What Happened at OakRoadSystems.com?

This page lists the significant changes to the Oak Road Systems Web site, as a matter of historical interest. For changes beginning December 2021, please see What’s New at BrownMath.com.

December 2021

All of the content at OakRoadSystems.com, except what’s noted under November 2021, below, has been moved to my other site, BrownMath.com. You can access it under Free Software Utilities and General Articles.

November 2021

Math Sites and Software got pared down and moved to my other site, BrownMath.com, in somewhat different form.

The following articles, which are seriously outdated, were removed entirely. Most of them I wrote when I was learning the topics, but my interest has changed or the technology has moved on, and I don’t really want to start over with them. Some have been archived, and in that case I give the link.

• How to Find FAQ Lists, last revised 7 Oct 2010: http://web.archive.org/web/20150315080351/https://oakroadsystems.com/genl/faqget.htm
• Web Resources for Web Authors, last revised 30 April 2009: http://web.archive.org/web/20100122013303/http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/webauthr.htm
• Windows XP Tips and Tweaks, last revised 16 April 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20170708232555/https://oakroadsystems.com/tech/winxptip.htm
• ‘Make Money Fast’ and Other Chain Letters, last revised 5 July 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20021021022538/http://www.oakroadsystems.com/genl/nommf.htm
• Play Nice in Email, last revised 16 Apr 2016: http://web.archive.org/web/20191231214625/http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/enice.htm
• Play Nice on Usenet, last revised 26 Jan 2012: http://web.archive.org/web/20150930013328/http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
• Hard Disk Partitioning, last revised 20 April 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20031211015433/http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/hd-partn.htm
• C Reserved Identifiers, last revised 15 Sept 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20040802235318/http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/c-predef.htm
• C++ Reserved Identifiers, last revised 28 Oct 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20031204190038/http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/cppredef.htm
• MSVC++ = Microsoft vs. C++, last revised 15 Sept 2003

Finally, I scrubbed the link rot from the articles that remain. (Those will migrate to BrownMath.com at some point.)

January 2021

Added List Users and GUIDs to Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

November 2020

Released v8.1.4 of GENER8.

Converted all pages from HTML 4.01 to HTML5, and cleaned up the HTML errors revealed by the W3C’s HTML5 validator.

July 2020

In the GREP documentation, brought the Quick Reference Card and the full release notes on line, added some clarifications to the reference manual, and converted the interative tour (in the download file) to use static data files rather than the program documentation. Removed the documentation from the download file, since it’s all on the Web now and the tour no longer needs it. [Docs were restored to the download file in December 2021, because I had forgotten the people who can’t conveniently read docs on the Internet.]

June 2020

In the FAQ of the Rings, updated the answer about Wagner and Tolkien to make it clear that Tolkien’s rejection of parallels apply to some of Wagner’s source material, not to Wagner, but explain why it’s still appropriate to discuss parallels with Wagner.

May 2020

• Images were showing up through http:// but not https://. The site should now work completely in https://.
• Updated Stan Brown’s Personal Page, for the first time in four years.
• The article How to Find FAQ Lists [later withdrawn] has been withdrawn. Too much of its advice has been stultified by Google’s repeatedly breaking newsgroup search.
• The articles Play Nice in Email and Play Nice on Usenet have been withdrawn. No one was ever persuaded by reasoned arguments on these topics, and everyone thinks his or her practice is the One True Way.

March 2020

A busy year, with selling my house and moving across the United States in the middle of a pandemic. I’m finally getting to the site updates that have been on my to-do list for so long. This month: added Control Panel Direct Links to Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

June 2019

Updates to Relationship Terms, particularly in the “grand” and “great” terms.

February 2019

All of the software utilities are now freeware.

January 2019

Withdrew the resumes. They’re out of date, and I don’t plan on changing jobs.

June 2018

New release v8.1 of GENER8, and major improvements in the user manual [later renamed the GENER8 Scripting Manual].

