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The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.2.10 The latest beta version of the Linux kernel is: 2.3.10 The latest prepatch (alpha) version appears to be: 2.3.11-4

`My reasons for creating this page are many. Firstly I was enchanted with the idea that I could get some sort of presence on the web that was just slightly positive. This being done I strove to increase the avaibility of such things that the community enjoys.

I hit upon the perfect thing and that was to put out things that are both useful to me and the community

News and schedule

4:44 PM 6/30/99 MST (all the rest of the time references are MST unless otherwise specified) Basically changed my e-mail address to one that I can easily access and respond to so basically if you have any major changes you think I should impliment I will get one them shortly

4:46 PM 6/30/99 Decided that I am going to post some of my asciified images on the site so that one of the themes can stop being fiction. I have an asciified version of the debian logo from slashdot (see below link) that I use on my personal computer that I think people would like

4:49 PM 6/30/99 the

tag should not be use in conjunction with the links it makes it too small even for me to read

Sites that Are good to look and why:
Site Name Location What they do Good points why Cons

Slashcode Slashcode They host the main site for development for the slashdot source code that was released a while ago They provide a focal point for new releases and for some of my interest in the code. One can get easily the information that you can use immediately and comment with people who have similar points of view. Created in large part because they wanted access to a place to develop. Not useful unless you have a good server setup and the data isn't archived like slashdot.

Slashdot Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters Provide news on news relevent to the technical community.With multiple updates several times a day You get almost instant (well compared to e-mail, but not as good as instant messaging types of things) replies to things submitted to their bulletin boards provided with each story. Created as part of a personal project for a linux oriented web site and has grown into a commercial venture. You can get flammed anonymously and sometimes there isn't a good story for days at a time.

Freshmeat
Freshmeat Provide a clearinghouse of recently released linux/unix applications in the opensource community. You can find some really good stuff there provided you don't have an aversion to compiling things yourself. Since they are seen by many it encourages many people to submit information to their service and adds to the overall utility of the site. Packages are often hard to compile because you may not have the proper libraries and most of the time there isn't any good applications save for some obscure networking utility or crappy library that some said project may eventually use.

Rougelike News
Rougelike News British based service for information on rougelike games. Essentially these games are like rouge and nethack. You go through a dungeon and kill things. Eventually you usually have to defeat some rather nasty monster or so. Quite fun and for some people addictive. Again good for getting everything in one place Development of games in this arena is really seperate and difficult to coordinate this helps it to make it better. I forget the URL occasionally and need to keep this page to even figure out where it is.

Current Weather Conditions for Salt Lake City, Utah
Current Weather conditions This site provided by NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atnospheric Administration) Provides data from any of the many airports and weather monitoring locations throughout the world. The provide all the data you could want in one place (notice a theme in most of these). I found this one through extensive browsing in my early college career during my first semester in college taking Meterology. It provides all the data. You need for making very approproiate and accurate predictions. Because they rely on data gleaned from the Salt Lake City international airport we are fortunate. This data is actually taken from TAF reports (Terminal Aerodine Forecasts) which are used to give weather data for many locations throughout the world. This data is updated every 15 minutes in some cases for weather informations. However this data is cryptic at best. The best thing you can hope for is to get something like this. Not updated every hour all the time. Althoug sometimes it is.

Lynx Browser main page
Lynx Browser main page main page for the lynx browser homepage The produce a browser that I have fortunately/unfortunately had to use for a while (several years). They do a good job of making the most of the unix shell/dialup environment by basically stripping and rendering only the relevent text data of the web page and making the experience sometimes faster for people who are better typists than others. You can number links for instince for many web pages and then type in a series of numbers to get to the particular link that you want in a page. They first did this because in the beginning mast of the means of accessing the web were through bigger computers with nice (or not so nice) connections. These computers didn't have much in the way of graphics quality so all they could really do were curses/ncurses graphics over a telnet or equivelent connection. Since this was all they had to work with text was all they could do. Today accessibility of web sites is paramount on the web in part because of the ADA which has made it a crime for various government hosted web sites not to provide disabeled persons with a means of accessing their pages. Lynx fulfills this mission by being very compatable with various screen readers and braile terminals that such people can use. The browser can really look crappy on a site that uses frames or uses a great deal of java/javascript which can actually break this.

