Links, Links, Links!
Links to usefull sites and FAQ's
Thanks to Vanilla for starting and maintaining the thread. Anything you do in these links or advice you follow is entirely at your own risk Linked Alphabetically for ease of use. Some things are contained in different section, i.e: Flash is in the web design section. IRC Help channels (PANET) #linux #php #perl #mysql #scripting -------------------------------- Administration http://www.bigfix.com - Maintainance tool -------------------------------- Apple Mac http://www.apple.com - Official Apple site http://www.versiontracker.com - THE download source for mac http://www.macfixit.com - quite good help site for nearly all possible problems you could get with a mac and their solutions http://www.securemac.com - A mac isn´t target number one for hackers or a virus, but still... http://www.macnews.de - Very good site for the german speaking people http://www.snak.com - MacOS X/Classic http://www.shadowirc.com - MacOS Classic http://www.ircle.com - IRC Client http://www.macgold.co.uk - Games and software store -------------------------------- ASP http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ http://www.15seconds.com/ http://www.kamath.com/ http://www.asp101.com/ http://www.asp-help.com/ http://www.aspkicker.com/ http://www.aspin.com/ http://www.haneng.com Nice ASP tutorials at haeng's home. http://www.monkeh.net - asp tutorials. -------------------------------- Bandwidth Tests See Networks and Internet Connections -------------------------------- Benchmarking http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ - Great utility, benchmarks and tests everything on your PC. http://gamershq.madonion.com/ - Madonion, the makers of the 3Dmark benchmark http://www.passmark.com/ - More general PC benchmarking --------------------------------- Bios Infomation A good generall guide to setting up your Bios and what the heck the various options mean can be found here Another one can be found here Adrian Wongs "The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide" can now be found Here. -------------------------------- Bryce http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Good tutorials here -------------------------------- Building (PC) PC Arena General PC infomation, including building a PC, and some reveiws, worth a look. www.hardwarehell.com - good site with information on (some old) hardware -------------------------------- C++ http://www.cprogramming.com A site with extensive information on C/++. http://www.cplusplus.com Another great resource for C, as a language. http://www.codeproject.com/ http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in C++ -------------------------------- Cases http://www.virtual-hideout.net/ - cases http://www.bit-tech.net/ -cases Andonising Blowhole Guide Fan specs and database -------------------------------- CGI http://cgi.resourceindex.com/ http://www.cgi101.com http://www.w3.org/CGI/ -------------------------------- Chat Programs http://www.mirc.com - The most popular IRC chat program http://www.icq.com - as it says, ICQ http://www.trillian.cc - Program that lets you use MSN and ICQ through one program. http://www.licq.org/ - graphical ICQ clone for Unix http://gtkmsn.sourceforge.net/ - gtk based MSN compatible client -------------------------------- CPU Dalantech's CPU guide/PC FAQ. http://www.2cpu.com/ - Everything to do with running a dual CPU system. Cpu Speed and temperature database - Courtsey of anandtech -------------------------------- Drivers Windrivers, links to almost all hardware manufacturer's sites, sorted by hardware type. Driverguide, very usefull for finding older drivers, or drivers that are otherwise hard to locate. People can upload drivers that they have found which makes it very usefull for finding drivers from companies that have gone bust. Driverzone - Another driver resource -------------------------------- Downloading (sites to download a variety of things) http://www.tucows.com - A site that has almost everything http://www.download.com - same as above http://www.edonkey2000.com - edonkey http://www.kazaa.com - The Kazaa Download Program http://www.kazaalite.nl - Kazza, but without the spyware \o/ http://www.musiccity.com - The Morpheus Download Program http://www.neo-modus.com/ - Direct Connect http://www.3ddownloads.com - Game related downloads http://www.fileplanet.com - Game related downloads -------------------------------- FAQ's and General Information http://www.anandtech.com/guides/faqs.html - A good source of answers -------------------------------- Firewalls http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm - Firewall Leak Tester http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1bi2l2=4n543pmi - another firewall tester for windows users -------------------------------- Flash See Web Design -------------------------------- Forums VBforums - Extremely informative, could learn more from here than from any other tutorial. Almost all questions answered. Hardforums - Very large American computer website. OverclockersUK - Probably the UK's best computing forums. BSDforums - great new site to get help on *BSD. -------------------------------- Games/Gaming http://www.gamedev.net/ - tutorials, news, and forums to help you hack out the next Quake. http://www.gamasutra.com/ - an excellent all around site on game programming. http://nehe.gamedev.net - OpenGL programming -------------------------------- Graphics -3D Tutorials http://www.highend3d.com High End 3D: Different tutorials for many 3D/2D programs. Mostly 3D though. ALso has a somewhat active forum. http://www.mayaring.com Benelux Maya Users Ring: Great tutorials on modelling the human body. Somtimes pretty slow. http://www.edharriss.com Ed Harriss: Plenty of Softimage 3D + XSI tutorials. He also has his own videos for sale. http://www.joncrow.com Joncrow Entertainment: XSI & Soft3D tutorials. Be sure to have your sound down, as some music plays. http://archives.itg.uiuc.edu/softimage/ Softimage Mailing-List Archive: Huge database of Softimage related questions and answers. Has a search engine too. http://roger.rosa.free.fr/start.html RCR HomePage: A couple of cool XSI tutorials. He makes a dog out of poly's. http://www.xsifiles.comXSI Files: Just a page with some XSI links on it. http://www.zoorender.com Zoorender: Some XSI and Maya tutorials. Also has a bunch of textures on the site. http://www.3dluvr.com/content 3DLuvr: Some Rhino and 3DSMax Tutorials. http://www.3d-animated.com -------------------------------- Graphical - General (sites with a bit of everything) http://www.pixeljunction.com/about.php - something for everyone! http://metaeffect.com/ - another site generally dedicated to all sorts of Graphical Design http://www.jermexpress.com/ - Some great web design stuff http://www.eyeball-design.com/page01.htm - Web Design, graphics Design, scripting, etc http://www.tutorialforums.com/ - Great forum for most popular graphical stuff! http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Photoshop, Bryce, dreamwaver, Cad, you name it! http://www.gurusnetwork.com/ - Again, another site with tons of info and tutorials for lots of programs http://www.somethingleet.com/forum/ - Forum with tons of...'everything' http://www.carbonfour.com/indexmain.html -------------------------------- Graphical – Textures http://www.planetquake.com/shattere...s/ref/index.htm Reference Image Archive: Different reference textures for different things. Also has the Loomis Book. All the zips are hosted on fileplanet, so speeds should be good. You can also just look at the different images within the zip, instead of downloading them all. http://www.google.com/images Google Image Search: Should be in the arsenal of any texture looking for person. http://www.freefoto.com FreeFoto: More just random images of different things. Not very good for textures though. http://www.visipix.com Visipix: Huge database of images. All in their original sizes