October 2016

Several new sections in Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

July 2016

Use similar “donate” links to BrownMath.com. Add a landing page for people working from printed copies who want to donate.

April 2016

Post the GENER8 script v8.0, which I use to generate all these Web pages. Remove system dependencies so that the code should now work in UNIX as well as Windows; see all change details.

February 2016

• Add Preventing Windows 10 in the article Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.
• The full GREP Reference Manual is now on line, not just in the download file. This lets a bunch of links in the GREP Quick Start Guide be live as well.
• Update Stan Brown’s Personal Page, only ten years after I said it was “temporarily” withdrawn pending updates.

October 2015

Update the Link Exchange Policy.

All my current math pages are at BrownMath.com, but Math Sites and Software won’t move there. [It did, late in 2021, though in somewhat different form.] With Internet search engines so good, a static page of links seems so 20th century. I’ll leave it in place for anyone who has bookmarked it, but I’m not going to update it any further.

September 2015

Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> to every page, to make Google happy.

August 2015

Move the algebra and trig pages from OakRoadSystems.com to BrownMath.com.

June 2015

Replace 54 pages, which simply framed pages at BrownMath.com, with direct links to those pages.

May 2015

BrownMath.com launched on 10 May. All math articles from OakRoadSystems.com will eventually move there, but for now I’ve added links from the site map, home page, and main math page, plus a BrownMath.com option on the Google search page.

February 2015

• New article: Normality Check and Finding Outliers in Excel.
• New article: Box-Whisker Plots on TI-89.
• Substantial revisions in How to Take a Math Test or Quiz.

January 2015

• New article: Normality Check on TI-89.
• Stats without Tears now includes a TI-83/84 Cheat Sheet.

July 2014

• In addition to the online version of Stats without Tears, there’s now a printer-friendly version, all 164,000 words in one file.

May 2014

• Add Computer Wakes Unexpectedly to Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

September 2013

• In the FAQ of the Rings, remove broken links to articles; add a new page of the actual Articles Referenced in the FAQ of the Rings.

August 2013

• First public release of Stats without Tears. This is a full textbook, covering a first course in statistics, with exercises, and it’s a free resource, at least for now. [It was still free at the end of 2021, and I have every intention of keeping it free.]

August 2012

• In Loan or Investment Formulas, there’s a workbook to amortize loans in more complicated ways than the formulas can handle. I’ve generalized that workbook, adding payments every two weeks or twice a month, calculation of true daily interest, and payments that change every year.
• Several new tips were added to Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.
• In Importing (“Ripping”) CDs to iTunes, a new section explains the audio duration problem and how to avoid it.
• In Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music, a new section lists some iTunes Alternatives.

July 2012

• “Taming iTunes for Classical Music” has been thoroughly revised and updated, and is now called Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music. The older version is still available as Taming iTunes 7 for Classical Music [later withdrawn].
• New article: Some Playlists for iTunes and iPod.

June 2012

• New article: Importing (“Ripping”) CDs to iTunes.
• Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks has been updated for iTunes 10.

February 2012

After surgery in summer 2011 and a long aftermath of recovery, I wasn’t able to do any significant updates. But now I’m starting to catch up with the backlog:

• In Loan or Investment Formulas, new link and new worksheet for more complicated scenarios.
• In It’s the Law Too — the Laws of Logarithms, a couple more applications.
• In Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn], a second reason to avoid writing in all caps, and a warning against Windows Live Mail.

June 2011

• New article: Confidence Intervals for Goodness of Fit.

May 2011

• More tips in Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

April 2011

• Add Trim Bloated Context Menus and Startup File for the Command Prompt to Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

January 2011

• New article: Curb Unneeded Services in Windows 7.
• Additional tips in Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.

December 2010

• More tips in Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks.
• New links, and correction or removal of dead links, in Math Sites and Software [later withdrawn].
• Finally! Tables of contents no longer have <table> tags, or <br> and &nbsp; for layout, but are now all lists with CSS styling.

