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Welcome to Information Resources.

05.06.2006 UNDER CONSTRUCTION, PLEASE BE PATIENT

Information Resources exists for the sole purpose of providing a portal to all offsite resources, starting with several broad-base general purpose sites, then split by category.

Please PM me with the URI of any site you feel needs to be added. Include a short description and categorization. Make sure the title includes 'Information Resources' Any PM lacking any of these requirements will be summarily discarded.

Any posts in this thread will be ignored and/or deleted.

If you find a dead link, please PM me with 'dead link' in the title, and the link + category in the message. e.g. 'Somesite, Programming>Assembled'

Table of Contents


Green links are to a page within this thread. Blue links are to external sites.

General Sites
A list of search-engines, general knowledge sites, and broad-spectrum technology resources.
>Search Engines
>General Knowledge
>General Technology

Programming
This is roughly arranged into interpreted, compiled, and assembled languages.
>Interpreted
>Compiled
>Assembled
After some reflection, we decided to present the expanded programming section:
>Scripting
>Markup

Networking
Networking is split roughly into local area networks, or self-contained networks, and networking across the internet.
>Local
>Internet

Hardware
Hardware is a broad range of review, news, and modifications sites, from simple HOWTOs on installing components, to soldering and overclocking
>Reviews
>News
>HOWTOs

Software
This is a clearinghouse for all things soft and ware-ish. Reviews, freeware sites, news sites.
>Reviews
>Freeware
>News

Security
Security links to resources to help improve your system security. This is -not- how to crack security, nor will any dual-use tools be listed.
>Basic Steps
>Intermediate
>Advanced Protection

Social-Legal
Social-Legal links to resources dealing with both the impacts and regulation of technology in society.
>United States Law
>European Union Law
>Australian Law
>Canadian Law

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General Knowledge Sites


These sites should be a first stop for any search.

Search Engines

Google
The Search Engine. So popular, ubiquitous, and useful, that it has graduated to a verb.

All The Web
A good search engine for slightly off the beaten path answers, catches some results that Google misses.

DMOZ - Open Directory Project
Search capabilities vary, but the associated directories are incredibly useful.

Mooter
Cluster-based search results, quite odd at first.

Dicy
Another cluster/phrase based search engine.

General Knowledge

Wikipedia
A massive user-edited repository of factual information, often contains incredibly detailed amounts of information on a topic.

Acronym Finder
Need to know what IPv6 stands for? Want to find out what the heck ARP is? Confused by RFC? Come here to make sense of alphabet soup.

OneLook
A meta-search of many online dictionaries. So useful you might just defenestrate your old dictionary.

Urban Dictionary
Want to know what a particular bit of slang means? Interested in words other people have invented? Urban Dictionary has it.

General Technology

How Stuff Works
Illustrated explanations of how things work.

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Programming


Interpreted

Python.org
The home of Python. Fear the snake!

SQL.org
The home of SQL.

ic#code
Free tools for working with C# and VB.NET

Compiled

TheFreeCountry Interpreter and Compiler List
Exactly what it says. Free interpreters and compilers for a laundry list of languages.

Beej's Guide to C
The best introductory C guide I have ever read.

Assembled

NASM
The netwide assembler. My preferred tool.

MASM32
The Microsoft Assembler, updated for 32-bit architecture.

Scripting

Markup

W3Schools
W3Schools offers training in HTML, XML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, and more. All free.

CSS Zen Garden
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

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Networking


Local

Hamachi
A Free WAN/VPN program.

Internet

ARIN WHOIS Database
For looking up IPs in North America, check here.

RIPE WHOIS Database
European IP lookups.

APNIC WHOIS Database
Asia and Pacific Islands IP lookup.

LACNIC WHOIS Database
Latin American IP lookup.

AFRINIC WHOIS Database
African IP lookup.

DNS Stuff
A collection of on-line tools for testing DNS, WHOIS lookups, reverse lookups, and more.

DSL Reports
Covers a wide range of networking subjects, including guides for routers, networking software, and software that uses those networks.

Internet Health Report
A quick reference of the status of every US tier one provider (network backbone).

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Hardware


Reviews

Toms Hardware Guide
Infamous for their LN2-cooled 5GHz project. Good reviews and news site.