Formatted statistics for SLC weather data Meterological Data for Salt Lake City creates statistics from some meterological site at the University of Utah and other locations Probably the best service (almost even better than the NOAA one). This allows for anyone doing research in long term climate type analysis to get all the data that you could want about the weather patterns in the past year or so (from about 1998). Probably created for someone's project and part as a permanent resource for the University this was invaluable for me when I did stuff for a project in my meterology class. A good look. You can get fancy color graphics over a random period of time. A must for meterology students. Sometimes slow to reder the data for the entire year (which is what I did). Also hard to find without looking really hard for the data. If you don't have a color printer the graphs may not do you a lot of good.

Google search engine Google one of the newer search engines A new search engine that I started using because of Altavista's policy of selling out top level search matches to advertisers and the like. I want my searches to be beased on logic not money that someone has slipped an exec. They don't use banner ads (only text links), they have a spidering search mechanism that looks through pages and then caches the results. I have gained access to at least a dozen pages that I wouldn't have been able to access with this method. Also the search results are oftentimes quite useful. They are so confident of their accuracy they have I'm feeling lucky button that automatically takes the browser to the first result of the search. Not totally the best search engine for looking for massive numbers of hits limited like Altavista and the like to I think 10 pages of hits.

Open nntp server listing open nntp server listing listing of nntp servers that the public can read, read/write to/from. Very nice listing of public nntp (the protocol for what usenet runs on) servers. Getting access to a server that isn't censored or dosn't have the group that you want can be a pain. This is a means that I have found works great. Just get a client, assign it one of those servers and then go. Largely becuase of the policy of AOL to censor material (I think) this person started this service. It's a pretty good idea in theory. Most of the time there are some rather bad servers that don't work and most of those that do are slow (by today's standards of fast). However I have found they fit the bill. Try scrappy.visi.com for a good one. Not updates regularly as far as I can see.

Main adom page Adom text adventure game wit a playable plot! Most of the games I termed rougelike are pretty crummy after a while. I like to play games with a story line. This one is a compromise in this regard. Essentially free (except for a few features that can be enabled with a small fee ($20 to the author in germany)); it features quests, lots of play, and good scalability. I like this one for the chance of a story and the chance to play something that has a chance for some real plot. Not really updated that much ( I guess I can't complain that much)

Atdot Atdot Web based pop e-mail service. You can access your pop email account through a web based service that is reasonably good. You can also send data from the account through the resident server's mailing system. This means that you really don't need an SMTP (mail sending) server to send mail from a pop account. If you look at the message headers you will find that actually it just appends the data that the message came from your account. Also can just take the mail address and change it to anything that you want so that your actual address dosn't change but your pop one could. Oftentimes I have had problems with the host that actually hosts the site
elijah.nodomainname.net or something like that failing. I almost didn't receive mail at that address for a while. Not 100% reliable for some things. If you get too many messages in your inbox forget trying to empty them out in a timely manner at all. Better get a real pop client and then get then off the server of your choice.

Hardware Group hardware group a group of hardware experts who run a good mailing list you get a nice forum for reading about hardware news. They used to distribute the digested version via a .zip file (quite convient) still have the mailing list although they use mailman now. I like reading digested mailing lists because you can easily read them and not have to wory about thousands of little messages which can build up and usually causes most web mail providers to bog down really fast. Their mailing list history in the past has been rather bad because of various elements. You can get a great deal of mail from this without the digests and even with it becomes a hassle if you don't have a good deal of mail space.

List of my debian installed packages debian installed packages on this page This page is actually a link to my main page which has the list. Freeservers dosn't allow you to link *directly* to the non-html file that you want you have to provide a link to a page which then has a link to the item. I provided this because I use Debian GNU/Linux at home often and use floppies and the like to transfer data to and from my machine. Debian also can output a list of installed packages on the sytem and their status and version number via a command called dpkg -l >filename.blah. This can then be copied to a disk and then efficiently directed to a web site. Works quite well. I like to be able to access this list for upgrade purposes. I only basically do it becauase there are some environments whre one cannot access files on the local disk drive or where such access dosn't lead to a good association under a windows OS (think notepad). I may be able to change this by "coverting" the file to a dos type ftom a unix type. Always a first time for anything. Not updated regularly because I don't do it often enough. Most likely this list isn't actually indicative of much of anything but the largest packages or the most unnecessary ones.

