THE CHAIN LINK
Neal's DC Area Home Page

---

---

Page Navigator

Bottom

Middle

Partial

Bicycles
• People for Bikes supports bicycling. They are halfway to collecting a million signatures, as part of preparing to lobby congress, etc. The page allows for both signing their petition & spreading the word to your friends, etc.
• Current Tour de France
• Weather affects cycling:
  • Area weather
  • Planning an event? Sunrise, sunset, average temp, % precip, etc.
• Cue sheets for Greater DC Area
• Cue sheet & Related S/W
• Resources: Clubs & Organizations

Other Useful Things
• Aircraft
• DC Area Astronomy Resources
• Classic comedy - way beyond what our friends send. A precious few items.
• Is Dame Fortune smiling at you?
• Hiking
• Libraries
• Maps
• The Origin of Arabic Numerals. Sort of.
• Political Views
• Choose a random date for your raffle.
• More random acts - a walking robot.
• Info on any day of the year from Wikipedia

Top

DC Area Computer Clubs
• CPCUG, Capitol PC User Group
• CPCUG Classes & Directions
• NCTCUG and WACUG below, are currently blending into PATACS, Potomac Area Technology And Computer Society
  • NCTCUG, National Capital Technology and Computer User's Group
  • WACUG, Washington Area Computer User Group

Technical
• External reference items
  • Area Codes, sorted by Area Code. Unofficial, but well maintained
  • Area Codes, from Verizon, with a dialog box.
  • Periodic Table
  • Current time, US East coast
  • US time zones
  • Finding zip codes is not straightforward. Only towns & cities have them. Don't use a neighborhood name or a park name by mistake. Here is a good place to find zip codes.
• Log on to Autodesk as a student.
• CPCUG Office SIG.
• CPCUG Robotics SIG.
• The Unix "cut" utility is useful. The delimiter( -d" ") is frequently a single space.
  Some inputs, such as an ls -l result, have a varying number of spaces separating
  fields. Converting all occurrences of consecutive spaces to one space is a
  convenient solution, using program 1sp.c.
• Downloading files from Web Sites, etc, often means receiving Unix ASCII files.
  They differ from MS-DOS ASCII files. Solutions.
• Test your screen's focus with small text.
• Gas Mileage
• Gas, less outrageous
• HTML Basic examples
• HTML Moderate examples
• Maintain your reduced blood pressure.
• McKinley Tech High School, in Washingon, DC, has an ongoing FRC Robotics program.
  • 2012 Robot photos.
  • Look at 2012 Robot web site.
  • Modify 2012 Robot web site. UID & password required.
  • Labview is used here. See notes
• Measure any type of download data rate.
• Measure DSL up and download data rates.
• Create fresh passwords for your system.
• Prefixes in measurement
• Print a useful page from a web site with printfriendly.
• Time until 2012 PPTC Century
• Browser is Netscape 6/7, Firefox, or Mozilla
  Your screen resolution is 1280 x 720.
• Reference Page

Top