Computer Links by George Hernandez

Links that lead to off-site pages about computers.

Blogs

Blur Circle. By Steve Yost of QuickTopics.com.
BruceEckel.com.
Computer Zen [Hanselman.com/blog]. By Scott Hanselman. Cooler tech stuff.
Corante.com.
- The Loom. 'Carl Zimmer is the author of several popular science books and writes frequently for magazines'
Dan Gillmor's eJournal. Tech journalist.
Dashes.com/Anil. By Anil Dash. Internet technologist. Very New York.
DECAFBAD.com
DiveIntoMark.org. By Mark Pilgrim.
Doc Searle's Weblog. Sr. Editor of LinuxJournal.com.
Faisal.com. By Faisal Jawdat. Excellent quotes section.
Gray Watson Personal Thoughts. Top engineer at Lycos.
I, Cringley [pbs.org/cringely]. By Robert X. Cringley, the PBS guy covering technology.
- Nerd TV [pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv]
Intertwingly.net. By Sam Ruby. Largely SOAP and RSS.
JasonLefkowitz.net. Just Well Mixed. Edits AntsEyeView.com.
Jeremy Zawodny's Blog. "Linux, Perl, MySQL, Open Source, and whatever other random stuff catches my interest..."
John Udell's Weblog.
KernelThread.com. By Amit Singh.
- A History of Apple's Operating Systems
Ken Rawling's blog. XML and .NET.
Kalsey.com/blog.
Merlin.blogs.com/43Folders/. By Merlin Mann. A blog about tricks and hacks.
Ongoing. By Tim Bray.
GeekNik.net. Multi-blogger.
Simon Willison's Weblog. PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development.
Slashdot.org. Founded by CmdrTaco.net, aka Rob Malda.
TheRegister.co.uk. IT news.
Tima Thinking Outloud. By Timothy Appnel.
Tyma.com. By Paul Tyma.

News

FastSilicon.com. "In 2003 Nigel Woodford founded Fastsilicon.com to share his knowledge and to create an unbiased forum for reporting the current trends, products, and IT news. Fastsilicon.com, while providing accurate and informative reporting, is dedicated first and foremost to the needs of the consumer. "
News400.com. News about the AS/400.
News.com. By CNet.
OReillyNet.com/Meerkat. RSS Aggregator for IT news.
SiliconValley.com.
TechWeb.com. By CMPnet.
ZDNet.com/zdnn. News Page One by ZDNet.

General Computers

About.com's Computing/Technology Section. About.com also has non-computer info.
CompInfo-Center.com. Resource listings about various computer topics including advanced topics.
ComputerHope.com. Free self-help on various computer topics.
KarbosGuide.com. Illustrated reference on PCs.
InfoWorld.com. "... in-depth technical analysis on key products, solutions, and technologies for sound buying decisions and business gain."
Inquiry.com. Answers for IT professionals.
Macmillan Publishers. Computer book publishers.
PBS.org/Nerds. Excellent piece by Robert Cringley. Also with follow up on ARPANET.
PCGuide.com. Reference on PCs.
PCTechGuide.com. Reference on PCs.
Tom's Hardware Guide. PC HW news and reviews.
Viewz.com. Consumer friendly buying guide.

Computer Ed

AppDev.com. "Training for Developers by Developers". Courses, CDs, and videos.
DevCentral Learning Center. Tutorials and articles.
Earthweb.com. Lots of IT resources.
ElementK.com. Online courses on computer skills
FAQTS.com. A knowledge base application.
IMGInfo.com. Information Management Group. Chicago based. Training on-line and in-class. Consulting.
IntelligentEnterprise.com. Resource for data in the enterprise.
ITToolbox.com. "ITtoolbox is a knowledge network and support environment for the IT industry." Covers the following and more: c, database, datawarehouse, java, Linux, UNIX, VB, web design.
TechBooksForFree.com.
Telecommunications Technical Fundamentals.