too. I.E. One image is 2827x1854 http://www.suurland.com Thomas Suurland: Tons of blueprint images. Great for finding stuff to model from. He mostly has Vehicles, Aircrafts and Ships. http://art.net/%7Ejeremy/photo/publ...ture/index.htmlJeremy A. Engleman: Very high quality textures. Of course, you have to make them yourself, but the material is there. http://www.o3games.com/morek/index.asp Morek: Quite a few very high quality textures. -------------------------------- Hard drives & Raid Hard drives -------------------------------- Hard drive utilities, and support pages Fujitsu IBM RMA link on top right of page linked to. Maxtor Quantum Seagate Infomation on how to FDISK a new hard drive to get it ready for formatting and use -------------------------------- Heatsinks -------------------------------- HTML See Web Design -------------------------------- ICQ http://www.icq.com - One of the most popular chat programs http://kickme.to/adbusters - guide to removing the annoying advert banners in ICQ. -------------------------------- IRC Clients http://www.klient.com -an alternative IRC client to MIRC http://www.irssi.org/ - Text mode UNIX IRC client http://www.xchat.org/ - UNIX GUI http://www.bitchx.org/ - Text mode UNIX http://www.epicsol.org/ - Text mode UNIX http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ - Text mode UNIX http://www.ircle.com/ - MacOS http://www.pirchat.com/ - Win95/98/NT http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ - CGI based IRC client IRC Daemons: http://www.unrealircd.com http://www.funet.fi/~irc/server/ http://www.shadow-realm.org/content...enu=8&page_id=2 IRC Bouncers: http://www.netknowledgebase.com/tutorials/psybnc.html http://mind.riot.org/muh/ http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/ http://pimpbnc.konge.net/ http://bre.klaki.net/programs/tircproxy/ http://www.gotbnc.com/ Other http://irchelp.org - irc help http://www.realityx.net/irc/ - the premier script for KVIrc http://www.rotfl.com/irc-addict/ - IRC humour ------------------------------- Java (not Javascript) http://www.java.sun.com Full Tutorials and application statistics from Java Home. www.javaboutique.com -Contains many free applets and Java sourcecode Java Introduction - One of the best Java introductions around http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Java -------------------------------- Linux/Unix Distros & related http://ocuklinux.tk/ - Outlaw Linux by the OcUK Outlaws (in development) http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.jblinux.net http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debianplanet.org/ http://www.slackware.com http://www.linuxmafia.org/ (slackware worship) http://www.suse.com/ http://www.turbolinux.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.linux.corel.com/ http://www.smoothwall.org/ http://www.ipcop.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/ http://www.openbsd.org/ General Downloads & Software Resources http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ - buy any distro on CDR http://www.linuxapps.com - download site courtesy of Mr LizardKing http://www.cheeplinux.co.uk - alternative to above, link from Sid Vicious http://freshmeat.net/ - the place http://rpmfind.net - a huge database of RPMs http://www.linuxiso.org/ - ISOs of most distros ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images - very fast FTP with ISOs http://linux.davecentral.com/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ http://www.kernel.org/ - new versions & patches ftp.linuxberg.com, port 21, login anonymous http://www.xwinx.org/ - alternative to VNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ - another VNC alternative (good over modems) Community Pages & News http://www.linuxmax.net/ http://www.wg-post.com/index.php?id=today (linux news) http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html - newbie guide! http://thelinuxsite.sourceforge.net http://www.fsf.org/ - Fee Software Foundation, the holy grail http://www.fsfeurope.org/ -the Europe branch of the FSF who also run the main servers for the free FSF shell accounts http://www.linux.org.uk/ - kernel dev, release notes http://www.hardcorelinux.com - from mr r4z0r http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ - UK magazine http://www.linuxtoday.com/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/ - useful forum Temperature Monitoring http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ - temp monitor http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sh...?threadid=30082 - an excellent guide by hummaia9 on getting temp monitors working Games http://server.counter-strike.net/ - Counterstrike Server Setup http://www.adminmod.org/ - Half Life admin mod http://www.psychostats.com/#psinfo - Half Life stats generator http://www.tuxgames.com - contains info and petitions for developers http://www.tuxracer.com/ - Another game! http://www.evil3d.net - linux benchamrking and 3d games http://www.transgaming.com - WINEX Direct X WINE for gaming Guides & Documentation http://www.linux.org/ - contains Linux Doc. Project http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ - excellent for new users http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/inte...mba/samba1.html - SAMBA setup tutorial (sharing file systems between windows/linux) http://www.linuxdocs.org/ - documatation base http://www-105.ibm.com/developerwor...,p=KDE-Tutorial - building KDE themes http://www.redhat.com/support/resou...ade/kernel.html - what RedHat say about kernels http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/ - a monolithic FAQ Gnome http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ - get GNOME2 betas http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ - Filemanager for Gnome http://www.gnomedesktop.com/ - GNOME desktop 'fan' site Penguin Galleries (wear with pride!!) http://lwn.net/Gallery/ http://www.crosswinds.net/~johngalt/tux.htm - Unfortunatly down due to Data loss on Sept 11th. Please Donate your Tux's http://tunes.org/~do/penguindex.html KDE http://www.kde.org/ - popular GUI Specific Software http://www.gimp.org - fantastic graphics software http://www.opera.com - excellent browser http://www.everybuddy.com/ - ICQ, MSN messaging (thx to Kudos) http://www.kvirc.net/ - a highly configurable, graphical IRC client for Unix. http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ - for headless stuff http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - VNC, remote control ! http://cr.yp.to/djb.html -DJ Bernstein's site, freely available high quality security software for *nix, VERY useful legal information. http://mahogany.sourceforge.net - email client http://www.kernel.org - one guess http://www.insecure.org/ - security info http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/ - make your own distro on floppy disk http://www.winehq.com - H'emmilate Winblows http://www.glexcess.com - OpenGL Benchmarking http://opensource.creative.com/ - SBlive and Audigy drivers http://sourceforge.net/docman/displ...