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Links

Don't leave me!!

Here are a few random, arguably interesting sites that one might consider checking out...

Personal Sites

Managed and (mostly) developed by yours truly...

Purdue "All-American" Marching Band Archive - a tribute to my insanity, and the Purdue Marching Band
adventure.turkeyland.net - Summer 2006: The Adventure of a Lifetime!
ECE 477 Senior Design Group 12 (Spring '04) - Our project for Senior Design that consumed over 203 hours of my life :-). Also hands down the one class where I learned the most at Purdue.
StarWars-IRC - A great Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network. Check it out, I'm on there almost all day long when I'm at Purdue.
The Atomic Age: A Brief Overview - Our final exam project for AP History my junior year in high school. Surprisingly many people have commented on how good it is, so I decided to leave it available here to the public.
lrtf.turkeyland.net - Lamer Removal Task Force (LRTF) Headquarters. The LRTF was a group of individuals dedicated to removing lamers from the Internet (or at least IRC). Regardless, this page has been defunct for quite some time now.
turkstra.net - ripped from the hands of the spammers in 2008, it now hosts my primary email address (jeff@turkstra.net), among other things.

Software

Individual results may vary

Fedora Linux - Free, open source operating system
Apache - Free, open source webserver
MySQL - Free, open source database
PHP - Free, open source scripting language (good for server-side *html generation)
Rockbox - Free, open source jukebox firmware (used on my iPod)
UnrealIRCd - Free, open source Internet relay chat daemon (for which I am a head coder emeritus)
DOSBox - Free, open source DOS emulator excellent for those old games that you used to love to play (Dune II, for instance)
PDFCreator - Free, open source program to create PDF's using any program capable of printing to a standard windoze printer
Password Safe - Free, open source password management program supporting encryption
TrueCrypt - Free, open source disk encryption software
Firefox - Free, open source web browser
Thunderbird - Free, open source email & newsgroup client
Pidgin - Free, open source instant messenger client supporting AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and others
X-Chat 2 - Free, open source IRC client for windoze
Exact Audio Copy - Free audio grabber for audio CDs
FLAC - Free, open source lossless audio codec
VLC media player - Free, open source media player that can handle pretty much every format known to man
GB-PVR - Free home media center application for use with video capture cards
Xming - Free, open source X Server for windoze
VirtualBox - Free, mostly open source virtualization platform
VMware - Incredibly useful virtualization software - much of which is free
Stellarium - Free, open source planetarium
ticalc.org - Huge repository of programs/games/whatever else you could want for TI-based calculators

Education & Science

Knowledge and understanding!

Global Warming (The Warming of the Earth) - A beginner's guide to understanding the issue of global warming by the Woods Hole Research Center
Science Daily - Daily happenings in science, health, environment & technology
Slashdot - News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
Ann Druyan Talks about Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe ... and Carl Sagan - One of my favorite articles of all time
Carl Sagan's Life and Legacy as Scientist, Teacher, and Skeptic - Pseudo biography of one of my childhood idols and someone I still look to as a role model
Purdue University - My alma mater
Purdue University Bands - The name says it all
Purdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) - Mmmmmm
The Eternal Value of Privacy - Another interesting article
Go To Statement Considered Harmful - Once again the title says it all
Why Challenge-Response is a Bad Idea - Why you won't get email from me if you use CR for your email
Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting - Something I happen to agree with

Useless

Completely useless links

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