November 2010

• New article: Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks. This will be updated as I continue working with Windows 7.

October 2010

• Clear out all the link-rot in How to Find FAQ Lists [later withdrawn]and Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn].

February 2010

• Withdraw Web Resources for Web Authors, which was horribly out of date.
• Withdraw the WHISTLE shareware program, which used the PC speaker to play a tune with no need for a sound card, because hardware and OSes prevent it from working.

December 2009

• Realign the former programs MATH200D (Descriptive Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84) and MATH200I (Inferential Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84) into MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84 and MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84.

October 2009

• Rewrite Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks, most notably to recommend free software to merge the individual files into a single audiobook file.

September 2009

• New article: How to Factor the Sum of Squares.

July 2009

• Replace the separate print and screen style sheets (31 K in aggregate) with a unified style sheet (13 K). You may not notice the performance improvement, but it will cut the site’s bandwidth significantly.

May 2009

• Add easy derivations of functions of 3 or 4 times an angle to Trig without Tears.

March 2009

• Improve the TI-83/84 program MATH200D, (now incorporated in MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84 and MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84) and add an example for probabilities.
• In the TI-83/84 program MATH200I (now part of MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84), before doing inference on correlation check that r ≠ ±1.

February 2009

• New article: One-Way ANOVA.
• Rewrite Drawing Inverse Functions on the TI-83/84, add instructions for finding values of inverse functions, and rename it as Inverse Functions on TI-83/84.

December 2008

• Consolidate separate TI-83/84 programs for several descriptive statistics procedures into a single MATH200D program, along with new programs for plotting time series, making box-whisker plots, and plotting the histogram of a binomial probability distribution.
• Remove Skewness and Kurtosis on the TI-83/84; the calculator part went into Descriptive Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84 (now incorporated in MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84) and the statistics part, rewritten and expanded, became the new article Measures of Shape: Skewness and Kurtosis.
• Rewrite the rules of thumb for rounding means and standard deviations.
• Add ERR:VERSION to TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com.

November 2008

• Consolidate separate TI-83/84 programs for several inferential statistics procedures into a single MATH200I program, adding a new option for computing sample size.

October 2008

• Add more tips to Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].
• Add another cause of INVALID DIM to TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com.
• Update How to Graph Piecewise Functions on TI-83/84 to show handling of compound conditions.
• Update Sample Statistics on TI-83/84 to show how to identify outliers.
• Change CSS style sheets for easier reading on screen (40 em maximum width, which works in modern browsers and MS-IE7).

September 2008

• Add Inferences about One-Pop. Standard Deviation on the TI-83/84 with a TI-83 program; they have since been folded into MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84.
• Rewrite the program in Frequency Histograms and Polygons the Easy Way on the TI-83/84 (which has since been folded into MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84) to handle lists of numbers as well as pre-grouped distributions. Remove “Histograms of Numeric Data on the TI-83/84” and “Frequency Polygons on the TI-83/84”, since it’s easier to use MATH200A.
• Overhaul the step-by-step procedure and add numerical solutions to How to Solve Polynomial Equations.
• Three corrections in the FAQ of the Rings.

July 2008

• Correct statements about the “Part of a compilation” tag in Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music.
• Add instructions for making file extensions visible in Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks.

June 2008

• Add Frequency Histograms and Polygons the Easy Way on the TI-83/84, which has since been folded into MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84.

May 2008

• Add Inferences about Linear Regression on the TI-83/84 and Inferences about Linear Correlation on the TI-83/84/89 with TI-83 programs for downloading (now incorporated in MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84).

April 2008

• Remove SWREG from shareware payment options and therefore from the BrownMath.com Privacy Policy; add Paypal to the privacy policy.

February 2008

• Add “Shorten the ‘Open With’ List” to Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].

