Adam Peterson's Web Page

Personal Links

• People
  • The Peterson Family.
  • Mike Compton's home page..
  • Dan's home page.
  • James Carroll's page..
  • Andrew McNabb.
• News
  • Computer News and Organizations
    • SlashDot.org
    • GrokLaw headlines
  • CNN.com
  • ABC News.com
  • MSNbc.com
  • Fox News.com
• Knowledge
  • How Stuff works.
  • Free educational courses online.
  • Faster than light travel
    • I'm still struggling with these articles and how to reconcile faster than light travel, wormholes and other singularities, and causality with respect to time travel.
    • http://www.orionsarm.com/intro/ftl-paradoxes.html
    • http://www.orionsarm.com/whitepapers/wormholes_and_causality.html
    • http://www.usd.edu/phys/courses/phys300/gallery2/dave/dave.htm
    • http://jmooneyham.com/warp.html
  • Reference Cards
  • ADD
    • Association.
    • Resources.
  • MusicTheory.net
  • Writing Helps
    • Rhyming dictionary
    • Another rhyming dictionary
    • Thesaurus
    • Definition dictionary
    • Wikipedia
  • Compute Normal Values.
  • Old edition of Numerical Recipes
• Culture
  • Daily Literature.
  • Pandora radio -- personalized content.
  • Repository of unencumbered music.
  • Book-A-Minute, lampooning popular books.
  • Commentary/Satire
    • Useless Movie Quotes.
    • Movie Cliches
  • Movie Review Sites
    • Deseret News Movie Reviews (New releases).
    • The land of Eric.
    • Rotten Tomatoes.
  • Guitar Tabs Universe
  • Medicine commentary on episodes of House.
• Entertainment
  • Web Entertainment
    • Web Toons
      • HomeStar Runner, wiki
      • Ask A Ninja.
    • Web Comics
      • The Dilbert Zone by Scott Adams.
      • Fox Trot on UPress.com.
      • Baby Blues on washingtonpost.com.
      • F Minus.
      • Pearls Before Swine.
      • Off The Mark.
      • Rose is Rose at Comics.com.
      • The Order of the Stick, a comic about RPGs. (First one.)
    • Joke Collections
      • Legal humor.
      • How many forumites does it change to change a lightbulb?
      • Comedy Corner.
      • RPG Cliche list.
      • Simon's Comic Online Source
      • Science Jokes
      • The Humor Page
      • Shoot yourself in the foot
      • The Engineer's Mind by Alan R. Miller
    • Flash games
      • Bloxorz
    • Music collections
      • Video game MP3 music
    • Speech macros (fanciful idioms).
  • Game Info
    • The innovative game "Tranquility"
    • Scorched Earth 3D
    • DDR for Health (getupmove.com)
    • Go pages
      • Sensei's Library
      • Wikipedia's entry for Go (board game)
      • An introductory Go rules and strategy site
      • A Go springboard page
      • Tel's go notes
    • Chess
      • Chess Games
  • Anecdotes
    • Some humorous stories about videogame rental collections.
    • Stupid computer/technology anecdotes.
  • Wallpaper Sources
    • InterfaceLift.com.
  • Novelties
    • 5secondmovies on YouTube.
    • Microsoft redesigns the IPod packaging.
    • Glumbert.
    • Visual Chess Player.
    • Whitney's Music Box.
    • How it should have ended (movies).
    • Emperor Palpatine.
    • Darth Vader Misquoted.
    • Cartoon Laws Of Physics.
    • ClickMazes puzzles.
    • Cell Automata
      • Conway's Game of Life
        • A Turing machine encode in Conway's Game of Life
      • WireWorld
        • Basic explanation
        • More explanation with widgets, gates, etc.
        • Prime Number Computer and explanation (with working Java Applet)
        • A WireWorld springboard page
    • The Divine Comedy comedy troupe.
    • Fast Game Demo Movies
    • Stereoscopic Images
      • An intro and some examples
      • Images from Titan
        • A
        • B
        • C
        • D
        • E
    • Snopes.com: urban legends and their veracity
    • Astronomy picture of the day
    • A link for 3-D image photography.
