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Miller Microcomputer Services
61 Lake Shore Road, Natick MA 01760-2099, U.S.A.
(508/653-6136, 9am-9pm Eastern time zone)

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Welcome to MMS, on Lake Cochituate in Natick, Massachusetts! We empower our clients and the community in which we live. If you live near us, visit the monthly FOSS User Group that we lead in Natick.

This is not a one-topic web site; it's more like the stacks of your library, with a search engine (above). We offer you hundreds of links, techie and otherwise, including our Events Calendar, our Photo Gallery and our updated-twice-monthly Extra Feature. Search, browse, and enjoy!

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Techie links from Miller Microcomputer Services:

	Who are we? Including MMSFORTH, DATAHANDLER-PLUS and RapidFile October 2011 MIT talk to Boston Linux & Unix User Group: "MMS, Forth, Linux, and Fotoxx" (first half-hour, MMS and computer history; 0:34 FOSS User Group; 0:37 Fotoxx design and use)
	MMS offers cost-effective alternative Software Solutions for your needs, in Windows, Linux, and both. Datamation's Ultimate List of Open Source Software
	Why GNU+Linux? The Story of Linux (video), How Linux Is Built (video), Goodbye, Microsoft, Avoid Microsoft, Why Linux Is Better, Ten Reasons For Businesses To Dump Windows And Use Linux, Security: Linux, OS X, Unix and Malware (Viruses), SchNEWS intro to GNU/Linux, Why A Devout Capitalist Loves Free Software, Who Uses Linux?, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Eric Raymond, 1997), Open Source And Economics, Family Guide to Digital Freedom, Linux Base, Unix As Literature, Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software (Richard Stallman. 2007), Interview with Linus Torvalds (2008), Interview with Linus Torvalds (2011), Interview with Richard Stallman (2011), Collaboration, Innovation, and Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Bob Young, founder of Red Hat Linux, 2011)
	Linux/Unix Resources: A Technical History of Linux, Memorable Linux Milestones, The early days of Linux, The "Who Wrote Linux" Kerfuffle (Andrew Tannenbaum, 2004), Who Writes Linux (2012 report by The Linux Foundation), The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (Warren Toomey, 2011), GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline, What's In A Linux Name?, Unix and Linux Search Tool, Ubuntu Search Tool, Cheat Sheets, Getting Starting With Ubuntu10.10, Ubuntu Guide for 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), GetDeb (repository for independent Ubuntu apps), Psychocat's Ubuntu Linux Resources, Linux System Administration, LPI Certification Level 1 manual, the Linux Command Line, Evolution of shells in Linux, Linux Group Tests, Ubuntu/Canonical, LXer Linux News, FreeCode.com (was Freshmeat.net)
	MMS FOSS/Linux e-mail list
	MMS FOSS (Free, Open-Source Software) talk (Soon in .odp; can read .odp files with LibreOffice et al). MMS can present to your group!
	FOSS User Group at Natick Senior Center (with Dick and Jill Miller of MMS) and Archive
	MMS offers Custom Applications in MS-Access (Windows) and MySQL (Windows and Linux).
	MMS offers Website design and development. (See sample site).
	MMS offers cost-effective PC Hardware selection and maintenance.
	MMS Client Messages - Killer shopping deals and more, for $25/year.
	MMSFORTH and Forth books, Forth Links for programmers
	Ordering: Shipping/Handling, Payment, etc.
	Internet resources: A Primer on How to Work With the Usenet Community, The Tao of Programming, The End of the Internet?, Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality, by Tim Berners-Lee (Sci.Am., Dec. 2010), Internet Public Library, RefDesk, Google Guide, Google Ultimate Interface, ISPs, Privacy, Test your IPv6 connectivity, Slowest Link, Internet Speed Test (RCN, "Connect directly to cable modem."), Internet Speed Test (Speedtest.net), Internet Pingtest.net, Internet Speed Test (AuditMyPC), Internet Speed Test (Toast.net), Internet Web Server Monitoring Tool, TCP/IP Optimization Test, ShieldsUp! Probes Your Internet Firewall, Google Search-Patterns Report, Traffic Report, Akamai's State of the Internet Report, Security: Linux, OS X, Unix and Malware (Viruses), OnGuardOnline.gov, IP Number Space Animation, Internet Topology, Atlas of Cyberspaces, Spam Report, Spyware, Crimeware and Phishing Map, Attacks Report, McAfee Virus Info, ZombieMeter, Trends in Badware 2007, The Best of Strangers: Context Dependent Willingness to Divulge Personal Information, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (John Perry Barlow, 1996), The Year Data Went Worldwide (Tim Berners-Lee, 2010), Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality (Tim Berners-Lee, 2010), Freedom on the Net (2011), Beware Online Filter Bubbles (Eli Pariser, TED Talk, 2011). Internet Privacy: Resist the Temptations of the Cloud! (Richard Stallman, 2011), The SPI Show (U.S. Dept. of Defense), Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery (Nicole Perlroth, NY Times, 2012), How Google Dominates Us (2011), The Personal Computer Is Dead (Jonathan Zittrain, 2011), Learning, Freedom and the Web (Mozilla book, 2012),
	And other threatening computer technologies: Know Your Digital Rights (EFF), 10 Ways We Are Being Tracked, Traced, and Databased (2010), Five Ways the Government Spies on You, Judge disarms Patriot Act proviso (2004), ISP Would Shield Users From Government Surveillance, The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say), Eavesdropping Antennas Can Steal Your Smart Phone's Secrets, Travelling Internationally with Encrypted Data, Don't Break the Internet (Stanford Law Review, Dec. 2011) and the preceding "Napolitano letter" (Sandia National Laboratories, Nov. 2011), 3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users (Feb. 2012), Smart Meters, Lockdown: The Coming War on General-Purpose Computing (Cory Doctorow, 2012), Re-examining Dropbox and its alternatives.
	The history-making Radio Shack TRS-80 microcomputer (25th Anniversary: August 3rd, 2002)
	Computer tidbits: Willy Crowther's original "Adventure" game, How A Computer Works - à la Rube Goldberg, Internet Simplified, Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Technology, Optimizing Linux for Cheap Flash Drives
	Techie comics: Dilbert, UserFriendly.Org, xkcd

