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On the Spot :

Good Articles :

Useful tutorials and documentation :

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html := From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 := GNU Screen : An introduction and beginner's tutorial
http://www.debianuniverse.com/readonline/chapter/21 := Compiling Kernels The Debian Way
http://www.lartc.org/ := Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
http://www.docum.org/docum.org/kptd/ := Linux Kernel Packet Traveling Diagram
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~beej/guide/net/ := Beej's Guide to Network Programming (Using Internet Sockets)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1912.html := RFC 1912 - Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors
http://scpd.stanford.edu/knuth/ := Watch Knuth Lectures Online!

Online Books :

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ := Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://www.gorgorat.com/ := Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Software Patents :

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt := Knuth against Software Patents
http://bachue.com/colibri/patentes/knuth-pto/knuth-pto.es.txt := Knuth en contra de las patentes de software
http://webshop.ffii.org := Your webshop is patented! Demo of how software patents can hurt you

Algorithms :

Cellular Automata :

Things I will read or study (In order of importance) :

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ := Use CHICKEN Scheme compiler for something useful
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/ := Implementing AF-independent application
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html := RFC 793 - Transmission Control Protocol
http://ds9a.nl/amazing-dna/ := DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305045 := Quantum Computation explained to my Mother

Some papers :

Checkers :

Free Educational Resources :

http://www.wikipedia.org := The free encyclopedia (También en Español)
http://ocw.mit.edu := MIT OpenCourseWare
http://mit.ocw.universia.net := MIT OpenCourseWare en Español
http://promo.net/pg/ := Project Gutenberg
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs := Free Computer Science Search Engine (tons of papers)

GNU/Linux :

http://installfest.info/ := Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre
http://www.debian.org := Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer
http://www.knoppix.org := Linux Live CD / Try it if you're a Windows user, autodetection and no installation required
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/i386/ := Sarge Weekly CD Images
http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=145865 := I'm the Linux user 145865. This is silly
http://www.linuxfocus.org := International free volunteer-driven Linux magazine
http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/ := Linux Gazette
http://www.linuxjournal.com := Non-free magazine. Online Issues
http://www.tldp.org := Linux Documentation Project. Holy source of knowledge
http://linux.oreillynet.com := Great Linux Articles (Linux DevCenter)

Cool Linux-related software I've played with (an example) :

http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net := User Mode Linux (Linux kernel running in userspace)
http://www.drbd.org := DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters
http://www.keepalived.org := Keepalived
http://linux-ha.org := Heartbeat
http://www.linux-vs.org := Linux Virtual Server

Crypto and Security (I want to learn) :

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/ := Handbook of Applied Cryptography
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/ := Randomness for Crypto / Link farm
http://www.openssl.org := SSL/TLS Open source toolkit
http://www.cert.org := Coordination Center / Center of Internet security expertise
http://www.insecure.org := NMAP is great
http://www.tcpdump.org := You need it if you ever have to debug networking problems.
http://www.ethereal.com := Network protocol analyzer

Must-reads :

Nice talks I've read. :

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html := There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom by Richard P. Feynman
http://prometheus.frii.com/~gnat/yapc/2000-stages/ := Stages of a Perl Programmer by Nathan Torkington
http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/ := Conference Presentation Judo
http://www.hawking.org.uk/text/public/public.html := Professor Stephen Hawking's Public Lectures

Programs that you should know about :

http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/ := GNU Typist (also called gtypist) is a universal typing tutor
http://www.memtest.org/ := memtest86+ is an Advanced Memory (RAM) Diagnostic Tool

Software I'd like to try (Collecting links) :

Hardware (I want to learn someday ... Collecting Links) :

Graphics :

http://www.imagemagick.org := Image Magick. Apps and APIs for C / C++ / Perl
http://www.boutell.com/gd/ := GD Graphics Library
http://www.gimp.org := GNU Image Manipulation Program
http://www.gnuplot.info := command-driven interactive function plotting program. 2D and 3D

Video :

http://www.videolan.org := Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!

Scientific :

http://www.octave.org := GNU Octave / high-level language similar to Matlab
http://www.fftw.org := Discrete Fourier transform in C / Library
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs := Scientific Literature Digital Library / Computer Science
http://www.texmacs.org := WYSIWYG editor for structured documents