Here is a selection of links that I found particularly interesting or useful. Note that some of the links may be dead as I do not verify their availability regularly.
Art and history
- 1001 Nights
- Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
These archives at evidenceincamera hold millions of WWII reconnaissance photographs
- Behind the Name
The etymology and history of first names
- British Pathe Archives
75 years of history
- Classic Cat
The free classical catalogue
- David Rumsey's map collection
An amazing map collection that includes many historical maps
- Disc Drive
Jurgen Gothe's daily program is was my favorite radio show on CBC Stereo Radio 2
- Feldgrau.com
The German Armed Forces 1919-1945
- GateWorld
- Gwendolyn Best
Gwendolyn Best is known, among other things, for her paintings of Parliament Hill cats.
- ibiblio
The Public's Library and Digital Archive
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Melody Search
By musipedia
- Mervyn Peake
The author of Gormenghast
- Seventh Art Films
- Singing Search
- Star Trek
- The American Film Institute
- The British Empire
- The Classical MIDI Archives
If you have a good sound card or better yet, external MIDI equipment, this is the place to go for MIDI files
- The Internet Movie Database
Where else would you find details about even the most obscure of movies, such as the 1965 Hungarian classic, A Tizedes meg a Többiek?
- The Internet Underground Music Archive
This archive is not the place where you find pirated MP3 files
- The Israel of yesteryear
- The National Film Board of Canada
- The Online Library of Liberty
- The Outer Limits episode guide
- What is USA
Canadian sites
- Bank of Canada
- Border wait times
- Canada Post
- Canada Revenue Agency
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- City of Ottawa
- CRA My Account - Business
- CRA My Account - Individual
- David Crummings insurance for travelers to Canada
- Embassy of Canada in Budapest
- Explanation of IRS W-8BEN form for Canadians
- Global Television Network
- Government of Canada
- Greyhound Canada
- Ottawa airport flight information
- Québec Government Office in Houston
- Standards Council of Canada
- The Atlas of Canada
- The British Monarchy
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
- The Ottawa Citizen
- Transport Canada permitted and prohibited items
- VIA Rail
- Voyageur buses
Commercial sites
- Amazon Germany
- Amazon US
- AT&T Canada
- BackInPrint.com
- Barnes & Noble
- Books on Beechwood
A dying breed: an independently operated neighborhood bookstore.
- Chapters
- CompUSA
- CRC Press
- Daiwa Distribution
- Expedia Canada
- Knot Standard
Handmade bespoke suits from Dubai, ordered online.
- Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation
- Strobe Data legacy 16-bit systems
- Telecomparisons - Compare Canadian long-distance rates
- XE.net currencies
Computing and the internet
- Android development
- Archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine
- Bob Webster's Junkmail
- BYTE is back!
- Chaos Manor Reviews by Jerry Pournelle
- Crypto-Gram
- Donald E. Knuth
- Floating point to hex conversion, single and double precision
- IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter
- InterNIC
- Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor
- JSON schema
- Julia by example
- Leaflet - open-source JavaScript library for maps
- Mail abuse prevention
- Maxima mailing list archives
- PCI Vendor and Device Lists
- PixelPrivacy
A decent Web site, commercial, but with some genuinely useful advice and well-written articles about online security.
- QNX 6.5.0 Software Development Platform
- Steve's Digicams
- TELECOM Digest & Archives
- The DeCSS Gallery
- The GNU Emacs LISP Reference Manual
- The ObjectWatch Newsletter
- The official Bluetooth® technology Web site
- The Register
- Unicode character table
- Vintage Byte archive
- Windows SysInternals
- Windows Tweaks
- WinWorldPC
WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software, as well as any and all knowledge associated with such works.
COVID-19
Resources related to the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic.
- 91-DIVOC - Let's flip the script on COVID-19 and build fantastic things!