January 2008

• Add Skewness and Kurtosis on the TI-83/84 and a TI-83/84 program (but see Dec 2008 for later history).
• Add Frequency Polygons on the TI-83/84 and a TI-83/84 program that makes frequency polygons and histograms.
• Consolidate the page on making a histogram for a list of numbers and the page on making a histogram for a grouped frequency distribution into a single page “Histograms of Numeric Data on the TI-83/84”.
• Update the tip on sorting files numerically in Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].

December 2007

• In Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music, add the Year tag and rewrite the Album tag section

November 2007

• Add Inferences about Linear Regression and an Excel workbook.

September 2007

• Add Sample Statistics on TI-83/84 (called at the time Descriptive Statistics on the TI-83/84).
• Add Histogram of a Binomial PD on the TI-83/84, which has since been folded into MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84.
• Add Plotting Time Series on the TI-83/84, which has since been folded into MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84.
• Add “Fix Time Sync” to Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].
• Add Approximate Solution by Formula (for interest rate) to Loan or Investment Formulas.

August 2007

New math pages:

• “Histograms for Grouped Frequency Distributions on the TI-83/84” (later merged into MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84).
• "Correlation and Regression on the TI-89" (later merged into Scatterplot, Correlation, and Regression on TI-89).
• Binomial Probability Distribution on TI-89.
• Inferential Statistics Cases.
• How Big a Sample Do I Need?
• Triage: Which Inferential Stats Case Should I Use?
• Inferences about One-Population Standard Deviation.
• Computing Critical χ² on the TI-83/84/89 (now part of MATH200B Program — Extra Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84).
• Case Study: Gardasil Vaccine (added in April 2007; now incorporated in Stats without Tears.

Updated the titles of several more pages to match changed content.

July 2007

• Update Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks for differences in menuing between iTunes 6 and iTunes 7; add a script for removing obsolete stubs.

June 2007

• Add Binomial Probability Distribution on TI-83/84 (now part of MATH200A Program — Basic Statistics Utilities for TI-83/84).

May 2007

• Add “Don’t Shout” to Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn].

March 2007

• Update Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music for browsing and scrolling methods.
• Add “Add Items to ‘Send to’ ” and “Clear the Print Queue” to the Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].

February 2007

• Donations are now tracked by which page’s “donate” link you clicked.

January 2007

• Update Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music for gapless playback.
• Add a check for impossible conditions to the text of Loan or Investment Formulas and to its accompanying Excel workbook.

December 2006

• Several changes to Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music, particularly about shuffle.

November 2006

• Add notes about joining tracks and about iTunes 7 to Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music.
• Update Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks for Macs and for iTunes 7; add notes on chapter sorting and suggested track names.
• Revise several answers in the FAQ of the Rings.

October 2006

• In How to Solve Polynomial Equations, correct a wrong description of the lower bound on roots and add explanation and an example.
• Add series computation of interest rate to the Excel workbook that accompanies Loan or Investment Formulas.

May 2006

• Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks is now complete, after being published in March as just an outline.
• Another ten pages for mathematics students at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) are now incorporated in this site.
• The new page Play Nice in Email [later withdrawn], adapted and expanded from my TC3 site, explains why HTML is bad in e-mail and how to set your mailer to deliver plain text.

April 2006

• Forty-two pages for mathematics students at Tompkins Cortland Community College are now incorporated in this site.
• Add “Sort File and Folder Names Numerically (or not)” to Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].
• "Straight quotes" have all been converted to “curly quotes”, with invaluable assistance from Stephen Poley’s sed script.

March 2006

• New article: Converting CDs to iTunes Audiobooks.
• Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music now covers some other genres as well.
• Relationship Terms now includes an alphabetical index to all the definitions, and some further terms were added.
• The search page now uses Google instead of Atomz (which has become Websidestory).

February 2006

• New article: Taming iTunes & iPod for Classical Music.
• It’s the Law — the Laws of Exponents now includes a number of self-test exercises.

January 2006

• Release 5.23 of CMP handles path\filenames of any length, even those longer than the documented 259-character Windows limit.
• Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn] now starts with some links for people who aren’t quite sure what this whole Usenet thing is.