Site Name	Location	What they do	Good points	why	Cons
Slashcode	Slashcode	They host the main site for development for the slashdot source code that was released a while ago	They provide a focal point for new releases and for some of my interest in the code. One can get easily the information that you can use immediately and comment with people who have similar points of view.	Created in large part because they wanted access to a place to develop.	Not useful unless you have a good server setup and the data isn't archived like slashdot.
Slashdot	Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters	Provide news on news relevent to the technical community.With multiple updates several times a day	You get almost instant (well compared to e-mail, but not as good as instant messaging types of things) replies to things submitted to their bulletin boards provided with each story.	Created as part of a personal project for a linux oriented web site and has grown into a commercial venture.	You can get flammed anonymously and sometimes there isn't a good story for days at a time.
Freshmeat	Freshmeat	Provide a clearinghouse of recently released linux/unix applications in the opensource community.	You can find some really good stuff there provided you don't have an aversion to compiling things yourself.	Since they are seen by many it encourages many people to submit information to their service and adds to the overall utility of the site.	Packages are often hard to compile because you may not have the proper libraries and most of the time there isn't any good applications save for some obscure networking utility or crappy library that some said project may eventually use.
Rougelike News	Rougelike News	British based service for information on rougelike games. Essentially these games are like rouge and nethack. You go through a dungeon and kill things. Eventually you usually have to defeat some rather nasty monster or so. Quite fun and for some people addictive.	Again good for getting everything in one place	Development of games in this arena is really seperate and difficult to coordinate this helps it to make it better.	I forget the URL occasionally and need to keep this page to even figure out where it is.
Current Weather Conditions for Salt Lake City, Utah	Current Weather conditions	This site provided by NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atnospheric Administration) Provides data from any of the many airports and weather monitoring locations throughout the world.	The provide all the data you could want in one place (notice a theme in most of these). I found this one through extensive browsing in my early college career during my first semester in college taking Meterology. It provides all the data. You need for making very approproiate and accurate predictions.	Because they rely on data gleaned from the Salt Lake City international airport we are fortunate. This data is actually taken from TAF reports (Terminal Aerodine Forecasts) which are used to give weather data for many locations throughout the world. This data is updated every 15 minutes in some cases for weather informations. However this data is cryptic at best. The best thing you can hope for is to get something like this.	Not updated every hour all the time. Althoug sometimes it is.
Lynx Browser main page	Lynx Browser main page	main page for the lynx browser homepage	The produce a browser that I have fortunately/unfortunately had to use for a while (several years). They do a good job of making the most of the unix shell/dialup environment by basically stripping and rendering only the relevent text data of the web page and making the experience sometimes faster for people who are better typists than others. You can number links for instince for many web pages and then type in a series of numbers to get to the particular link that you want in a page.	They first did this because in the beginning mast of the means of accessing the web were through bigger computers with nice (or not so nice) connections. These computers didn't have much in the way of graphics quality so all they could really do were curses/ncurses graphics over a telnet or equivelent connection. Since this was all they had to work with text was all they could do. Today accessibility of web sites is paramount on the web in part because of the ADA which has made it a crime for various government hosted web sites not to provide disabeled persons with a means of accessing their pages. Lynx fulfills this mission by being very compatable with various screen readers and braile terminals that such people can use.	The browser can really look crappy on a site that uses frames or uses a great deal of java/javascript which can actually break this.
Formatted statistics for SLC weather data	Meterological Data for Salt Lake City	creates statistics from some meterological site at the University of Utah and other locations	Probably the best service (almost even better than the NOAA one). This allows for anyone doing research in long term climate type analysis to get all the data that you could want about the weather patterns in the past year or so (from about 1998).	Probably created for someone's project and part as a permanent resource for the University this was invaluable for me when I did stuff for a project in my meterology class. A good look. You can get fancy color graphics over a random period of time. A must for meterology students.	Sometimes slow to reder the data for the entire year (which is what I did). Also hard to find without looking really hard for the data. If you don't have a color printer the graphs may not do you a lot of good.