Open Source

Server stuff
- Apache.org. Web server.
- BIND. DNS.
- Linux.org. Unix like operating system.
- MySQL.org. Database.
- OpenSSL.org. SSL.
- PostgreSQL.org. Database.
- SendMail.org. Email.
User apps
- ABIWord.org. Word processor.
- GIMP.org. GNU Image Manipulation Program.
- GNU.org.
  - Galeon. Browser.
- KOffice.org. Office suite.
- Mozilla.org. Browser, newsreader, email client, chat room client
- OpenOffice.org. Office suite, a continuation of StarOffice.
- PortableApps.com. Apps to put on USB flash/key/stick drives or whatever.
Open source companies
- ActiveState.com
- Covalent.net
- Cyclades.com
- IBM.com/Linux
- Linux.HP.com
- Samba.org. ' "Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients. '
- SGI.com
- Sleepycat.com
- Sun.com/Software/Linux
- Zaurus.com/Dev. By Sharp.
- Zope.com. 'Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. The Zope community consists of hundreds of companies and thousands of developers all over the world, working on building the platform and Zope applications. Zope is written in Python, a highly-productive, object-oriented scripting language.'
Miscellany
- Free Software Foundation [FSF.org]
  - Free-Soft.org.
  - GNU.org.
    - 'The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX"; it is pronounced "guh-noo.") Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as "Linux," they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.'
    - Founded by Richard Stallman.
- Open Source [W]
- OSI (Open Source Initiative) [OpenSource.org].
  - Popular open source products and companies.
- OSDN (Open Source Development Network) [OSDN.com].
  - FreshMeat.net
  - DaveCentral.com. Shareware.
  - FreeCode.com
  - GeoCrawler.com
  - Linux.com
  - NewsForge.com
  - SlashCode.com
  - SlashDot.org
  - DourceForge.net
  - Themes.org
  - ThinkGeek.com
- O'Reilly [OReilly.com]
  - OnLAMP.com. Discusses open source web platforms, esp. those based on Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Python/PERL.
  - Open Source Directory [OSDir.org]. by O'Reilly.
    - News.OSDir.com.
- SourceForge.net [W]. 'SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site, hosting more than 100,000 projects and over 1,000,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. SourceForge.net has the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet, and hosts more Open Source development products than any other site or network worldwide. SourceForge.net provides a wide variety of services to projects we host, and to the Open Source community.'
- "Why Free Software's Long Run TCO must be lower"

