Links

Here's the list of bookmarks I find useful enough to want to have them available to me wherever I go. There are no other selection criteria. :-)

Networking and Internet

ISO 3166 Country codes

International host naming can be a bit of a problem if you can't remember the difference between .za and .sa, so here's the official list.
URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes.txt

What's that website running?

A tool to verify what kind of server platform a website is running on.
URL: www.netcraft.com/whats/

DNS health, sanity and blacklist checks

Test page to list all possible information about a given domain or IP range.
URL: www.dnsstuff.com

Port numbers and services database

Lists all documented network port and service numbers.
URL: www.sockets.com/services.htm

Protocols.com

The complete directory of networking protocols for WAN, LAN and ATM data communications and telecommunications.
URL: www.protocols.com

IETF documents; RFC's and Internet-drafts

RFC's, FYI's, drafts and other internet standardization documents.
URL: www.ietf.org

Regular expression syntax overview

Because s/#.*$//;s/^\s*(\S+).*$/$1 /;$_ is a useful thing to have.
www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/re.html

HTML, WebDesign and graphic design

The Keepers of the Holy Standard

The HTML and CSS standards are kept (and protected from the ungodly) by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Check your compliance with their mighty validator.
URL: validator.w3.org

HTML and CSS reference guides

Reference guides, howto's and validators for all major web page markup standards from the Web Design Group.
URL: www.htmlhelp.com

The guide to Composing Good HTML

The difference between HTML and good HTML. Required reading.
URL: www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/cgh

NetMechanic

Design tools to check and optimize websites, and valuable tips in the newsletters.
URL: www.netmechanic.com
URL: www.netmechanic.com/news/

Browser support overview

Which browser supports what? With the messy support issues, courtesy of the major web browser developers, it's hard to know what will work when and where. This overview lists all tags and parameters and indicates the degree of support for them in all major web browsers.
URL: www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/supportkey/a.htm

Browser statistics

Who runs what? How many users work at a given screen resolution, have a certain web browser, or run a given OS? The browser statistics page at W3 Schools gives you a good idea.
URL: www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Usability

Jacob Nielsen's UseIt website. Most important are his papers on content, usability and writing for the web. URL: www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

The AnyBrowser pages

About browser independence and graceful degradation. Required reading.
URL: www.anybrowser.org

Java script sources

A good source of free cut&paste Javascript sources.
URL: javascript.internet.com

IRT.org

A good source of all things dynamic: ASP, Cold Fusion, CGI, DHTML, Javascript (esp. the Javascript FAQ) and much more.
URL: www.irt.org

DHTML script sources

A good source of free cut&paste DHTML code.
URL: www.dynamicdrive.com

CGI script sources

Guess what.
www.cgi-resources.com

Web TV

A pain in the backside, but here to stay. Better know the limitations.
URL: developer.msntv.com

Cool Homepages

A collection of home page design styles that may serve as inspiration.
URL: www.coolhomepages.com

Deviant Art

An online repository of electronic graphic art, photography, design and image manipulation in all shapes and sizes. Very inspirational.
URL: www.deviantart.com

Low-cost web design

Possibly the only handwritten webpage in existence. Brilliant!
URL: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/dlg10/

Identifont

A treat tool to identify a font of which you don't know the name.
URL: www.identifont.com

What The Font?

Another treat tool to identify a font of which you don't know the name. Just upload a (scanned) image containing the font you need to identify.
URL: www.whatthefont.com

Online FavIcon generator

A rather nice and easy-to-use online service (and at the time this link was included, free) to generate a perfect, multi-resolution favicon.ico file from your own uploaded images.
URL: www.html-kit.com/favicon/

The WayBack Machine™

Surf the web as it was! The Internet Archive Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. The Archive contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present.
URL: web.archive.org/collections/web.html

Free stock photos

Free Stock Photos

Free photos for private and commercial use with credit/link.
URL: www.freestockphotos.com