    • Electric sheep screen savers.
    • Alpha Transparent PNG Demo (Mozilla Firefox required (or pretty much anything but Internet Explorer))
    • InnerGeek
    • Movie Mistakes
    • The Darth Side: Darth Vader's Blog
    • Engrish.Com
  • Guitar Lessons Online (via YouTube).
• Computers
  • Programming
    • Gui toolkit comparison list.
    • Language Links
      • Tim Budd's C++ inmplementation of Kamin's interpreters
    • Coding Best Practices
      • GNU Coding Standards, includes organizational recommendations and so on.
  • Web programming
    • Overall
      • W3C.
      • W3C HTML validator.
      • Getting pages ready for handheld viewing.
    • HTML and XHTML
      • XHtml Tutorial.
      • In-depth guide to HTML tables (one of many chapters).
    • CSS
      • Tutorials
        • A bunch of great CSS tutorials.
        • A thorough and informative tutorial on CSS.
        • CSS Tutorial.
        • http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/.
        • Fairly languid CSS tutorial.
      • References
        • Mozilla's CSS reference page.
        • Mozilla CSS extensions.
        • CSS reference, including list of properties.
        • List of references.
        • CSS Reference.
        • Another reference.
        • Another reference.
        • Compatibility reference.
        • CSS2 Ref with examples.
        • CSS1 Ref.
        • CSS Specification.
      • Examples
        • CSS Zen Garden.
        • Tips for styling lists.
        • Article on customizing lists.
        • http://www.tizag.com/cssT/.
        • Example of parallel development using Tables vs pure CSS.
      • Unsorted
        • Springboard, to be evaluated, looks promising.
        • Info on selectors.
        • Some useful, basic CSS info.
    • JavaScript, AJAX, and the DOM
      • Several web tutorials, including Javascript, AJAX, form validation, CSS....
      • AJAX tutorial starting point.
      • Why use DOM over DHTML, with examples.
      • Javascript Tutorial.
      • A verbose and simple DOM introduction.
      • DOM tutorial.
      • List of JavaScript events.
      • DHTML tutorial.
      • MSDN DHTML starting point.
    • XML
      • XML DTD tutorial.
      • Another.
      • XML reference page.
      • XML reference.
      • XML Validation
        • Schema Language Comparison.
        • XSD.
        • XSL Schema Primer.
    • Other
      • XUL
        • XUL tutorial.
        • XUL tutorial on the XULrunner wiki
        • Mozilla's XUL starting point (has links to XUL references and tutorials).
        • XUL Planet.
      • Flash
        • mtasc.org (open source flash compiler)
        • swfmill
      • SVG (Scalarble Vector Graphics)
        • Definitions of the language elements
        • Tutorial
        • Many examples of SVG elements
        • SVG Basics
    • Apache config
      • .htaccess Tutorial
    • Usability and Design
      • Alertbox
  • Database of open source alternatives.
  • Jargon Dictionary
  • GMail
  • Open Source Links
    • OpenSource.org and FreshMeat.net
    • Gimp
    • kde and Gnome
    • sendmail
    • Bind
    • Squid
    • linux.box.sk
    • The leaked Microsoft Halloween Documents about the Open Source Software movement.
    • Cygwin
    • Gnu documentation root.
  • Graphics
    • POV Ray
      • POV Ray Homepage.
      • Description of POV Ray objects.
      • CSG info for POV.
  • EText
    • ReaderWorks.
    • BlackMask.com.
  • Miscellaneous
    • Themes at FreshMeat.
    • Online books made available by O'Reilly.
    • Fractal Music.
    • SpamCop.net.
  • How to get a refund on the Microsoft Tax.
• Search Engines
  • Google.
  • Scholar Google.
  • Ask Jeeves.
  • Citeseer CS Research Index: PSU, MIT, Another mirror..
  • Citeseer^x Alpha site.
  • ACM portal.
  • Lycos.
