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Linux links

• Documentation
  • Linux for Newbies A Series for Beginners by Gene Wilburn
  • The Linux Tutorial A detailed introduction to Linux
    "This site is basically for beginners, although intermediate and advanced users will probably learn something. The intended audience are users who are new to Linux with little or no UNIX experience, especially those coming from a Windows or DOS background."
  • JustLinux Wanna learn Linux?
    "We invite you to peruse the huge online forum, where you can get your questions answered in a helpful manner from users who have been in your shoes before! Also, be sure to browse our collection of Help Files, our unique method of documentation that provides answers in a simple, direct format!"
  • Learning Linux
    "Learning Linux is a site for beginner and experts wanting to learn more and share their experiences with other Linux users."
  • Getting Acquainted with Linux a UnixWorld Online Tutorial
  • Linux Online - The Linux Home Page Comprehensive information and resources about the Linux Operating System.
  • Linux Documentation Project (LDP) Homepage
    "The Linux Documentation Project is working on developing good, reliable docs for the Linux operating system. The overall goal of the LDP is to collaborate in taking care of all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online docs (man pages, texinfo docs, and so on) to printed manuals covering topics such as installing, using, and running Linux. The LDP is essentially a loose team of volunteers with no real central organization; anyone who is interested in helping is welcome to join in the effort."
  • Linux Manual Pages Searchable `man' pages - can also be viewed by section
• Development
  • Linux Source Navigator
    "A CGI interface to browse the entire Linux kernel source. You're best off viewing the Navigator with a browser that understands <TABLE> tags to see the directories correctly; Netscape works great."
• Security
  • Linux Security The Community's Center For Security
    "LinuxSecurity.com is designed to serve as the primary Internet-based source of information, insight and news relating to Linux and Open Source security issues, and is driven by the security needs of the users of the site."
  • Bastille Linux The Bastille Linux Project Homepage
    ``The Bastille Hardening System attempts to "harden" or "tighten" the Linux operating system. It currently supports Red Hat and Mandrake systems. We attempt to provide the most secure, yet usable, system possible.''
• News / eZines
  • Linux NOW!
    Searchable File Library with interactive rating system and links to 8 mirror sites from which software can be downloaded, benchmarks (sorely in need of updating), Linux forum, documentation archive ("an attempt to consolidate all available Linux documentation into an efficient, searchable, browseable archive"), slackware installation guide (brief).
  • Slashdot.org News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters.
  • Linux Weekly News
    "The Linux Weekly News is a weekly report on happenings within the Linux community. Check us out for current, complete, and concise news on the Linux world."
  • Daily Updates for the Linux Weekly News
  • Linux Journal - the Premier Linux Magazine "Linux Journal is the magazine of the Linux community, promoting the use of Linux worldwide."
  • Linux Today
    "A resource for business professionals interested in maintaining a high level of awareness of the news pertaining to Linux and the Open Source (tm) communities."
  • Linux Magazine Chronicle of the Revolution
  • LinuxFocus Magazine
    "The goal of LinuxFocus is to produce and publish a free online magazine about Linux and related issues in a number of languages. LinuxFocus is an open magazine, it is the joint effort of many people. Anyone can contribute interesting articles."
  • ZDNet: Enterprise Linux Downloads, reviews, forum, etc. Yup, even ZDNet has jumped on the linux bandwagon.
• Distributions / Packages
  • Linux Online - Distributions and FTP Sites
  • Linux Distributions listed at IceWalkers.com
  • CheapBytes
    "CheapBytes is the best source for technical products including Linux CDs and books."
  • freshmeat Reviews of latest *NIX software, news, editorials and user forum.
  • tomsrtbt home page "The most Linux on 1 floppy disk."
    Rescue recovery panic & emergencies
• USENET / User Groups / Education
  • The comp.os.linux.announce home page
  • P.L.U.G. - Portland Linux/UNIX Group
  • FREE GEEK
    "FREE GEEK is a Portland, Oregon based non-profit organization that recycles technology and provides computers, education, job skills and internet access in exchange for community service."
• Links
  • The Linux Webring
    If you don't find the Linux info you're looking for at herring.org, try one of the members of the Linux Webring!
  • LinuxApps If you can't find it here, you won't find it anywhere !!
    "Searchable index of official homepages and distribution sites."
  • The #LinuxOS Webpage
    "This page is not only the homepage of #LinuxOS on EFNet IRC, but also one of the largest gathering of Linux related links known to man."
    06 May 2008 - connection refused (500)

