Geoffrey's pointers to resources on the Internet
Updated 12 June 2000 Start Here
  • Free Software
  • Java, Java+Scheme
  • Computer Science
  • Internet Security
  • Mapping
  • Distributed Objects
  • Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)
  • General
  • Windows-specific Tools
  • Macintosh-specific Tools
  • People
  • Uniquely Internet
  • Aviation
  • Javascript resources (Javascript is not Java)
  • Not Yet Categorized
  • Free Software
  • Free Software Foundation, home of the GNU project
  • GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment)
  • Linux on Laptops
  • gPhoto
  • Palm Pilot Mini-Howto
  • The Cygnus GNU-Win32 project. Here is the latest release.
  • From the developers of CVS
  • MICO (Mico Is COrba)
  • Perl for Windows
  • Kaffe, free Java VM with JIT.
  • ILU (Inter-Language Unification) from Xerox PARC
  • linux-kernel mailing list FAQ
  • Noweb, a simple, extensible tool for literate programming
  • Printer recommendations
  • From me to GNU.
  • Java
    Official information
  • JDK 1.3 Documentation, API
  • Netscape's security model
  • The Remote Method Invocation Specification
  • JavaCC (Java compiler compiler)
  • Writing for Javadoc
  • Scheme and Java
  • SILK, Scheme in Fifty K. JLIB: A Declarative GUI-building library for SILK. Reflection'99 paper by Ken Anderson and Tim Hickey. Tiny CLOS.
  • Kawa, the Java-based Scheme System
  • Skij from IBM
  • Olin Shivers on Java and Scheme
  • JaJa: Scheme in Java
  • Semi-official information
  • comp.lang.java FAQ
  • Peter Norvig's Java IAQ (infrequently answered questions).
  • The rest
  • Java Developer's Journal source code libarary
  • Info about EJB (Enterprise Java Beans)
  • gnu.regexp (regular expressions)
  • JAVA CGI HOWTO. JavaCGI Bridge.
  • NASA applets that do satellite tracking
  • JPython, Python for Java
  • shujit, JIT from Japan
  • System Properties Repository
  • Programming Java with Xerox Parc Aspects.
  • How to use Audio in Java
  • Backgammon
  • Java help in writing CGI programs
  • Java Collaborator Toolset is a platform for running and developing distributed multiuser Java applications.
  • Don Knuth's CWEB, now for Java too
  • Database lib implemented in Java
  • Calling DLLs from Java
  • Harrisa, a Java to C translator
  • Allen Holub's pages now go into his explorations of Java.
  • InstantDB, a free Java Database Engine (under development)
  • Java to C/C++ Connectivity (and more)
  • Java IDE integrated with Emacs from LEO
  • Roedy Green's Java Glossary and table of type conversions.
  • JIndent formats Java Source Code
  • Maxwell's Java Developers' Page. Auf Deutsch
  • Newsgroups inside web pages
  • OpenJava.
  • Java interface to the PVM (parallel virtual machine).
  • Andrew Stone's Java widgets
  • Regular Expression Package Update
  • A sprite toolkit for Java applets
  • Tcljava
  • Toba, Robust Java-to-C Translation System
  • Internet Security
  • CERT
  • US Navy SHADOW (Secondary Heuristic Analysis for Defensive Online Warfare) intrusion detection information
  • CyberTrust, XCert, VeriSign. Netscape SSL Notes 1 and 2. IPv6 vs. SSL. RSA. WebReference info about Digital Certificates. Crypto info from Microsoft and from Finland. Info on HTTPS.
  • Computer Science
  • Prof. Don Knuth's home page
  • Elegant presentation on closures given by Ken Anderson.
  • Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index
  • IETF
  • The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
  • CMU AI Repository
  • Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
  • MIT 6.035, Computer Language Engineering
  • MIT 6.892, Advanced Topics in Compilation
  • AI Repository
  • Pad++
  • Patterns
  • Dan Ingals and Alan Kay, working at the Disney Imagineering Labs, have released a free Smalltalk implementation that's already been ported to many Unixes (including Linux), NT&Win95, and several other systems.
  • Mapping
  • OpenGIS, testbed
  • BBN OpenMap
  • Geographic Information Systems Colloquium Series, Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences Dept.
  • Free TIGER 95 data from ESRI
  • TGlobe screen shots by Graham Knight. Some of Graham's mapping links.
  • Calido MyWorld
  • Star, Belgium
  • MapQuest
  • Decluttering
  • UC Berkeley GIF map bean and mapfind CGI.
  • OGDI
  • Distributed Objects
  • The OMG (Object Management Group)
  • CORBA FAQ
  • Digital Versatile Disk (DVD)
  • News about DVD.
  • DVDs for sale on the web.
  • Sony format.
  • Philips format.
  • DVD and Microsoft.
  • The Anti-Divx page.
  • Divx site.
  • General
    Official information
  • CGI Documentation from NCSA
  • National Technical Information Service
  • RFC Editor's site at ISI
  • The W3.org XML site. XML FAQ. The annotated XML spec.
  • Semi-official information
  • List of Usenet FAQs
  • Setting up MediaOne cable Internet service. Tips if you're just starting out. With Linux. With Win95.
  • The rest
  • WIDL
  • Web Agents
  • Jonathan Callahan's programming helpers for Java and Emacs
  • CGI-BIN library from the UK
  • Tom Boutell's CGIC Library
  • Good list of colors
  • A CORBA FAQ for developers.
  • On-line dictionary of web terminology.
  • Directions from here to there
  • Emacs under Windows NT
  • file upload example
  • How to make your Win95 PC into an FTP server
  • The Internet Weather Report
  • MIME Enhancements for Emacs
  • Russian Space Agency page, hosted by NASA. Current MIR location.
  • Windows-specific Tools
  • EFA Corporation and PCMCIA drivers.
  • Collection of WinNT utilities
  • mSQL on Win95. Using JDBC, ODBC and MSAccess together.
  • Macintosh-specific Tools
  • TagBuilder, use with NetCloak/Netforms
  • People
  • Dan Kegel
  • Uniquely Internet
  • Index Librorum Liberorum - John Walker's Fourmilab
  • The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).
  • Your name in Kanji.
  • A walkthrough of an abandoned Titan I missile site.
  • Aviation
  • The Weather Calculator
  • Soaring in Germany.
  • Javascript Resources
  • Banner that can run on the Netscape status line or in its own banner text box
  • Bloomsburg Universityarchive
  • Collapsible outline
  • Gamelan archive
  • Get email addresses from users behind the scenes
  • Graffitti Wall
  • IntraBuilder editor from Borland
  • Not Yet Categorized
  • Cambridge Boat Club
  • PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship (w3.org)
  • Practical Reusable UNIX Software (book, AT&T Research)
  • afterstep
  • IBM's alphaworks
  • SIGGRAPH
  • Near-Earth Objects
  • Sky and Telescope
  • webreference
  • webify
  • gsk home page