From: Ole Michaelsen [omic+usenet@fys.ku.dk] Newsgroups: comp.security.unix Subject: Re: secure a user to his home directory and disable him from viewing anything outside his own directory Date: 08 Jun 2000 20:08:34 +0200 Organization: University of Copenhagen dwaynekuan@my-deja.com writes: > > how do i totally shut him down to his own home directory?? I found this on freshmeat. Maybe that's what you need? Path: news.freshmeat.net!not-for-mail Approved: scoop@freshmeat.net (Patrick Lenz) Message-ID: [8hnrkf$9vo$2@mail.freshmeat.net] NNTP-Posting-Host: freshmeat.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jun 2000 10:13:35 GMT Xref: news.freshmeat.net fm.announce.console:3910 application: Linux Intrusion Detection System 0.9.5a author: Xie Hua Gang [xhg@gem.ncic.ac.cn] license: GPL category: Console/Firewall and Security urgency: medium homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/homepage/939982897/ download: http://freshmeat.net/redir/download/939982897/ description: The Linux Intrusion Detection System is a patch which enhances the kernel's security. When it is in effect, chosen files access, all system/network administration operations, any capability use, raw device, mem, and I/O access can be made impossible even for root. You can define which program can access which file. It uses and extends the system capabilities bounding set to control the whole system and adds some network and filesystem security features to the kernel to enhance the security. You can finely tune the security protections online, hide sensitive processes, receive security alerts through the network, and more. Changes: Transition to 2.2.16 kernel, bugfix for protecting mount point, bugfix for port scanner detector in the kernel. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/06/08/960459276.htmlWouldn't something like making his shell be 'chroot sh -i $HOME' do the trick? [Please excuse me if I'm missing something obvious] -- Texas Imperial Software | Try WFTPD, the Windows FTP Server. Find us 1602 Harvest Moon Place | at web site http://www.wftpd.com or email Cedar Park TX 78613 | us at alun@texis.com. VISA / MC accepted. Fax +1 (512) 378 3246 | NT-based ISPs, be sure to read details of
> dwaynekuan@my-deja.com writes: > > > how do i totally shut him down to his own home directory?? man 2 chroot
From: clive@nsict.org (Clive Jones) Newsgroups: comp.security.unix Subject: Re: secure a user to his home directory and disable him from viewing anything outside his own directory Date: 9 Jun 2000 01:02:25 +0100 Organization: National Society for the Inversion of Cuddly Tigers In article [87em673j67.fsf@bglbv.my-deja.com], [bglbv@my-deja.com] wrote: >Yes, although the likelihood of unwittingly introducing a security >hole that makes it possible for the user to break out of the chroot >jail shouldn't be underestimated. That's not the only thing not to underestimate. Messing with chroot when you don't understand the implications fully can give people root expoits, not just a way out of the jail. An obvious example would be accidentally including su, login, or similar in their environment, when they can modify their personal version of /etc/passwd - but that's just the tip of the iceberg. --Clive.
- Reporting Copyright Problems
- UK Copyright/UK Patents/UK Designs/UK Trademarks
- Copyright: http://www.patent.gov.uk/dpolicy/index.html
- Patents: http://www.patent.gov.uk/dpatents/index.html
- Designs: http://www.patent.gov.uk/ddesigns/index.html
- Trademarks: http://www.patent.gov.uk/dtrademk/index.html
- How Long Does A Copyright Last?
- At http://www.mycounsel.com/content/intelprop/copyright/duration/
- At http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/Power1/tsld011.htm
- At http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/faq/copyright/how_long.htm
- At
http://www.legal-forms-kit.com/freelegaladvice/patent-copyright/2.html
- ("Under Australian law, if the creator of the copyright item has been dead for more
than 50 years and the item was published within their lifetime, the work generally
passes into the public domain. If the work was not published in their lifetime, the
copyright period commences from the date of publication. Copyright in a work
cannot be revived once it has lapsed, regardless of copyright ownership. It should
be remembered, however, that copyright laws differ between countries, and what
may be out of copyright (or in the public domain) in Australia may still be covered
by copyright provisions in other countries.
Also be aware that that other rights may exist in the form of published editions, translations, adaptations of works, and new recordings or arrangements of musical works. Please contact the Copyright Officer if you are unsure of the status of the material you wish to use."):
http://www.scu.edu.au/policy/copyright/general/length.html
- How long does a Copyright last?:
("In most cases, a copyright lasts for the lifetime of the author plus fifty years after the calendar year in which the author dies.
Copyright protection always expires on December 31 of the last year of protection. There are no maintenance fees for
copyright and copyright cannot be renewed. There are several exceptions to the general rule.")
http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/faq/copyright/how_long.htm - How long does a Copyright last?:
("Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, exists from its
creation and, except for certain limited exceptions, endures for the life of the author and for
70 years after the author's death.
In the case of a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire, the copyright endures for the life of the last surviving author and for 70 years after the last surviving author's death. ")
http://www.copyrights-attorney.com/copy-7.htm - How long does a Copyright last?:
- http://www.copyrights-attorney.com/copy-7.htm
- Created 1-1-78 or after: Life + 70 years1(or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation
- Published before 1923: In public domain
- Published from 1923 - 63: 28 years + could be renewed for 47 years, now extended by 20 years for a total renewal of 67 years. If not so renewed, now in public domain.
