Erik's computer links

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General Interest
Links that are more of a general nature and don't fit into the other categories.

Programming and languages
Useful links for general programming.

Linux
Links that are about the free Unix operating system.

Humor
Links for computer-based humor. Some background: I spent two years in a Tech Support Helpdesk. Here are some good links for professionals working as Sysad's, TS Personnel, or other customer support-oriented positions who need a good chuckle. As they say, "Laughter is the best medicine".

Online Magazines
These are links to various web sites that contain useful (or, in the case of some like PC Magazine, worthless) information about computers, peripherals, reviews, etc.

General Interest:

Video GameSpot's History of Video Games
Winfiles.com - A web site for downloading shareware programs

Computer Chess Programming

Computer Virus Myths home page

DaveCentral - Another place to download shareware programs

Programming and languages:

Perl.org - Information about the Perl language
Perl.com - A Perl language reference web site

C++ Snippets - Various snippets of C/C++ code to perform various tasks

C++ Snippets - From the official web site, snippets.org

C++ FAQ Lite - An online version of the popular book (now in 2nd edition)

OpenGL.org - Home page for the high performance 2D/3D graphics API

Standard Template Library (STL) programmer's guide

Humor:

The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer
Hello, World! (The famous program written in various languages)

Segfault.org

BOFH Excuse Server

SysAdmin Recovery

Your Worst Nightmare (From a recovering SysAd)

Linux:

Caldera

Kevin Reichard's Home Page

Linux Documentation Project

Linux Home Page

Redhat

VA Research

Online Resources/Magazines:

Information Week

PC Computing

PC Week

ZDNet AnchorDesk

ZDNNews

ZDNNews: Rumors & Comment