UNIX tutorials

• Introduction to Unix
• Useful Free & Shareware Unix Tutorials
• Getting Started With UNIX
  During the latter half of 1988 and up through 1990 UnixWorld Magazine published a series of columns for newcomers to UNIX written by Augie Hansen. Augie Hansen was uniquely qualified to write this column because he has extensive experience training users on UNIX and other systems and is a fluent and cogent writer.
• A UNIX Survival Guide for DOS Users
• UNIX for Beginners
  Written by: Gerard J. Kleywegt, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala - Sweden. With help from Alwyn Jones, Erling Wikman and Arnold Andersson
• UNIX and Linux commands, information and help
  "Helping you with UNIX and Linux providing information on tons of UNIX commands simularities of unix and DOS and more."
• MegaZone's Computer Help Area UNIX Basics, Emacs & elm
• Basic UNIX Tutorial courtesy of the University of Chicago
• UNIXhelp home page Designed to provide a flexible introduction and reference for users of the UNIX operating system.
• webreference Unix page
• UNIX FAQ
  Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell.
• UnixWorld Online Magazine Home Page
  A subscription-free, Web-only based magazine that provides practical, tutorial-oriented articles and columns for beginner to expert users, programmers, and system administrators of platforms running the UNIX operating system.
  NOTE: In June, 1998 UnixWorld was acquired by CMP Media Inc.
• Unix Review
• UNIX Bibliography with a focal point on UNIX system and kernel level programming.

UNIX shells

• Unix Shell Providers
• Heiner's SHELLdorado
  Good Shell Coding Practices, Heiner's Shell Script Examples, Shell Tips & Tricks, Links, and UNIX Bibliography. A terrific resource... not to be missed! In Heiner's own words, "After realizing how difficult it is to get example UNIX shell scripts, I decided to provide my own scripts as examples for shell programming beginners, and to collect links to other shell script resources."
• The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards
  "This page includes Bruce Barnett's tutorials on UNIX shell programming and various other arcane subjects."
• Shellorama A Slightly Skeptical View on Shell Scripting
  Softpanorama Virtual Library: Open Source Shells Webliography is a collection of links with students in mind, designed to emphasize usage of ksh93 and pipes in shell programming.
• Shell Quoting Guidelines, V 1.2 by Tim Maher
  "Designed to help you select the correct quoting technique when constructing shell commands."
• KornShell Home Page For The KornShell Command And Programming Language
  Information, software, documentation, and resources.
• OPTIONAL CHAPTER - KORNSHELL PROGRAMMING
• kshWeb Home of all things Korn Shell
  "A repository for all things related to Korn shell. This includes free and commercial versions of Korn shell, applications, utilities, publications, and services."
• An Introduction to the UNIX Shell (sh) by none other than S. R. Bourne - and HTMLized by Era Eriksson.
• Bash Features Bourne Again SHell.
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide An in-depth exploration of the gentle art of shell scripting by Mendel Cooper
  "This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts."
• BOURNE Shell Programming by Roger Hampel
• UNIX Bourne Shell Programming
• An Introduction to the C shell by William Joy.
• The C Shell tutorial
• Archive for "Using csh & tcsh" "The archive for the O'Reilly book 'Using csh & tcsh' by Paul DuBois"
• Zsh Web Page

screen

• SCREEN - The virtual terminal manager (v4.0.2)
  

pico

• Pico Tutorial The best online tutorial I've seen for PICO.
• Using the Unix Text Editor Pico This site has good screen shots.