- Canada:
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/cipo/help/faq_cp-e.html
- "Works renewed before 1978
Works that were originally copyrighted before 1950 and renewed
before 1978 were granted an extension to their renewal term by
an act of Congress (recently again extended). Thus, the renewal
term now lasts for sixty-seven years (for a total of a ninety-five
year copyright term.)
Things get tricky for works that were in their first term when the law changed in 1978. Works copyrighted between January 1, 1950 and December 31, 1963 still had to be renewed in order to be protected for a second term. If renewed, the second term was extended to sixty-seven years, for a total of a ninety-five year term, see above.) If renewal was not applied for, the copyright protection ended on December 31 of the twenty eight year.
Works copyrighted between January 1, 1964 and December 31, 1977 were automatically renewed for a second term. Thus, no registration of the renewal was required."
- crash course in copyright...: Getting Permission
- At http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
- Getting Permission: http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/permissn.htm
- Intellectual Property Course - on-line
- At http://www.legalline.ca/intellectual/intellectualbody.html
- Getting Permission: http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/permissn.htm
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- "An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication."
- At http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
- Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia
- Welcome to The Copyright Website! This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information of interest
to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers, musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding citizens.
- APIC WORLDWIDE - Three Important Copyright Point
- At
http://www.a-w.org/info.html
APIC WORLDWIDE - Three Important Copyright Points The United States affords protection to the authors of certain original works as provided by the United States Code on Copyright. In order to avoid the problems involved in copyright infringement it is important to understand the fundamentals of copyright law. Three important points are: The notice of copyright Just what does copyright protect The duration of copyright 1. Notice Of Copyright It is not necessary to attach a copyright notice to a work in order for that work to be copyrighted. However, in order to be eligible for certain damages in a lawsuit, the copyright notice must be attached. A copyright notice should contain: the symbol © (THE LETTER C IN A CIRCLE), or the word "Copyright" or the abbreviation "Copr.", and; the year of first publication of the work, and; the name of the owner of copyright in the work. Example: ©1997 Jane Doe 2. What Types of Work Does Copyright Protect? Copyright protects original works of expression. These works include: literary dramatic, including accompanying music pantomimes and choreographic pictorial, graphic and sculptural motion pictures and other audiovisual sound recordings, and architectural 3. Duration of Copyright Before 1978: published: Copyright expires 75 years from the date of publication not published: Copyright expires 12/31/02 1978 through present: individually owned: life of author plus 50 years owned by employer of author: 75 years from date of publication or 100 years from date of creation, whichever occurs first. Berne Convention In 1989 the United States joined the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. The Berne Convention is an international copyright treaty signed by 96 countries. The regulations are far more stringent than United States copyright laws. The Berne Convention recently extended the term of protection to the life of the author plus 75 years. The United States law is expected to follow suit. Fair Use See 17 United States Code Section 107- Limitations on Exclusive Rights: Fair Use- For certain purposes, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In making this determination of fair use these 4 factors must be considered: purpose and character of use, whether of a commercial nature or for nonprofit educational purposes; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Public Domain Public domain is a legal term which refers to the end of term of copyright and thereafter. You can be certain that you would never come across any erotic photography on the web that would be considered public domain. Remember, copyright begins with the creator of a work (a photo, an article, etc.) and continues through that author's life plus 50 years. Only then is that work in the "public domain". Anyone who simply puts up sites with photos they grabbed elsewhere off the Internet is most certainly infringing someone's copyrights. You can be certain that this includes all celebrity images as well. A celebrity image with all applicable model releases would allow the copyright owner economic freedom to sell or assign the rights to that image. The Public Domain is made up of all those works, that for whatever reason are not protected by copyright Works in the Public Domain are free to use without permission. These include: originally non-copyrightable expired copyright authored by the Federal Government specifically granted to the Public Domain
- At
http://www.a-w.org/info.html
- Australia outlaws e-mail forwarding
- At
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17324.html
Australia outlaws e-mail forwarding By: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 05/03/2001 at 08:10 GMT Outrageously strict Internet copyright laws which have just gone into effect throughout Australia make it illegal to forward an e-mail memo without the author's permission, and could result in fines of $60,000 or five years in the slam, according to a story by the Aussie Sunday Telegraph. "It's quite possible that the forwarding of an e-mail could be a technical infringement of copyright," an unnamed legal advisor to Oz Attorney General Daryl Williams told the paper. "E-mailing is a 'communication' under the Digital Agenda Act, and so is putting something up on a Web site," the source added. This could rank as the world's most copyright-friendly and common-sense-hostile piece of legislation yet devised. And that's not all: Aussies recently revealed a widespread national neurosis by entertaining, in the state of South Australia, an Internet censorship bill which would criminalize the posting any material which cops deem offensive to children - that's anything, anywhere. The bill would require Net content to be child-friendly according to the country's movie certification scheme; but, in a twist straight out of Kafka, it's not possible for Webmasters to get their sites reviewed by the relevant authority before they get busted. Which is to say nothing of the lunacy of reducing on-line discourse and dialogue to infant babble. Clearly, the Puritanical delight in censoring impure thoughts and regulating the pleasure of others has once again got out of control down under. Over half a century ago the English writer Norman Douglas had occasion to observe that "all mankind is at the mercy of a handful of neurotics". So much for progress. ®
- At
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17324.html
- Aussie AG denies e-mail penalty, sort of
- At
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17350.html
