Cloud computing

• “Cloud development: 9 gotchas to know before you jump in” by Bob Violino (ComputerWorld; 2011.04.25) – http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216124/Cloud_development_9_gotchas_to_know_before_you_jump_in?source=rss_news

Online storage

• YouSendIt – https://www.yousendit.com/
• TransferBigFiles – https://www.transferbigfiles.com/
• Dropbox – http://www.dropbox.com/
  • “The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You’re Not Using” (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5527055/the-cleverest-ways-to-use-dropbox-that-youre-not-using
  • “Use Dropbox for More Than Just File Syncing” – http://lifehacker.com/5358983/use-dropbox-for-more-than-just-file-syncing

  Security problems:

  • “Dropbox Caught With Its Finger in the Cloud Cookie Jar” by Woody Leonhard (Infoworld; 2011.05.16) – http://www.pcworld.com/article/227999/dropbox_caught_with_its_finger_in_the_cloud_cookie_jar.html | http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/dropbox-caught-its-finger-in-the-cloud-cookie-jar-179?source=footer – Online file storage and sharing site Dropbox admits that it can see the data you’ve stored. Oops…
  • “Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges” by Ryan Singel (Wired; 2011.05.13) – http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/
  • “How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings” by Christopher Soghoian (“slight paranois” blog; 2011.04.12) – http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html
    Dropbox, the popular cloud based backup service deduplicates the files that its users have stored online. This means that if two different users store the same file in their respective accounts, Dropbox will only actually store a single copy of the file on its servers.
  • “Why I switched from Dropbox to Windows Live Mesh” by Ed Bott (ZDNet; 2011.07.04) – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/why-i-switched-from-dropbox-to-windows-live-mesh/3512
  • Due to recent security problems and their bad policy about user data, you must pre-encrypt yall your data that you store in your Dropbox cabinet. TrueCrypt is one good offline encrypter: Dropbox TipsAndTricks > Truecrypt – http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/Truecrypt
  • “How To Add a Second Layer of Encryption to Dropbox [Updated]” by Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker) – http://lifehacker.com/5794486/how-to-add-a-second-layer-of-encryption-to-dropbox
  • Dropbox portable: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33387
• Microsoft’s SkyDrive – http://skydrive.live.com/ – another online free drive storage [up to 25GB] – requires Hotmail account.
• use og GMail as the online disk:
  • GMail Drive shell extension – http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

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Related here: Cloud security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-security/ | Virtualization Tools – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/virtualization-tools/ | Virtualization security – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/virtualization-security/ | Threats of cloud computing – https://eikonal.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/threats-of-cloud-computing/.

Floating-Point Arithmetic guides

• “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic” – http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
  • This is an appendix to the Sun’s “Numerical Computation Guide” – http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/
  • Note – This appendix is an edited reprint of the paper What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys. Copyright 1991, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., reprinted by permission.
• “The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)” by Joel Spolsky (at his blog ” Joel on Software”, 2003.10.08) – http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
• “What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic” by Soulskill (SlashDot, 2010.04.02) – http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/05/02/1427214
  
  “Every programmer forum gets a steady stream of novice questions about numbers not ‘adding up.’ Apart from repetitive explanations, SOP is to link to a paper by David Goldberg which, while very thorough, is not very accessible for novices. To alleviate this, I wrote The Floating-Point Guide, as a floating-point equivalent to Joel Spolsky’s excellent introduction to Unicode. In doing so, I learned quite a few things about the intricacies of the IEEE 754 standard, and just how difficult it is to compare floating-point numbers using an epsilon. If you find any errors or omissions, you can suggest corrections.”
  