Vim/vi

• vim online
  VIM is "Vi Improved" - a BIG improvement of the UNIX editor Vi! Available for many platforms and for FREE!
  "This is a place where users of the vim editor can add their favorite scripts, commands, macros and other assorted tips to a common database. The concept started as in two places: vim-tips.sourceforge.net and the VUR (vim user repository started by Sylvian Viart). Jonathan Morace and I extended the VUR concept and combined it with vim-tips to form vim online."
• Vim FAQ by Yegappan Lakshmanan
• An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi by William Joy & Mark Horton.
• The Vi/Ex Editor Learn to be a Vi/Ex power user! - by Walter Zintz.
• vi Lovers Home Page by Thomer M. Gil
• Garrett Hildebrand's vi Page

Emacs

• GNU Emacs

mutt

• The Mutt E-Mail Client ``All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.'' -me, circa 1995.
  also available at this mirror site.
• Mutt FAQ
• The Online Mutt Manual

elm

• ELM - Electronic Mail for UNIX

pine

• Pine Information Center hosted by the University of Washington.
• Infinite Ink - Pine Links Program for Internet News and Email.

slrn

• slrn web resource / Home
  This is the official home page of slrn. It was originally written by John E. Davis, and is now maintained by Thomas Schultz, et al. slrn (``s-lang read news'') is a newsreader, i.e. a program that accesses a newsserver to read messages from the Internet News service (also known as ``Usenet''). It runs in console mode on various Unix-like systems (including Linux), 32-bit Windows, OS/2, BeOS and VMS. Beside the usual features of a newsreader, slrn supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their header. It is highly customizable, allows free key-bindings and can easily be extended using the sophisticated s-lang macro language. Offline reading is possible by using either slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local newsserver (like leafnode or INN).
• The slrn newsreader / Documentation User's Guide (The slrn FAQ, Setting up slrn for the first time, An introduction to ``scoring'', The scoring FAQ); Reference documentation (slrn's manual page, The slrn reference manual, The intrinsic function reference manual, Changes in slrn, Keycodes for OS/2 and Win32); README files (Installing slrn for multiple users, Writing macros for slrn, Reading news from secure servers (via SSL), Installing slrn on Unix-like systems -or- Windows -or- OS/2 -or- VMS, GroupLens support in slrn); Sample files (A sample configuration file).
• The slrn newsreader / Manual Some time ago, Matthias Friedrich and Thomas Schultz started to write a new ``slrn reference manual'' from scratch. It is now part of the official slrn distribution. This page allows you to read the current version of this manual online and to download it in different formats.
• Emmanuele Bassi's SLRN page Emmanuele has created a very nice GnuPG addon for signing your SLRN posts. He also has an identity macro, and many more worthy enhancements.

Tips, Tricks and Additional SLRN Docs I have harvested

• SLRN 0.9.7.4 online help file
• How to use your elm alias file to forward news posts with SLRN.
• more killing & scoring
• ignore_quotes regex
• GroupLens support

S-Lang

• S-Lang Library Information Page
  Also mirrored from John E. Davis' Home page

tin

• tin.org TIN newsreader development headquarters
• TIN FAQ
• How to follow-up with tin and simultaneously cc: the original poster

trn

• TRN FAQ
• An Introduction to Usenet News and the trn Newsreader

procmail

• Infinite Ink's Processing Mail with Procmail
• Procmail How-To Page
• Procmail FAQ
  also mirrored at http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/
• Procmail tips page authored by Jari Aalto
  An absolutely wonderful resource!
  "Compiled from the procmail discussion list, from comp.mail.misc and from the author's own experiences with procmail. The document is actively maintained and new sections appear every 2 or 3 weeks."
• 'procmail' Mailing List Archive
• Virus Snaggers Home Page
  ``Virus Snaggers ("vsnag") offers a unique, directed solution to special needs in personal or systemwide email management on a *nix platform. A text-based, modular script plug-in for the widely used procmail delivery agent (mda), vsnag brings the power of regular expressions to focus in combatting common viruses and worms or suspect email file attachments generally.''
  I've found Dallman's plug-in to be a perfect complement to SpamAssassin. It catches any virii that fly under SA's radar that carry attached payloads I'd just as soon avoid.
• junkfilter : Junk Mail Filtration with Procmail
  A rigorous and exhaustive procmail-based filter system for electronic mail by Gregory Sutter and Matthew Hunt. Frequently updated to catch those sneaky spammers. junkfilter catches the junk, then you decide what to do with it. The program does not bounce mail or return it to the sender. I used to use it until SpamAssassin showed up.