Otherwise links from Dick and Jill Miller:

Bicycle and Pedestrian:

MassDOT's "Go By Bike" brochure,

Greater Boston Cycling and Walking Map,

"Dangerous By Design" (with

Pedestrian Fatalities map), The Cochituate Rail Trail, Natick Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, Massachusetts Bicycle and Pedestrian Ad visory Board, Survey of Bicycle Transportation Routes in the Boston Metrowest Area (John Allen, 1993), Natick Open Space Plan (and map), Natick Walking Tours,

Planning Livable Communities (Framingham blog), Road Hazards for Bicyclists and Pedestrians,

Designing Cities for People: The Return of Bicycles (Chap. 6 of Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, by Les Brown);

Conversation With An Engineer, Street Project (also, full NIMBY version)

Environment: They didn’t have the Green thing back then, Natick Natural Science Park (1955), Cochituate State Park, the Lake Cochituate Watershed, Pegan Cove Park, Henry Wilson History Trail, Eurasian Water-Milfoil, Framingham Wellfield Proposal May Harm Lake Cochituate and Sudbury River, Cancer-Incidence stu dies, MassPike Tolls, Light Pollution, The Future of Lighting, Energy-Saving, Carbon-Footprint Calculators, Noise Pollution (Boston Scientific helipad),

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Les Brown; entire book),

The Ultimate Zombie Litmus Test (Limits-To-Growth video),

How Many People Should The Earth Support? (Ross McCluney, 2004),

Getting to Zero Waste, The Death of Recycling (Paul Palmer, 2007), The Story Of Stuff (Annie Leonard, 2007),

The Story Of Bottled Water (Annie Leonard, 2010), Population, Porous Pavement, Precautionary Principle, Rachel's Democracy & Health News, Recycling a Carling Brewery), Tracking the Gulf Oil Spill,

Plenty More Fish in the Sea?,

Lakes and Oceans,

Interactive Map of Coastal Eutrophication & Hypoxia,

Climate Hot Map (UCS, 2011)

Fun with Dick and Jill, Family History, 1960 Songfests, Photo Gallery,

Sunnysi de, "Remember When", Hunter College Elementary School Class of 1947, T.V. State Of Maine, and Morgan the Wonder Cat

Folk Songs: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, Mudcat Cafe/Digital Tradition, The Contemplator's Folk Music Site (and more!), Folk Music Index, Taylor's Traditional Tunebook, The Traditional Ballad Index, Traditional Music Library, Musica International, NEFFA, David Ingle Obituary

General Look-Up:

RefDesk,

Wikipedia,

Encyclopedia of the Earth,

How Stuff Works,

Khan Academy

Jill Knits

Nature:

Bird Songs, Bird Watching,

The Crows Project, American Society of Crows and Ravens, Hawk Watch (including Mount Wachusett), Bryozoa, Chipmunk Patrol, Giant Cockroaches, Kettle Ponds, Walden and Thoreau,

Knowing Our Place (Ron McAdow)

