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    Free Computer Books

    I didnt make this list... I just found it and though I would ashare it with everyone.... The links I checked worked.... I dont know who wrote this so I cant give credit...


    O'Reilly online http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ | http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/
    Computer books and manuals
    http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html | http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/ | http://www.fore.com/support/manuals/home/home.htm | http://www.adobe.com/products/acroba...freebooks.html
    The Network Book http://www.cs.columbia.edu/netbook/
    Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc links
    http://www.extrema.net/books/links.shtml
    Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc fiction
    http://194.58.154.90:4431/enscifi/
    Pimpas online books (Indonesia)
    http://202.159.16.55/~pimpa2000 | http://202.159.15.46/~om-pimpa/buku
    Security, privacy and cryptography
    http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html | http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/
    My own misc online reading material
    http://www.eastcoastfx.com/docs/admin-guides/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/reading/
    Computer books http://solaris.inorg.chem.msu.ru/cs-books/
    | http://sweetrude.net/~cab/books/ | http://alaska.mine.nu/books/ | http://poprocks.dyn.ns.ca/dave/books/ | http://58-160.skarland.uaf.edu/books/ | http://202.186.247.194/~ebook/
    | http://hooligans.org/reference/
    Linux documentation http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html
    FreeBSD documentation http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/
    Sun documentation http://osiris.imw.tu-clausthal.de:8888/ | http://uran.vvsu.ru:8888/
    SGI documentation
    http://newton.unicc.chalmers.se/ebt-...b/dynaweb;td=2 | http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi
    IBM Online Redbooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
    Digital Unix documentation
    http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/pub...ML/LIBRARY.HTM
    Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
    http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html | http://www.linuxbase.com/
    UNIX stuff http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/~unixhelp/index.html | http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/ | http://www.isu.edu/departments/comco...unixindex.html | http://www.franken.de/users/lorien/unix.html | http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~milun/unix.programming.html
    Programmers reading http://www.programmersheaven.com/ | http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~alanf/se_proj97/
    Programming Pearls 2nd edition
    http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
    C stuff
    http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/N...e/ccourse.html | http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html | http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/c++programdesign/slides/ | http://www.icce.rug.nl/docs/cplusplus/cplusplus.html
    Perl stuff http://www.webdesigns1.com/perl/ir.html | http://www.ictp.trieste.it/texi/perl/perl_toc.html | http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/ | http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/
    Java stuff http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/ | http://polaris.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/CIS200/ | http://www.daimi.au.dk/dProg1/java/l...1.0/index.html
    Lisp stuff
    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu...l/mirrors.html
    | http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Villamil/lisp/
    Ada stuff http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/
    Database reading
    http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brow...utor/index.htm
    SQL stuff http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm | http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/E.Ferneley/SQL/index.htm | http://www.daimi.au.dk/~oracle/sql/index.html
    Visual Basic stuff http://www.vb-world.net/books/
    Handbook of Applied Cryptography
    http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
    X Window System http://tronche.com/gui/x/ | http://www.cen.com/mw3/refs.html | http://www.gaijin.com/X/
    GTK and Gnome stuff
    http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html
    QT and KDE stuff http://www.troll.no/qt/ | http://developer.kde.org/documentati...als/index.html | http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/tutorial.html
    Corba stuff http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/
    TCP/IP info http://www.tunix.kun.nl/ptr/tcpip.html
    Misc programmers reading
    http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chilimbi/Pubs.html | http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~nromano/s...9/readings.htm
    Some useful tech articles http://www.sysadminmag.com/ | http://www.dotcomma.org/
    Considering Hacking Constructive
    http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/iss...sle/index.html
    Eric's Random Writings http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/
    IBM's History
    http://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/story/text.html
    Electronic Publishing
    http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholt...ublishing.html
    Digital processing http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
    The Hardware Book http://sunsite.auc.dk/hwb/
    Network iQ Router Reference Manual
    http://www.teltrend.co.nz/documentat...html/rmtoc.htm
    Cisco Product Documentation
    http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/
    Novell developers appnotes
    http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/
    Icons for your desktop http://nether.tky.hut.fi/iconstore/
    Hackers' Hall of Fame at Discovery Online
    http://www.discovery.com/area/techno...s/hackers.html
    Symbols and signs and ideograms and stuff http://www.symbols.com/
    Dictionaries http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/oed.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/ahd.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/columbia.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/thes.html | http://www.eb.com:180/
    Misc reading material http://dali.orgland.ru/tcd/ | http://www.ud.se/english/press/pdf_publ.htm
    Dantes Inferno
    http://sophia.smith.edu/~lkleinbe/dante/home.html | http://www.divinecomedy.org/
    Books and texts http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html | http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ | http://www.nakedword.org/ | http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
    Literature stuff http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk:8080/ | http://www.swan.ac.uk/uwp/lit.htm
    Octavo books http://www.octavo.com/
    Project Gutenberg - books and texts http://www.promo.net/pg/
    Project Runeberg - Scandinavian in books and texts http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/katalog.html
    The Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
    Bigtext - illustrated books and manuals for DOS http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/oldfav.html#bigtext
    Breeze - a complete text system for Windows
    http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html#brzwin
    Language links http://www.june29.com/HLP/
    Grimms' fairy tales
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/archive.html
    Winnie the Pooh http://www.machaon.ru/pooh/
    Seven Wonders of the World
    http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
    Medieval history http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
    Misc history http://www.usaor.net/users/ipm/contents.html
    | http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/l...n/re0_cath.htm
    Stonehenges Legends
    http://www.missgien.net/stonehenge/legends.html
    In Parentheses historical papers http://www.inpar.dhs.org/
    Bulfinchs Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org/
    The Dead Sea Scrolls
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html
    Qumran historical site http://www.kalia.org.il/Qumran/
    Index of cults http://www.totentanz.de/kmedeke/cults.htm
    Heretical speculation
    http://www.calweb.com/~queribus/gnosticgnus.html
    The esoteric Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani http://www.osmth.org/index.html
    Runes and Norse stuff http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/runes/
    Extinction level events
    http://members.xoom.com/korwisi/ele/english/index.html | http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ | http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/ncar.html
    Stephen Hawkings Universe
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
    The constellations http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm
    Falling into a black hole
    http://casasrv.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
    Gravity is a push http://www.epicom.com/gravitypush/
    Online audiobooks http://www.broadcast.com/books/scifi/
    ElecBooks http://www.elecbook.com/eblist.htm
    NewMedia Classics http://www.newmediaclassics.com/
    Online Books Archive http://docs.online.bg/
    Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
    Rocket-Library.com
    http://www.rocket-library.com/categories.asp
    PalmPilot E-Text Ring
    http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webri...text&id=2&List
    Virtual Free Books
    http://www.virtualfreesites.com/free.books.am.html
    All About Ebooks http://aalbc.com/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

