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Folk Computing for the New Millenium
How to acquire cheap hardware and what to do with it once you've got it.
Hardware A gentle guide
- Introduction to computer scrounging
- The Computer Itself
- The Dirt Cheap Computer
- Just what exactly do I look for?
- What can I expect to do with it.
- The Cheap Computer
- Just what exactly do I look for?
- What can I expect to do with it.
- The Components
- Some Final Computer Considerations
- Getting Your Cable Modem/DSL Working With Windows for Workgroups Using Microsoft's TCP/IP Stack.
- List of good Sources for Cheap Computer Hardware.
- Words of Wisdom. Heed these well.
- Brian's Scrounging Tips
- Jon's instructions on using PQ Drive Copy to add a new hard drive.
- Easy RAM....? Garry tells you all about RAM.
- Extreme Badness -- First of All, Do Nothing Stupid
- Error Reading Drive C: A long morning
- Windows NT=Windows NighTmare. A long weekend.
Software | OK, I've got it working. Now what do I do with it? Cheaply. |
- Cruising with the CyberPunks on the Internet
- Choosing an Internet Service Provider
- Security Information. Protect yourself from crackers.
- Publisher to the World: How to Create a Web Site
- Words (HTML)
- Pictures
- GIFS and JPEGS and PNGS, oh my. Intro
- Clip Art Doing it the easy way.
- I just want to tweak up some pictures a little bit, nothing too complicated.
- I'm a real artist -- what programs do I need?
- What You Gotta Know (to use your images on the web.)
- Some Thoughts on Site Design
- Web Site Accessibility Information
- Some More Web Site Designer References
- CGI and Perl is how you do all the neat stuff.
- Introduction
- Running CGI and Perl on your own computer
- Installing the Xitami web server
- Installing Perl
- Running your first CGI program
- How to do full text search
- Wrapup
- Programming - A Lost Art?
- Did you even know that you already have a programming language on your PC?
- Its sort of like learning HTML (But a bit more stringent)
- How to Create a Program
- Well, Show Me a Practical Example Then
- OK. How about a program that will convert a regular text file into HTML?
- Getting Set Up to Work
- Working with the program
- What's Going On
- An Alternate Explanation
- A Few More Notes
- Data Base Publishing
- Reference
- Sources for Linux Documentation.
- Linux commands for MS/DOS users.
- My list of sources for cheap computer hardware.
- Making Ethernet adapters work with Linux
- Using Linux with a Cable Modem
- DHCP problems? Try using dhcpcd instead of pump.
- Use SSH to connect securely.
- Use rsync to back up a directory tree of files to a different machine.
- Installing and Configuring the ht://Dig search engine.
- Use md5sum to verify that ISO files you download are correct.
- The best upgrade you can do for XWindows.
- Please read the Web Site Accessibility Information page.
Linux Now we're really cooking.
- Learning.
- The Unicorn Fable
- Mince and Scribble
- Why it was so neat
- What you could do with it
- The end of the story?
- WordStar and You A User Interface Manifesto
Essays Stuff than doesn't fit anywhere else.
My speaker building pages. Because there is more to life than computers.
If you have found any serious omissions here, then please drop me a note explaining clearly and coherently what I have left out; optionally formatted in HTML. With permission to include it in these pages. Thank you very much.
Seriously, the bulk of the above content has been derived from emails that I have either sent or received. Nobody is getting much benefit if they remain scattered around my various in and out boxes. But organized semi-coherently, other people can derive benefit from it. So, if you have any suggestions, please feel free to mail me.
Plain Soup and Sandwitch photo by Brian Fitzgerald