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The Sauk River from Sauk Mountain, western Cascade Range, Washington.

Looking south up the Sauk River from the Sauk Mountain road, western Cascade Range, Washington.

"Quine" from The Jargon File, version 4.4.7:

quine /kwi:n/ [from the name of the logician Willard V. Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter]

n. A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output. Devising the shortest possible quine in some given programming language is a common hackish amusement.

One not too obfuscated Perl quine (of several):

$_=q{$_=q{Q};s/Q/$_/;print};s/Q/$_/;print

There exists, of course, the definitive quine page.

Clean-up of the links on this page was finally finished January 2007.

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    references
  1. nightflight.com/foldoc/contents.html: FOLDOC, the free online dictionary of computing
  2. catb.org/~esr/jargon: The Jargon File, version 4.4.7,
    and its history at Wikipedia
  3. cinepad.com/mslex.htm: the Microsoft Lexicon
  4. embedded.com/links.htm: if you're into software embedded in hardware, there's a lot here
  5. voiceRecognition.org, "an informal informational organization of voice-users"
  6. help-site.com: Help-Site Computer Manuals
  7. netlingo.com The Internet Dictionary is best with acronyms
  8. cs.utexas.edu/users/moore/best-ideas/string-searching/index.html:
    The Boyer-Moore Fast String Searching Algorithm
  9. dblp.uni-trier.de: Computer Science Bibliography Server from the Universität Trier
  10. libpng.org/pub/png: Portable Network Graphics, "an Open, Extensible Image Format with Lossless Compression"

    magazines
  11. news.com.com: CNET news (and that's not a misprint)
  12. slashdot.org: "News for Nerds"
  13. ugeek.com: "The Online Technology Resource"
  14. zdnet.com: from Ziff-Davis publishers
  15. idg.net: from the publishers of InfoWorld, et al.
  16. sourcemagazine.com: Seattle's Computer Source Magazine Online with archives of past articles

    hardware & support
  17. nowonder.com: free online computer support
  18. geeksquad.com: e-mail response within 48 hrs
  19. pcguide.com/: a PC primer, but it's as of 2001
  20. mobileinfo.com: "One-stop website for mobile computing and wireless info"

    bugs, phreaking, etc.
  21. cultdeadcow.com/tools/bo.html: the old Back Orifice and the Wikipedia article
  22. hackaday.com and hackthissite.org
  23. insecure.org offers their free *nix network security scanner, Nmap

    cryptography
  24. windowsecurity.com: what is says
  25. jya.com/crypto-free.htm: crypto freedom links
  26. rsa.com: RSA Security might be worth a look
  27. counterpane.com: Bruce Schneier's Counterpane has gone upscale, but still has lottsa good info
  28. theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html: Ron Rivest's crypto links, but they might be stale
  29. nsa.gov: the NSA

    linux
  30. tldp.org: The Linux Documentation Project
  31. li.org: Linux International is an "end-user organization for Free and Open Source Software"
  32. linux.com: "the enterprise Linux resource," with how-to's, downloads, links to distributions, more
  33. linux.org: The Linux Homepage
  34. linuxjournal.com: which used to be linuxresources.com but still has news, support, software, and more
  35. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/index.html also known as ibiblio at the University of North Carolina: "ibiblio archives over 171 gigabytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download via FTP and/or WWW access."
  36. winehq.com: Windows on Unix machines
    more linux:
  37. gnu.org/manual/manual.html: GNU manuals online
  38. dir.yahoo.com/.../unix/shells: check out "stupid shell tricks"
  39. cheapbytes.com: discounted, not free, distro's and more
  40. freshmeat.net: unix, osX, projects
  41. tucows.com for downloads, maybe
  42. linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1019/3: Linux Device Drivers Demystified
  43. buzzard.org.uk/toshiba: the Toshiba Linux utilities pages

    downloads, mostly windows & mac
  44. lview.com: LView Pro, a very good shareware graphics editor ($40)
  45. arachnoid.com: Arachnophilia, a great careware program editor, now in Java
  46. idmcomp.com: UltraEdit (now $40)
  47. simtel.net: share-, free-, & public domain
  48. tucows.com: complete with brown spots?
  49. download.com: PC shareware at c|net
  50. rocketdownload.com: more shareware
  51. downloads.zdnet.com: downloads from ZDNet
  52. mini.net/sax: The Shareware Author indeX with "over 16,000 products"
  53. charm.net/ftp.sites.html: "Pointers To Monster FTP Sites"
  54. thefreesite.com/software.htm: not a lot, but well-chosen
  55. snapfiles.com/freeware:
  56. programmersheaven.com: "Over 32187 files, links and articles to explore."
  57. windrivers.com: "The World Resource For Windows Tech Support & Drivers"
  58. plus Yahoo, of course

    perl
  59. bewley.net/perl: perl scripts and links -- I should probably just quit right here
  60. rexswain.com/perl5.html: "Rex Swain's HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide"
  61. perl.about.com: perl at about.com
  62. winnipeg.pm.org/: Winnipeg Perl Mongers
  63. aspn.activestate.com/ASPN: perl for Windows
  64. extropia.com: Perl and Java web applications
  65. morphet.org.uk/comp/guava.html: The Guava Tools -- "Perl scripts that add C-likepreprocessing to HTML"

    forth
  66. dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/forth/forth.html: "Forth: an underview"
  67. forth.org: forth interest group
  68. theforthsource.com/homepage.html: The Forth Guide online
  69. complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/forl.html: "Forth Online Resources Quick-Ref Card"
  70. mistybeach.com, who wrote a (kinda buggy) Forth written in Java
    and a (nifty) Java implementation of a PGN chess viewer

    assembly (x86)
  71. xs4all.nl/~smit/asm01001.htm: Assembly Tutorial

    history
  72. ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist Mike Muuss' great site on the history of computing at the Army Research Lab
  73. bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC: CPU Info Center
  74. komkon.org/fms/comp: computer history
  75. ei.cs.vt.edu/~history: History of computing at Virginia Tech
  76. vintage.org/: The Vintage Computer Festival and their extraordinary page of links
  77. bricklin.com: Visicalc
  78. dn.codegear.com/museum/antiquesoftware: antique software from Borland
  79. outliners.com: "Archives from the golden age of outliners."

    distributed processing
  80. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects: wikipedia has a great list of dozens of distributed projects you can be part of, including these:
  81. distributed.net: "The Fastest Computer on Earth"
  82. setiathome.berkeley.edu: SETI@home -- help look for aliens
  83. stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu: help analyze cometary dust
  84. us-vo.org: The US National Virtual Observatory -- "Astronomy faces a data avalanche...."
    and their Getting Started page, which looks to be non-trivial

    remote control
  85. bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu: "remotely operate a scanning electron microscope"
  86. usc.edu/dept/garden: The Telegarden, but this should be in the history section


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