&group_id=44773 - help with installing Audigy drivers http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/projects/rcenter.php - GPL driver for LiveDrive and SBLive IR Remote http://freshmeat.net/projects/mtxor...146%2C253%2C861 - LCD controll interface http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ - more LCD control code Linux/Unix Hosting http://www.dedicated-servers.co.uk/ http://www.i-dot.net/ http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ - Themes etc for GNOME Other Misc links http://www.rootprompt.org/ - excellent news and tutorials for your favorite Unix. http://www.daemonnews.org/ - news and how-tos for *BSD. http://www.freshports.org/ - get the latest on the 7000+ ports available for FreeBSD -------------------------------- Memory http://www.crucial.com/ - quality RAM with a good FAQ to answer alot of questions. -------------------------------- Motherboards Unnofficial KT7/KT7A FAQ Unofficial KG7 & KR7 Faq The unofficial Iwill KK266/KK266-R FAQ Motherboards.org can help in identifying motherboards, old and new, common and rare. Click here. http://www.atrend.com.tw/ -A-Trend http://www.abit.com.tw/ -Abit http://www.amptron.com/ -Amptron http://www.aopen.com/ -AOpen http://www.asus.com/ -Asus http://www.azza.com.tw/ -Azza http://www.bcmcom.com/ -BCM http://www.biostar-usa.com/ -Biostar http://www.chaintech.com.tw/ -Chaintech http://www.dfi.com/ -DFI http://www.ecsusa.com/ -ECS http://www.epox.com/ -Epox http://www.fica.com/ -FIC http://www.gainward.com/ -Gainward http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ -Gigabyte http://www.intel.com/ -Intel http://www.iwillusa.com/ IWill http://www.jetway.com.tw/ -Jetway http://www.matsonic.com/ -Matsonic http://www.msi.com.tw/ -MSI http://www.pcchips.com/ -PCChips http://www.procomp.com.tw/ -ProComp http://www.shuttleonline.com/ -Shuttle http://www.soyo.com.tw/ -Soyo http://www.supermicro.com/ -Supermicro http://www.transcendusa.com/ -Transcend http://www.tyan.com/ -Tyan -------------------------------- Networks and Internet Connections http://www1.worldcom.com/global/abou...ps/?SetLang=en -World Network Maps http://www.homenethelp.com - home networking guides and tutorials http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/isp_maps.html - Atlas of ISP and internet backbone connections Guides from the basic to the advanced. Another Good networking site Traffic Reports www.internettrafficreport.com General Network information www.practicallynetworked.com General isp news/reviews: www.ispreview.co.uk http://www.adslguide.org www.cable-modems.co.uk http://www.net4nowt.com/ http://www.world-of-adsl.com http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t293,00.html http://www.world-of-adsl.com/ - An excellent site for up to date UK ADSL information including latest ADSL enabled exchanges. Bandwidth tests http://www.vantage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ (for NTL and blueyonder) http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/speed.asp http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/ http://www.dslreports.com/stest Every thing and more for getting the most out of your internet connection. http://www.speedguide.net/index.shtml http://www.optimizing.net ICS http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/ics/ http://www.windrivers.com/network/index.htm IP and connectivity tracing http://visualroute1.datametrics.co.uk/ Get rid of Spyware http://www.lavasoft.de/ Bypass your annoying work firewall http://www.htthost.com/ -------------------------------- News Sites and review sites http://www.theregister.co.uk - Probably the best pc related news site http://www.bluesnews.com - game related news http://www.shugashack.com - game related news www.slashdot.org - A very good news site http://www.overclockers.com - Review and news site http://www.tomshardware.com/ - another excellent hardware site. http://www.anandtech.com/ - a well-respected hardware review/pricing site. -------------------------------- Newsgroups http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/usenet.htm - usenet information. ------------------------------- Overclocking http://www.tweaktown.com/document.p...e=guide&dId=376 - AMD overclocking guide http://www.overclockers.com - THE overclocking place! -------------------------------- Perl http://www.perl.com http://www.perl.org http://www.perlarchive.com www.cpan.org http://perldoc.com/ Online Perl documentation. http://www.activestate.com Perl, duh. A few tutorials on other such languages as well, at Active State. http://www.perlmonks.org/ - one of best sites to get quick, good advice on hacking Perl. -------------------------------- Photoshop http://user.fundy.net/morris/redire...photoshop.shtml GFX^TM: Different PS tutorials including text on a curve, rounded corners and transparent gifs. http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials Computer Arts Tutorials: Has a bunch of PS and Flash and some 3D tutorials. http://www.photoshoproadmap.com PhotoShop RoadMap: Different PS tutorials http://www.planetphotoshop.com PlanetPhotoShop(not gamespy related): Lots of PS tutorials. http://www.photoshopcafe.com PhotoShopCafe: Again, more PS tutorials. http://www.psworkshop.net Photoshop Workshop: Cool, different tutorials. Cuts, in flesh, realistic water... Also has a forum. http://www.psworkshop.net Team PhotoShop: Fairly in-depth tutorials. Reflections, rings on planets, grass... Also has a forum. http://www.eyesondesign.net - Photoshop tutorials http://www.stridingstudio.com Striding Studio: Simple, fast tutorials. Wireframes, glow, realistic clounds... http://www.wwwebmasters.net Graphics World: Flash(192), Illustrator(34) and PhotoShop(503) tutorials. http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/photoshop.html Russell Brown's Tutorials: A bunch of different quicktime video tutorials for you people that don't like to read. http://www.teamphotoshop.com/ - Tutorials, forums, etc http://www.monkeh.net - photoshop tutorials. -------------------------------- PHP http://www.php.net/ - a full manual and examples http://hotscripts.com/PHP/ - many scripts ready to run http://www.phpbeginner.com/ http://www.php4scripts.f2s.com/ http://www.*******.com - a complete submission engine using php/mysql http://www.phpbuilder.com A Great site covering tutorials and explanations of PHP. -------------------------------- Python www.python.org http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Python. -------------------------------- Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ - home of the Ruby programming language. http://www.rubycentral.com/ - great site for All Things Ruby. Don't miss the free online book Programming Ruby. -------------------------------- RAM Is more worth it? An interesting article can be found here -------------------------------- Search Engines http://www.altavista.com www.google.com - The favourite for many people www.lycos.com http://www.searchengineworld.com http://northernwebs.com/set/ http://www.mamma.com http://www.yahoo.com -------------------------------- Security http://www.securityfocus.org/ - one of the finest sites on current security threats. Free online virus Scan - as it says -------------------------------- Shockwave See Web Design -------------------------------- Soundcards SoundBlaster Live unnofficial resource site ALive! -------------------------------- Spyware http://www.lavavsoftusa.com - supplier of AdAware, the spyware removal prog. -------------------------------- Unix See Linux -------------------------------- Video Cards GeforceFAQ Kyro Bios’s and Guide Kyro FAQ Kryo and PowerVR FAQ. http://www.linuxvoodoo.com - Linux drivers www.3dcafe.com www.flay.com www.brycetech.com www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials.htm http://www.3dfx.com/ -3DFX http://www.abit-usa.com/ -Abit http://www.asus.com.tw/ -Asus http://www.ati.com/ -Ati http://www.creative.com/ -Creative Labs http://www.diamondmm.com/ -Diamond http://www.elsa.com/ -elsa http://www.firegl.com/ -FireGL http://www.gainward.com/ -Gainward http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ -Gigabyte http://www.guillemot.com/ -Guillemot http://www.hercules.com/ -Hercules http://www.ivmm.com/ -Innovision http://www.leadtek.com/ -Leadtek http://www.matrox.com/ -Matrox http://www.msi.com.tw/ -MSI http://www.real3d.com/ -real3d http://www.s3.com/ -S3 http://www.tridentmicro.com/ -trident http://www.visiontek.com -visiontek -------------------------------- Visual Basic http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ Visual Basic. Good resource for .NET technology -------------------------------- Wallpaper www.deviantart.com www.hebus.com http://www.customize.org http://www.deskmod.com http://www.desktopwallpapers.net/ http://www.heavy-rotation.net http://www.looroll.com http://www.webshots.com a massive collection of wallpapers that change frequently -------------------------------- Web Design Shockwave/Flash http://www.flashaddict.com/ http://www.flashkit.com/ http://www.macromedia.com/ http://www.were-here.com http://flash5actionscript.com/ http://www.theflashbible.com/ http://www.ultrashock.com http://www.flashplanet.com Graphical Manipulation http://www.myjanee.com/ http://www.gfxmania.com/ http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html - tutorial on Photoshop http:...hoto_tutor.html - another tutorial http://www.jasc.com - Paint Shop Pro Databases http://www.mysql.org - popular database http://www7.us.postgresql.org/ - better but less popular database http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/dat...ml?content.html - the ultimate! DHTML http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo DHTML Resources, quite extensive. http://www.dhtmlcentral.com - DHTML site around by Thomas Brattli HTML, CSS www.htmlhelp.com www.devshed.com www.evrsoft.com - superb freeware web editing suite - 1stpage 2000 http://www.devguru.com/Technologies.../css_index.html - CSS help http://www.davesite.com - Very good html tutorial http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html - colour chart http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/ Great HTML/ASP tidying program http://www.w3.org - WWW Consortium home page, World Wide Web Consortium Related (XML/XSL etc) http://www.w3schools.com/ - WWWc Teaching Page http://www.tupps.com/flash/faq/xml.html http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_fo...nnerguide.shtml http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdbms.shtml Misc www.sourceforge.net www.webmonkey.com http://www.freshmeat.net http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/ - webmail program http://www.microsoft.com/enable/guides/vision.htm - visually impaired resource guide http://www.stattrack.com/ - free web tracking http://www.bravenet.com/ - Free webmaster tools www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk webhosting and design -------------------------------- Web Hosting http://www.34sp.com/ www.lohost.com www.fasthosts.com www.pair.com www.easily.com www.hostrocket.com http://www.alivewww.com http://www.brinkster.com/ - asp webhosting http://www.spaceports.com/ - cgi webhosting http://www.geocities.com/ - Yahoo's webhost http://www.topcities.com/ - php webhosting http://www.freeservers.com/ - Some other webhost www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk webhosting and design -------------------------------- Windows http://www.microsoft.com - no explanation needed...I hope http://www.annoyances.org/ - Tips, tricks and tweaks http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/ - Tips and tweaks specifically for Win XP http://www.regedit.com - good site http://www.bootdisk.com - self explanatory name methinks http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/f...ntfswin98.shtml - read NTFS from win9x. The link also lead to other useful utilities, such as saving BSOD's. http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm - LOADS of hints and tips for windows NT/2000 http://www.pcpitstop.com/xpready/ -Before you buy XP, try this readiness test to see if your hardware is up to scratch and if you have any software that may not work with XP: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...cs/win2ksvc.asp - Ever wanted to know about all the Windows 2000 Services and what they do? http://www.xteq.com/index.html -Tweak the appearence and functionality of Windows. http://www.annoyances.org/ - Get rid of those windows annoyances http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml - adds a startup control panel http://www.iarsn.com/index.html#/download.html -Better task manager utility to see really how much your computer puts in to running each background task. HTTP://www.ntfaq.com for all your nt/2k/xp questions a very good site covers a lot of issues http://www.winguides.com - for windows registry, scripting, security and driver info / tweaks http://extsearch.com/ - work out that silly file extension with this ---------------------------------- CPU speeds. Slot and Socket types Socket Socket 0, 168 pins - [486DX] Socket 1, 169 pins - [486SX, 487SX, 486DX] Socket 2, 238 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2] Socket 3, 237 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2, 486DX4, AMD 5x86] Socket 4, 273 pins - [Pentium (60/66MHz), Pentium OverDrive] Socket 5, 320 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, AMD K5] Socket 6, 235 pins - [486DX4] Socket 7/Super Socket 7, 321 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, Pentium MMX, AMD K5, AMD K6, AMD K6-2, AMD K6-III, Cyrix 6x86, IDT Winchip, IDT Winchip-2] Socket 8, 387 pins - [Pentium Pro, Pentium II OverDrive] Socket 370 PPGA, 370 pins, Celeron (PPGA), Cyrix "Mojave", Cyrix "Samuel", Cyrix "Ezra"] Socket 370 FC-PGA, 370 pins, Celeron (FC-PGA), Pentium III (FC-PGA), Cyrix III] Socket 370 FC-PGA2, 370 pins, [Celeron "Tualatin", Celeron "Copermine"] Socket A, 462 pins - [AMD Duron, AMD Athlon "Thunderbird", AMD Athlon XP "Palamino", AMD Athlon XP "Thoroughbred", AMD Athlon XP "Barton"] Socket 423, 423 pins - [Pentium 4] Socket 478, 478 pins - [Pentium 4] Socket 479, 479 pins - [Pentium 5] Socket 603, 603 pins - [Xeon MP, Xeon DP] Socket 754, 754 pins - [AMD Opteron "ClawHammer"] Socket 940, 940 pins - [AMD "SledgeHammer"] - guess? SLOT Slot 1, 242 pins - [Pentium II (SECC & SECC2), Celeron (SEPP), Pentium III] Slot 2, 330 pins - [Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon] Slot A, 242 pins - [AMD Athlon, AMD "Thunderbird", AMD "Mustang"] Athlon XP/MP true speeds AMD Athlon XP 1600 (1400 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700 (1470 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800 (1530 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1600 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000 (1667 MHz) AMD Athlon MP 1500 (1333 MHz) AMD Athlon MP 1800 (1530 MHz) |
http://www.deviantart.com GFX's!!!
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http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...=guide&dId=376
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Every RFC one can dream of, I use them often for my network projects
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Request For Comments (I think) - an RFC is normally a description of a protocol (such as the IRC RFC which I can't remember the number of right now) which may or may not become an official standard.
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HTML listings on alphabetical order, including browser support and oddities. |
http://sx64.opsys.net/ <-- Freak who put a 1.2ghz P3 in his Commodore
www.tweakers.net <-- well respected tweakers website. Dutch, but very big www.codeguru.com <-- visual C++ dev site www.developer.com |
loads of great sun documentation
http://docs.sun.com Security http://www.sans.org http://www.cert.org http://www.antionline.com/index.php erm... http://www.netcraft.co.uk/ http://swexpert.com/ - was a great mag, loads of awesome articles to download. |
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http://www.scorpioncity.com/djdirectxtut.html - DirectX tutorial, haven't read it yet...
http://members.xoom.com/vba51/ - Directx for Visual Basic http://www.libsdl.org/index.php - SML, 3D programming interface that bridges over Linux, Windows, MAC and many more OS'es |
http://www.sprintbiz.com/icc/app/sim/ <-- free online messenger... can connect to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and other networks... for those who can't have these messengers on their work-place
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ - MSN for linux
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The reason I am reposting the entire list again is that as these forum may disappear any day, I have cleaned up the list (removed the dead links etc etc), and also added some of my own stuff.
