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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

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Administration
http://www.bigfix.com - Maintainance tool
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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
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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.
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Bandwidth Tests

See Networks and Internet Connections
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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
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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.
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Bryce
http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Good tutorials here
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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
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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++
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Cases
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/ - cases
http://www.bit-tech.net/ -cases
Andonising
Blowhole Guide
Fan specs and database
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CGI

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/
http://www.cgi101.com
http://www.w3.org/CGI/
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FAQ's and General Information
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/faqs.html - A good source of answers
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Firewalls
http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm - Firewall Leak Tester
http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1bi2l2=4n543pmi - another firewall tester for windows users
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Flash

See Web Design
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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.

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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

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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
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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

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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.
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Hard drives & Raid

Hard drives
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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
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Heatsinks
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HTML
See Web Design
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Memory

http://www.crucial.com/ - quality RAM with a good FAQ to answer alot of questions.
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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
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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/
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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.
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Newsgroups

http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/usenet.htm - usenet information.

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Overclocking
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.p...e=guide&dId=376 - AMD overclocking guide
http://www.overclockers.com - THE overclocking place!

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Python
www.python.org
http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Python.
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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.
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RAM

Is more worth it?
An interesting article can be found here
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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
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Security

http://www.securityfocus.org/ - one of the finest sites on current security threats.
Free online virus Scan - as it says
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Shockwave

See Web Design
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Soundcards

SoundBlaster Live unnofficial resource site ALive!
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Spyware
http://www.lavavsoftusa.com - supplier of AdAware, the spyware removal prog.
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Unix

See Linux
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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
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Visual Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ Visual Basic. Good resource for .NET technology
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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

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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
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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
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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
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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)
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