- ARCGIS coronavirus statistics
- Canada daily epidemiological summary
- Coronavirus latest - Financial Times
- COVID-19 in the US and Canada - Real Time Updates
- COVID-19 Projections
- Foreign Affairs free coronavirus coverage
- Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus
- Global Public Health Intelligence Network
- Government of Canada Coronavirus Update
- Infection rate trajectories from Visual Capitalist
- Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation - COVID-19 Projections
- John Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center
- My local COVID
- Ontario COVID-19 page
- Ottawa COVID-19 dashboard
- Ottawa COVID-19 wastewater testing
- Raw Canadian data from Wikipedia
- Select research papers
- The Washington Post's simulation of how COVID-19 spreads
- Translation: DNA to mRNA to Protein
- Understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence (NIH grant R01AI110964)
- Vaccination tracker - Canada
- Vaccination tracker - global (Bloomberg)
- What to do in Ottawa if you think you might have COVID-19
- World-o-meter coronavirus statistics
But see https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/05/world/worldometer-coronavirus-mystery/index.html
Electronics sites
- Dial Electronics
- Douglas W. Jones
- Electronic Inventory Online
- Electronic Products and Technology
- ExpressPCB
- Future-Active
- Gervais Electronics Ottawa
- Harlan Labs
- ICOM receiver manuals online
- Innovative Electronics & Computing
- LCDproc Linux LCD display driver
- Mouser Electronics
- Newark Electronics
- Sci.electronics repair FAQ
- Sound & Light Electronics
- Soviet Radio Components
- Sprint Office Supplies
- Switching power supply repair FAQ
- Test-equipment.net
- The Recycled Equipment Company
- Zombie Components
Information and databases
- Actual small countries and enclaves
- Canadian Patents Database
- Delphion searchable collection of US and European patents
- Don Markstein's Toonopedia
- Etymology Dictionary Online
- FindLaw
- Foreign Exchange Rates
- GlobalSpec searchable database of technical products
- Human Rights Reports by the United States Department of State
- NationMaster country statistics
- NORC street view for Central Europe
- On this day...
- The Better Business Bureau
- The CIA World Factbook
- United Nations Security Council Resolutions
- USPTO searchable patent database
- WIPO's global collection of searchable data
- WordNet English lexical database
- Yahoo! Finance
Internet support sites
- Alexa: the Web information company
- American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
- Animated graphics for free
- CAIDA
- CDNNet
- CERT Coordination Center
- CSS Creator
- HTML and DHTML Reference (MSDN)
- HTTPS Everywhere
- LASEC security and cryptography laboratory
- MarketLeap search engine marketing tools
- ROBOTS.TXT
- SANS
- Secunia
- SecurityFocus
- Strong VPN
- The dmoz open directory project
- The Internet Health Report
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- Verisign Digital ID signup
- Vulnerabilities from net-security.org
Local (Ottawa)
- CBC Ottawa
- City of Ottawa
- Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
- Hydro Ottawa
- John Urban's jewellery
- Lowertown Community Association
- Mobile bicycle repair
Mobile bicycle repair ship with online booking.
- New Edinburgh
- OC Transpo
- Ontario Hospital Wait Times
- Ottawa Computer Stores
- Sandy Hill Living
- SeekOn Ottawa
- St-Joseph Family Medicine Clinic
- Take it Back! (Ottawa)
- Temporary bus maps during Ottawa trucker occupation
- The Divertimento Orchestra
- The Independent Electricity System Operator
- The O-dot Blog
- The Pegasus Insurance Network
Magyar nyelvű érdekességek
A szó elszáll, az írás megmarad... kivéve az Interneten, ahol linkek, honlapok jönnek-mennek, s a fene tudja naprakészen tartani a linkgyűjteményét. Az alábbi linkeket utoljára 2011 november 27-én frissítettem; ami azt jelenti, hogy egy részük 2011 november 28-ra valószínűleg elavulttá válik. A linkek mellé itt egy rövid, mindössze kétoldalas angol nyelvtani puska, melyet eredetileg anyámnak készítettem.
- Béka weblapja
Az oldradio.tesla.hu egy virtuális könyvtár, benne számos 70-es évekbeli elektronikai témájú könyvvel, folyóirattal, s egy humoros írásgyűjteménnyel mely Szatmári Feri barátomnak is becsületére vált volna.
- Boldog község
Az a hely, ahol kb. 9 hónapig katona voltam 1981-82-ben.
- Élet és Irodalom
- Előadás.TV
Magyar nyelvű online TV állomások.
- Falatozzunk.hu - ínyencfalatok
- index.hu
Az egyik legjobb magyar nyelvű Web folyóirat, mely utódjának számít a hajdan méltán nagyhírű iNteRNeTTo-nak.
- Kanadai Magyar Hírlap
Az elektronikus Kanadai Magyar Hírlapot Ottawában szerkesztik.
- Képzőművészet Magyarországon
Íme egy igen tiszteletreméltó kezdeményezés: az adatbázis egyebek között Csontváry néhány általam nagyon szeretett képét is tartalmazza.
