Inquiring Minds Want to Know

• refdesk.com "The single best source for facts on the Net".
• Wikipedia "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", and consequently all information must be corroborated
• Britannica The on-line Encyclopædia Britannica & tidbits of the day.
• How Stuff Works
• The Straight Dope Home Page plus link to Chicago Reader.
• Urban Legends Reference Pages
  • Shark Hoax Pretty & fake image of shark attacking man suspended from helicopter.
• Science News

Where am I

• Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions Street address, intersection or Airport Code.
• MapQuest Street address or intersection.
  • MapQuest Latitude / Longitude.
• MSN Maps & Directions Street address or Place name. Formerly MapBlast.
• Maporama Street address, station, points of interest. Appears downloadable to PDA.

U.S. Government

• Federal Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO Remember them from their late-night ads?
• United States Postal Service Useful little web site with, amongst other things,
  • an engine to find ZIP+4 codes
  • a change of address site with useful moving hints, including how to pack a hippopotamus
• U.S. Department of State
  • Bureau of Consular Affairs
    • Passports
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Examine for recalls and downloadable publications.
• The Internal Revenue Service Can down-load printable forms and instruction booklets. Has saved my butt once already.
• National Agricultural Library Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Of particular interest is:
  • USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
• National Do Not Call Registry Run by Federal Trade Commission.

Massachusetts Government

• Department of Revenue They couldn't just call it IRS
• Registry of Motor Vehicles
• Do Not Call List Registry. Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs.

Nutrition

• The Glycemic Index Measure of how carbohydrated in different foods affect blood sugar levels.

Boston

• Boston Atlas Nice satellite images, difficult to use.

Compu-Info

• ssh Some real nice documentation on secure shell.
  • scp Man page.
• Vi Cheat Sheet
• Linux Cheat Sheets
• BroadBand Expert - Ultimate Linux Guide. A fairly large and well organized list of Linux links.
• YoLinux.com
  • YoLinux.com: Managing Group Access
• All about Linux
  • All about Linux: Configuring xterm in Linux
• Which Linux Distro are you using ?? Seem's to be a specific person's web site, not a forum per se.
• Changing xterm colors/prompts? [Archive] - The macosxhints Forums specifically the showrgb command for color lists
• Tar/performance
  • Tar/gzip causing system to slow to a crawl
  • including a comment on nice & tar
• Stupid, Stupid Protocols: Telnet, FTP, rsh/rcp/rlogin With some notes on how to use ssh to work around them.
• Linux Security: How Not to Get Hacked
• Intrusion Detection FAQ: Does allowing telnet and rlogin increase the risk to my site?
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Group which maintains computer benchmarks.
  • All published SPECfp_rate95 Results Listing of results of 1995 benchmark. Since superseded by 2000 benchmark, but that list is just starting.
• MPI benchmarks
• Gluster administration guide
  • Includes notes on automatically mounting Gluster volume

SGE
• recovering from qmaster errors rocks specific, somewhat older.
• Sun GridEngine Problems - Rocks Clusters older. Some notes on x11 forwarding.
• Problems with X11 forwarding and Rocks
• qlogin/ssh (X forwarding)
• differences between ssh and qlogin to cluster notes
• above found by googling qlogin sge "x11 forwarding"
• how-can-i-set-the-maximum-number-of-running-jobs-per-user-on-sge

ROCKS
• preserving head node during upgrade
• thread partially dealing with auto.share
• No 411 shared key when reinstalling nodes
• a fix for sharing (and auto.share ?)
• 411 and extend-compute.mxl not applied to new compute nodes

CentOS
• http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.6/readme
• http://vault.centos.org/
• Subversion/CentOS 5.6

English & Grammar

• Get it Write Online
• Common Errors in English
• Thesaurus.com
• Illuminated Manuscripts. I had a hard time remembering this term once. And this site might be informative in general.
• Verb2Verbe Conjugate any French or English verbs.

Other Languages
• TranslatorBar - Easily Translate Pages and Text

Cute Trivia

• NATO Phonetic alphabet
• Flags of all Countries An alphabetical list of countries linking to flags. If flag is known but not country, has links to a page of flag images and (especially handy) a link to a "Flag Identifier" site with links ordered on flag style.
• Western-Chinese Calendar Converter
• Longevity
  • Trees and more trees
  • Animals

Health

• West Nile Virus A Harvard University fact sheet.
• ACOR - Association of Cancer Online Resources Consumer Reports suggests this as useful. If I ever need it, this is the easiest way to keep it at hand.
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Safety

• Dig Safe System, Inc. Call or submit webform 4 days before digging. This organization contacts utilities which, in turn, mark the location of utility lines or pipes with spray paint.
• The National Electrical Safety Foundation Some useful publications

Efficiency, Recycling, etc

• Rocky Mountain Institute Nonprofit organization of resource efficiency.
• International Association of Electronics Recyclers
• Electronic Industries Alliance: Environment
• Steel Recycling Institute
• Recharable Battery Recycling Corporation

Finance

Comparison Shopping
• BankRate "Rates for auto loans, credit cards, certificates of deposit, home-equity loans & personal loans, as well as information on the cost of checking accounts."
• CardWeb "Lists of leading credit-card offers, including low-rate and no-fee cards."
• HSH Associates "Average interest rates and total points for 30-year, 15-year and adjustable-rate mortgages in major markets around the country."
• iMoneynet "Top-yielding money-market funds and certificates of deposit; the average and best rates on auto, credit-card, home-equity, mortgage and personal loans."

Investment
• The Investment FAQ (part 1 of 15) Might be useful as a tutorial in investment.

Real Estate
• MassHousing "the state's affordable housing bank"
• Apartment Access Sign-up for E-mailings of no-fee apartment listings.
• Mortgage Bankers Association - Consumer Resources Kind of like a FAQ for mortgages.