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This page is a place for links to various random things that I think you might be interested in seeing.
- Chart (660KB) showing trends in computer power
- ASUS VX97 System Board
- Sources for tear down systems
- Snoop, a
utility program that zooms in on a small section of the display window.
Written by Yung-Yu Chuang, CSE, University of Washington, based on the
Microsoft ZoomIn utility.
- Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) Red supercomputer
- The Earth Simulator supercomputer
- Mars Rovers
- Google Advanced Search Operators
- A. K. Dewdney books and articles
- Graphing calculator. A cool tool for exploring
graphs of various mathematical curves and surfaces.
- Telephone Tones
- HTML Validator.
List of valid
Document Type Definitions.
Information about how to specify
character encodings.
- HTML 4.01
tag reference
and
JavaScript tutorial
from
W3 Schools. Their
TryIt Editor
is a very handy tool.
- Sorting algorithm demos.
- It's not just speed that's increasing - storage densities are climbing
too. For example, the
Blu-ray disk
format is designed for 50 GB of data on one disk. (student suggestion).
- Body Mass Index
calculator from the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- A collection of science-related
Games and
Puzzles implemented in JavaScript. Provided by Thomas Jefferson National
Accelerator Facility (
Jefferson Lab).
- Simpson. Sorry, the related website was destroyed
by morons and so I removed the discussion. DWJ 10/25/2004
- Web developer documentation
from the Mozilla project. Includes good reference information about
HTML and JavaScript.
- JavaScript reference document.
(Note: 1.2MB PDF file).
- Text editors that understand the syntax of a the page that you are
editing (aka, programmer's editors) can be very helpful. The
TextPad editor for Windows is installed
in the labs
and can be downloaded for free (although it will ask you to buy it frequently).
jEdit is another programmer's editor. It
is written in Java and so it runs on almost any operating system. It is free,
and has lots of plug-ins that provide extended capabilities.
- There are numerous web browsers other than Microsoft's
Internet
Explorer, and some of them provide capabilities not found in IE.
The Mozilla project provides a free and
very capable browser that is particularly helpful for debugging.
Opera is a relatively small, fast,
standards-compliant browser.
- W3C standards.
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