- Magyar Etimológiai Nagyszótár
(Tótfalusi István)
- Magyar Köztársaság ottawai nagykövetsége
- Magyar televízió-állomások
- Magyar Tudomány
- magyaronline.net
Volt egyszer, hol nem volt, egy Magyarország Fórum; a hajdan világelső szolgáltató CompuServe magyar előfizetőinek a találkozóhelye. Önkéntes "sysop"-ként segítettem a fórum vezetésében mindaddig, amíg a már megszokott módon, bejelentés nélkül megszüntették a fórumot 2002 februárjában. Ezután csak egy eldugott sarok maradt a CompuServe kevés magyar előfizetője számára: egy magyar szekció a BELGIUM fórumban. (Ugyan egy magyar szekció még létezett a European Forumban is, de gazdátlanul, s nulla forgalommal.) De ez már mind a múlté; a CompuServe csak halvány árnyéka hajdani önmagának, s a hajdani színvonalas, tartalmas fórumok rég eltűntek. Viszont lett helyette más; pl. a nemrég figyelmembe ajánlott magyaronline.net, számos fórumával.
- MTVA online adások
- Nemzeti Audio Vizuális Archívum (NAVA)
- Rejtő Jenő művei online
- Szabad Európa
- Városi legendák
- Villamosok
Számomra nosztalgia, budapestieknek naprakész információ a Villamos honlap.
- Virtuális Diafilm-történeti Múzeum
- Virtuális diamúzeum
Miscellaneous
- 36 bits forever!
- Amnesty International
- Aviation Enthusiast Corner
- Bell Canada star codes
- Chernobyl tours
- Creative Commons image search
- Index Librorum Liberorum (Fourmilab)
- Old Time Radio
- Old Time Radio Catalog
- Overlawyered.com
- Pliny the Elder's Natural History
- The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers
- The Mises Institute
- The MIT Club of Ottawa
- The Nizkor project
- The Right to Quiet Society
- Types of scales in music theory
- WebScriptions
- Yad Vashem
News and weather
- Ad Fontes media bias chart
- Al-Jazeera (English)
- C-SPAN Online
- CBC News
- CBS News
- CFRA Ottawa
- CNN
- CNN live streaming
- Daily Mirror
- Deutsche Welle
- Five Thirty-Eight
Nate Silver's site about statistical predictions.
- Fox News
- France 24
- Fresh Plaza - media platform for the fresh produce industry
- Google News
- Hirado.HU
- Information Clearing House
- Iraq Body Count
- La civiltà cattolica
- Numbeo cost of living country rankings
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- The Cutting Edge
News site of Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust.
- The Dominion
- The Globe and Mail
- The Onion: America's Finest News Source
- The Weather Network
- The Weather Underground
- Today's newspapers in Canada
Contains archived cover pages of many Canadian newspapers.
- Tracking deregulation in the Trump era (Brookings Institute)
- Unfiltered News
- Weather Forecast for Ottawa
- Weather Radar for Eastern Ontario
- What The Fuck Just Happened Today?
Today's essential newsletter. Logging the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation.
Open Source Software
- Bernard Parisse, author of a free CAS and the CAS of the HP-49G
- DojoCampus: Dojo Documentation
- EPICS: Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
- Inform: a design system for interactive fiction
- Java Platform SE 1.3.1 API documentation
- Java, JavaScript, & Ajax Programming Documentation
- LaTeX – A document preparation system
- LaTeX Reference from the University of Oxford
- LaTeX2HTML
- MaxMind: Open-Source geographic IP database
- MIMEDefang: e-mail filtering
- Network UPS Tools
- PHPBB
- RTSP implementations
- Sendmail
- The Apache Web server
- The Dojo Toolkit
- The Helix Community
- The Linux Foundation
- The OpenAntiVirus Project
- The ProFTPD Project
- The R Project
- UHU-Linux
Pets and Vets
Veterinary and pet-related sites
Product support - hardware
- Adaptec: SCSI adapters, CD recording software
- Advantest: test instruments
- Andromeda Research: EPROM burners
- ASUS: PC motherboards
- ATI: Maker of the All-In-Wonder graphics card with built-in TV-tuner
- B+K Precision: test instruments
- Creative Labs: SoundBlaster sound cards
- CRU: DataPorts, removable drive enclosures
- DFI: PC motherboard
- Fujitsu PC
- GIGABYTE: PC motherboards
- Hewlett-Packard: Calculators, CD-R drives, printers
- Hitachi: Computers
- ICOM: Radio receivers
- iFixit.com
- IOmega: Removable cartridge drives
- Jan Axelson's HID page
- Lucent: network hardware
- National Instruments: data acquisition
- PROLINK Microsystems Corporation
- Quantum: Hard disks, automated warranty verification
- Samsung consumer storage support tools
- Seagate: Hard disks, automated warranty verification and RMA request
- Sony Ericsson
and their developer blog and product blog.