• “What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic – or – Why don’t my numbers add up?” – http://floating-point-gui.de/

IdeOne

A simple web page that tests code snippets in various programming languages:
http://ideone.com/

Expand your mind

Online lectures:

• Archive Grid – http://www.archivegrid.org/web/index.jsp
• Big Think: http://bigthink.com/
• British Academy Portal – http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal/
• BuzzFeedYellow @YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/BuzzFeedYellow
• Coursera – online university courses – https://www.coursera.org/category/physical
• DNews – https://www.youtube.com/user/DNewsChannel
• Do Lectures – http://www.thedolectures.com/ – these are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
• EDGE – http://www.edge.org – a web site of written and video recorded essays by various thinkers.
  • “To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.“
  • Conversations – http://www.edge.org/conversations
  • Videos – http://www.edge.org/videos
• Google Scholar – http://scholar.google.com/
• Google’s “Solve for X” – http://www.wesolveforx.com/
  Solve for X is a place to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems. Radical in the sense that the solutions could help billions of people….
• Google Talks (at YouTube) – http://www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks#p/u | Authors@Google – http://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html | Art@Google – http://www.googleartproject.com/
• GRASP (Geometry, Representations and Some Physics) Lectures – http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/benzvi/GRASP.html – a lecture series at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Handheld learning 2008 – http://www.handheldlearning2008.com/home
• Hearsay Culture podcasts (KZSU-FM; Stanford University), hosted by Dave Levine – http://www.hearsayculture.com/: covering modern technology/Internet issues in the intersection of technology and law.
• Ignite’s magazine channel at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/iGNiTe
• Internet Archives Open Educational Resources – http://www.archive.org/details/education
• iTunes U (iTunes University): http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ – requires iTunes:
  • Brown on iTunes U: http://www.brown.edu/web/itunes/
  • Harvard on iTunes U: http://itunes.harvard.edu/
  • Stanford on iTunes U: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
  • MIT on iTunes U: http://web.mit.edu/itunesu/
  • Texas A&M on iTunes U: http://itunes.tamu.edu/
  • UC Berkley on iTunes U: http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
• Khan Academy – http://www.khanacademy.org/
• Maker movement:
  • The Maker Movement (@ Raising Geeks) – http://www.raisinggeeks.com/blog/maker-movement/
  • Make magazine home – http://makezine.com/ | Make blog – http://blog.makezine.com/ | Make Magazine’s channel at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/makemagazine | Make Magazine @WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_%28magazine%29
  • Make: Craft magazine home page – http://blog.makezine.com/craftzine/ | Craft @YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/craftzine | Craft magazine @WikiPedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft_%28magazine%29 | Craft forums – http://forums.craftzine.com/
  • Maker Faire – http://makerfaire.com/ | Maker Faire channel at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/MakerFaire
  • Do-It-Yourself @WikiPedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_yourself | Do-It-Yourself @WikiBooks – http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Do-It-Yourself
  • Instructables – http://www.instructables.com/
• Mental Floss – http://mentalfloss.com/ | YouTube channel – http://www.youtube.com/user/MentalFlossVideo | at WikiPedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_floss
• MinutePhysics @YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
• MissingManuals’s channel at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/MissingManuals
• NumberPhile @YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
• OpenCourseWare:
  • MIT Open Courseware: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm [USA] | courses – http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
    • article: “MIT OpenCourseWare: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds” by Cecilia d’Oliveira, Stephen Carson, Kate James, Jeff Lazarus (Science 30 July 2010: Vol. 329. no. 5991, pp. 525 – 526; DOI: 10.1126/science.11826962) – http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5991/525
  • Athabasca University – http://www.athabascau.ca/ [Canada]
  • Capilano University – http://ocw.capcollege.bc.ca/ [Canada]
  • Center for the Study of the Public Domain – http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/ [USA}
  • College of Eastern Utah’s OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.ceu.edu/ [USA]
  • Columbia Interactive – http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/ [USA]
  • Connexions – http://cnx.org/ [USA]
  • Fulbright School OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/home.cfm [USA]
  • Gresham College – http://www.gresham.ac.uk/default.asp [UK]
  • Johns Hopkinks’ (Bloomberg School of Public Health) OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ [USA]
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ [USA]
