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This Page contains my collection of informative Texts and Links.
Computer
Binary Numbers and Bit Patterns
Memory Sizes of DRAMs
Monitor Sizes and Fitting Resolutions
Partial 63 Character 7bit ASCII Font for 7 segment displays
Full 94 Character 7bit ASCII Font for 3x5 matrix displays
Full 94 Character 7bit ASCII Font for 3x6 (underline 7) matrix
Web browser 216 colours 3x2 blocks of 6x6
Web browser 216 colours 6x1 blocks of 6x6
Colour Combinations for Smaller DACs
Directions and Challenges in High Performance Microprocessors
(Recording of Lecture by Prof John L. Hennessy)
Why Objective C is better than C++
Collecting Old Iron
PDP-11 Overview
SGI IRIS Family Tree
Palmtop Selection
Databook Chips&Technologies 386/AT CHIPSets
Instruction Sets
Instruction Set 4004
Instruction Set 8008
Instruction Set 8080 (including 8085 extensions)
Instruction Set Z80
Instruction Set 8048
Instruction Set 8051 (including 8052 extensions)
Instruction Set 8086 (including 80186 extensions)
Instruction Set 6502
Instruction Set 6809
Instruction Set AVR
Instruction Set PIC16F5x (12bit "base-line" family)
Instruction Set PIC16F8x (14bit "mid-range" family)
Instruction Set PIC18 (16bit "enhanced" family)
Networking
DeCSS, strip CSS from HTML
icmp - Network services
/etc/services - Network services
Netcat 1.10, an absolutly cool networking tool
Netsend, send DOS programs as self extracting ASCII file
Usenet Acronyms
World Wide Web
How Advertisers try to Subvert Searches
Internet Junkbuster, kills Advertising-GIFs, Cookies, Referers
and here is my Blockfile
Hackers Ideology
A Beautiful obsession with the binary world
A Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace
The GNU Projects Manifesto
The Hacker FAQ
The Hackers Jargon File
Costfree Information (in German)
The Netizen Anthology
What is a Hacker? (in German)
Web will make Software Paradigm Shift
Linux is Better
A Banks gets an ATM crash using NT
A Banks gets the Blues using NT
Linux PC beats Cray 2, equals C90
A Users Blues after Trying to Use SCO
A Users Blues with SCOs 16bit inodes
Winword Report (in German)
BMW rund better without Windows Ad (picture)
MS anti-Linux Mutating Penguin Ad (picture)
Security and Law
Computer Risks
Echelon Spy Network
IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptography
Learning Security Programming
NSA blocks Free Usage of Tripple DES
Pentium F0 Bug (in C)
Netscape SSL cracked (C code)
Teardrop, overlapping IP Fragments (in C)
Top general vulnerabilities
WinBomber, Winnuke with IP Spoofing (in C)
Winnuke, Port 139 TCP Out-Of-Band (in C)
Official Report 1988 Internet Worm (in PostScript)
Optical Illusions
Ear and Woman (picture)
Ball on Horizontal and Vertical Rectangles (picture)
Squares on Slashes (picture)
Square and Ball on Rays (picture)
Horizontal Lines on Vertical Bands (picture)
Dots on Crossing Points betweeen Squares (picture)
Gray Vanishes when Black Spot Viewed (in German, picture)
Perspective (picture)
Striped Rings Rotate (picture)
Circles with Light/Dark in Between (picture)
Eyes with Light/Dark in Between (picture)
Other Stuff
Traveling to SCOG Winterthur Club House (in German)
Bibel Errancy and Contradictions
Freq Asked Questions about Douglas Adams
Earth Lights (picture)
MIT Guide to Lockpicking
The Principia Discordia in ASCII and
in HTML
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This page is by Neil Franklin, last modification 2008.06.04