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Computing articles and links

Computer Manufacturers
Asus K7M
Mini-ITX: new ultra-small, low-power system board standard
Hacks
- Analog to Digital Converter with 16 bits and 448000 Samples per second by hacking a Bt878A TV Tuner
- Build a WiFi biquad dish antenna: dramatically extend the range of wireless networking using repurposed satellite dishes
IBM ThinkPad: ThinkWiki

Applications
- Artificial Intelligence
  - Cyc
- Credit Card Processing (see also Services)
  - PTC
- Database (Clients)
  - FormTool
  - Microsoft Access
- Email Clients
  - Evolution
  - Mutt
- Financial
  - KMyMoney
- Internet (clients)
  - Azureus: torrent peer
  - X-Chat: IRC client
Dangers of
- An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents (see also Wikipedia (Therac-25)
- History's Worst Software Bugs
Database Engines (Servers)
Development
- Application Development Frameworks
  - Catalyst (developers' area)
  - Ruby on Rails
- Languages
  - Perl
  - Python
- IDEs
  - Gambas: almost-VB for Linux
Emulators
Formats
- RealAudio
Genealogy uses a lot of software
Internet
- Services
  - IRC
- Web Software
  - phpMyAdmin
  - MediaWiki
Ideas
- Subwikis
Newish Developments
- Morfik: "web applications unplugged"
Operating Systems
- Linux
- Windows 98
- Compatibility Layers: see Emulators
- Components
  - Enlightenment (aka E)
  - KDE
  - Sane-net
- Discussion
  - FreeDesktop Wiki: discussion of open-source X-Window System Desktops
- Special-Purpose
  - m0n0wall: network firewall/router on a LiveCD
Terminology
- open format

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 ==Articles & Sections==
 ===Hardware===
+* [[Computer Manufacturers]]
 * [[Asus K7M]]
 * [http://mini-itx.com/ Mini-ITX]: new ultra-small, low-power system board standard