Procmail Tips, Techniques and Examples I have harvested

$ man -k procmail
procmail        procmail (1)    - autonomous mail processor
procmailex      procmailex (5)  - procmail rcfile examples
procmailrc      procmailrc (5)  - procmail rcfile
procmailsc      procmailsc (5)  - procmail weighted scoring technique

These files are comprised of various `procmail` techniques I have accumulated from email and USENET postings. They were selected because they clarify or expand on `man' pages and/or are illustrated with clear examples.

NOTE: In order to simplify maintaining these tips, I have not HTMLized these files, but rather present them in their unadulterated ascii text format. Some of the URLs mentioned in these files are no longer functioning. I have included above any links which are truly of interest.

• Annotated `man' Page from Phil Edwards.
• Real Life Examples
• Filtering Mailing Lists Made Easy A good first step in setting up your .procmailrc
• Vacation I'm sorry, I can't come to the keyboard right now.
• Alan Stebbin's ackmail.rc
  "a set of recipes which perfom auto-acknowledgement of incoming mail" from Alan's now vanished, but GPL'd AKS Procmail Library. I've hacked it up a bit to correct a couple of errors (procmail was complaining about use of the `h' flag). I've also changed the Subject: to resemble LookOut autoreplies so that my IT group at work isn't clued I'm a refugee from M$ apps.
• To Lock or Not to Lock that is the question.
• Advanced Killfile Technique A one fell swoop swat file.
• Bouncing & EXITCODEs Build a better than a bitbucket.
• Scoring Weighted Scoring Technique.
• ENVELOPE_TO
  An advanced technique for determining to whom email was really addressed. A necessary technique for email you receive from mailing lists or Bcc:'s. (This may not have been implemented on your mail server).
• Autoresponder
  A simple autoresponder that sends the requested file. Makes use of ENVELOPE_TO (above).

awk

• Awk -- A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition) by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan and Peter J. Weinberger
• The GNU Awk Users Guide Effective AWK Programming
• An Awk Primer a quick tutorial for Awk
• comp.lang.awk FAQ
• The GAWK Manual (GNU awk)
• Rob's AWK Scripts

sed

• sed.sf.net - The SED $HOME
  Downloads, docs, books, scripts, games, debuggers, mailing lists, and links to other sed lovers.
• sed, a stream editor for version 3.02, a 1998 manual by Ken Pizzini
• sed, the stream editor by Eric Pement
  "This page is an attempt to collect my FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files and my favorite sed utilities and introductions for novices. The text files are for any sed user; the binaries are mainly for DOS/Windows users."
• SED FAQ or "He Sed | She Sed"
• sed tutorials hosted by seder, engineer, Dr2b Yiorgos [George] Adamopoulos.
• SED - The Stream Editor Editing a data stream

Perl

• The Perl Language Home Page
  "The official Perl home page, run by O'Reilly. Contains documentation, news, and links to a variety of resources, including the Open Source Perl conference."
• Perl FAQ Index a la comp.lang.perl.*
• CPAN Multiplex Dispatcher the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
• The Perl Mongers The Perl advocacy people.
  "Perl Mongers organises local Perl user groups and meetings"
• PerlCorner.com Jay Emerson's list of Perl related links.
  06 May 2008 - read timeout (500)
• Perl Tutorial from The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
• Introduction to Perl 5 for web developers, courtesy of eXtropia
• Perl 5 by Example by David Medinets "the Easiest Way to Learn Perl Programming!"
• Perl tutorial by Nik Silver.
• Perl Monks If you have a Perl-related question, you've come to the right place.
  "A community committed to sharing Perl knowledge and coding tips. The site contains questions and answers, useful snippets, and a library of code."
• Perl Man Pages organized to minimize forward references when reading straight through.
• CGI.pm - a Perl5 CGI Library
  Uses objects to create Web fill-out forms on the fly and to parse their contents. It provides a simple interface for parsing and interpreting query strings passed to CGI scripts. However, it also offers a rich set of functions for creating fill-out forms.
• The Perl Review Published quarterly
  "The Perl Review is a subscriber supported magazine about the language and community of Perl."
• The Web Techniques Perl Columns authored by Randal L. Schwartz NOTE: The February 2002 column is Randal's swan song. Web Techniques has changed to a "no code" format. [WTF? -ed]
• Dale Bewley's Perl Scripts and Links
• nms - web programs written by experts
  "nms is an attempt to provide replacements for all of the scripts from Matt's Script Archive. MSA is probably the most well-known archive of CGI programs currently available on the web. Among the Perl community, the MSA scripts are known to be badly-written, buggy and insecure."
• Matt's Script Archive presented by Matt Wright.
• The CGI Resource Index 650+ pages with ~10,000 new lines of CGI code and Instruction

