The Obscure Organization
promotes creativity and community through technology
a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation
Obscure Links
Table of Contents
- Other Obscure Places
- Cool Places
- Going Places in the Real World
- Software Resources
- UNIX and Linux Resources
- Secure Shell Resources
- Mail and Anti-SPAM Resources
- Web authoring Resources
- Perl Resources
- Win32-UNIX porting resources
- Multi-User Dimensions
- Other Obscure Places
- Cool Places
- Going Places in the Real World
- Software Resources
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UNIX and Linux Help
- Linux Tutorials
- LinuxCommand.org - a fine tutorial on shell scripting
- Choosing Good Passwords
- The Bugtraq Mailing list
- See also our SSH section
- SSH (Secure Shell) and Related Programs
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Web Authoring Resources
- The Obscure Web Page Self-Starter Kit
- General References
- A List Apart for people who make web sites
- Nielsen Norman Group articles on user experience and design
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- W3C Technical Reports and Publications including the HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, PICS, and PNG specifications. This also has working drafts of standards-in-progress and many other technical documents of interest to deep Web magicians.
- 10 Myths about Copyright
- Web Pages That Suck (a primer on how to avoid this predicament)
- HTML Validation Tools
- W3C HTML Validation Service - check your HTML syntax.
- HTML Tidy - Clean up invalid HTML (installed on Obscure!)
- Linklint - Check validity of links (installed on Obscure!)
- CGI, PHP and Forms
- Perl Resources
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Pythonic Resources
- Python
- Porting Python 2 to 3
- Django Project - the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
- Red Hat's Cygwin project (bash, GCC, cvs, openssh, etc. for Win32)
- Minimal GNU Windows environment - an alternative to Cygwin with a more liberal license
- VIM (Vi IMproved)
- XEmacs has an excellent Win32 port
- GNU Emacs for Win32
- UNIX to NT Resource Center
- Filtering Spam and Mailing Lists on Obscure
- Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
- The Filtering Mail FAQ (procmail is installed on Obscure)
- SpamAssassin (installed on Obscure)
- Vipul's Razor