Vincent Lefèvre - Home Page

Personal Details

• Blogging and micro-blogging:

  • My blog (not everything in English).

  • Twitter (I post there in English and in French).

  • Identi.ca (I post there mostly in English, and my notices are passed to Twitter, except replies).

• My address.

• Curriculum Vitae in English.

• Curriculum Vitae in French.

• My PGP key.

My hobbies: computer science, mathematical and logical puzzles, 17's and Yellow Pigs, early music, fantasy and sci-fi books and films.

My Computer Science and Software Pages

• My research / computer arithmetic page.

• Unix/Linux: utilities, links.

• Acorn, ARM and RISC OS: some programs for RISC OS with their source, documentation...

• Zaurus and Nokia N810 (Linux-based PDA's).

• My pages on free software: the Mutt mailer, the Firefox web browser and TeX/LaTeX.

• My page on Maple (currently, how to use it from the Perl language).

• My page on software patents.

• My shareware game TETRHEX for the Atari Falcon 030.

• My solution of challenge 14 (on Golomb's sequence) of Performance Calcul (in French): [dvi] or [gzipped postscript] or [PDF].

My Other Web Pages

• My list of 17's.

• My maths page.

• My pages on the Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques (International Championship of Mathematics Puzzles), in French.

• My movie pages (in French).

• Interesting RSS feeds.

Some Links

• W3C. Validate your web pages. Accessibility: WAI (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), Bobby, BrailleNet.

• Boycott Micro$oft. Say no to monopolies - support competition, free markets and innovation.

  Roberto Di Cosmo and Dominique Nora's book Hijacking the World (1998), now available online.

  Article by Michael Jennings: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.

  Microsoft Litigation Resource Page.

• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII).

• Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• The Digital Standards Organization, for free and open digital standards.

• ASCII art: Joan Stark's site, ASCII art webring.

• EuroBillTracker: Follow your Euro bills in their track.

• MindTerm (Java SSH client).

Some Search Engines and Databases

• Web (general): Google (the best one), Exalead, Open Directory Project (dmoz), AlltheWeb.com, Alta Vista, Bing, Netscape Search, Yahoo, Vivísimo Clustering, KwMap.net (a keyword map for the whole Internet) and Truveo (videos only).

• Web, in French: Voilà, Weborama and Yahoo France.

• Archives: Internet Archive (with its Way Back Machine, public domain movies, and so on) and WebCite.

• Bookmarks (favorites): del.icio.us.

• Blogs (and some forums): Feedster.

• Images: TinEye.

• News (USENET): Google (advanced search).

• FAQs.

• Papers (maths, computer science, physics, etc.): CiteSeer.IST Scientific Literature Digital Library, Scientific Commons.

• Bibliography: main page (Germany); mirrors: Canada, Australia.

• LaTeX Search (mathematical equations in scientific publications).

• Math: constants (Inverse Symbolic Calculator) and integer sequences.

• Free software: FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory.

• Software sources: Krugle, csourcesearch.net (C/C++).

• Man pages of various operating systems: FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages.

• RFCs: RFC Editor site and FAQS.ORG site.

• Movies: IMDb (search page) and Les Gens du cinéma.

• File formats: Wotsit.

• File extensions: DotWhat, FileInfo.com, FILExt and File-Extensions.org.

• Maps: maporama.com (world), Yahoo (USA, Canada) and mappy.com (Europe).

• Dictionaries, encyclopedias: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Answers.com, dict.org and Dictionarist.com.