Informatics

  toucheatout  2006-03-26 04:05  IT  

A word on operating systems

Welcome by computers, mainly on the base of the best OS (and community) - linux. Nowadays as easy and potent as any m$ de-evolved software. Moreover, you don't even need to break a heavy sweat on installation. And no, it didn't become totally dull, you still can throw away the gnome front-end and remain with blackbox, windowmaker or another nifty windowmanager.

The unfortunately most common OS is barely covered, most interesting being some useful windows shortcuts, in case you get stranded using it...

Getting to understand how computers speak

In a more neutral and general way, i tried to elaborate a quick computer-human conversation guide, to demonstrate how simple most widely used protocols actually are (just check the SMTP/POP3 grammar to get an idea).

On the other end, to read on how admins fantasy on speaking to their "lusers", a satyric serie of short novels has been written by Simon Travaglia on a sullen, vicious, remorseless and cleverly bright sysadmin that goes by the name of Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH). It is intended to sound funny for computer geeks mostly, but has the virtue of holding shards of truth on the job.

Getting your computer to understand what you mean

The Programming presents the most common programming languages that I got to run into (or under :)). I keep it as up to date as possible, even if it's sadly quite time-consuming to write about it. Sometime i just prefer to keep coding rather than explaining the world how much trouble there was fixing a oblique slider.

Specific case of the web

Web tips cover some simple tips for sound web designing, including accessibility and referencing - technical part mostly on unix-like platforms. Recently, basics of AJAX requests have been added. If you wish to integrate simple advertising solutions on your website, feel free to visit other resources as online advertising infos on take-2.org.

More...

While most links are actually related to computer science, this french generalist site could also feed some of your curiosity... If you read french...