Computers

Fact Sheet on The Fcc, Internet Service Providers and Access Charges

BBSs

• Regional BBS Lists
• ComputerUser BBS List for Pennsylvania (100k)
• UNIX BBS FAQ
• BBSREF: UNIX Boards
• Yahoo page on BBSs in Pittsburgh
• Yahoo page on BBSs
• National Coalition of Sysops and System Administrators
• Council for Online Community Alternatives
• The BBS Awareness Campaign
• BBS software
  • BBSes that run under Unix
  • BBBS runs under multiple platforms

Bugtraq mailing list archives

Welcome to Bug Net

SECURITY BUGWARE an index of bugs in various software

Certification

• An article about computer professional certification followed by a hotlist of certifications available
• Certified Computing Professional (CCP)
• Certified Information Systems Security Provider (CISSP)
• CNP Certified Network Professional
• Certified Network Expert (CNX)
• A+ Certification - Frame
• A+ Test Objectives
• Microsoft Technical Certification
• Learning Tree International offers 29 different certifications that require you to take their courses
• NACSE offers 9 networking certifications and 13 WWW certifications
• Network +
• Linux Certifications

• Data Concepts
• MicroSmart 703-455-1555
• Tandy Retail Services -- Product Support Center
• TANDY Retail Services, Support Library
• PC Enterprises Home Page

Archive Comparison Test (A.C.T.)

• Hornet Presents: The 8086 Compo
• PC Demos Explained
• Spring Break '99
• Bang! a demo party/rave to be held on the east coast of the US
• LameOver Linux Demo Project
• Oldskool Demos
• Unix Demos
  • unixscene

WinDriver a cross-platform (Microsoft & Linux) driver development toolkit

Drivers for Linux

emulators

Computing Events

Fonts

• comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 2/6 - 37) How can I design my own font?
• 43) How can I design my own font?
• The FREETYPE TrueType font library
• Font Software for X

Computer Games

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

The GGI Project

The Independent JPEG Group writes a jpeg compression library

An ascii-art library

Hackers

Hardware

Old Computer Nostalgia/History pages

Internet

• The World Wide Web
• Web Indices, Best of the Web, Worst of the Web, Weirdest of the web, etc...

Magazines

• The Computer Journal Home Page
• COMPUTERCRAFT
• Circuit Cellar Home Page
• Free Systems Journal
• Nuts & Volts Magazine
• Communications of the ACM
• The Computer Journal the journal of the British Computer Society
• Computer the journal of the IEEE Computer Society
• Computing Research News Online
• Data Communications Magazine
• Computer Communication Review the journal of the ACM SIG on Data Communications
• IEEE Communications Magazine the journal of the IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE Internet Computing Online
• IEEE NETWORK: The Magazine of Global Information Exchange
• Internet World "Free to qualified subscribers"
• Academic Journals
  • Computer Networks & ISDN Systems
  • I-Ways -- Digest on Regulation of Electronic Commerce
  • Journal of High Speed Networks
  • Networks
  • Internet Research, an academic journal
• Lists of Computer Magazines
  • ELECTRONIC JOURNALS - COMPUTERS / COMMUNICATIONS
  • A hotlist of computer magazines' webpages
  • Ecola Newsstand: Magazines: Computer
  • MagNet - Computer and Internet Related Magazines
  • A list of magazines published by the ACM
  • Magazines published by the IEEE Communications Society
  • IEEE Computer Society Magazines

Access to Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) Information

A listing of the TCP and UDP standard port numbers (234K document)

Operating Systems

FlexNet is a group that develops software for packet radio

Privacy

• Entropy software for secure, anonymous communications.

