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Summary of last weeks kernel mailing list traffic.
Everything you could want to know about the linux kernel.
Latest news on program releases.
New features, patches for the linux kernel.
isapnptools, my software for configuring ISA PnP cards.
serialmon, my software to monitor serial line activity.
Experimental C compiler.

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Windows NT failings

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX - the definitive work.

Free software etc

Open Source software - an idea whose time has come.
The cathedral and the bazaar - a comparison of two software development models.
isapnptools, my software for configuring ISA PnP cards.
serialmon, my software to monitor serial line activity.
fpath - Convert unix ls-lR into something more useful
News fetching scripts and slurp patches
My home page.
Fravia's page of reverse engineering - Find out what your programs are REALLY doing.
Junk busters - How to stop getting junk sent to you. To see how you can be tracked, check out this link
Source of weblint, a perl script.

Essays etc

In the Beginning was the Command Line (long), or try www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html.
Critical Views of the Net.
Influence At Work.

Humour

Once we had wisdom, then we settled for knowledge, now it's mostly information.

Groucho Marx on Politics: [Politics is] the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Local area

St.Albans council.

Mailing lists I find interesting

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NEWSSCAN.
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RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY.
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