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    nice list but imho shouldn't be in the tut forum-- chit chat would be more appropriate buddy

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    According to SecurityFocus.com's article "Turning Hacks into Hacker's" would these publishers be able to hack into my box, because they published these books, and received no compensation for it? I believe these links are a trick.

    It'd be real interesting if that bill gets passed....

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    Excellent resource acid, couldn't see this one on your list but don't flame me if it's there: http://library.unixhideout.com/ - unfortunately the server isn't always up and you can have some problems logging in, but there's some great O'Reilly books amongst others archived there.

    Also, Xoom went bust years ago, so any links to members.xoom.com sites don't work.

    A bulleted list and/or some extra line breaks would make the links easier to scan, but apart from that (minor) niggle, an excellent reference resource.

    sumdumguy: I know what you mean about this not really being a tutorial, although it'd be a shame if it were to be overlooked by being posted in chit chat. The problem is, where do you post things like this? They're a great reference resource, but not really what you'd call a tutorial. And they're not just for newbies either, plus it's not a question! Perhaps a "AO member's favourite link listings" forum would be good for this type of thread, rather than having to submit all the links individually?

    Fakeboy: I don't think that publishers like O'Reilly are remotely interested in breaking into your computer. And they did receive compensation when they sold the books in the first place, they're giving them away free usually in the hope that you'll buy the latest edition or that you'll find reading online difficult and buy a paper copy instead. These links aren't a trick, and if you actually *read* some of the books you'd discover that this is the case and that the publishers aren't trying to break into your computer.
    Paul Waring - Web site design and development.

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    Originally posted here by sumdumguy
    nice list but imho shouldn't be in the tut forum-- chit chat would be more appropriate buddy
    i don't think chit chat would be the place for this type of info.. because there threads doesn't stay on top for long time.. they immediately go to the next page.. and then it goes out of the site of people... so i think this is the best place..

    very well done acd.. really a great post..

    intruder
    A laptop, internet connection and beer.

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    yeah, fantactic
    Great work ac1d, and i think this should surely stay on top of the "Tutorial Forum"

    thx ac1d>> kak dela? kak zavut?

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    What a list!!!
    I agree with intruder. Tutorial forum isn't a place I would look for a list of links.
    Maybe AO should have it's own Library :-)

    Thanks acid! That one must have taken you some time to compile.

    Delyn

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    ohhhh man. That's a long ass list. thanks for the links!

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    Great list, ac1d !
    As a link-whore, I snarfed the lot of them, and have already put them to good use, although I
    won't be showing my wife anytime soon, as she's the same way, and will be using my 'puter
    half the time just to grab URL's. Thumbs up, dude!
    As for where to put them, it's kind of an interesting point. There should be a members link area,
    but I'd hate to be the one sifting through a whole bunch of listings just to find duplicates. IMO,
    where you put them is just fine with me.

    zaddikim
    You can lead a yak to water, but you can\'t teach an old dog
    to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke
    -Berke Breathed/ Opus The Penguin

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    Thanks, ac1dsp3ctrum. Looks like i've got some reading to do.

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