Anything you do in these links or advice you follow is entirely at your own risk Linked Alphabetically for ease of use. Some things are contained in different section, i.e: Flash is in the web design section. -------------------------------- .NET Framework & General http://www.15seconds.com/ http://www.gotdotnet.com/ http://www.kwise.com/kskin/ - Custom skin form implementation. http://www.codeproject.com/ - .NET Programming & Active forum - also covers many other languages. http://www.developer.com/ -------------------------------- Administration http://www.bigfix.com/ - Maintainance tool -------------------------------- Apple Mac http://www.apple.com/ - Official Apple site. http://www.versiontracker.com/ - THE download source for mac. http://www.macfixit.com/ - Quite good help site for nearly all possible problems you could get with a mac and their solutions. http://www.securemac.com/ - A mac isn´t target number one for hackers or a virus, but still... http://www.macnews.de/ - Very good site for the german speaking people. http://www.snak.com/ - MacOS X/Classic. http://www.shadowirc.com/ - MacOS Classic. http://www.ircle.com/ - IRC Client. http://www.macgold.co.uk/ - Games and software store. -------------------------------- ASP http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ http://www.15seconds.com/ http://www.kamath.com/ http://www.asp101.com/ http://www.asp-help.com/ http://www.aspkicker.com/ http://www.aspin.com/ http://www.haneng.com/ - Nice ASP tutorials at haeng's home. http://www.411asp.net/ -------------------------------- ASP .NET http://docs.aspfree.com/quickstart/aspplus/ http://www.15seconds.com/ http://www.411asp.net/ -------------------------------- Bandwidth Tests See Networks and Internet Connections -------------------------------- Benchmarking http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ - Great utility, benchmarks and tests everything on your PC. http://gamershq.madonion.com/ - Mad Onion, the makers of the 3Dmark benchmark. http://www.passmark.com/ - More general PC benchmarking --------------------------------- Bios Infomation http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboar...101/index.html http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/bios/print.shtml http://www.itcp.net/~awsh/ - The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide. -------------------------------- Bryce http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Good tutorials. -------------------------------- Building (PC) http://www.pc-arena.net/ http://www.hardwarehell.com/ - Good site with information on (some old) hardware. -------------------------------- C++ http://www.cprogramming.com/ - A site with extensive information on C/++. http://www.cplusplus.com/ - Another great resource for C. http://www.codeproject.com/ http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in C++. http://www.codeguru.com/ - visual C++ dev site. http://www.developer.com/ -------------------------------- Cases http://www.virtual-hideout.net/ http://www.bit-tech.net/ http://www.paintballtimes.com/anodize.htm - Andonising. http://www.caseetc.com/cgi-bin/casee...-blowhole.html - Blowhole Guide. http://gizzo.8m.com/fans/ - Fan specs and database. -------------------------------- CGI http://cgi.resourceindex.com/ http://www.cgi101.com/ http://www.w3.org/CGI/ http://www.hotscripts.com/ -------------------------------- Chat Programs http://www.mirc.com/ - The most popular IRC chat program. http://www.icq.com/ - As it says, ICQ. http://www.trillian.cc/ - Program that lets you use MSN and ICQ through one program. http://www.licq.org/ - Graphical ICQ clone for Unix. http://gtkmsn.sourceforge.net/ - GTK based MSN compatible client. http://www.sprintbiz.com/icc/app/sim/ - free online messenger... can connect to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and other networks... for those who can't have these messengers on their work-place. http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ - MSN for linux -------------------------------- CPU http://www.dalantech.com/rtfm-cpu.shtml - CPU guide/PC FAQ. http://www.2cpu.com/ - Everything to do with running a dual CPU system. http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1635&p=4 - Cpu Speed and temperature database. -------------------------------- C# - C Sharp http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/ http://www.icsharpcode.net/ http://www.dotnet247.com/ - Newsgroup and namespace searches. http://www.csharp-station.com/ http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/cIndex.html - Beginners tutorial. http://www.csharphelp.com/ http://www.cshrp.net/ http://www.mantrotech.com/technology...r_csharp_1.asp - Use XML to document C# http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive261.html - P2P Applications in C# -------------------------------- Delphi http://www.drbob42.com/ http://www.swissdelphicenter.com/ http://home.pacifier.com/~mmead/jni/delphi/ - JNI with Delphi -------------------------------- Drivers http://www.windrivers.com/ - links to almost all hardware manufacturer's sites, sorted by hardware type. http://www.driverguide.com/ - Very usefull for finding older drivers, or drivers that are otherwise hard to locate. People can upload drivers that they have found which makes it very usefull for finding drivers from companies that have gone bust. http://www.driverzone.com/ - Another driver resource . -------------------------------- Downloading (sites to download a variety of things) http://www.tucows.com/ - A site that has almost everything. http://www.download.com/ - same as above. http://www.edonkey2000.com/ - eDonkey. http://www.kazaa.com/ - The Kazaa Download Program. http://www.kazaalite.nl/ - Kazza, but without the spyware \o/. http://www.musiccity.com/ - The Morpheus Download Program. http://www.neo-modus.com/ - Direct Connect. http://www.3ddownloads.com/ - Game related downloads. http://www.fileplanet.com/ - Game related downloads. http://www.avault.com/ - Game related downloads. -------------------------------- FAQ's and General Information http://www.anandtech.com/guides/faqs.html - A good source of answers (hardware related). -------------------------------- Firewalls http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm - Firewall Leak Tester (if you like MR Gibson). http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1bi2l2=4n543pmi - Another firewall tester for windows users. http://www.smoothwall.org/ - Linux firewall. -------------------------------- Flash See Web Design -------------------------------- Forums http://www.vbforums.com/ - Extremely informative, could learn more from here than from any other tutorial. Almost all questions answered. http://www.hardforums.com/ - Very large American computer website. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ - Probably the UK's best computing forums. http://www.bsdforums.org/ - great new site to get help on *BSD. http://www.sitepointforums.com/ - Excellent web design forum, very active community. -------------------------------- Games/Gaming Programming http://www.gamedev.net/ - Tutorials, news, and forums to help you hack out the next Quake. http://www.gamasutra.com/ - An excellent all around site on game programming. http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - OpenGL programming -------------------------------- Graphics - 3D Tutorials http://www.highend3d.com/ - Different tutorials for many 3D/2D programs. Mostly 3D though. ALso has a somewhat active forum. http://www.mayaring.com/ - Benelux Maya Users Ring: Great tutorials on modelling the human body. Somtimes pretty slow. http://www.edharriss.com/ - Plenty of Softimage 3D + XSI tutorials. He also has his own videos for sale. http://www.joncrow.com/ - XSI & Soft3D tutorials. Be sure to have your sound down, as some music plays. http://archives.itg.uiuc.edu/softimage/ - Softimage Mailing-List Archive: Huge database of Softimage related questions and answers. Has a search engine too. http://roger.rosa.free.fr/start.html -RCR HomePage: A couple of cool XSI tutorials. He makes a dog out of poly's. http://www.xsifiles.com/ http://www.zoorender.com/ -Some XSI and Maya tutorials. Also has a bunch of textures on the site. http://www.3dluvr.com/content/ - Some Rhino and 3DSMax Tutorials. http://www.3d-animated.com/ -------------------------------- Graphics - Programming http://www.libsdl.org/index.php - SML, 3D programming interface that bridges over Linux, Windows, MAC and many more OS'es -------------------------------- Graphical - General (sites with a bit of everything) http://www.pixeljunction.com/about.php - Something for everyone! http://metaeffect.com/ - Another site generally dedicated to all sorts of Graphical Design. http://www.jermexpress.com/ - Some great web design stuff. http://www.eyeball-design.com/page01.htm - Web Design, graphics Design, scripting, etc. http://www.tutorialforums.com/ - Great forum for most popular graphical stuff! http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Photoshop, Bryce, dreamwaver, Cad, you name it! http://www.gurusnetwork.com/ - Again, another site with tons of info and tutorials for lots of programs. http://www.somethingleet.com/forum/ - Forum with tons of...'everything'. http://www.carbonfour.com/indexmain.html -------------------------------- Graphical – Textures http://www.google.com/images/ - Google Image Search: Should be in the arsenal of any texture looking for person. http://www.freefoto.com/ - More just random images of different things. Not very good for textures though. http://www.visipix.com/ - Huge database of images. All in their original sizes too. I.E. One image is 2827x1854 http://www.suurland.com/ - Tons of blueprint images. Great for finding stuff to model from. He mostly has Vehicles, Aircrafts and Ships. http://www.o3games.com/morek/index.asp - Quite a few very high quality textures. -------------------------------- Hard drives & Raid http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/ http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_index.html/ -------------------------------- Hard drive utilities, and support pages http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1 - Fujitsu http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/index.htm - IBM (RMA link on top right of page). http://www.maxtor.com/maxtorhome.htm...ad/default.htm - Maxtor http://www.maxtor.com/Quantum/suppor...e/softmenu.htm - Quantum http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/index.html - Seagate http://members.aol.com/don5408/drivespace/fdisk.html - Infomation on how to FDISK a new hard drive to get it ready for formatting and use. -------------------------------- Heatsinks -------------------------------- HTML See Web Design -------------------------------- ICQ http://www.icq.com/ - One of the most popular chat programs. http://kickme.to/adbusters/ - Guide to removing the annoying advert banners in ICQ. -------------------------------- IRC Clients http://www.klient.com/ - An alternative IRC client to MIRC. http://www.irssi.org/ - Text mode UNIX IRC client. http://www.xchat.org/ - UNIX GUI. http://www.bitchx.org/ - Text mode UNIX. http://www.epicsol.org/ - Text mode UNIX. http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ - Text mode UNIX. http://www.ircle.com/ - MacOS. http://www.pirchat.com/ - Win95/98/NT. http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ - CGI based IRC client. IRC Daemons http://www.unrealircd.com/ http://www.funet.fi/~irc/server/ IRC Bouncers http://www.netknowledgebase.com/tutorials/psybnc.html http://mind.riot.org/muh/ http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/ http://pimpbnc.konge.net/ http://bre.klaki.net/programs/tircproxy/ http://www.gotbnc.com/ Other http://irchelp.org/ - IRC help. http://www.realityx.net/irc/ - The premier script for KVIrc. http://www.rotfl.com/irc-addict/ - IRC humour. ------------------------------- Java (not Javascript) http://www.java.sun.com/ - Full Tutorials and application statistics from Java Home. http://www.javaboutique.com/ - Contains many free applets and Java sourcecode. http://chortle.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/cs151/cs151java.html - One of the best Java introductions around. http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Java. http://docs.sun.com/ -------------------------------- Linux/Unix Distros & related http://ocuklinux.tk/ - Outlaw Linux by the OcUK Outlaws (in development). http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ http://www.jblinux.net/ http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.debian.org/ http://www.debianplanet.org/ http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.linuxmafia.org/ (slackware worship) http://www.suse.com/ http://www.turbolinux.com/ http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.linux.corel.com/ http://www.smoothwall.org/ - Firewall http://www.ipcop.org/ http://www.freebsd.org/ http://www.netbsd.org/ http://www.openbsd.org/ General Downloads & Software Resources http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ - buy any distro on CDR http://www.linuxapps.com/ - Download site. http://www.cheeplinux.co.uk/ - Alternative to above. http://freshmeat.net/ - THE place. http://rpmfind.net/ - A huge database of RPMs. http://www.linuxiso.org/ - ISOs of most distros. ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/ - Very fast FTP with ISOs. http://linux.davecentral.com/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/ http://www.kernel.org/ - New versions & patches. ftp.linuxberg.com - Port 21, login anonymous. http://www.xwinx.org/ - Alternative to VNC. http://www.tightvnc.com/ - Another VNC alternative (good over modems). Community Pages & News http://www.linuxmax.net/ http://www.wg-post.com/index.php?id=today - Linux news. http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html - Newbie guide! http://thelinuxsite.sourceforge.net/ http://www.fsf.org/ - Fee Software Foundation, the holy grail. http://www.fsfeurope.org/ - The Europe branch of the FSF who also run the main servers for the free FSF shell accounts. http://www.linux.org.uk/ - Kernel dev, release notes. http://www.hardcorelinux.com/ http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ - UK magazine. http://www.linuxtoday.com/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/ http://www.linuxquestions.org/ - Useful forum http://www.learninglinux.com/ Temperature Monitoring http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ - Temperature monitor. Games http://server.counter-strike.net/ - Counterstrike Server Setup. http://www.adminmod.org/ - Half Life admin mod. http://www.psychostats.com/#psinfo - Half Life stats generator. http://www.tuxgames.com/ - Contains info and petitions for developers. http://www.tuxracer.com/ - Another game! http://www.evil3d.net/ - Linux benchamrking and 3d games. http://www.transgaming.com/ - WINEX Direct X WINE for gaming. Guides & Documentation http://www.linux.org/ - contains Linux Doc. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ - Excellent for new users. http://www.linuxdocs.org/ - Documatation base. http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/ - A monolithic FAQ. Gnome http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ - Get GNOME2 betas. http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ - Filemanager. http://www.gnomedesktop.com/ - GNOME desktop 'fan' site. Penguin Galleries (wear with pride!!) http://lwn.net/Gallery/ http://www.crosswinds.net/~johngalt/tux.htm - Unfortunatly down due to Data loss on Sept 11th. Please Donate your Tux's http://tunes.org/~do/penguindex.html KDE http://www.kde.org/ - popular GUI. Specific Software http://www.gimp.org/ - Fantastic graphics software. http://www.opera.com/ - Excellent browser. http://www.everybuddy.com/ - ICQ, MSN messaging. http://www.kvirc.net/ - A highly configurable, graphical IRC client for Unix. http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ - for headless stuff http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - VNC, remote control! http://cr.yp.to/djb.html - Freely available high quality security software for *nix, VERY useful legal information. http://mahogany.sourceforge.net - Email client. http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.insecure.org/ - Security info. http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/ - Make your own distro on floppy disk http://www.winehq.com/ - H'emmilate Winblows. http://www.glexcess.com/ - OpenGL Benchmarking. http://opensource.creative.com/ - SBlive and Audigy drivers. http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/projects/rcenter.php - GPL driver for LiveDrive and SBLive IR Remote. http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ - LCD control code. Linux/Unix Hosting http://www.dedicated-servers.co.uk/ http://www.i-dot.net/ http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ - Themes etc for GNOME Other Misc links http://www.rootprompt.org/ - Excellent news and