Livros e afins:
Um projecto para fazer livros “globais”:
http://globaltext.org/
Já fez um sobre XML:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XML
E aqui há muitos mais sobre vários temas:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Histórias de um bibliotecário:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/
British National Corpus (exemplos do uso de palavras em inglês):
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
Informática:
Vai sair a 4ª edição do livro de Hennessy e Patterson,
“Computer Architecture: a Quantitative Approach”,
Ver http://www.mkp.com
Sobre o assunto encontrei isto nas news (pode dar jeito):
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Go to www.mkp.com and use offer code 85068 to get 20% off and free
shipping. Note: this only works in the U.S. for pre-orders. Outside
U.S. you must wait for the book to officially publish before the book
is available for ordering (something about our company not being
allowed to hold credit cards without an actual product changing hands).
* Increased coverage on achieving parallelism with multiprocessors
* Case studies of latest technology from industry including the Sun
Niagara Multiprocessor, AMD Opteron, and Pentium 4
* Three review appendices, included in the printed volume, review the
basic and intermediate principles the main text relies upon
* Eight reference appendices, collected on the CD, cover a range of
topics including specific architectures, embedded systems, application
specific processors–some guest authored by subject experts
Main Text
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Computer Design
Chapter 2: Instruction-level Parallelism and its Exploitation
Chapter 3: Advanced Techniques for Exploiting Instruction-level
Parallelism and their Limits
Chapter 4: Multiprocessors and Thread-level Parallelism
Chapter 5: Memory Hierarchy Design
Chapter 6: Storage Systems
Appendix A: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts
Appendix B: Instruction Set Principles and Examples
Appendix C: Introduction to Memory Hierarchy
CD
Appendix D: Embedded Systems (contributor: Thomas M. Conte, North
Carolina State University)
Appendix E: Interconnection Networks (contributor: Timothy M. Pinkston,
USC and Jose Duato, Simula)
Appendix F: Vector Processors (contributor: Krste Asanovic, MIT)
Appendix G: Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC
Appendix H: Large-Scale Multiprocessors and Scientific Apps
Appendix I: Computer Arithmetic (contributor: David Goldberg, Xerox
PARC)
Appendix J: Survey of Instruction Set Architectures
Appendix K: Historical Perspectives with References
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(Co)Processadores com “256 cores”:
http://www.rapportincorporated.com/
Livro sobre compilação de/em linguagens funcionais:
http://www.cs.ru.nl/~clean/Manuals/Addison__Wesley_book/addison__wesley_book.html
Livro “The theory and pratice of concurrency”:
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bill.roscoe/publications/68b.pdf
Pixel (programa gráfico para quase tudo o que é sistema operativo):
http://www.kanzelsberger.com
Xara Xtreme (Open Source para linux)
http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
Trinidad e Tobago Computer Society (programas interessantes para DOS!):
http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/index.htm
Novas plataformas de desenvolvimento da Borland:
http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=15738&limit=no&threshold=-1
Electrónica:
Material de estudo para exames de rádioamador:
http://www.eham.net/articles/14642
Livro sobre VHDL e Verilog
http://www.engr.siu.edu/staff1/botrosn/mywebpage/Book.htm
Tutorial de Verilog:
http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~shams/97350/PetervrlK.pdf
Um projecto simples para um kit de Spartan3e:
http://www.frank-buss.de/vhdl/spartan3e.html
Como fazer multiprocessamento com FPGAs:
http://www.crossbowip.com/
Guias para VHD e Verilog:
http://www.doulos.com/
Outros:
Personal information managers:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/over-160-free-personal-information-managers.html
Como escrever melhor:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/fifty-50-tools-which-can-help-you-in-writing.html
Uma calculadora comemorativa dos 25 anos do modelo HP12C:
http://www.hp.com/calculators/financial/12p/index.html
E a mais recente
http://www.hp.com/calculators/graphing/50g/index.html
Site de venda de programas de rádio antigos:
http://www.rusc.com
O uso de software P2P pelas companhias discográficas:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060911-7708.html
Vendedores de armas virtuais em tribunal na china:
(sim, armas virtuais!)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060907-7684.html
A história dos carros armadilhados:
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/04/car_bomb.html
http://www.mojones.com/commentary/columns/2006/04/car_bomb_2.html
O dia que mudou tudo, não foi o 11 de Setembro:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=119758
Uma entrevista interessante:
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2006/02/jonathan_raban.html
Uma boa semana para todos.
Paulo Ferreira