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Here is Mark's 2024 Wish List. No fighting now.

The Digital Public Library of America is a digital collection of documents from all across America.
Use the search box on the DPLA web page to search for content.

WGU is an accredited online university offering online bachelor's and master's degree programs. Western Governors University is regionally accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, one of the major accrediting commissions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Regional accreditation is considered the highest form of accreditation given to institutions.
- Respected online degrees. Earn a degree employers value.
- Flexible, online study. You learn when and where it fits your life.
- Affordable, lower tuition. WGU is a nonprofit online university.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is pleased to announce that The Hunger Site, an independent website created to alleviate hunger, has chosen to give the donations it generates via the internet to the WFP. Cash donations equivalent to more than a million servings of food have been donated since the site opened in June 1999. You can do your part by going to the site and clicking on the button there. That's all that's required to donate some food to the WFP, so go there now and see how much you can give for free.
Do you enjoy eating? Who doesn't. Now you can get recipe ideas right off the web at AllRecipes.com the ultimate cookbook. This site lets you enter a profile to match recipes to your dietary preferences. Sign up for the "Recipe of the Day" to be emailed to you every day.
Go to TheFreeSite.com. They bring you fresh listings and reviews of all the best freebies that are available on the Net. To keep up with the latest freebies, subscribe to their freebies newsletter (it's free, of course!). The site is updated daily. Please E-mail them if you have a suggestion. If you like the site, please recommend it to a friend. Tell them they can find the link on my page. :^))
Since 1985, Mix Software has been developing and marketing low cost tools for C and C++ programmers. Many colleges and training companies have adopted our Power C compiler for teaching C programming classes. To date more than 130,000 copies of Power C have been distributed. For do-it-yourself training, we offer the comprehensive C and C++ Video Courses developed by Silicon River. We also offer several special purpose programming libraries that can be used with most C and C++ compilers. For example, our C/Database Toolchest provides extensive data management functions that can be used with various C and C++ compilers on four different platforms: DOS/Win3.x, Win95/NT,OS/2, and Linux.

CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.

FreeDOS Organization. FreeDOS is a 16 bit operating system that is designed to be kernel compatible with MS-DOS 3.3. FreeDOS is also published under the GPL. FreeDOS is still not quite ready for prime time but, if you would like to help, there are many things still left to do including testing for those who are not programmers. For those who are programmers, FreeDOS is written primarily in the C language with a bit of ASM thrown in.
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join.
The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

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		CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. CentOS conforms fully with the upstream vendor's redistribution policy and aims to be 100% binary compatible. (CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork.) CentOS is free.