tutorials for your favorite Unix. http://www.daemonnews.org/ - News and how-tos for *BSD. http://www.freshports.org/ - Get the latest on the 7000+ ports available for FreeBSD. -------------------------------- Memory http://www.crucial.com/ - Quality RAM with a good FAQ to answer alot of questions. -------------------------------- Misc Tech http://www.ietf.org/rfc - Request For Comments repositry -------------------------------- Motherboards http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm - Unofficial KT7/KT7A FAQ. http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/boot_problems.htm - Unofficial KG7 & KR7 Faq. http://www.x-faqtor.com/ - The unofficial Iwill KK266/KK266-R FAQ. http://motherboards.org/ - Can help in identifying motherboards, old and new, common and rare. http://www.atrend.com.tw/ - A-Trend http://www.abit.com.tw/ - Abit http://www.amptron.com/ - Amptron http://www.aopen.com/ - AOpen http://www.asus.com/ - Asus http://www.azza.com.tw/ - Azza http://www.bcmcom.com/ - BCM http://www.biostar-usa.com/ - Biostar http://www.chaintech.com.tw/ - Chaintech http://www.dfi.com/ - DFI http://www.ecsusa.com/ - ECS http://www.epox.com/ - Epox http://www.fica.com/ - FIC http://www.gainward.com/ - Gainward http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ - Gigabyte http://www.intel.com/ - Intel http://www.iwillusa.com/ - IWill http://www.jetway.com.tw/ - Jetway http://www.matsonic.com/ - Matsonic http://www.msi.com.tw/ - MSI http://www.pcchips.com/ - PCChips http://www.procomp.com.tw/ - ProComp http://www.shuttleonline.com/ - Shuttle http://www.soyo.com.tw/ - Soyo htto://www.soltech.com.tw - Soltech http://www.supermicro.com/ - Supermicro http://www.transcendusa.com/ -Transcend http://www.tyan.com/ - Tyan -------------------------------- Networks and Internet Connections http://www.homenethelp.com/ - Home networking guides and tutorials. http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/isp_maps.html - Atlas of ISP and internet backbone connections. http://www.ethergear.com/ - Guides from the basic to the advanced. http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ - Another Good networking site. Traffic Reports http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ General isp news/reviews http://www.ispreview.co.uk/ http://www.adslguide.org/ http://www.cable-modems.co.uk/ http://www.net4nowt.com/ http://www.world-of-adsl.com/ http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t293,00.html http://www.world-of-adsl.com/ - An excellent site for up to date UK ADSL information including latest ADSL enabled exchanges. Bandwidth tests http://www.vantage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ - For NTL and Blueyonder ISP's. http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/speed.asp http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/ http://www.dslreports.com/stest/ Every thing and more for getting the most out of your internet connection. http://www.speedguide.net/index.shtml http://www.optimizing.net/ ICS http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/ics/ http://www.windrivers.com/network/index.htm IP, Connectivity, Domain tracing http://visualroute1.datametrics.co.uk/ http://www.geektools.com/ - Whois utility Bypass your annoying work firewall http://www.htthost.com/ -------------------------------- News Sites and review sites http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - Probably the best pc related news site. http://www.bluesnews.com/ - Game related news. http://www.shugashack.com/ - Game related news. http://www.gamespot.com/ - Commercial game related news. http://www.slashdot.org/ - A very good news site (V *nix slanted). http://www.overclockers.com/ - Review and news site. http://www.tomshardware.com/ - Another excellent hardware site. http://www.anandtech.com/ - A well-respected hardware review/pricing site. -------------------------------- Newsgroups http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/usenet.htm - Usenet information. http://www.easynews.com/ - Pay newsgroup service - very reliable, and web based interface. ------------------------------- Overclocking http://www.overclockers.com/ - THE overclocking place! http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...=guide&dId=376 - AMD Overclocking guide http://sx64.opsys.net/ - Freak who put a 1.2ghz P3 in his Commodore :-O -------------------------------- Perl http://www.perl.com/ http://www.perl.org/ http://www.perlarchive.com/ http://www.cpan.org/ http://perldoc.com/ - Online Perl documentation. http://www.activestate.com/ - Perl for windows & a few tutorials on other such languages as well. http://www.perlmonks.org/ - One of best sites to get quick, good advice on hacking Perl. -------------------------------- Photoshop http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/ - Has a bunch of PS and Flash and some 3D tutorials. http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/ - Different PS tutorials. http://www.planetphotoshop.com/ - Lots of PS tutorials (not gamespy related). http://www.photoshopcafe.com/ - Again, more PS tutorials. http://www.psworkshop.net/ - Cool, different tutorials. Cuts, in flesh, realistic water... Also has a forum. http://www.psworkshop.net/ - Fairly in-depth tutorials. Reflections, rings on planets, grass... Also has a forum. http://www.eyesondesign.net/ - Photoshop tutorials. http://www.stridingstudio.com/ - Simple, fast tutorials. Wireframes, glow, realistic clounds... http://www.wwwebmasters.net/ - Various tutorials - Flash(192), Illustrator(34) and PhotoShop(503). http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/photoshop.html - Russell Brown's Tutorials: A bunch of different quicktime video tutorials for you people that don't like to read. http://www.teamphotoshop.com/ - Tutorials, forums, etc http://www.monkeh.net/ - Photoshop tutorials. -------------------------------- PHP http://www.php.net/ - A full manual and examples. http://hotscripts.com/PHP/ - Many scripts ready to run. http://www.phpbeginner.com/ http://www.php4scripts.f2s.com/ http://www.*******.com/ - A complete website template/engine using php/mysql. http://www.phpbuilder.com/ - A Great site covering tutorials and explanations of PHP. http://www.sitepointforums.com/ - Excellent and active forum covering many (if not all) aspects of web design. http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/Phpmole-IDE/ - PHP IDE. http://www.zend.com/ - Various PHP. http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/installphp.shtml - Windows PHP install tutorial (old (PHP 3) but some of it is still relevant) -------------------------------- Programming (general) http://www.maxcode.com/ http://codeproject.com/ -------------------------------- Python http://www.python.org/ http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Python. -------------------------------- Ruby http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ - Home of the Ruby programming language. http://www.rubycentral.com/ - Great site for All Things Ruby. Don't miss the free online book Programming Ruby. -------------------------------- RAM http://hardcoreware.net/reviews/othe...formance/1.htm - Is more worth it? An interesting article can be found here. -------------------------------- Search Engines http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.google.com/ - The favourite for many people. http://www.lycos.com/ http://www.searchengineworld.com/ http://northernwebs.com/set/ http://www.mamma.com/ http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.netcraft.co.uk/ -------------------------------- Security http://www.securityfocus.org/ - One of the finest sites on current security threats. http://housecall.antivirus.com/start_corp.asp - Free online virus scan. http://www.sans.org http://www.cert.org http://www.antionline.com/index.php -------------------------------- Servers http://swexpert.com/ - Server magazine (no longer published) -------------------------------- Shockwave See Web Design -------------------------------- Soundcards http://alive.singnet.com.sg/tech/ - SoundBlaster Live unnofficial resource site. -------------------------------- Spyware http://www.lavavsoftusa.com/ - Supplier of AdAware, the spyware removal prog. http://www.lavasoft.de/ - As above. -------------------------------- Unix See Linux -------------------------------- Video Cards http://www.geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi - Geforce FAQ. http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/biosguide/ - Kyro Bios’s and Guide. http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/faq/index.shtml - Kyro FAQ. http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/faq/index.shtml - Kryo and PowerVR FAQ. http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/ - Linux drivers. http://www.3dcafe.com/ http://www.flay.com/ http://www.brycetech.com/ http://www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials.htm http://www.3dfx.com/ - 3DFX http://www.abit-usa.com/ - Abit http://www.asus.com.tw/ - Asus http://www.ati.com/ - Ati http://www.creative.com/ - Creative Labs http://www.diamondmm.com/ - Diamond http://www.elsa.com/ - Elsa http://www.firegl.com/ - FireGL http://www.gainward.com/ - Gainward http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ - Gigabyte http://www.guillemot.com/ - Guillemot http://www.hercules.com/ - Hercules http://www.ivmm.com/ - Innovision http://www.leadtek.com/ - Leadtek http://www.matrox.com/ - Matrox http://www.msi.com.tw/ - MSI http://www.real3d.com/ - Real3d http://www.s3.com/ - S3 http://www.tridentmicro.com/ - Trident http://www.visiontek.com - Visiontek -------------------------------- Visual Basic http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ Visual Basic. Good resource for .NET technology. http://members.xoom.com/vba51/ - Directx for Visual Basic -------------------------------- Wallpaper http://www.deviantart.com/ http://www.hebus.com/ http://www.customize.org/ http://www.deskmod.com/ http://www.desktopwallpapers.net/ http://www.heavy-rotation.net/ http://www.looroll.com/ http://www.webshots.com/ - A massive collection of wallpapers that changes frequently. -------------------------------- Web Design Shockwave/Flash http://www.flashaddict.com/ http://www.flashkit.com/ http://www.macromedia.com/ http://www.were-here.com/ http://flash5actionscript.com/ http://www.theflashbible.com/ http://www.ultrashock.com/ http://www.flashplanet.com/ http://www.wwwebmasters.net/ - Various tutorials - Flash(192), Illustrator(34) and PhotoShop(503). Graphical Manipulation http://www.myjanee.com/ http://www.gfxmania.com/ http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html - tutorial on Photoshop. http://www.jasc.com/ - Paint Shop Pro. Databases http://www.mysql.org/ - Popular database. http://www7.us.postgresql.org/ - Better but less popular database. http://www.oracle.com/ - The daddy http://www.sap.org/ DHTML http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo/ - DHTML Resources, quite extensive. http://www.dhtmlcentral.com - DHTML site around by Thomas Brattli. HTML, CSS http://www.htmlhelp.com/ http://www.devshed.com/ http://www.evrsoft.com/ - Superb freeware web editing suite - 1stpage 2000. http://www.davesite.com - Very good html tutorial. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html - RGB colour chart. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/ - Great HTML/ASP tidying program. http://www.w3.org - WWW Consortium home page, World Wide Web Consortium Related (XML/XSL etc). http://www.w3schools.com/ - WWWc Teaching Page. http://www.tupps.com/flash/faq/xml.html http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdbms.shtml http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagindex/a.htm - HTML listings on alphabetical order, including browser support and oddities. Misc http://www.sourceforge.net/ http://www.webmonkey.com/ http://www.freshmeat.net/ http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/ - Webmail program. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/guides/vision.htm - Visually impaired resource guide. http://www.stattrack.com/ - Free web tracking. http://www.bravenet.com/ - Free webmaster tools. http://www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk/ - Webhosting and design. -------------------------------- Web Hosting http://www.34sp.com/ http://www.lohost.com/ http://www.fasthosts.com/ http://www.pair.com/ http://www.easily.com/ http://www.hostrocket.com/ http://www.alivewww.com/ http://www.brinkster.com/ http://www.spaceports.com/ http://www.geocities.com/ http://www.topcities.com/ http://www.freeservers.com/ http://www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk/ http://www.exa-bytes.com/ http://www.ipaska.com/ -------------------------------- Windows http://www.microsoft.com/ - No explanation needed...I hope http://www.annoyances.org/ - Tips, tricks and tweaks. http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/ - Tips and tweaks specifically for Win XP. http://www.regedit.com/ - Good site. http://www.bootdisk.com/ - Self explanatory name me thinks. http://www.sysinternals.com/ - Lots of useful utilities, such as saving BSOD's, reading NTFS from FAT. http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm - LOADS of hints and tips for windows NT/2000. http://www.pcpitstop.com/xpready/ - Before you buy XP, try this readiness test to see if your hardware is up to scratch and if you have any software that may not work with XP. http://www.xteq.com/index.html - Tweak the appearence and functionality of Windows. http://www.annoyances.org/ - Get rid of those windows annoyances. http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml - Adds a startup control panel. http://www.iarsn.com/index.html#/download.html - Better task manager utility to see really how much your computer puts in to running each background task. http://www.ntfaq.com/ - For all your nt/2k/xp questions a very good site covers a lot of issues. http://www.winguides.com/ - For windows registry, scripting, security and driver info / tweaks. http://extsearch.com/ - Work out that silly file extension with this. ---------------------------------- CPU speeds. Slot and Socket types Socket Socket 0, 168 pins - [486DX] Socket 1, 169 pins - [486SX, 487SX, 486DX] Socket 2, 238 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2] Socket 3, 237 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2, 486DX4, AMD 5x86] Socket 4, 273 pins - [Pentium (60/66MHz), Pentium OverDrive] Socket 5, 320 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, AMD K5] Socket 6, 235 pins - [486DX4] Socket 7/Super Socket 7, 321 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, Pentium MMX, AMD K5, AMD K6, AMD K6-2, AMD K6-III, Cyrix 6x86, IDT Winchip, IDT Winchip-2] Socket 8, 387 pins - [Pentium Pro, Pentium II OverDrive] Socket 370 PPGA, 370 pins, Celeron (PPGA), Cyrix "Mojave", Cyrix "Samuel", Cyrix "Ezra"] Socket 370 FC-PGA, 370 pins, Celeron (FC-PGA), Pentium III (FC-PGA), Cyrix III] Socket 370 FC-PGA2, 370 pins, [Celeron "Tualatin", Celeron "Copermine"] Socket A, 462 pins - [AMD Duron, AMD Athlon "Thunderbird", AMD Athlon XP "Palamino", AMD Athlon XP "Thoroughbred", AMD Athlon XP "Barton"] Socket 423, 423 pins - [Pentium 4] Socket 478, 478 pins - [Pentium 4] Socket 479, 479 pins - [Pentium 5] Socket 603, 603 pins - [Xeon MP, Xeon DP] Socket 754, 754 pins - [AMD Opteron "ClawHammer"] Socket 940, 940 pins - [AMD "SledgeHammer"] - guess? SLOT Slot 1, 242 pins - [Pentium II (SECC & SECC2), Celeron (SEPP), Pentium III] Slot 2, 330 pins - [Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon] Slot A, 242 pins - [AMD Athlon, AMD "Thunderbird", AMD "Mustang"] Athlon XP/MP true speeds AMD Athlon XP 1600 (1400 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1700 (1470 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1800 (1530 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1600 MHz) AMD Athlon XP 2000 (1667 MHz) AMD Athlon MP 1500 (1333 MHz) AMD Athlon MP 1800 (1530 MHz) |
The forums aren't going anywhere, but thanks for the thought anyway.
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Just hope it doesn't go in any freak pruning accident.
luckily i save the list to notepad every few weeks. I'll be updating soon. |
http://www.egghelp.org <--- Eggdrop/TCL information
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http://www.topcoder.com - a great place for coders to pit their skills against others. numerous practice problems that can be solved and validated in java, c# and c++. regular coding competitions.
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http://www.nondot.org/sabre/os/articles - assembler, operating systems, low level, x86, interfaces
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ZoneAlarm - a free (respected) firewall for windows users
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Ozzo Webmaster Forum Very helpful site for all website needs
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