C & C++

• How C Programming Works by Marshall Brain.
• C Course Documentation Lecture notes + integrated exercises, solutions and marking.
• C++ FAQ Lite by Marshall Cline.
  (also mirrored in Canada)
• More C++ Programming Tools and Info on the Web
• GNU C++ Library
• Programming UNIX Sockets in C - Frequently Asked Questions
  Created by Vic Metcalfe, Andrew Gierth and other contributers.
  Also, see the Unix Socket FAQ and BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer
• The Association of C & C++ Users
  "The ACCU is a community of people with an interest in C, C++ and Java. Although based in the UK, we have members in the US, mainland Europe, Russia, Middle East and Australia.
  Our community includes professional programmers, the suppliers of compilers, those just interested in the languages, and anyone seeking to improve their programming skills."

make

• Make -- A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs explained by S. I. Feldman.
• GNU Make A Program for Directing Recompilation.

UNIX System Administration

• USAIL: Unix system administration independent learning
  "The USAIL project is both an independent study course for prospective system administrators and a reference resource."
• Introduction to Unix System Administration
  by Frank G. Fiamingo, University Technology Services, The Ohio State University
• Unix Guru Universe
  The Official Home Page for Unix System Administrators and root of the Unix System Administration webring.
• USENIX Association The Advanced Computing Systems Association
  "Since 1975 the USENIX Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world.
  The USENIX conferences have become the essential meeting grounds for the presentation and discussion of the most advanced information on the developments of all aspects of computing systems."
• SAGE
  The System Adminstrators Guild is a special technical group of the USENIX Association and represents the cooperative effort of the various active SAGE organizations.
• Unix System Administrator's Resources
  Stokely Consulting's exhaustive compilation of URLs relating to UNIX sysadmin. (Now hosted and maintained by Bill Bradford).
• System Administration - Stuff pertaining to the Sisyphean tasks of system administrators.
  Another list of links, nicely organized by Steven K. Baum.
• Sys Admin Web Site
  "Sys Admin magazine delivers information for systems and network administrators in environments which include UNIX. Coverage of: integrating heterogeneous systems - UNIX, NT, NetWare; security; backup; crash recovery; system analysis and monitoring; and system automation. SA focuses on system-level processes, rather than the latest database or spreadsheet."
• Root Prompt -- Nothing but Unix
• psDooM: DooM for Sys A's
  "psDooM is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems. It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps', 'renice', and 'kill' commands. psDooM is based on XDoom, which is based on id Software's 'Doom'." Based on Dennis Chao's now extinct "Doom as a tool for system administration".

Security, Viruses & Hoaxes

• CERT® Coordination Center
  "The CERT/CC is chartered to work with the Internet community in detecting and resolving computer security incidents as well as taking steps to prevent future incidents. In particular, our mission is to
  • Provide a reliable, trusted, 24-hour, single point of contact for emergencies
  • Facilitate communication among experts working to solve security problems
  • Serve as a central point for identifying and correcting vulnerabilities in computer systems
  • Maintain close ties with research activities and conduct research to improve the security of existing systems
  • Initiate proactive measures to increase awareness and understanding of information security and computer security issues throughout the community of network users and service providers"
• CIAC Security Website Computer Incident Advisory Capability
  CIAC is the authoritative resource for information about hoaxes, Internet chain letters, and legitimate computer viruses.
  "CIAC provides on-call technical assistance and information to Department of Energy (DOE) sites faced with computer security incidents. This central incident handling capability is one component of all encompassing service provided to the DOE community. The other services CIAC provides are: awareness, training, and education; trend, threat, vulnerability data collection and analysis; and technology watch. This comprehensive service is made possible by a motivated staff with outstanding technical skills and a customer service orientation.
• Computer Security Information Courtesy of the Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
  A cornucopia of links addressing all aspects of computer security. Organized into Advisories, Docs, Ezines, FAQs, Groups, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, RFCs, Software, and WWW sites.
  06 May 2008 - read timeout (500)
• F-Secure Virus Info Center
  Complete and authoritative information on virii and hoaxes brought to you by Data Fellows.
• McAfee Security - World Virus Map
• SecurityFocus
  ``SecurityFocus.com is designed to facilitate discussion on security related topics, create security awareness, and to provide the Internet's largest and most comprehensive database of security knowledge and resources to the public.
  
