of ecological models.
Tierra home page	The Tierra C source code creates a virtual computer and its Darwinian operating system, whose architecture has been designed in such a way that the executable machine codes are evolvable.
Software
Exim	A message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.
Freshmeat	Free software, updated daily, almost Linux and Java.
KDE	KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.
The GIMP Homepage	The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
GNOME Project	GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software.
GNU's Not UNIX!	Really free software. This is the home of GNU Project and of the Free Software Fundation.
GNU Emacs for Windows NT and Windows 95	One of the best editors, it's free and configurable. It has a LISP compiler as macro processor.
Ghostscript, Ghostview & GSview	A free implementation of Postscript, with a nice viewer interface.
The LaTeX Project	LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, with features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.
MikTeX	The best TeX/LaTeX implementation for Windows 9x/NT. Output to DVI, PostScript and PDF.
mozilla.org	Mozilla is the generic term referring to web browsers derived from the source code of Netscape Navigator.
MuPAD	Free symbolic mathematical software.
Octave Home Page	GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
The Open Source Page	Open-source software is an idea whose time has finally come.
The International PGP Home Page	International version of Pretty Good Privacy, a good & free cryptography software.
POV-Ray	The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics.
sendmail.org	The message transfer agent (MTA).
Squid Web Proxy Cache	Squid is a full-featured Web proxy cache designed to run on Unix systems.
TeX Users Group Home Page	The TeX Users Group (TUG) was founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes, to provide an organization for those who have an interest in systems for text typesetting and font design, and are users of TeX and Metafont, Donald Knuth's revolutionary typesetting system.
XaoS	Free fractal drawing software.

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