BR's computer-related links

Free software is to natural public lands as commercial software is to amusement parks.

Free software: is based on open standards, which leads to freedom and longevity of data. Developers must play by open standards so as not to spoil the landscape for everyone else.

Commercial software: must be paid for, and you get whiz-bang flash for your money. But your rides are limited, and all you can take away from the experience after you stop paying money are photos (printouts) and memories.

• NSIDC Trouble Ticket System
• NSIDC FTP Staging Request Form
• NSIDC Ops Request Form
• CU ITS Site Licensing Services

USGS Software Information

• ISIS Commands

History

• Computer Museum History Center
• Museum of HP Calculators

Search / Lookup

• Netcraft's Web server/OS checker
• W3C HTML Validation Service
• NETLIB (Netlib is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases. )
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• FOLDOC Computing Dictionary (UK)
• FOLDOC Computing Dictionary (USA West #1)
• FOLDOC Computing Dictionary (USA West #2)
• NIST's Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems
• The Jargon File

Miscellaneous

• Japanese and Linux
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• CU Computer Science Department
• ISO 216 metric paper sizes
• ISO 8601 Date and Time formats
• Bibliographic Formats (Endnote, Refer, BibTeX, etc.)

Software

• Databases
  • PostgreSQL and PostGIS (geospatial extensions to PostgreSQL) and GEOS (Geometry Engine Open Source)
  • MySQL
• GIS / Mapping software (See also Matching the Map Projection to the Need)
  • Open Source Geo-Technologies Center, CU Denver
  • FreeGIS
  • OpenSourceGIS
  • JUMP
  • U.S. Census Bureau GIS FAQ
  • GMT (Generic Mapping Tools)
  • GMT (Generic Mapping Tools) Pamphlet and Presentation Demo
    
    
    • Ben Horner-Johnson's GMT-related page
    • J.J. Green's Color Palette Table library
    • GRASS Users Group of Davis, CA (useful discussion of GMT, GRASS, GDAL, etc)
    • lon/lat files for many non-US countries
    • National Atlas . Gov Many useful datasets
    • Various geographic data from the FCC
    • Lou Estey's rectangular region finder for GMT (-R...r)
  • MapServer
  • MapServer Foundation
  • The GeoServer Project
  • deegree (Java-based tools for WMS, WCS, WFS, etc.)
  • Proj.4
  • GRASS (free GIS)
  • OGC Network
  • Surname distribution in the US
• Using Rsync to back up a Linux system
• GNU
• GrADS
• VIS5D
• Image Processing Workbench (IPW)
• LAS (Land Analysis System)
• Octave (GNU 4GL language, similar to MatLAB)
• R (GNU statistical (and other) language, similar to S)
• GStat (GPL'ed package for geostatistical modelling)
• Perl
• Alpine (e-mail client)
• LaTeX
• TeX Archive
• On-line LaTeX User Guide
• Linux
• LyX
• MIDI and sound for Linux
• PNG: Portable Network Graphics
• ibiblio (public library and digital archive, formerly the Sunsite Archive)
• WINE

Books, etc.

• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.