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Tutorials
- svn tutorial - www . tutorialspoint . com/svn/index.htm
- access SQLite database in Perl - http://xmodulo.com/access-sqlite-database-perl.html
Debian
server configuration
releases
- Release Notes for Debian 8 (jessie), 64-bit PC - https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/
- To find out why a package is not in testing - https://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=texmacs
Replace texmacs with the name of the package.
Choosing a Debian Distribution
http://kamarajukusumanchi.github.io/choosing_debian_distribution/choosing_debian_distribution.html
Linux
Linux Weekly News
- Archives - https://lwn.net/Archives/
Mediawiki editing
- Edit links in mediawiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links
- Edit tables in mediawiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
- Rendering images - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
- Writing preformatted text in mediawiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
- Editing Sections in mediawiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Section
- Editing lists - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List#Line_breaks_inside_list_items
- Add tags, otherwise known as Categories, to the wiki pages - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories
Reference
ISO Standards
- language codes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
- Country codes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
Miscellaneous
- Extract a specific file from a zip archive - http://siddesh-bg.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-extract-specific-file-from-zip.html
- Planetary Fact Sheet - http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/index.html
- IB TWS C++ api linux - http://holowczak.com/installing-ib-gateway-for-linux/
- derivation of efficient frontier - https://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot/econ424/portfolioTheoryMatrix.pdf
Maps
- Middle east - https://www.mapsofworld.com/middle-east-map.html
- world map - http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-map-image.html, https://geology.com/world/world-map.shtml
- US states and capitals map - http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/usa-state-and-capital-map.html
- new jersey county map - http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/county-map/new-jersey.shtml
News websites
local news
- Bergen county in New Jersey - http://www.nj.com/bergen/
market news
Interviews
- Bram Moolenaar interview - http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/11/19/vim-creator-bram-moolenaar-interview/
Online courses
Free Software
Accounting
Ebooks
Public Domain
- https://standardebooks.org/ - Takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, improves them in many ways and releases them back to public domain.
Tools
- check page rank - http://checkpagerank.net/
no longer working - http://www.whatsmypr.net/
- Test the speed of network
- Check compatibility of a website under different browsers and OS
- To check your IP address - https://whatismyipaddress.com/
- http://t1.re/ - find out the speed of internet connection.
Free dns services
pastebin websites
- http://paste.ubuntu.com
- pastebin.centos.org
convert between different markdown formats
- https://pandoc.org/try/ - can convert between html, markdown and mediawiki formats
Lifestyle
- Fast way to process a pomegranate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma77qhzNnOI by DirtFarmerJay. This video clearly explains how to correctly process a pomegranate.
- Best way to store an extension cord - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTpbh2zJGhA
- Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret - http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret
- Best toilet paper brand - http://lifehacker.com/the-toilet-paper-that-gives-you-the-most-bang-for-your-1684327484
- Five Ways to Tie a Man’s Scarf - http://lifehacker.com/five-ways-to-tie-a-man-s-scarf-1684590695
Humor
- Aagadu Telugu movie review - http://rajkumarneelam2.blogspot.com/2014/09/a-sreenu-vaitla-flim.html
- iPhone 6 review by Scott Adams - http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/my_iphone_6_plus_review/
- Outletiquette - http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/BlackBerry/outletiquette-a-gude-to-wallhuggers/
Exercise
- Brendan Meyers killer ab workout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFF6TpXKBc
Mathematics
random vector, multivariate random variable,
Given pdf of X, what is the pdf of Y where Y = AX + b
Science
scishow videos
Unsorted
How stuff works
Entertainment
Movies
Cricket
News papers
Metro US New York
For example https://www.readmetro.com/en/usa/new-york/20190516
Articles on the net
Algorithms
- http://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-modulo-reduction/ - A clever technique to transform random 32-bit integers to a random integer in a set of N elements.
- algorithm visualizer - http://jasonpark.me/AlgorithmVisualizer/
dummy
comparison of different brokers
open source landing pages by popular companies =
- https://opensource.google.com/
- https://opensource.microsoft.com/
- https://aws.github.io/ and https://aws.amazon.com/mp/oss/
Programming
- Metasyntactic variable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
To be sorted
- Staying Safe around Bears
- Weather Underground - It is the best weather website I came across. When you search for a zip code and click on the full forecast, it gives graphs of temperature, chance of precipitation etc., I find this feature very useful. Other websites such as http://weather.com only give discrete data points.
- Most dangerous cities in New Jersey - http://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/newark-7th-most-dangerous-town-nj
- Ello invitation codes
- HTML color codes - http://html-color-codes.info/
- Calculate the weekday of any given Date in your head - http://www.timeanddate.com/date/doomsday-weekday.html
- http://downdetector.com/ - monitors popular websites and shows whether they were down recently.
- https://random.country/ - Displays a random country