  SecurityFocus.com is a single place, or community, on the Internet where people and corporations can go to find security information and have security questions answered by leading authorities in the industry. This site provides access to security links and resources including news, books, mailing lists, tools and products, and security services. In addition to this knowledge, SecurityFocus.com features one of the strongest collection of security advisories, vulnerabilities and solutions available on the Internet. Each of these resources may be customized for your needs via the "personalize" option on the home page.
  
  One of the backbones of SecurityFocus.com includes the Bugtraq mailing list - one of the most read security mailing lists on the Internet. In addition to this resource, securityfocus.com will host additional forums on security relevant topics, including Information Warfare, Microsoft Security, Security Incidents and Executive Security. These forums are meant to foster discussion amongst security professionals and systems managers responsible for securing corporate resources. Where appropriate, these forums will feature input from security vendors and product developers who'll bring their experiences and recommendations to address frequent security issues.''
• Security Space
  "SecuritySpace.com is a leading web security portal, providing internet security related news, resources, tools and services."
• Hack In The Box
  "Hack In The Box is designed to facilitate discussions on security related topics, create security awareness, and to try and provide a comprehensive database of security knowledge and resources to the public. We aim to make HITB a single place, or community on the INternet where people and corporations can go to find security information and the latest news from the underground as well as from the computer technology sectors.
  The site provides access to security links and resources, including news, books, mailing lists, tools, products and security services as well."
• The Open Web Application Security Project
  "In short the project aims to help everyone build more secure web applications and web services."
• Benjamin Edelman
  "Ben's current research agenda includes analyzing methods and effects of spyware, uncovering affiliate commission fraud, evaluating registrations in new TLDs, and examining Internet filtering efforts by governments worldwide."