Aussie AG denies e-mail penalty, sort of By: Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 05/03/2001 at 16:50 GMT We've been buried in reader responses, most originating in Australia, pointing us to a statement in clear contradiction of a Sunday Telegraph story indicating that Australia's new copyright regulations could result in penalties for forwarding an e-mail memo, which we picked up here. "Contrary to alarmist media reports, sharing e-mail is not banned by law," Australian Attorney General Daryl Williams says in a press release issued Monday. "Amendments to the Copyright Act that came into effect today do not ,outlaw the practice of forwarding personal e-mails to other people. That would be ridiculous," he observes. A court would need to find that the contents of the e-mail were an "original literary work", he adds. But while he decries media sensationalism firmly enough, he doesn't quite deny the possibility that forwarding e-mail can land one in hot water with the same finality. "For example, if the e-mail was simply a joke that everyone had been re-hashing for years, it is doubtful it would have the necessary originality to be protected by copyright. Similarly, a casual exchange of personal information or office gossip would probably not be original enough to have copyright in it." (our emphasis) That's not quite the same as saying that some doofus original limerick or ode to precious bodily fluids as in the case of the now famous, possibly bogus, Claire Swire e-mail could not be disputed in court. One reader scolded us for repeating what we'd read in the papers. "The Sunday Telegraph. A source for NEWS? Are you serious?!" they ask. Well, we thought we were.... ®
- At
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17350.html
- Is it possible to get inside the local network without breaking the gateway security first?
- For one possibility (source routed packets) read - 3.1 What are source routed packets?:
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#3.1
> On 08 Jun 2000 12:17:06 +0200, Emmanuel Michon wrote: > > >Is it possible to get inside the local network without breaking the > >gateway security first? > > For one possibility (source routed packets) read > > http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#3.1 As far as I understand Linux is about sanely configured in this case, and has the following default settings: accept_source_route - BOOLEAN Accept packets with SRR option. (default TRUE) rp_filter - INTEGER 2 - do source validation by reversed path, as specified in RFC1812 Recommended option for single homed hosts and stub network routers. Could cause troubles for complicated (not loop free) networks running a slow unreliable protocol (sort of RIP), or using static routes. 1 - (DEFAULT) Weaker form of RP filtering: drop all the packets that look as sourced at a directly connected interface, but were input from another interface. 0 - No source validation. It seems that this setting is reasonable; but I could also disable definitely with accept_source_route=FALSE -- Emmanuel Michon
From: nick@webthing.com (Nick Kew) Newsgroups: comp.security.unix Subject: Re: One-to-many nat: can such a network be penetrated? Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:31:13 +0000 Organization: The Holy Book of the Great Bludner In article [7wbt1c1nq5.fsf@sdesigns.com], Emmanuel Michon [emmanuel_michon@sdesigns.com] writes: > let's consider a local network of computers with private addresses, > let's say 172.15.0.0/255.255.0.0. Such addresses cannot be routed > on the internet. Methinks you got your address range wrong, but we'll let that pass. > One of them acts as a gateway, with an ethernet 172.15.12.12 and > also another network interface to the internet, with a public address. > Is it possible to get inside the local network without breaking the > gateway security first? Somewhere on the 'net: /sbin/route add -network [your.private.net] -gateway [your.public.address] (or whatever the syntax for route on your OS may be) Add a rule to block traffic arriving at the external interface for an internal address. -- Nick Kew
- For one possibility (source routed packets) read - 3.1 What are source routed packets?:
http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html#3.1
- How do I know if something is copyrighted or not?
- At http://phd.uchicago.edu/phd/copyrightfaq.html
- Refers to "Copyright Law and Graduate Research,": http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/DServices/copyrght/
- Refers to "The Library of Congress also offers information": http://www.loc.gov/copyright/rb.html | http://www.loc.gov/copyright/guide.html
- Refers to "or directions on searching paper and microfiche records from 1790 through 1978, see How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (Circular 22)": http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ22.html
- Refers to "The Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files of the Copyright Office (Circular 23)": http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ23.pdf
- AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW PRIMER FOR MULTIMEDIA AND WEB DEVELOPERS
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- Word Mark on "SUCK IT DOWN" by Ion Storm
- At http://trademarks.uspto.gov/cgi-bin/ifetch4?ENG+ALL+3+947480+4+1+328628+F+7+15+1+ON%2f%22ion+storm%22
- US patent mess will get worse before it gets better
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10119.html
- AltaVista to become only Net search engine: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16180.html
- Abacus
- Spreadsheet program for Linux/Unix
- At http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html
- Free software would have prevented foot and mouth, BSE, Hatfield rail crash - RMS
- "at least according to Richard Stallman"
- At
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18146.html
"Stallman was there to put them right. This is a man who treats copyright as damage and routes around it - as Nick Mailer from the Campaign for Unmetered Telecoms found out over lunch when Stallman roasted him for daring to use the non-open Zend PHP compiler, and told him that the only honourable thing to do was to sit down and write his own. For the man who started the GNU project, this probably seems reasonable, but the rest of us could only sit back in awe. "
- Virus Klez : Don't Believe 'From' Line
- W32.Magistr.24876@mm Windows Email Virus
- http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/security/alert-magistr.html
- http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html
- Year 2000 Problem/Millennium Bug/Y2K Complience Statements
- Perl (really good and acidic one) - http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/01/y2k.html
- Xemacs - http://www.xemacs.org/year2000.html
- Sudo - a utility to allow restricted root access
- At http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
- Sudo at Lockheed Martin Astronautics: http://www.komar.org/komar/alek/pres/sudo/toc.html
- Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal
- At http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
- At ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/ditigo/fortran90/Real_programmers
- The story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
- The story of Mel: http://www.jargon.8hz.com/jargon_49.html
- A Bill Gates interview covering early Microsoft history, including Altair BASIC
- Could Bill Gates write code?