AnandTech
Hardware news and review site. Very good.

News

HOWTOs

Pinouts.ru
Hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts for just about everything.

Beepcodes
Lists various beepcodes for various BIOSes.

More Beepcodes
Another listing of various BIOS beepcodes.

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Software


Reviews

Freeware

Mozilla Diagnostic
Having trouble with Firefox, Thunderbird, or The Mozilla Suite? Use this.

Download.com
A good general downloads site, a little bit of everything. Patches, shareware, freeware, and trial-versions.

MajorGeeks
Lots of software that can help you fixing your computer, from updates, diagnostic, fixers, cleaning, recovering to nifty help tools.

Bootdisk.com
Boot disks and CDs for any OS.

OS-Specific

[][]Linux

[][]DistroWatch
[][]If you need a specific distro, or just want to see how many there are, DistroWatch has all the public releases listed, both as downloads,
[][]or CDs sent to your home (for a small fee).
[][]It also offers reviews, and links to communities for Linux (And the different distros.).

[][]Linux Distribution Chooser
[][]A small test to help you chose a Linux distro, the downside is that it contain less then 20 of the more mainstream distros.
[][]But it should be able to help point you in the right direction.

[][]Slackware
[][]A minimalist Linux distro. Powerful and lightweight.

[][]Ubuntu
[][]Designed as a user-friendly Linux distro. You can order free CDs shipped to you as well.

[][]Gentoo
[][]Gentoo is a power-user distro.

[][]The Linux Documentation Project
[][]A diverse list of HOWTOs and man pages for all things Linux.

[][]Apple OS X

[][]Microsoft Windows

[][]Startup Applications List
[][]What you may find in the startup list, and what it is.

[][]DLL Library
[][]Provides detailed information about common DLLs.

[][]Dll Files
[][]Missing a DLL file? Try finding it here.

[][]Process Library
[][]A list of processes which may be running in Windows, and what exactly they are.

[][]XP, from A to Z
[][]Like the title says: Windows XP, A to Z.

[][]BartPE builder
[][]A live-CD for Windows XP and 2003, native NTFS support.

[][]Annoyances.org
[][]If it concerns any windows OS you can find information about it here, lousy search engine though.

[][]Microsoft Server 2003 Trial
[][]A 180 day trial of Windows Server 2003. If you need an OS temporarily, and want Windows.

[][]Other OSes

[][]ReactOS
[][]An open-source fully Windows-compatible OS. Still under construction.

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Security


Basic Information

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
A solid anti-spyware tool, easy to use, powerful. Should be used in tandem with the next item...

Spybot Search and Destroy
Another anti-spyware tool, due to slightly different signature files and search patterns, it will catch what ad-aware misses, and vice versa.

Trend Micro CWShredder
CWShredder is tailored to find and remove all traces of the CoolWebSearch browser hijack.

Intermediate Knowledge

HijackThis
Designed to find and eradicate browser hijackers, HJT is an indispensable tool in the fight against malware. One must know what they are doing when using it however.

Internet Storm Center
ISC often has updates about new attacks, and information on a wide variety of security-related subjects.

Advanced Subjects

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Social-Legal


United States Law

Groklaw
Need to understand why exactly RSA was a munition? Or confused about the effects of the DMCA? Groklaw knows.

European Union Law

Australian Law

Canadian Law

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Current Version: 0.2b (11.03.2005)

Revision History:
0.1b (11.03.2005) Created.
0.2b (05.06.2006) Updated.

Much thanks to Joda01 for many of the links here!
Thanks to Shoroo_Lupin for the link to Windows Server 2003.
Thanks to BPrice for much sage advice about security, and the SANS links.

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Cool Things


This is reserved for things I deem cool, interesting, or worthwhile. There will be no descriptions, as I enjoy surprises.

95 theses of geek activism

Standing on a mountaintop in northern Siberia under the rapidly descending bulk of asteroid McAlmont, with a calculating expression and a baseball bat

Endangered Machinery

Schneier on Security

Disenchanted

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If I may, shall I post more reference sites?

Here are sites to use, when using Msconfig.exe, in reference of the determining the functions of a given process.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com
http://www.processlibrary.com
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