Web Development & HTML

• W3Schools
  A collection of free HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, XHTML, WAP, ASP, SQL tutorials with lots of working examples and source code.
• NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML Home Page
• Webmonkey The Web Developer's Resource
  Something for everyone - beginner, builder or master.
• The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  `It is intended as a concise "cheat sheet" that you can use to look up the correct forms of tags as you are creating Web pages. Other HTML guides provide significantly more descriptive material about how to use particular tags or how HTML works in general. If you are a beginner, you might try one of those guides first.'
• Rob Schlüter's HTML Tag List
  A well organized site featuring thorough explanations of HTML elements and attributes, including annotations regarding standards (W3C, Netscape, MSIE, WebTV). Also offers information on CSS, colors, special characters, sound, frames, and other FAQ's & tips.
• HTML Entities "A description of entities and numeric character references in HTML 4.0"
• World Wide Web FAQ
  `Tom is replacing his dusty old out of date "World Wide Web FAQ" with a set of new OpenFAQs that you can contribute to! No more sending Tom mail and waiting two years for him to get around to it! It's the best thing since sliced HTML! And the OpenFAQs have been "seeded" with upated versions of Tom's old stuff. The OpenFAQ software will soon be made available for use on other subjects as well.'
• W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium Leading the Web to its Full Potential...
  "The W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability."
• The Web Standards Project
  "Fighting for standards in our browsers. Adhering to w3c standards is good for users, good for web designers, good for software companies, good for everybody." WaSP tells it like it is, no holds barred. If you want the skinny on standards and the browsers wars, you need look no further.
• HTML Help by The Web Design Group.
  Founded to promote the creation of non-browser specific, non-resolution specific, creative and informative sites that are accessible to all users worldwide.
  Also available at this Dutch Mirror.
• All Things Web A collection of resources for Webspinners & authors
  "All Things Web is a collection of resources for experienced Web authors. ATW's primary focus is on the creation of USABLE Web pages. Key content areas in ATW include: reader-centered Web design, platform independence, and performance optimization. ATW also focuses on page design techniques, navigation aids, and issues of Web document quality."
• Web authoring and Lynx Guidelines, suggestions and tips for Web Authors writing with Lynx in mind
• Web Site Development Information, Good Site Design Practices Links to excellent HTML authoring and Web site development resources and list of good site development practices.
• NCSA Mosaic Home Page
• Through the 6x6x6 Color Cube An Interactive Voyage by William I. Johnston.
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
  `This document was written in the early days of the web, defining such terms as "webmaster", the "www.xxx.com" convention, and a few basic points which are just as valid today. It has not been updated to discuss recent developments in HTML, and is out of date in many places.'
• The HTML Writer's Guild The largest international organization of World Wide Web designers
• The Bandwidth Conservation Society
  A resource for web developers with an interest in optimizing performance
  See also Bytesmiths list of Internet Bandwidth Utilization Resources
• Web Style Guide 2nd Edition
  "From its inception in 1994, the principal aim of Web Style Guide has been to provide a thorough and accessible guide to Web design for developers around the world. Despite the availability of a book version of the guide, we have deliberately chosen to continue to make the Web site materials freely available. Indeed, the new Web Style Guide, 2nd edition Web site contains the full text and illustrations from the printed second edition of Web Style Guide."
• The Web Developer's Journal Web News and Reviews for Suits, Ponytails, Prop Heads: The Latest Web Design Techniques and Tools
• webreference.com (sm) The Webmaster's Reference Library
• useit.com: Usable Information Technology (Jakob Nielsen's site)
  "Bi-weekly Alertbox column on Web usability, advice on usability engineering and Jakob's minimalist approach to Web quality, recommended links and books, Jakob's biography and upcoming talks."
• Usable Web
  A collection of several hundred links and accompanying information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
• W3C Link Checker
  I no longer use `linklint' to identify linkrot for two reasons:
  (1) It does not observe the Robots Exclusion Protocol.
  (2) It issues GET rather than HEAD requests, which unnecessarily increase the load on the server owning the link being checked.
  (Thanks to Terry Sullivan of All Things Web for politely letting me know that my previous link-checker needed a "spanking".)
  Rather than use the online version, I've downloaded W3C's tool and run it locally via cron twice a week. It's not perfect, but it's well behaved and better than others I've tried. It does the job.
• Linklint 2.3.5 Fast html link checker
  "Linklint is an Open Source Perl program that checks links on web sites. It is licensed under the Gnu General Public License."
• GIF Wizard Home Page
  "GIF Wizard will make your website download faster and keep visitors coming back for more. Use GIF Wizard to optimize GIFs and JPGs and check for broken links. GIF Wizard is an online application and can be used with any web browser."
• Weblint Gateway
  You can also download the package to run in your UNIX shell account, as I've done :-)
• W3C HTML Validation Service W3C's easy-to-use HTML validation service, based on an SGML parser.
  It's what I use on all of the pages at Herring.org!
• The WDVL The Web Developer's Virtual Library
  A comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of web technology, The WDVL is for webmasters and Internet developers. It's a well-organised goldmine of tutorials, demos, and links to great resources.
• robotstxt.org
  "Information about robots.txt, the Web Robots Exclusion Standard, and writing well-behaved Web robots."
• Robots Exclusion Standard (via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
• New Robots.txt Syntax Checker a validator for robots.txt files
  "If you care about validation, this robots.txt validator is a tester that will check your robots.txt file searching for syntax errors."
• How to keep bad robots, spiders and web crawlers away
• Search Engine Robot Simulator by Indicium Web Design (Scotland)
  "What does a search engine see when it looks at your site? The Indicium search engine simulator answers this question by attempting to scan your web page by connecting to your site-server."