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18949.html
- Reuben Harris' analysis of Altair 4K BASIC : http://www.rjh.org.uk/altair/4k/
- Play with Altair 4K BASIC at the Online Software Museum : http://museum.sysun.com/museum/alt.html
- Story of Monte Davidoff: Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html
- Compac Visual Fortran 6.5 Redistributable Files - Self-Installing Kit
- "The self-installing executable kit on this page installs the run-time
components needed to run Visual Fortran applications on systems which do
not have Visual Fortran installed. The components installed by this kit are: "
- DFORRT.DLL - Visual Fortran non-threaded run-time support
- DFORMD.DLL - Visual Fortran threaded run-time support
- FQWIN.HLP - QuickWin run-time help file
- MSVCRT.DLL - Microsoft Visual C run-time support
- OLEAUT32.DLL - Microsoft OLE Automation
- OLEPRO32.DLL - Microsoft OLE Automation
- STDOLE32.TLB - Microsoft OLE Automation
- At http://www5.compaq.com/fortran/visual/redist.html
- Loglan
- Artificial speech language devleoped in the 1050's (like esparanto)
- At http://www.halcyon.com/loglan/
- Dylan Programming Language
- "Dylan is a new object-oriented dynamic programming language designed to greatly enhance programmer productivity and reduce software time-to-market. Dylan combines ease of use with exceptional strength in handling complex applications. "
- At http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/dylan/
- Human-Centered Website Design (Why my website has almost no graphics and no frames.)
- "My partner, Jakob Nielsen, has argued most persuasively -- and numerous studies over the past several decades have confirmed -- that content and the speed with which it arrives are the most important properties of a website. What good is it to have great beauty, subtle pictures, and fancy design if most viewers give up before the third download? Moreover, most browsers are not the very latest version, so they may not be capable of handling all those latest features. "
- At http://www.jnd.org/hcd_website_design.html
- Some Guidelines for Creating Good Frames
- Extracting a 3DES key from an IBM 4758
- At http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/
- Part 1: What is an IBM 4758 ? : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/descrack/ibm4758.html
- MS throttles research to conceal SW bugs
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22740.html
- "Exclusive: The truth will not set you free"
- How Microsoft invented open source, by Bill Gates
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22749.html
- "Enter the commie anarchists: "There is a particular approach that
breaks the cycle called the GPL that is not worth getting into today,
but I don't think there is much awareness about how so-called free
software foundations designed that to break that cycle."
So free software was fine up until 1989, but then Vladimir Ilyich Stallman came up with the GNU GPL with the specific aim of breaking the virtuous cycle. Bill proceeds to get into it anyway." - "[Shareholders sing "Embrace and Extend" to tune of "Share and Enjoy" from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, curtain]"
- Javascript for web menus
- The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability
- "Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group"
- At http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
- WAP Field Study Findings: WAP Doesn't Work: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001210.html
- Flash: 99% Bad: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html
- Why Doc Searls Doesn't Sell Any Books "Summary: Changing to a new fulfillment provider caused a website to lose all sales. Reason: lower usability. In the future, reputation managers and web wallets will even the playing field and remove Amazon's temporary advantage as the fulfillment provider of choice. ": http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000806.html
- Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html
- Is Navigation Useful?: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000109.html
- Ten Good Deeds in Web Design: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html
- Do Interface Standards Stifle Design Creativity?: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990822.html
- Stuck With Old Browsers Until 2003: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990418.html
- 1994 Design of SunWeb - Sun Microsystems' Intranet: http://www.useit.com/papers/sunweb/
- The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html
- Failure of Corporate Websites: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981018.html
- The Web in 2001: Paying Customers: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001224.html
- End of Web Design: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000723.html
- WAP Backlash: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000709.html
- Eyetracking Study of Web Readers: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000514.html
- When Bad Design Elements Become the Standard: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991114.html
- Prioritize: Good Content Bubbles to the Top: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991017.html
- WAP Usability Report: Field Study in London Fall 2000: http://www.NNgroup.com/reports/wap/
- WAB project in Zurich
- Uses a filtering proxy to prepare HTML pages for blind users.