- SuperMicro: High-end motherboards
- Texas Instruments: Calculators, components, and more
- The Linux USB Project
- USB
- Western Telematic makes remote control power switches
Product support - software
- Adobe AIR
- bSquare: formerly developed a USB driver for NT
- Firebase
- InstallShield
- Microsoft Office Downloads
- Microsoft Office product support lifecycle
- Microsoft Safety & Security Center
- Microsoft TechNet
- QNX 6.5.0 Utilities Reference
- RDBMS implementation comparisons
- RHEL Developer download
- Windows CE 5.0 Evaluation Edition Download
Science and technology
- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Originally at http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html.
- A Patent Claim Analysis Tool by Greg Aharonian
- Arianespace
- arXiv
- Bayes++ Bayesian filtering classes for C++
- Beall’s list of predatory journals and publishers
A regularly updated version of Beall's list of predatory scientific publishers.
- Compound Interest
Everyday exploration of chemical compounds
- Cosmic Variance
- Cosmology Calculator
- Dr. James B. Calvert's wonderful pages just about everything scientific or technical
- Electric Stuff by Mike Harrison
- EqWorld: The World of Mathematical Equations
- Eric Weisstein's MathWorld
- Folding@Home
- GPGPU.org
- Heavens Above - no, not that kind of Heaven!
- Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle
- How to choose a telescope? From Sky and Telescope.
- Indian Space Research Organisation
- International Climate Science Coalition
- ISAS is Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
- LANL Research Library
- Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data
- List of Potentially Predatory Journals by Jeffrey Beall
- Living Reviews in Relativity
- Master List of Logical Fallacies
- Math with bad drawings
- Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
- Mathtools.net
- Metabolic pathways (posters) by Roche
- N-Body simulation code by Sverre Aarseth
- NASA
- NASA Human Spaceflight
- NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
- NASA National Space Science Data Center
- NASA Office of Space Science
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- Not Even Wrong
- Nuclides chart from Brookhaven National Laboratory
- NVidia CUDA
- Open Source Physics
- PhysLink contains useful physics and astronomy resources
- Produce your own physical chips
- Radio Era Archives
- Restored typewriters
- SETI@Home
- SETI@Home statistics
- Space Future
- Space.com
- SpaceFlight Now
- String Theory: The "Official" Web Site
- Symbolic Tools in Mathematics and their Application The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- The Apollo Archive
- The Approximate Position of the Moon
- The Astronomy Picture of the Day
- The Astrophysics Data System
- The Bad Bug Book from the FDA
- The Canadian Mathematical Society
- The Electronic Library of Mathematics
- The Hungarian Space Office
- The Interactive Geometric Database includes exact solutions of Einstein's equations
- The Invariant Classification Database: known exact solutions to Einstein's equation
- The Kalman Filter Web site
- The Landover Baptist Church is a premier resource on creation science and bible studies
- The National Space Society
- The Nine Planets
- The nLab
The purpose of the nLab is to provide a public place where people can make notes about stuff. The purpose is not to make polished expositions of material; that is a happy by-product.
- The Ottawa Vintage Radio Club
- The PALEOMAR Project shows what prehistoric Earth looked like
- The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- The Planetary Society
- The Prime Pages
- The Ring and Division Algebra FAQ
- The Skeptic's Refuge
- The Space Access Society
- The Stargazing Network
- The Universe in my Pocket
- The Xtal Set Society
- This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
- WikiSky.org
- Xenu prevails!
Search services
Everything you ever wanted to know about Search Engines.
Semiconductor libraries
Back in the good old days before the Internet, datasheets for electronic components were hard to come by. Today, most manufacturers post complete product specs on their Web site. Here is a list of some I am familiar with.
- Agilent (Hewlett-Packard)
- Allegro MicroSystems
- Babcock Inc manufactures, among other things, gas discharge displays!
- Chipinfo.ru: Russian semiconductors
- Conexant (Rockwell)
- DatasheetArchive.com
- Fairchild
- Harris Semiconductor (Intersil Communications)
- http://www.centralsemi.com/products/datasheets/alpha.html
- IC MASTER Online
- International Rectifier
- Low Power Radio Solutions
- M/A-COM: RF, microwave and millimeter wave products
- Manufacturer Logos at ELNEC
- Manufacturer Logos at www.aufcu.de
- Maxim Integrated Products (Dallas Semiconductor)
- Micrel: Analog circuits
- Microchip Technology Inc: Microcontrollers and more
- National Semiconductor
- New JRC
- ON Semiconductor (Motorola)
- Optek: Optoelectronic and magnetic devices
- Philips Semiconductor
- Rohm
- Schneider Electric (Magnecraft & Struthers-Dunn Relays)
- ST Microelectronics
- Texas Instruments
- The WPS Archives, courtesy of Tom Jennings
- Toshiba
- Toshiba Japan
- Vishay (General Semiconductor)
Space flight
- Apollo Guidance Computer simulation
A JavaScript simulator of the Apollo Guidance Computer.