December 2005

• We now accept Paypal for shareware registrations. [As of early 2019 the shareware had become freeware, but we still accept Paypal for donations.]
• The page of Loan or Investment Formulas was substantially revised, and now comes with a downloadable Excel workbook.

November 2005

• Release of CMP 5.2. New features include showing just the lines from one file that weren’t in the other, and comparing the output of a program (redirected stdin) to a reference file.

September 2005

• Add a lot more tips to Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn], and add “Why Call It Sine?” to Trig without Tears.
• Add a skills resume alongside the traditional CV or chronological resume. (Both of these were withdrawn in January 2019.)
• Add text, explanation, and links to my picture of Watkins Glen.

May 2005

• Release of GREP 8.0. It handles all types of text files in line or paragraph mode, as well as binary files. New output formats are available at your discretion.
• Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn] gained a few suggestions and clarifications.
• Having found that an astonishing 40% of this site’s bandwidth was the style sheets (CSS files), I squeezed out unnecessary spaces and comments.

March 2005

• New article: Windows XP Tips and Tweaks [later withdrawn].
• Several Web pages, mostly on C and C++, haven’t been updated in some time and are out of date. Realistically, they probably won’t be updated in the foreseeable future. They’ve been replaced with short pages that explain the situation and link to the copies archived in the Internet Wayback Machine.

December 2004

• Release 7.5 of our flagship GREP pattern-matching utility program adds paragraph-mode searches, presents binary results in a clear new tabular format, and relieves you of the need to prespecify the lengths of text lines. A new Quick Reference Card is included, courtesy of a longtime user.   [ more... ]
• Since groups.google.com broke all existing archive links to articles when rolling out Groups Beta, I implemented a temporary fix to link back to the articles. This affects the following articles:
• FAQ of the Rings,
• Loan or Investment Formulas,
• Math Sites and Software [later withdrawn], and
• Relationship Terms.

November 2004

• Add some resources to the Usenet section of Web Resources for Web Authors [later withdrawn].

October 2004

• A new release v7.4 of our GREP pattern-matching software lets you display every match in text or binary files, with or without context.
• Add a formula for computing interest rate to the page of Loan or Investment Formulas, with discussion.
• Add I can’t graph more than one equation at a time to TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com.
• Add a link exchange policy.

September 2004

• Add the message Dim Mismatch to TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com.
• Revise two answers in the FAQ of the Rings.

July 2004

• There’s a new release 7.31 of my GREP shareware program for finding strings or regular expressions in files.
• The FAQ of the Rings has two new questions, Who could see an invisible Ring-wearer? and Who bore the One Ring, and when? A couple of other questions have been revised.
• How to Convert Units of Measurement now links to the Google calculator for folks who just want to do a particular conversion and don’t care about the method.
• “Where to post test articles” was added to Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn].

May 2004

Hard Disk Partitioning [later withdrawn] is now hosted at Sandy Archer’s site.

March 2004

• Relationship Terms had some minor edits.
• A few more examples were added to the self test in Combining Operations (Distributive Laws).
• Some small edits were made in the FAQ of the Rings.

January 2004

• The Trig without Tears textbook now sports a new section on polar form of a complex number.
• Combining Operations (Distributive Laws) gained a few new self-test questions and some minor formatting changes.
• Several questions were revised in the FAQ of the Rings, based on newsgroup discussions.
• The page on partitioning a hard disk is again withdrawn.

November 2003

• In Relationship Terms, new sections were added for consanguinity and godparents.
• Small changes were made to Trig without Tears, Loan or Investment Formulas, and the FAQ of the Rings.

September 2003

• “Recommended Sites for HTML Authors” was almost completely rewritten and was renamed “Web Resources for Web Authors [later withdrawn]”. Obsolete material was removed and much new material was added, including style sheets—and about time too!
• My screen is too light or too dark was added to TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com.
• All links on the site were checked using the free Xenu Link Sleuth, and corrections applied as needed.