  • Textbook Hound - A place to find textbook prices online.
• Miscellaneous
  • The Hunger Site -- Donate a cup of food each day for free.
  • Getting a Microsoft Tax refund.
  • Dell Linux Community.
• Tools
  • Programming Languages
    • Compiled
      • Workhorse
        • C++
          • Documentation
            • cppreference.com
            • SGI STL reference
            • C++ FAQ for comp.lang.c++
            • MSDN
            • Gnu C++ Reference
            • A pretty good C++ library reference
          • Libraries
            • Boost C++ extensions
            • Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL)
            • STLPort replacement core library
            • SQLite home page
          • The Doxygen code documentation pages generator, Doxygen Manual.
          • Standardization process: C++ Standardization Core Language Issues"
          • Other Libraries
            • MetaKit database library.
        • C
          • Documentation
            • C FAQ for comp.lang.c
          • Libraries
            • PNG
              • PNG manual.
              • PNG O'Reilly book online.
            • Guile
              • Tutorial introduction.
              • Home page.
              • Documentation page.
              • Manual page.
              • Goops.
              • FAQ.
          • Tools
            • Valgrind
              • HOWTO.
              • Manual.
        • Java
          • Eclipse
            • Eclipse Home Page
            • CDT Update Site
        • Ada
          • GNAT -- Gnu Ada Compiler
          • Programming wikibook (with lots of Ada articles).
      • Research-oriented
        • Eiffel
          • SmartEiffel
          • Eiffel Tutorial
        • Pascal
      • RAD-oriented
        • Delphi
        • Visual Basic
      • Declining
        • Clipper
    • Interpreted
      • Shells
        • Bash
          • Bash documentation
          • Bash Guide (Wiki)
          • Common Bash Pitfalls
          • Bash Frequently Asked Questions
          • Beginner's guide to Bash
          • Another
          • Yet another
          • programming bash command line handling
        • Python
          • Home page
          • Embedding
            • A basic PyRex tutorial.
            • A Python embedding tutorial, part 1, part 2.
            • A PyRex starting point, including a tutorial/quick guide.
          • Django (a web framework
            • The tutorial.
        • Octave
          • Octave tutorial
          • Manual
          • Matlab tutoral
      • Embedded
        • JavaScript
          • Mozilla's core JavaScript reference
          • Advanced JavaScript tips and techniques (some require a later JS version than most browsers, esp. IE, have)
          • JavaScript info at about.com
        • Lisp, Scheme, and Guile
          • Programming in Emacs Lisp
          • Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
          • Guile home page, Manual for 1.6
      • Preprocessors
        • PHP
          • PHP home page
          • Tutorial on PDO (generalized database access for PHP 5)
          • PDO section of the PHP manual
          • SQLite PHP functions (non-PDO interface)
        • m4
          • Manual, body.
      • Minilanguage Pipes
        • Awk
          • Gnu GAWK manual
        • Sed
          • Sed introduction
          • Sed tutorial
      • Otherwise scripting
        • Perl
          • Perl Language Home
          • libraries
            • SQLite DBM documentation
        • Ruby
          • Ruby home page
          • Ruby reference book
          • Tutorial
          • Tutorial
          • Ruby on Rails
            • A getting-started tutorial
            • Main page
      • Declining
        • QuickBasic
  • Operating Systems
    • Linux
      • APT/YUM
        • FreshRPMS.net (Synaptic and RH Apt/Yum Repository)
        • Planet CCRMA Apt Repository
        • DAG Apt/Yum Repository Homepage
        • NewRPMs Apt/Yum Repository Homepage
      • Linux and Kernel.org
      • Kernel documentation
      • Linux Weekly News
      • Gentoo Forums
      • Linux Hardware Compatability List
      • Ubuntu Linux tips (and some more general)
    • Wine
      • Home page
      • Wine compatibility list
  • Services
    • Apache
    • MySQL
    • Samba
    • Condor
  • Utilities
    • Unison file synchronizer
    • Encryption
      • Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG)
    • Compression
      • 7-Zip
    • Build
      • SCons
        • SCons -- a software construction tool.