- At http://www.inf.ethz.ch/department/IS/ea/blinds/
- Waplet
- Deck-it Previewer - WAP emulator
- List of WAP emulators
- WAP UA stands for WAP UserAgent
- DigiBuy
- "DigiBuy is an electronic commerce solution for publishers of software, shareware, electronic art, information, and data. Using DigiBuy's turnkey service, you can quickly and inexpensively build a secure storefront to merchandise your products, take orders online, process payments, and distribute digital products over the Internet. "
- "We also offer a service for college students and faculty looking to start their own digital business. DigiBuy University is free to students and faculty."
- At http://www.digibuy.com/
- T shirt/T-shirt Printing Companies
- Ultimate Impressions screen printing & T-shirts (New York City, USA): http://www.ultimateimpressions.com/
- Quaza Transfers (??): http://www.quaza.com/
- Hopeland Mfg. Co., Inc. (PA, USA): http://www.hopelandmfg.com/index.html
- Creative Awards and Screen Printing (Kansas, USA): http://www.creative-awards.com
- Pukka Signs - Banners- T-shirts (Essex, UK): http://www.pukka.uk.com/computer/ http://www.pukka.uk.com/team/
- FatDog Promotions (East Sussex, UK): http://www.fatdog.co.uk/
- London College of Printing (UK): http://www.linst.ac.uk/lcp/index.html
- Millar Group (Macclesfield, UK): http://www.inter-loc.co.uk/millar/
- Impressions of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK): http://www.impressions-of-liverpool.co.uk
- The Promotional Merchandise Web Site (UK):
http://www.martex.co.uk/bpma/index.htm
- The Promotional Merchandise Web Site (Source a Product): http://www.martex.co.uk/bpma/prodfr.htm
- Ad Muncher
- "Ad Muncher is a small, efficient and reliable patch for Netscape, Microsoft, Opera, and other, browsers which removes banners, buttons, popups and general browsing annoyances."
- At http://www.admuncher.com/
- Proxomitron (A Universal Web Filter)
- Web content filtering softare to get rid of adverts, etc.
- At http://proxomitron.cjb.net/
- At http://spywaresucks.org/prox/
- Junkbusters Software/Proxy/Clien
- Web content filtering softare to get rid of adverts, etc.
- "Bust the junk out of your web browsing"
- "BUST THE JUNK MESSAGES OUT OF YOUR LIFE"
- "The Internet Junkbuster Proxy TM gets rid of stuff you don't want while surfing the Web, such as banner ads and cookies. It's free software that everyone is welcome to download, install and distribute (according to the GPL). It uses very little disk space and is so fast that it's practically unnoticable. If ads are blocked, it typically speeds up surfing."
- At http://www.junkbusters.com
- Alternative Version of Internet Junkbuster
- "I have modified the Internet Junkbuster slightly. While the original Junkbuster does not download the ad and the browser displays a `broken' image instead, my own version will replace the ad simply with an empty image. But you can configure this easily."
- "I have modified the Internet Junkbuster slightly. While the original Junkbuster does not download the ad and the browser displays a `broken' image instead, my own version will replace the ad simply with an empty image. But you can configure this easily."
- At http://www.waldherr.org/junkbuster/
- WWW Ad banner filtering
- At http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/NoShit/index.html
- No-shit - http://www.america.com/~chrisf/web/NoShit/library.txt
- Other WWW Ad banner/advertisement filters
- WebFree for Mac - http://www.falken.net/webfree/
- Intermute for UNIX, Windows - http://www.intermute.com
- Muffin for Java - http://muffin.doit.org/
- NetNanny for PC
- Internet Security and Filtering product - stop kids looking at pornography over the internet
- At http://www.netnanny.com/
- AdCops
- "Adcops is an ally of merchants worldwide. Our mission is simple...to educate Merchants about fraud so they can make a profit and stay online. With all the doom and gloom about dot.com's, it's in all of our best interests for Merchants to survive and the Internet continue to grow."
- At http://www.adcops.com/
- Cardcops - sequel to AdCops
- EduWeb in the UK
- At http://www.eduweb.co.uk/
- More info, including filtering and security details.: http://www.eduweb.co.uk/service/serv.asp
- Internet for Learning : Filtering
- At http://www.ifl.net/support/filtering.html
- Filtering explained (Full explanation of RM IFL filtering policy): http://www.ifl.net/support/filteringpolicy.html
- SurfWatch
- Content Filter software company/netnanny
- At http://www.surfwatch.com/
- Boss Everyware for PC
- Boss Everyware is a shareware program which lets you know when and how a PC was used.
- At http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jmerik/bossever.htm
- Net Authority (A Better Internet for Our Children)
- Netcop site.
- At http://www.netauthority.org/
- "The Net Authority is a group of individuals who have taken it upon
themselves to govern the Internet. We have waited patiently and in vain for
the World's governments to put their resources together and develop a standard
set of guildelines for what material should be permitted on the Internet, and
what should not. We have prayed without answer for a centralized agency
with the power and the means to stop crimes against humanity on the Internet.
The time for waiting has ended. Clearly we, the people, must take matters
into our own hands. Net Authority writes those guidelines. Net Authority is that agency."
