Knowledgebase:Misc Resources

A listing of miscellaneous resources sites in alphabetical order.

• Alphadictionary, formerly A Web of On-line Dictionaries

A very comprehensive list of online dictionaries and related resources maintained by 'Dr Goodword', Robert Beard.

• Acronym and abbreviation dictionary

With more than 480,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 3 million acronyms and abbreviations. Maintained by Mountain Data Systems.

• Bing translator formerly AltaVista and then Yahoo: Babel Fish Translation

Online language translations

• ARTVPS - A world leader in 3D rendering technology

Commercial hardware rendering systems, including PURE and RenderDrive. Providing support for for MAYA® from Alias, Autodesk's 3ds max® and VIZ® and Catia® V5 from Dassault; ARTVPS offer the only rendering solutions that deliver hardware accelerated ray tracing and secondary illumination.

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States

Over 500 downloadable maps. Site maintained by by Ray Sterner.

• Copyright Law Information

Information on US copyright law published by Cornell Law School.

• Dictionary.com

Online dictionaries of various languages and related resources.

• Dictionary.com Language Translator

Similar to the online language translator at Alta Vista.

• InterTran (tm) - translate between 676 language pairs!

Commercial translation software and services.

• Neil Franklin's Hackers Jargon File Page

Various versions of the Hackers Jargon File.

• Overclocking guide

Articles and books about overclocking of Pentiums or Compatibles, archived by Tom's Hardware.

• POV-Ray 3.0 on-line rendering farm (deprecated but nice to see)

A povray 3.0 on-line interface to a farm of machines waiting to grab your pov 3.0 job and render it and e-mail the picture back to you! Any and all suggestions are welcome. Currently is pretty basic, but gives priority to smaller jobs.

• POV-Ray on a Cluster

Info by Wayne Rooney on setting up POV-Ray on a cluster of computers

• TechWeb: TechEncyclopedia

IT jargon encyclopedia with over 20,000 terms defined.

• The Realtime Raytracing Realm

Around 30 animated demos, which run under MS-DOS, done to prove that real time raytracing is possible. No source code supplied. Maintained by Eric Haines.

• Time Service Department

A department of the US Naval Observatory. The Official Source of Time for the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a Standard of Time for the United States.

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