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.

• 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 solution of challenge 14 (on Golomb's sequence) of Performance Calcul (1996, 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.

Old/Obsolete Pages

Some very old, outdated pages, but which can still be useful, just in case:

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

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

• My shareware game TETRHEX for the Atari Falcon 030.

Some Links

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

• 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), Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, 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 (search by image); Topictures (meta-search engine for pictures, search by text).

• 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, Ohloh Code, Debian Code Search.

• 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.