Computing Links
Net
- Internet Acronyms
- What all those weird TLAs mean in internet discussions.
- IT and communication by Jukka Korpela
- Excellent resource for many topics about Net, from web authoring to Usenet. (fi: Varsin kuuluisa näistä on Nyysiopas. Hyvää luettavaa on myös Web-julkaisemisen opas )
- Open Directory Project
- When you need a bit more comprehensive link list than this.
- The Web Design Group
- Guides and tools for web authoring
- World Wide Web Consortium
- The definitive source for web standards. Rather useful is their HTLM Validator
- Sfnetin ryhmät (fi)
- Puolustuspuhe nimimerkin käytölle nyyssiryhmissä. (fi)
- Kannanotto erääseen nyysseissä vähän väliä esiin putkahtavaan väittelyyn.
Software
- SourceForge
- Tons of Open Source projects.
- Tucows
- Software with descriptions and ratings.
Information
- IRC help
- Guides how to use the Internet Relay Chat.
- Tex and LaTeX Guides
- LaTeX is alternative (and, some might say, superior) to WYSIWYG-way of creating documents. It does have a rather steep learning curve, though, so these guides may be helpful.
- Tom`s Hardware Guide
- Hardware guides, tests and reviews.
Linux
- DistroWatch
- There are rather many Linux distributions. This site has news and reviews about most of them, hopefully helping to choose the most suitable to install.
- Linux Documentation Project
- One of the best places to find information about all things Linux.
- Linux on Laptops
- Running Linux on a laptop isn`t always a trivial task. This site tells which laptops are compatible with Linux and how to solve possible problems.
Games
- Areena-pelit (fi)
- Gladiaattorimanagerointipeli.
- Linux Game Tome
- Linux might not be hard-core gamer`s first choice of platform, but it does still have some decent games. Most of those are reviewed and rated at this site. Makes me wish there would be a similar site for Windows games, too.
Games : Civilization clones
- Freeciv
- A very good clone of Civilization II (though has rules for Civilization I as well). Runs on both Windows and Linux (and several other platforms), has network play and, of course, is free.
- Civ Evolution
- Another non-commercial game based on Civilization. Features self-designable units and fully deterministic gameplay. Still in development, but reasonably playable already. The standard AI is pretty helpless yet, but there are others you can try.
Games: Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction is the new name for games previously known as text adventure games. The new games are mostly free and written by real writers instead of programmers. Some of my favorites, made by Adam Cadre : Photopia (Short, easy and has an excellent story. Good game to start), Shrapnel (Also short and almost puzzle-free. Violence and twisted humor) and Varicella (King has died, and the ministers compete to become Regent. Palace Minister needs a cunning plan to eliminate the competition. Evil characters, treachery and dark humor. Relatively short, but has real puzzles).
- Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive
- IF games described, rated and categorized.
- Inform
- Programming language(or "design system") for creating Interactive Fiction games.
- The Interactive Fiction Archive
- The archive itself.
Games : Roguelikes
- Doom the Roguelike
- Demons, shotguns and chainsaws. A roguelike based on the classic first-person shooter. Very simple, might be good intro to roguelikes.
- Dungeon Crawl
- Perhaps not one of the most famous roguelikes, but one of my personal favorites. Simple, short and playable. Unfortunately, apparently no longer developed.
- Nethack
- Probably the most famous roguelike.
- Thangorodim - The Angband Page
- Angband is another popular rogulike. Has tons of variants.
- ToME - Tales of Middle Earth
- One of the Angband variants which I kind of like.
Last update 2006-10-08 / jln@iki.fi