Winsock Info and Troubleshooting

• alt.winsock FAQ
• Trumpet Winsock Reference
• SLIP/PPP Homepage
• PPP FAQ from comp.protocols.ppp

Data Comms & Modems

• ModemHelp.Org
  "This site is a free resource site for users, ranging from beginners to advanced users. This site contains links to manufacturer support, driver sites, a discusson list and a massive list of init strings."
• ModemHelp.Net The ultimate resource for Dialup Technical Support
• Navas 28800-56K Modem FAQ maintained by John Navas
• Curt Faulconer's High Speed Modem Page News, FAQs, Files, Tips & Tricks

Research

• IUCS Research Groups at Indiana University: Computer Science Department
• Extreme! Computing From the desktop to the teraflop

History

• Links to WWW-Sites of the History of Computing
• Computer History Museum
  "The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley"
• Charles Babbage Institute
  "The Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History (CBI) is a research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing through historical research and archival activity."
• The Institute of Internet History
  "This Institute of Internet History (IOIH) is dedicated to the recording and documenting the history of the Internet, perhaps one of the most important technological developments in human history. Due to the rapid pace of ongoing technological change, and the tendency in the IT community to quickly forget about technologies as soon as they are superseded, we believe that it is vital to accurately record and document Internet history in order that a full and faithful record be maintained for future generations."
• Yahoo - Computers and Internet:History
• On the Design of the UNIX operating System by Peter Collinson, Hillside Systems.
• The Museum of HP Calculators

Arcane / Humorous

• Are You A Hacker? by Bob Bickford (in memoriam)
• The Bastard Operator from Hell Enhanced, Advanced, and Value Added, Menu The Original at Simon Travaglia's site.
• The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete
• BOFH: The whole shebang Simon's episodes currently published by the The Register
• The Definitive Bastard Operator from Hell Archive
• The Bastard User From Hell (BUFH) by John W. Fox
• Stories from TCP Towers! as spoken by Simon the Stressed :)
• Humorix All Linux Humor. All Copied Mottos. All the Time.
  "Humor and fake news about Linux, Microsoft, and Open Source."
• The UNIX cult by Peter Collinson, Hillside Systems.
• Silicon Valley Tarot Page
  See Your Fortune - Silicon Valley Style! The Hacker, Venture Capital, The Consultant, Spam, Double Latte, Sea of Cubicles, The Sysadmin... more
• Helen: Sweetheart of the Internet
  "A strip by Peter Zale about the glamour of the information age, focusing on a beautiful and brilliant computer geek named Helen Arianna Nichols who runs the electrical systems for Martin Kirby Corp. Helen, friends and co-workers inhabit an intense world where humor is as necessary as a good LAN."

Shareware / Freeware

Winsock Utilities

• The Consummate Winsock Apps List
• TUCOWS The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software.
• CNET Download.com
• Freeware Home Collection of Free Software and Internet Services
  
• Galt Shareware Zone "Shareware Zone -- hottest shareware downloads, shareware reviews, free shareware newsletter"

Simtel.Net

ZDnet

• ZDNet Downloads

Miscellaneous

• Notepad++
  "Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment." This and VIM are my preferred editors for working in MS Windows.
• JoeJoe's freeware utilities home to ArsClip, et al.
  "ArsClip is a FREE (freeware) utility for the windows clipboard. ArsClip monitors the clipboard and keeps track of the entries. Press a configurable hotkey and select an item (or items) to quickly paste into a program."
  This is the best clipboard extender I've found.
• Pow! Programmers Open Workbench
  A free software development environment for use under Microsoft Windows.

Companies & Organizations

• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. - The First Society in Computing.
• microdata-alumni.org
  Alumni site for former employees of: Microdata Corporation, McDonnell Douglas ISG, and Novadyne Computer Systems. This site was created as a contact point for those of you who want to keep in touch and share memories.
• RainingData (formerly Pick Systems)
• Pick FAQ
• JES & Associates, Inc.
• JA Computing Home of jBASE

Icons, Bullets, Buttons, Balls, Arrows, Lines, Backgrounds, etc.

• WebCom Guide - Publishing on the Web - Icons Index
• Icon Browser Searchable archive
• IconBAZAAR
• Clipart.Com "The Net's best clipart, font, photo and web graphic links. Ranked by traffic and quality."
• Anthony's Icon Library Compiled by: Anthony Thyssen
• Leos Icon Collection
• Jim's Cool Icons
• Graphics Info Service
• Billy Bear Bullets, Icons, Lines and Clipart
• Texture Land

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