Programming

• Search Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Comm. Terms
• FAQSYS extended version - (solving worldwide problems)
• PC Webopaedia home page
• Computing Dictionary
• whatis.com a dictionary of Computer related terms
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
• Universal Library: Welcome

Security

• Frequently Asked Questions about Kerberos
• The Old Kerberos FAQ
• Kerberos Reference Page
• The Yahoo Page on Kerberos
• An article by Ronald Rivest on a new security technique called chaffing
• SMBScanner scans a network for SMB/Microsoft Networking shares and checks them to see if they are secure.
• Kerberos: The Network Authentication Protocol
• Open Directory - Kerberos

Shopping for computers, computer price guides, computer fairs...

Software

Sound Files

Pages about specific systems

User Groups and other organizations

• Pittsburgh User Groups
  • TRFN Pittsburgh Computer Organizations and User Groups
  • Pittsburgh Technology Council index of Information Systems organizations
  • Yahoo -- Pittsburgh User Groups
  • Pittsburgh chapter of the Help Desk Institute
  • Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group
  • The Pittsburgh Perl Mongers
  • County of Westmoreland Macintosh User Group
  • PGH.NET a .NET user group
  • Association of IT Professionals
  • PittJUG the Pittsburgh Java Users Group
  • PittOUG the Pittsburgh Oracle User's Group
  • The Pittsburgh chapter of the Society for Technical Communication
  • The Pittsburgh XML/SGML User's Group
  • The Information Resource Management Association of Pittsburgh
  • The Pittsburgh chapter of the Websphere Users Group
  • Pittsburgh chapter of the System Administrator's Guild
  • The Pittsburgh Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
  • The Pittsburgh Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society
  • ISSA
• New York PC Users Group
• The New York chapter of the Internet Society
• NYACC Unix/Linux Sig
• NYLUG: New York Linux Users Group
• LUNY (Linux Users of NY)
• (Free)*BSD Users of New York
• Finding Your Nearest Computer User Group
• The User Group Network
• UNIX Users' Groups
• USENIX - Local User Groups
• Yahoo's page on Unix Users Groups
• Linux User Groups
• Yahoo's page on user groups
• Association of Internet Professionals
• National Association of Communication Systems Engineers
• IEEE Computer Society
• Welcome to the IEEE Communications Society
• The Association for Computing Machinery
• The ACM SIG on Communications
• SAGE - Home Page

• Coalition for User's Rights
• Drag-And-Drop
• GNOME Project - Drag and Drop
• G-CHIP (Graphical, Command-Line, Hyperlinked Interface Program)

The Moan and Groan Page

The Phone Company (TPC.INT)

• Goodwill Computer Recycling Center
• The FDISK.COM DOS Internet Pages
• Welcome to CyberSlice!
• Kick Mail!
• The Year 2000 Information Center
• El Grande Mac Hacks Page
• Hacker's Wisdom

Top 10 Stuff

Universal Drive Duplicator

Typing Injury FAQ Home Page

Julia A Chatter-Bot that conducts conversations

Wotsit's File Format Collection

File format encyclopedia (2 meg zipfile)

Yahoo! - Data Formats

A page that will convert files from a bunch of different formats to a bunch of different formats. It converts documents, images and some formats of movies.

DESQview/X Software Ports (a.k.a. desqview/x, dv/x, dvx)

The Knights of the Commandline argue that commandline based operating systems/environments are better than graphical ones.

K/oS Software

The SIG11 problem How to diagnose compiling errors that are frequently due to hardware problems.

A page by the OpenBSD folks which explains the different copyright schemes used by free software

A proposal for a new license for free software

The Easter Egg Page - Contents Frame

The classic computer game Adventure on the Web

• A list of aliases to 127.0.0.1 (the loopback connection)
• Usenet FAQ Search

A program that is supposed to allow you to run 386 programs on a 286

How To Become A Hacker

The Cathedral and the Bazaar a paper which tries to explain how Linux was developed so fast.

Interface Hall of Shame

Why making your web browser narrower can make it easier to read

Avalon the supercomputer made out of 70 DEC Alpha workstations running Linux for $150,000 that outperforms million dollar workstations

Linuxmanship even if you're not interested in open-source, it contains some interesting advice for when a boss mandates the use of inferior software.