Google search engine	Google	one of the newer search engines	A new search engine that I started using because of Altavista's policy of selling out top level search matches to advertisers and the like. I want my searches to be beased on logic not money that someone has slipped an exec.	They don't use banner ads (only text links), they have a spidering search mechanism that looks through pages and then caches the results. I have gained access to at least a dozen pages that I wouldn't have been able to access with this method. Also the search results are oftentimes quite useful. They are so confident of their accuracy they have I'm feeling lucky button that automatically takes the browser to the first result of the search.	Not totally the best search engine for looking for massive numbers of hits limited like Altavista and the like to I think 10 pages of hits.
Open nntp server listing	open nntp server listing	listing of nntp servers that the public can read, read/write to/from.	Very nice listing of public nntp (the protocol for what usenet runs on) servers. Getting access to a server that isn't censored or dosn't have the group that you want can be a pain. This is a means that I have found works great. Just get a client, assign it one of those servers and then go.	Largely becuase of the policy of AOL to censor material (I think) this person started this service. It's a pretty good idea in theory. Most of the time there are some rather bad servers that don't work and most of those that do are slow (by today's standards of fast). However I have found they fit the bill. Try scrappy.visi.com for a good one.	Not updates regularly as far as I can see.
Main adom page	Adom	text adventure game wit a playable plot!	Most of the games I termed rougelike are pretty crummy after a while. I like to play games with a story line. This one is a compromise in this regard. Essentially free (except for a few features that can be enabled with a small fee ($20 to the author in germany)); it features quests, lots of play, and good scalability.	I like this one for the chance of a story and the chance to play something that has a chance for some real plot.	Not really updated that much ( I guess I can't complain that much)
Atdot	Atdot	Web based pop e-mail service.	You can access your pop email account through a web based service that is reasonably good.	You can also send data from the account through the resident server's mailing system. This means that you really don't need an SMTP (mail sending) server to send mail from a pop account. If you look at the message headers you will find that actually it just appends the data that the message came from your account. Also can just take the mail address and change it to anything that you want so that your actual address dosn't change but your pop one could.	Oftentimes I have had problems with the host that actually hosts the site elijah.nodomainname.net or something like that failing. I almost didn't receive mail at that address for a while. Not 100% reliable for some things. If you get too many messages in your inbox forget trying to empty them out in a timely manner at all. Better get a real pop client and then get then off the server of your choice.
Hardware Group	hardware group	a group of hardware experts who run a good mailing list	you get a nice forum for reading about hardware news. They used to distribute the digested version via a .zip file (quite convient) still have the mailing list although they use mailman now.	I like reading digested mailing lists because you can easily read them and not have to wory about thousands of little messages which can build up and usually causes most web mail providers to bog down really fast.	Their mailing list history in the past has been rather bad because of various elements. You can get a great deal of mail from this without the digests and even with it becomes a hassle if you don't have a good deal of mail space.
List of my debian installed packages	debian installed packages on this page	This page is actually a link to my main page which has the list. Freeservers dosn't allow you to link directly to the non-html file that you want you have to provide a link to a page which then has a link to the item.	I provided this because I use Debian GNU/Linux at home often and use floppies and the like to transfer data to and from my machine. Debian also can output a list of installed packages on the sytem and their status and version number via a command called dpkg -l >filename.blah. This can then be copied to a disk and then efficiently directed to a web site. Works quite well.	I like to be able to access this list for upgrade purposes. I only basically do it becauase there are some environments whre one cannot access files on the local disk drive or where such access dosn't lead to a good association under a windows OS (think notepad). I may be able to change this by "coverting" the file to a dos type ftom a unix type. Always a first time for anything.	Not updated regularly because I don't do it often enough. Most likely this list isn't actually indicative of much of anything but the largest packages or the most unnecessary ones.