Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe. This petition is directed to the European Parliament. Its goal is to warn European Authorities against the dangers of software patents. This petition is supported by the EuroLinux Alliance together with European companies and non-profit associations.
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My hobbies: computer science, mathematical and logical puzzles, 17's and Yellow Pigs, early music, fantasy and sci-fi books and films.
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, TeX/LaTeX, and Maple.
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 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).
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.
ASCII art: Joan Stark's site, ASCII art webring.
EuroBillTracker: Follow your Euro bills in their track.
MindTerm (Java SSH client).
Web (general): Google (the best one), Exalead, Open Directory Project (dmoz), AlltheWeb.com, Alta Vista, 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.
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.
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 (Internet Movie Database).
File formats: Wotsit.
File extensions: FILExt.
Maps: maporama.com (world), Yahoo (USA, Canada) and mappy.com (Europe).
Dictionaries, encyclopedias: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Answers.com and dict.org.