- "Net Authority's primary function is to devise and maintain a set of
standards for Internet material. These standards clearly lay out what is and
is not acceptable material for public distribution over the Internet. The
purpose of the standards is to eventually replace today's filth and smut ridden
Internet with the cleaner, healthier, and overall more effective Internet of tomorrow.
The Net Authority Acceptable Internet Usage Guidelines (NA-AIUG) are based solely on the desirable morals of civilized society. Their basic effect is to simply organize and prioritize all that is blasphemous in the eyes of God. It is only natural for one of the tools of His creation to be adapted and molded into a form that He finds acceptable. Net Authority merely acts as a catalyst for that process."
- "Net Authority is also the leading source of Internet offender tracking.
We maintain several large databases of the names and personal information of
individuals who have breached the NA-AIUG. These databases are continually
updated and maintained in preparation for when Net Authority gains the legal
means to prosecute and punish these individuals. Our databases are the
largest and most accurate of their kind in existence, as they rely on the
Internet population as a whole to keep them up to date.
For more information on our databases, please click here.
In these times of widespread chaos and blatant defiance of our Lord, we must work together. With our help and yours, the Internet can become a much safer, more enjoyable, and friendly environment to work in."
- As of June 2001:
General Blasphemy
Registered General Blasphemy Offenders: 2801
The general blasphemy list contains information on people who have either read, distributed, or been involved in any way with blasphemic materials on the internet. General blasphemy is material that is considered evil when viewed through the eyes of God.
- Linux sites all over the world!
- Connecting Linux to an ISP - PPP
- Yahoo! execs should do time for Kiddie! Porn!
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19854.html
- "We tried a simple, brief search at Yahoo!, confining our results to Yahoo! groups, on the term 'preteen pics' and came up with nothing. A search outside Yahoo brought up zillions of sites elsewhere, chiefly in Japan and Russia. A search on just 'preteen' confined to Yahoo! brought up a large selection of harmless areas for children, and no porn."
- Connecting Linux to an ISP - PPP
- since-0.1.tar.gz (view only the data appended to (log) files since the last time)
- VIM (UNIX, PC, everything)
- Vi clone with multiple undo and redo (with command ^R), Text Formatting, etc.
- http://www.vim.org/
- Why use VIM: http://www.vim.org/why.html
- Download of source to compile: "ftp://ftp.nl.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/
- Freeware Text Editors for Windows that can do Column Editing
- ConTEXT (toggle Control L for normal and column editing mode)
(will also save to UNIX, DOS and Mac ASCII - "Tools, Convert Text to"):
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/
- NoteTab Text Editor (It is accessed in the menu "Modify" -> "Block". You specify Starting column, Block Width, and Block Rows) (thanks to Magnus H. Sorby for providing this information): http://www.notetab.com/
- ConTEXT (toggle Control L for normal and column editing mode)
(will also save to UNIX, DOS and Mac ASCII - "Tools, Convert Text to"):
http://www.fixedsys.com/context/
- PFE for MS Windows (Programmers File Editor)
- At http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
- Mirror: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/pfe/people/cpaap/pfe/
- Editors. - Version 0.17.2 by Navindra Umanee
"``Why are we hiding from the police, daddy?'' ``They use Emacs, son, and we use vi.''
- At http://www.io.com/help/linux/
- Freeware Text Editors for UNIX that can do Column Editing
- "Like most things in UNIX, vi is not "column oriented". It does not have commands for affecting specific columns of each line (say columns 5-15). Rather, it is field or pattern oriented. Commands can be limited to a specified pattern of characters, however. ": http://pangea.stanford.edu/computerinfo/unix/editing/
- Column Editing with the Cut Command: "There is probably a way to do column deletions in the many editors available on UNIX (vi, pico, xedit, emacs, etc.). But this document shows a way to delete columns throughout an entire file using the "cut" command.": http://www.asu.edu/it/fyi/research/helpdocs/editing/tips/col_edit.html
- For more information on the cut command, enter "man cut" at the system prompt
- Column editing in EMACS: Under 30 Miscellaneous Commands: http://internt.isk.kth.se/staff/info/unix/manuals/emacs/emacs_33.html
- AppleTalk / Apple Talk for Windows
- PC MACLAN for Windows: http://www.miramarsys.com/products/index.html
- Freeware Text Editors for Apple Mac that can do Column Editing
- Plaintext 1.6.1 is a freeware text editor written by neurobiology professor Mel Park: (Plaintext contains column editing that enables you to select a vertical column): ftp://nb.utmem.edu/pub/plaintext/ | http://www.macinsearch.com/infomac2/textprocessing/plain-text-16.html | http://info-mac.acornsw.com/infomac/_TEXT_PROCESSING/PLAIN-TEXT-16.HTML
- Ultra Edit
- Text, Hex, HTML. Column editing. DOS to UNIX. UNIX to DOS.
- http://www.ultraedit.com/
- Apple Macintosh Text Editors - Getting Your ASCII In Gear
- http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-327.html#lnk4
- Frequently Asked Questions about Macintosh Application Software: http://www.delek.ethz.ch/isg-old/mac/faq/appsfaq.html
- List of Web Authoring Text Editors for Windows at Dave Central Software Archive
- List of Programming Text Editors for Windows at Dave Central Software Archive
- Freeware Text Editors for Windows that can do Column Editing
- ConTEXT (toggle Control L for normal and column editing mode) (will also save to UNIX, DOS and Mac ASCII - "Tools, Convert Text to"): http://www.fixedsys.com/context/
- Radpad freeware Text Editor for Windows
- Will add smilies, strip HTML, lowercase, uppercase, etc.