Miscellany

Compression
- Linux/Unix
  - For Linux/Unix. Like TAR (Tape ARchive), gzip, and bzip2.
- Mac
  - MacZipIt.com. Makers of ZipIt! $20 [Ref 2003-07].
  - StuffIt.com. $25-50 [Ref 2003-07].
- PC.
  - 7-zip.org. $0.
  - PKWare.com. PKZip 6.0 $39.95 [Ref 2003-07].
  - RARlab.com. WinRAR 3.20 $29.00 [Ref 2003-07].
  - UnzipWizard.com. 3.10.32 $16.95 [Ref 2003-07].
  - WinAce.com. 2.20 $29.00 [Ref 2003-07].
  - WinZip.com. 9.0 $29.00 [Ref 2003-07].
Get Stuff
- Micro Center [microcenter.com]. They have an online store, but the main reason I like these guys is because in Chicago they're one of the few physical places to go to with more substantial computer stuff, as in build your own computer stuff.
- MicroWarehouse.com. They sell all sorts of computer stuff. It's good to keep apprised of the stuff available.
- MyProgs.net. Folksonomy for programs/apps. The usual tags, myprogs.net/popular, etc.
- newegg.com. One of the more highly recommended places to get computer stuff online.
- NoNags.com. 'The Original & Best. Genuine Freeware Site - Since 1995 ... Nonags is the safest place on the Internet to download free software from. Before we list anything here we check for viruses, trojans, spyware etc. And even if we find something clean, it still has to pass our special "cheesetest" which for obvious reasons we do not publish exact specs.'
- SimplyTheBest.com. Free and not.
- TuCows.com.
- userscripts.org. Scripts for the Greasemonkey extension to the Firefox browser.
Connection speed tests
Tech Support
- Experts-Exchange.com.
- ExtremeTech.com. "We're a thriving community of users and experts seeking to answer the unanswerable questions of technology."
- Help & How-To. By ZDNet.colm.
- Help.com. Tech how-tos.
- HelpOnTheNet.com. 'There's no such thing as a stupid question, but they're the easiest to answer.'
- TechSupportAlert.com. 'Gizmo Richard's Tech Support Alert'
- Tek-Tips.com. "The Tek-Tips Forums site is member supported."
Miscellany
- Advisor.com. The publishers of nice computer magazines such as Access VB SQL Advisor Magazine.
- Apple.com.
- Byte.com.
- Choosing a Name for your Computer.
- CIO.com.
  - DarwinMag.com
- Cisco.com. Manufacturer of nearly all the routers out there.
  - Cisco Documentation. Lots of instructional goodies.
- Classic Texts in Computer Science [zafar.se/bkz/antiwiki.cgi?/Home/ComputerScience/ClassicTexts/43bafac8c8570f4f]
- CMPnet.com.
  - Byte.com. This fab computer science magazine nearly died but lives on in the net.
  - CommWeb.com. Telecom, Datacom, and Internet
  - DDJ.com. Dr. Dobb's Journal.
- CNetNetworks.com
  - Builder.com. For developers.
  - CNet.com.
    - Help.com. Tech how-tos.
  - Download.com. Try before you buy.
  - GameSpot.com.
  - MySimon.com. Tech comparison shopping.
  - News.Com.com. Tech news
  - TechRepublic.com.
  - ZDNet.com.
    - Business & Technology.
    - Developer.
    - Help & How-To.
    - Reviews.
- Cromwell-intl.com.
  - Unix/Linux; TCP/IP; Networks and Security; Image, Signal, and Text Analysis.
  - Excellent non-computer stuff including Toilets of the World.
- Diffuse.org. An excellent list of standards setting organizations.
- DNSStuff.com. A variety of online DNS related tools like ping, whois, and traceroute.
- DLL Archive. If you are trying to run a program but you are missing or have a defective .dll, there are many here.
- EDventure.com. Led by Esther Dyson. Some content free and some not.
- file-extensions.org. A site about common (and uncommon) file extensions such as .doc and .jbl.
- FolkLore.org. Mac and pre-Mac Stories.
- Hack a Day [HackADay.com]. 'hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.'
- Kuro5hin.org. "a site about technology and culture, both separately and in their interactions."
- LittleWhiteDog.com. Frank articles and reviews.
- Microsoft.com.
  - Mactopia [Microsoft.com/mac]. For Mac people who need help with their MS products.
- I, Cringley. From PBS.org: Stuff like "How to make your own super computer" and more.
- IDC.com. "the world's leading provider of technology intelligence, industry analysis, market data, and strategic and tactical guidance to builders, providers, and users of information technology." Sort of like Gallup polls for the IT industry.
- OReilly.com. Great books to buy and great resources online.
  - OReillyNet.com. Lots of resources.
- OSNews.com. 'OS News is an online news source that covers new, alternative, and emerging operating systems and computing environments. It is the only major technology site on the Net that focuses on computing platforms and operating systems without focusing on or advocating for one particular platform, and that balanced coverage has won OS News a large and loyal following.'
- PropellerHead [propellerhead.tv]. Random useful computer tips delivered daily.
- Phidgets.com. 'Phidgets are an easy to use set of building blocks for low cost sensing and control from your PC. Using the Universal Serial Bus (USB) as the basis for all Phidgets, the complexity is managed behind an easy to use and robust Application Programming Interface (API). Applications can be developed quickly in Visual Basic, VBA (Microsoft Access and Excel), LabView, Java, C and C++.'
- Sun.com.
- Swynk.com. "... the single largest independent resource for Microsoft .NET EnterpriseTM and Windows Server technologies." Their columnists are pretty good.
- Tech-Recipes.com. What a cute concept! Step-by-step recipes for tech stuff for Solars, Windows, Mac, Linux, databases, programming, the Internet, and Cisco.
- TechTarget.com. "Industry-specific search engines that get results from thousands of pre-screened sites."
- "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html]. By Joel Spolsky. Silly. Physicists and programmers have jobs because everything leaks.
- W3C.org.

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