Opinion:

TED Talks, Senseless Census 2010,

FactCheck.org, Snow Removal, We're Monkeys,

Cooking Up Quite A Story (Richard Wrangham, 2002), The Coming Technological Singularity; How To Survive In The Post-Human Era (by Vernor Vinge, 1993), A Singularity In Time (Peter Russell, 2006),

Eco-Apocalypse: A Class Act (Michael Parenti, 1996); Corporate Personhood; The Three Tasks: YHWH’s Answer To Environmentalist Critics? (Ferren MacIntyre, 1998); Church of the Pristine Rock: Genesis (Buzz Bloom, 2003), On Believing (and Science; Paul Lutus, 2005), Zeitgeist: The Movie (Peter Joseph, 2007), The Symmetry Principle (Paul Lutus, 2008),

Money Is Not Wealth,

Measuring Progress (including remarks by Robert Kennedy, 1968),

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote The Way They Do (Andrew Gelman, 2009), Pull The Plug On E-Voting (Bruce O'Dell, 2006), The Triumph Of Ignorance (George Monbiot. 2008), On Newspapers and Google (Groklaw, 2009),

Towards A Philosophy Of Love (Mary Scriver/"PrairieMary", 2010),

Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Erik Andrulis, 2011)

Language: Esperanto,

Google Translate (word, text, URL), Yahoo Translation,

Medieval Writing,

Web Design Is 95% Typography, Omniglot (writing systems and languages of the world), Strunk's "The Elements Of Style",

Common English-Language Usage Misconceptions,

On-line Etymology Dictionary,

The alt.usage.english FAQ,

Wordnik.

Internet Anagram Server

The Printed Word: The Book of Boston,

The British Library,

US Library of Congress. The Devil's Dictionary,

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long (from "Time Enough For Love", 1973, by Robert Heinlein),

Poems, Rudyard Kipling,

Zarathushtra (Ardeshir Mehta),

Incunabula, Sacred Texts,

RefDesk,

Bartleby.com,

Project Gutenberg

Science:

Boston-Area Science Lectures, Mandelbrot Fractals, The Oil We Eat; Following the food chain back to Iraq, Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle,

The Imminent Crash Of The Oil Supply,

The Great Food Crisis of 2011 (Les Brown), How The Human Population Explosion Defies Nature (Gail Tverberg, 2012), Is Sugar Toxic?,

Toxicology Of Chemical Mixtures (Emily Monosson, 2005), A Fuller Explanation, Nanotechnology: Engines of Creation, The Engines of Our Ingenuity, Lavender Mist II

Weather, Local: (Natick Current/10-Day/Hourly/Radar,

Very Local (press Play to animate), NWS Northeast Radar, HazeCam (north from Blue Hill, including Natick and Boston),

Natick NWS 7-Day Forecast, Natick NWS Weather Forecast Graph, Eastern Mass. NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (River Flooding),

New England Radar Loop,

Northeast Radar Loop,

Northeast Lightning Loop, Northeast Foliage Report, Eastern Mass. Storm Watch; East Coast Hurricane Radar Loop
USA: NWS USA Radar Loop, NWS monthly archives , NWS Home, TVWeather U SA, Intellicast USA Radar Loop, Intellicast USA Surface Analysis Loop, Weather Channel USA Short-term Forecast,

USA Lightning;

US Radiation Network (with links for Alaska/Hawaii/Japan)
Beyond: Atlantic IR Loop (summer hurricanes), Worldwide Average Weather Data,

NASA Global Climate, World Temps and Clouds, World Infrared Satellite Loop,

NASA ISWA (Integrated Space Weather Analysis system), Mars, Space, Aurora Predictor, Links

Where are we?

About Natick, About Massachusetts, Map, MetroWest Transit (realtime bus map),

Boston Bus Map, Metro-Boston Traffic Map,

Metro-Boston Train Map, FlightAware, Photomapping of The Millers';
Where are others?

National Geographic MapMachine, Google Maps, Moon

And when? Time map, Time-line Clock, Nakamura Block Clock, Nakamura Hand Clock, Other Fun Clocks, USNO Atomic Time Clock, Sun/Moon Data (you correct for daylight time; for Natick, enter "Wayland"), Daylight zone on Earth, Phase of Moon, Tonight's Sky, Solar System Live, Reunite Gondwanaland!, US Census Bureau's World Population Clock, Peter Russell's World Clock, Worldmapper, Breathing Earth, US EPA Personal Emissions Calculator, US National Population Clock, US National Debt Clock, US Debt Clock,

Money Poster (xkcd.com #980; November, 2011), Measuring Worth

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