- http://members.nbci.com/brettslone/software.html
- Textpad Shareware Text Editor for Windows
- Reputedly does COlumn Editing
- http://www.textpad.com/
- Superedit/Super Edit freeware Text Editor for Windows
- Free standing. Has text pipe, multiple search and replace in one pass. (optional TextPipe processing support see http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipe.html)
- http://members.nbci.com/brettslone/software.html
- SoftSeek
- Searching for Shareware, Freeware and Evaluation Software programs
- At http://www.softseek.com/
- Programs taking up all memory in UNIX/LINUX
- help ulimit
- The Vi Editor and its clones
- WinVI Editor for MS Windows
- VI Editor/ VI LOVERS HOME PAGE
- Vassilii's Editors Sucks-Rules-O-Meter
- VI TUTORIAL -- Table of Contents
- At http://ECN.www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/
- Rearranging Text in VI Editor: http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/ECN/Documents/VI/9.rearrange.dup.text
- VI POWERED!
- "Wham - Take that feeble Emacs user!"
- At http://www.darryl.com/vi.shtml
- Amazing Linux Desktops
- Dosemu for Linux
- Dos emulator for Linux
- At http://www.calderasystems.com/linux-int/Resources/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO-1.html
- At ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/
- Caldera Open Linux
- At http://www.calderasystems.com/
- (Mirror at HENSA/UK Mirror: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/current/install-tree/)
- (Mirror at HENSA/UK Mirror: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/current/iso-images/)
- (Mirror : ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/current/iso-images/)
- (Mirror : ftp://ftp.tux.org/distributions/OpenLinux/2.3/iso-images/)
- Do post install of programs using the kpackage program.
- "Dragon Linux" - Linux on a DOS/Windows Partition
- "DragonLinux is not for everyone. It can be used on older machines that need
internet access, it can be used for persons new to Linux, and many people
find DragonLinux a great way to use Linux on an existing DOS partition for a
variety of reasons.
DragonLinux is small and compact in nature. The total file size is around 20 megabytes. If you need more utilities or applications that are not included in the distribution, simply grab them from the nearest internet site and install them!"
- "DragonLinux is UMSDOS based. UMSDOS is a full-featured UNIX-like file system for Linux. UMSDOS is a way for Linux to co-exist with DOS/Win95 on the same partition. It actually stands for Unix in MS-DOS. With UMSDOS, installation of a functional version of Linux is very easy."
- At http://www.dragonlinux.nu/
- At ftp://linux.idg.se/pub/dragonlinux/dragon-0.76/README76.TXT
- "DragonLinux is not for everyone. It can be used on older machines that need
internet access, it can be used for persons new to Linux, and many people
find DragonLinux a great way to use Linux on an existing DOS partition for a
variety of reasons.
- "Small Linux"
- "Small Linux is a two disk distribution of an minimal Linux. It has two objectives: - create a minimum distribution that will boot. - to have a distribution that will boot on a machine with 2 meg. "
- At http://smalllinux.netpedia.net/
- "tiny Xwindows"
- "Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 even better than its predecessor"
- "Put simply, Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 was a work of art -- but Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 is a masterpiece."
- At http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9910/18/caldera2.3.idg/index.html
- "Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 Articles"
- Caldera OpenLinux vs. Windows NT : http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/19/ntvlinux.ent.idg/index.html
- Why people don't hate Linux : http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9809/22/linuxlove.idg/index.html
- Source code for Lizard and COAS is available
- Brilliant installer and configuration tool for Linux. Comes with Caldera Linux.
- At http://www.openlinux.org/
- Caldera Open Administration System: http://www.coas.org
- Linux Installation wiZARD: http://www.openlinux.org/lizard/
- Caldera vs Microsoft Anti-trust Lawsuit
- Microsoft Anti-competitive on servers: HOW THE WEB WAS ALMOST WON
- CRC against Wolfram Research Court Case - October 2000
- The perils of converting a web site to a book.
- At http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
- Frequently Asked Questions: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/docs/faq.html
- At http://www.crcpress.com/us/
- Article on Open Source Scientific Publication
- At
http://slashdot.org/features/99/07/28/0219237.shtml
- A comment following on from this:
"Peer review often doesn't work (Score:3, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 28, @09:17PM EDT (#107)
Back when I was in grad school, my research happened to make a notable contribution to a hot topic at the time. I was (usually with other authors) submitting papers to IEEE journals at a rate of about 1 per 3-6 months. I also attended several conferences and got to know a lot of the major contributors in my research area.
Typically, every submission got sent to 3 experts for review. My professor (and one of his collegues) even forwarded to me several papers they were asked to review. I noticed a couple of things regarding peer review:- For every submission, there was a 50/50 chance that none of the three reviewers would know what the paper is really about. Part of this problem is that the IEEE journal editors simply can't know about all the topics being researched in their area and would often pass the submission to the wrong experts. These "experts" (in the wrong subject matter) often wouldn't give a shit about trying to learn about the topic at hand and would just give it a bad review. You could tell this was happening when you got your submission back with comments and criticisms that simply made no sense. I was asked to review a couple of papers that were out of my research area, and I did my best to research the prior literature on the subject and give a fair review, but many professors didn't have the time and would slam the paper rather than pass it on to somebody who would understand it.