July 2003

• New article: 10-Minute Trig
• New links to statistics information and software were added to Math Sites and Software [later withdrawn].

June 2003

• The FAQ of the Rings gained some further new questions.
• Small edits were made in How to Solve Polynomial Equations and Relationship Terms.

May 2003

• Following a suggestion from a correspondent, Relationship Terms has a new section on the changes resulting from death, divorce, and adoption. There is also a brief mention of honorary aunts and uncles.
• Solving Triangles in Trig without Tears now includes a couple of pointers to simpler methods when the triangle is known to contain a 90° angle.
• In the FAQ of the Rings, the question about an Elf putting on one of the Seven or Nine was rewritten and expanded.

April 2003

• New article: Play Nice on Usenet [later withdrawn].
• How to Find FAQ Lists [later withdrawn] was updated with several new FAQs, and a form was added to search Google for FAQ lists.
• The self test on distributive laws in Combining Operations (Distributive Laws) was expanded by 60%, and correct expansions were given for all the wrong expansions.
• Math Sites and Software [later withdrawn] added a link to Free Statistics on the Web.
• A special section on invisibility was added to the FAQ of the Rings.

March 2003

• The material on sum-to-product formulas for sines and cosines was updated with an application.
• "Then why didn’t Gollum and Bilbo die when they lost the Ring?” was added to the FAQ of the Ringss.
• As pages are updated, structural links are being added to their headers. These don’t show up in page text but can be used with modern browsers like Mozilla 1.2+, Opera 7+, and Lynx for navigation.

January 2003

• New release 7.2 of GREP includes the latest release of the PCRE engine for extended regular expressions.
• The FAQ of the Rings includes several new questions.

October 2002

• The lists of C Reserved Identifiers [later withdrawn] and C++ Reserved Identifiers [later withdrawn] now explain better why every external name that begins is, mem, etc. is reserved.
• The shareware pages now make it more clear that the registered versions contain bonus features. [That was ended in 2019, when the programs became freeware, with donations suggested.]
• Two entries in the FAQ of the Rings were expanded. They have to do with Sauron’s taking the Ring to Númenor and then getting it back to Middle-earth.
• The stylesheets were fine-tuned to try to compensate for bugs in various browsers.

September 2002

• TI-83/84 Troubleshooting, which has since moved to BrownMath.com, now has five new tips.
• The FAQ of the Rings has a couple of new Q&A and some minor revisions for clarity.
• Trig without Tears has been through a major revision, with several sections added and several others rewritten. You can read the details in the “What’s New?” sections of the individual chapters. The PDF version has been replaced by a printer-friendly HTML version.
• This “What’s New” page is new. Previously, you had to look at all the revision dates and try to guess which pages had been significantly revised.
• The entire site has been given a new look. As part of that, presentational HTML has been replaced with stylesheets. Some pages have been moved around, but the old URLs still work (of course).
• The C++ Programming Practices pages have been withdrawn.
• Every internal and external link on the entire site was tested on 21 Sep 2002, and all errors were corrected. I feel so clean!

August 2002

• A site search was added.
• Relationship Terms now defines types of first cousins and discusses the term “great-cousins”.
• Several FAQs have been added to How to Find FAQ Lists [later withdrawn], and all URLs now show in the printed document.
• How to Solve Polynomial Equations has been pretty much rewritten.
• How to Solve Trigonometric Equations was reorganized to provide a more step-by-step approach.
• It’s the Law — the Laws of Exponents has a new section about negative exponents on the bottom, and the section on the zero exponent was rewritten.
• Math Sites and Software [later withdrawn] lists an additional newsgroup; dead links have been removed and changed links updated.
• Stan Brown’s Personal Page was reorganized; some material was added and old material was revised substantially.

(intervening changes lost)

May 2000

On 3 May 2000, initial registration of the OakRoadSystems.com domain.