  • MIT OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm [USA]
  • MSU OpenCourseWare – http://www.msuglobal.com/ocw [USA]
  • Notre Dame OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.nd.edu/ [USA]
  • Open Learning Initiative – http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/ [USA]
  • Open University – http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php [UK]
  • Open Yale courses: http://oyc.yale.edu/ [USA]
  • Open.Michigan – https://open.umich.edu/education/ [USA]
  • Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare – http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/opencourseware/ [UK]
  • Peoples Open Access Education Initiative – http://www.peoples-uni.org/ [UK]
  • Sofia – http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/ [USA]
  • Stanford Engineering Everywhere – http://see.stanford.edu/ [USA]
  • TU Delft OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.tudelft.nl/ [USA]
  • Tufts OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.tufts.edu/ [USA]
  • Tufts University Open Courseware: http://ocw.tufts.edu/TuftsOER [USA]
  • UCIrvine OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.uci.edu/ [USA]
  • UMass Boston OpenCourseWare – http://www.ocw.umb.edu/ [USA]
  • UW Online Learning – http://onlinelearning.washington.edu/ol/ [USA]
  • University of Nottingham – http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/ [UK]
  • University of Southern Queensland – http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ [Australia]
  • Utah State OpenCourseWare – http://ocw.usu.edu/ [USA]
  • Utah State University – http://ocw.usu.edu/ [USA]
  • Webcast.Berkeley – http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ [USA]
  • Weber State University – http://ocw.weber.edu/ [USA]
  • Western Governors University – http://ocw.wgu.edu/ [USA]
  • OCW (OpenCourseWare) Consortium – http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
  • OpenCourseWare (info at WikiPedia) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare
  • “The World’s 50 Best Open Courseware Collections” by Linda (who???) (at Sir Learnalot’s Knowledge Blog; 2009.11.15) – http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2009/the-worlds-50-best-open-courseware-collections/ – this is the source of majority of OCW links presented above.
  • OpenCourseWare Finder – http://ocwfinder.com/
• O’Reilly’s channel at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia
• Open University at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOpenUniversity | Learn – http://www.youtube.com/user/OUlearn | Research – http://www.youtube.com/user/OUresearch
• PBS FrontLine programs – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/view/
• Perimeter Institute talks – http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/:
  • http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Quantum_Information,_Computation_and_Logic_Workshop/Invited_Talks/
  • Art talks: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Event_Horizons/Art_Talks/
  • Plenary talks: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/The_Clock_and_the_Quantum/Plenary_Talks/
  • PIRSA – Recorded Seminars Archive – http://www.pirsa.org/
• PopTech at YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/poptech
  • “PopTech is a global network of remarkable people, innovative projects, powerful ideas, and extraordinary conferences that are accelerating positive impact and changing the world.”
• Repositories of Primary Sources – http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
• Research Channel – http://researchchannel.org/prog/
• RSA (Royal Society Association) – www.youtube.com/user/theRSAorg?feature=watch | RSA Animations – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo&list=PLBC02F9ECEB29F54C
• Science 2.0 – http://www.science20.com/
• SciLearn @Scoop.it – http://www.scoop.it/t/scilearn
• SciShow @Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow
• TED Talks: http://www.ted.com/
• TSN (The Science network) – http://thesciencenetwork.org/
• University lectures webcasts/streaming:
  • Buffalo State – http://www.buffalostate.edu/podcasts.xml
  • Core Curriculum Video Lecture Series – http://155.37.7.13/corehtml/coremain.htm
  • Landon Lecture Series – http://ome.ksu.edu/lectures/landon/
  • Lewis & Clark Law School Podcasts – http://lawlib.lclark.edu/podcast/
  • London School of Economics and Political Science Podcasts – http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
  • Pipes – http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=7EB_8_672xGjnxaYe_gC8A
  • Swarthmore News – http://media.swarthmore.edu/faculty_lectures/
  • UCLA Instructional Media Production – http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/
  • University of British Columbia Podcasts – http://www.ubcpodcasts.blogspot.com/
  • University of Virginia Podcasts and Webcasts – http://www.virginia.edu/uvapodcast/index.php
  • Washington College of Law Podcasts – http://www.wcl.american.edu/podcasts/
• Video Lectures – http://videolectures.net/
• Vsauce @YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/Vsauce
  • Collection of links on Mind and Brain – http://www.youtube.com/playlist?annotation_id=annotation_733099&feature=iv&list=PLE3048008DAA29B0A&src_vid=qjfaoe847qQ
• World Lecture Hall – http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/index.cfm

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