In Search of Truth
Software I frequently use

General Links

Google Groups - where people can answer questions

Sourceforge - where open source lives

Slashdot - relevant news


Searching for Code

Krugle - A search engine for developers

Koders - Searching 225,816,744 lines of code.

Google Code Search - a new google beta


Scientific Software

FEniCS: Finite Element Software developed by UofC, Chalmers, and Simula.

Sundance: Finite Element Software developed by Sandia

PETSc: Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation

Trilinos: parallel solver algorithms and libraries within an object-oriented software framework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physics engineering and scientific applications


Linux-GNU

www.linux.org: Linux's home site

tldp.org: The Linux Documentation Project - very helpful collect howto's and guides

www.linuxcommand.org: A site explaining how to use linux and why it is powerful.

www.debian.org: Debian's home site

aboutdebian.com: A good site about setting up Debian but not complete.


Latex

CTAN - the Comprehensive Tex Archive Network

Tobias Oetiker's (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e

The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

Hypertext Help with LaTeX

David Wilkins' LaTeX Primer

Andrew Robert's Getting to grips with LaTeX

Keith Reckdahl's Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e

The Bibtex Bibliography Format


Python

www.python.org: Python's home page

Enthought: Creators of SciPy, Chaco, Mayavi and other tools I use a lot.

Logilab: Another company that has quite a few general python tools.