Cool things in Computing Computing Links Erich's Computing Stuff Linux . Linux, along with the rest of the free software community, is probably the greatest thing going on in computing today. The Linux Kernel, developed by a team of programmers led by Linus Torvalds, was designed to run on Intel-type PC machines. It has since grown to run on most computing platforms, from SGI's to old Macintoshes to Ataris to embedded systems. Today a modern, normal Linux distribution contains things that make it very easy to use, including configuration scripts and GUI stuff.
Computer graphics kick some butt.
I really like raytracing . It grows quickly, has a nifty scripting language, and even has its own windowing toolkit that is really nice. For instance, most system administration things should be text-only. Email should be text-only. Also, I'm usually typing.