Links, and comments with them

Are you female and a geek, or a woman who is into computers (or who wants to learn)? Do you dig Open Source and/or Linux? Check out LinuxChix! Among other things, they have several email lists oriented toward technical and other issues of interest to the women in computing and the female geek community.

Verisign does it do yet another victim. Totally screwed up and un-fscking-believable, yet they do this sort of garbage all the time. Verisign transferred a person's domain out from under them on the basis of a forged fax that claimed to have permission. My experiences with them haven't been much better. It was easier to let a couple of my domains expire than try to pry them away from Verisign/NetSol. Now you know why I use Joker as my registrar - that plus three years for the cost of one from Verislime.

For shareware and news, you can go to Ziff-Davis Publications They have a lot of shareware, are a reliable (if slow) download site, and the member e-newsletters are interesting. However, their pages have a "no cache" on them, so they load like pigs on anything less than a T-1.

For geek news, go to Slashdot or Newsforge. Slashdot tends to be a little more shrill in terms of reader comments, and has a lot of cruft on it, so only browse the comments with a +1 filtering option.

Want a good HTML editor & tag checker for a really small price? Try Arachnophilia (tm?) available at www.arachnoid.com Be sure to read the explanation of what CareWare is. He has a lot of other nifty tools there as well.

What a great NotePad replacement?? Try EditPad. This little item does search and replace, multiple files open, and all in a small space - it fits on a diskette!! They have both a freeware "EditPad Lite" and EditPad Pro. EditPad Pro is only about $50, and has a regex search/replace, plus other nifty features. It's a beaut!!

Want perl stuff? Start at The PERL Institute for a good overview. Then scuttle over to O'Reilly Associates for some authoritative books on the subject. They also maintain Perl.com and the Perl Reference Page, which both contain more links, and links to links, than I could ever hope to click. Finally, you can search through the voluminous CPAN site, or one of it's mirrors for modules, source, or whatever. Have fun, and remember to COMMENT YOUR CODE - IN THE CODE!

When it comes to electronic freedom, check out The Electronic Frontier Foundation. They are usually very up to date on the current issues. Also check out EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) and The Privacy Page for electronic privacy issues.

Got any favorite links that you think I should include? Drop me an e-mail at ljl at laubenheimer dot net Remember to tighten up the address from the spam stopper!