Creativity 103

A collection of abstract images.
URL: westwood.fortunecity.com/creativity/103/

AarinFreePhoto

A small set of image galleries.
URL: aarinfreephoto.com

FreeImages UK

About 2500 photos. Any questions?
URL: www.freeimages.co.uk

Stock Vault

Small collection of stock photos, free for personal and non-commercial use.
URL: www.stockvault.net

The Open Photo Project

The Open Source philosophy applied to photography.
URL: www.openphoto.net

Stock.XCHNG

Over 37,000 shared images. Free registration required.
URL: www.sxc.hu

MorgueFile

A high resolution photo archive along with an archive of detailed photo lessons and an active forum community.
URL: www.morguefile.com

Image*after

Small but good collection of stock images.
URL: www.imageafter.com

Webshots

Not really a stock photo archive, but a site where users share millions of images. Download up to five images per day for free. Free registration required.
URL: www.webshots.com

FreePhoto

Large quality selecton, both free and paid.
URL: www.freephoto.com

PixelPerfect Digital

Nice collection of images in categories.
URL: www.pixelperfectdigital.com/gallery/

Piotr.Pix

Small collection, free for personal use or low budget commercial use with credit.
URL: piotrpix.piotrdesign.com/

Wikemedia Commons

The Wikimedia Commons is a project that provides a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.
URL:commons.wikimedia.org

Dieselstation

Not really a stock photo archive, but they do have a huge collection of glamour pics of sports and super cars.
URL: www.dieselstation.com/archives.html

The Gimp Savvy community archive

The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images, consisting of over 2.5 Gbytes of data. The goal is to make this archive a resource for collage and photo-montage using digital image editing techniques.
URL: http://gimp-savvy.com/PHOTO-ARCHIVE/

Computer Engineering corner

Drivers

Starting points for finding zillions of downloadable drivers.
URL: www.driverguide.com
Username: drivers
Password: all
URL: www.driverfiles.net

Hard drive and controller guide

Everything about hard drive parameters, disc controllers, drive geometry, interface types, etc.
URL: theref.mfarris.com

Tom's hardware guide

Perhaps one of the most comprehensive hardware information resources on the Web.
URL: www.tomshardware.com

Keyboard, monitor & mouse pinouts

An overview of pinouts for PC, Sun, Mac, Firewire, USB, DVI, EVC and other connector pinouts and connections.
URL: www.networktechinc.com/technote.html

Downloadable boot disks

Downloadable boot disks (including network client configurations)
URL: BootDisk.com

PE Builder: Live Windows on bootable CD

Build a complete W32 environment on a bootable CD.
URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Knoppix: Live Linux on bootable CD

A live Linux distro on a bootable CD. Insert CD, boot PC, and Mandrake Linux is running.
URL: www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Windows update, corporate mode

Do you know this link: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp? Of course you do. Now if you add "corporate=true" to the end of the above URL, suddenly you have a few interesting extra options. :-)
URL: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp?corporate=true

(Electronic) Engineering

Hardware Book

A huge collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions.
URL: www.hardwarebook.net

Chip Directory

Searchable lists of all kinds of chips, URLs to manufactures and online data, and pin-outs.
URL: www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/chipdir/

Discover Circuits

A portal page linking to zillions of electronic circuit designs.
URL: www.discovercircuits.com

How Stuff Works

Simple but in-depth explanations on the workings of just about everything.
URL: How Stuff Works

Humor and fun

Think Geek

Get your essential geek accessories here. www.thinkgeek.com.

Strawberry pop tart research

Patrick R. Michauds hilarious paper on strawberry pop-tart blowtorches.
www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast

The Dilbert Zone

Needs no explanation.
URL: www.dilbert.com

The Bastard Operator From Hell

Required reading for every systems or network administrator.
URL: bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html (archive)
URL: www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/ (recent issues)

The New Hacker's Dictionary

Because you need to know how to frobnicate a tarball.
URL: www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/

Miscellaneous

Nettiquette Guidelines

RFC1855. First read, then post.
URL: www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

Text files archive

The good old T-philes from the BBS days.
URL: www.textfiles.com

Digital camera reviews

In-depth reviews of the latest digital camera models.
URLs: www.dpreview.com and www.dcresource.com.

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