Serious, technical books I recommend.
These are listed in no particular order
Genetics
The Continuity of Life
Daniel J. Fairbanks, W. Ralph Andersen
Lectures on Physics
Richard Feynman
Concrete Mathematics
Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik
Here are some non-fiction books that I recommend.
A list of contemporary books that I’m particularly fond of.
A list of books that I’m particularly fond of.
I didn’t discover the modern classics until relatively late in life.
It’s goodbye Windoze, hello Linux.
Well, nearly. I have now started using Ubuntu in anger for commercial development, and have started to find going back to Windows 7 on my home machine relatively painful.
However, there are a couple of things in Ubuntu Unity that I can’t get on with. The main one is the Global Menu Bar; that is, the menu for an application appearing only in the top title bar for the desktop, rather than at the top of the application’s window.
Solutions to this problem are described elsewhere on the web, but instructions vary. I wanted to make as minor a change as possible.
There is a huge amount of free software available. But you need to take care.
Well, that’s a slightly unfair title. Here are some reasons why free, open-source software can be, and often is, better than commercial software.
The is now a plethora of incredibly useful question-and-answer sites available. Here are a few that I like.
For most pieces of commercial software for common tasks there is an excellent free althernative; sometimes even open source. Here are a few of my favourites.
This post extends and complements several previous ones on open source software, firefox extensions and system tools.