        • SCons User's Guide.
        • SCons Man page.
        • Also, for reference: Python.org
      • GNU Make
        • Make manual, all one page.
      • GNU Build System
        • Wikipedia entry.
        • Autotools tutorial, another tutorial, another.
        • AutoTools manual (from here), also here (from here).
        • GNU configure and build system.
        • Writing configure.ac.
        • Using with C++.
        • Automake manual.
        • Automake home page.
        • Autoconf documentation home.
    • Revision Control
      • Git
        • Home page.
        • User's Manual.
        • Tutorial.
  • Document Preparation and Typesetting
    • LaTeX
      • Tips pages
        • Advanced (multi-row, multi-column) formatting of LaTeX tables.
        • Floats and Captions page in the Wikibooks LaTeX book.
      • Starting points
        • LaTeX Wikibook.
        • Indian TUG tutorials.
        • Loria TeX encyclopedia.
        • Tug.org -- recommended to me by BYU UUG.
        • MikTeX -- for running LaTeX on Windows.
        • A LaTeX primer
        • A springboard for several references and tutorials.
        • Another reference page
        • A tutorial page for tables
        • AMS math packages documentation.
      • Maintenance and packages
        • Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
        • CTAN search page. I recommend the bottom (third) search option.
        • TeX users group
        • CTAN search on tug.org
      • MusiXTeX
        • MusixTex on CTAN
        • Another helpful springboard link
      • BibTeX
        • Basic introduction to BibTeX .bib file entries
        • Another such introduction.
        • Some BibTeX details about workings.
        • Example styles that can be found on CTAN
        • Some LaTeX help for packages (got some good BibTeX stuff too).
      • Slides
        • The Beamer slides package.
    • MetaPost
      • A link to a PDF manual
      • A reference page
      • Another springboard page
      • Other examples
      • Look for more on Google
    • GraphViz and Dot
      • Home Page
    • Postscript
      • Ghostscript
    • Graphing
      • MatPlotLib (aka PyLab).
      • Unix graphing program roundup.
      • PyX
        • PyX for making graphs from Python.
        • A tutorial for PyX.
      • R statistical package.
      • GnuPlot
        • A good starting point.
        • Main Page.
        • A tutorial.
      • Grace.
      • MayaVi.
      • R Language
        • "R," for statistical analysis.
        • Note: Under Ubuntu, the packages to start with are r-recommend and r-base.
      • EPix.
      • Asymptote.
      • Biggles
  • Applications
    • Mozilla/Firefox
      • Mozilla homepage
      • Mozilla FireFox extensions page
      • Another FireFox extensions page
    • Editors
      • Vim
        • Vim Manual Online
        • Vim tips
        • Plugins
          • Vim-LaTeX
        • Long and good list of Vim tips
        • Vim Tip Wiki
      • Emacs
        • A tutorial
        • FAQ
        • Emacs Manual
        • Emacs base page
    • Miscellaneous Windows Apps
      • 7-Zip -- Compression
      • AbiWord -- Word Processor
      • CDex -- CD Ripper/Burner
      • Cygwin -- Command Line Tool
      • Ditto -- Enhanced Clipboard
      • FileZilla -- FTP client
      • Mozilla Firefox -- Web Browser
      • GIMP -- Graphics Paint Program
      • GraphCalc -- Graphing Calculator App
      • Keynote -- Editor
      • OpenOffice.org -- Office Suite
      • TaskSwitchXP -- Task Switcher
      • Mozilla Thunderbird -- Email Client
      • Tinn -- Text Editor
      • VirtuaWin -- Desktop Manager
      • VLC -- Media Player
      • WinDirStat -- Disk File Usage Analyzer
  • Other
    • Music under Linux
      • RoseGarden
      • Planet CCRMA (a collection of music packages for Linux)
    • Math
      • Octave, a Matlab clone in OSS.
    • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Research
      • Weka machine learners in Java.
      • LibSVM.
      • Irvine Machine Learning Repository.