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Articles

• Local "howto" information
• Burning DVDs and CDs
• Automatic clock setting from an NTP time server
• System backup
• Ethernet CAT5 Cheat Sheet
• Linux Hard Disk Upgrade: An Experience (vintage 2001)
• Running a Subversion mod_dav_svn server (vintage 2008)

Links to other sites

General Linux

• openSUSE
• Linux Documentation Project
• LinuxQuestions.org

Git version control system

• GitHub
• Me at GitHub

Subversion version control system

subversion.tigris.org

The Subversion home page.

Version Control with Subversion

The Subversion book (multipage HTML edition) by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, and C. Michael Pilato, published by 0'Reilly.

XSteve's Subversion page

With his "private cheat sheet" for Subversion.

General Networking

The RFC Editor site.

djbdns: Domain Name System tools

DNS Resources Directory (DNSRD)

Be warned -- DNS is complicated! (No wonder it breaks so often.)

HTML and HTTP

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

HTML 4.01 Specification

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2: CSS2 Specification

Web developer documentation on the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)

Browser compatibility tables (Quirksmode)

Client Side State - HTTP Cookies

Miscellaneous

MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual

MariaDB Documentation (for version 10.*)

GIMP User FAQ (stylish pages, but hard to read)

GNU Image Manipulation Program User Manual

czyborra.com

Unicode stuff.

Recursive Make Considered Harmful

Makes the case for using what is conceptually a single makefile split into modular components in order to handle intermodule dependencies, instead of separate makefiles with recursive make calls. Worth reading.