- There is an "old boys" network present in every field of research. Most of these operate like an old fashioned closed businessman's club. Once you are accepted into the fold, everyone else kisses your ass and gives great reviews to any paper with your name on it, regardless of whether it is worthy of publication. The people who make it to this stage rarely make useful research contributions anymore, but they get their names on lots and lots of papers. All of the lesser known researchers practically beg the big boys to co-author their paper, thus virtually guaranteeing its publication. Some of the members of the "old boys" network have unbelievable egos that require constant stroking if you plan on ever making a name for yourself in the field.
- There are some researchers who will go to great lengths to stab you in the back. I remember the case of one little known French researcher who wrote a landmark paper in our field. In the review process, it was sent to one SOB who was a big player in the field but was notorious for being a backstabber and had questionable intelligence (I never knew how he got so well known in the first place). The SOB managed sit on the review and delay the paper's publication for over a year while he attemped to figure out what the French guy had done and duplicate his results. He sat on it so long in fact that he got his own paper published on the subject before the French guy's and stole all the credit. This dickhead, and several others like him, were also notorious for attacking their peers (and especially their peer's grad students) at any conference where one of their sponsors or potential sponsors were present.
- At
http://slashdot.org/features/99/07/28/0219237.shtml
- Wabi Resources for Linux Links and FAQs
- Windows emulator for Linux/UNIX
- At http://cdromcsc.com/wabi.html
- BurnProof / BurnProof CDR's - Plextor Plexwritor, Mirai CDRs, QPS
- At http://www.cdrom-guide.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/005028.html
- At http://http://techbargains.com/
- At http://www.plextor.com/
- http://www.qps-inc.com/
- Plextor BurnProof CD-ROM writers
- TheNextTrend.com
- MultiMedia CD-ROM supplier: http://www.thenextrend.com
- CDR Printers / Label Printers: http://www.thenextrend.com/cdrprinters.html
- CDR Duplication Systems: http://www.thenextrend.com/dupeoptions.html | http://www.thenextrend.com/cdrdupes.html
- Click'n'Burn CD Recording Software: http://www.thenextrend.com/clicknburn.html
- CD Stomper Pro Label System: http://www.thenextrend.com/stomper.html
- Intel82371AB PCI to USB Driver:
- Intel Software Support: http://support.intel.com/support/swd/
- Intel USB Page: http://support.intel.com/support/technologies/usb/
- USB.org: http://usb.org/
- Microsoft Windows Homepage:
- http://www.microsoft.com/Windows
- Microsoft Windows NT-Workstation Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/
- Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a: http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/sp6/
- Micro Warehouse postal address
- Micro Warehouse Inc., 1720 Oak St. Lakewood, NJ 08701
- http://www.warehouse.com/
- USB For Windows NT 4.0:
- "I have a USB digital camera, will USB For Windows NT 4.0 allow me to download my pictures on my Windows NT 4.0 computer? No, not yet. Windows NT 4.0 supports mice, keyboard, printers and Pocket PC cradles. We're working on adding support for other products in the future. Periodically check back here to see what we've added."
- "What should I do if my USB device is not supported by USB For Windows NT 4.0? You can contact the manufacturer of the device. Have them contact BSQUARE and purchase USB Extension to WinDK. This toolkit allows the creation of client USB drivers that operate on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows NT Embedded."
- http://www.bsquare.com/products/devtools/usbwin40/default.asp
- http://www.bsquare.com/products/devtools/usbwin40/faq.asp
- USB For Windows NT 4.0 (Pricing):
http://www.bsquare.com/products/devtools/usbwin40/pricing.asp
- Windows NT 4.0 Does Not Support Universal Serial Bus: http://www.bsquare.com/products/devtools/usbwin40/pricing.asp
- Microsoft Windows 95 USB Supplement for OSR2:
- "SUMMARY: Windows NT 4.0 does not support Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controllers. There are no plans to provide USB support in Windows NT 4.0 in a future service pack."
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q196/6/61.ASP
- Universal Serial Bus Technology (USB):
- http://www.usb.org/developers/
- http://www.usb.org/developers/usb20/
- http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/usb/
- USB Port CD-ROM writers / Parallel Port CD-ROM writers(?) / iLINK - FireWire / Fire Wire / IEEE 1394 - aka FireWire, aka iLink
- QPS:
http://www.qps-inc.com/
- External Solutions: USB : CD-Rewritable: http://www.qps-inc.com/cgi-bin/display?sn=2179737832155037&tm=prod_ext_usb |
- External Solutions: FireWire : CD-Rewritable (some with BURN PROOF Technology) / Combo Drive(CDRW/DVD-ROM): http://www.qps-inc.com/cgi-bin/display?sn=2179737832155037&tm=prod_ext_fire |
- QPS:
http://www.qps-inc.com/
- CD Stomper CD/DVD Labelling System
- CD-ROM writers - Parallel Printer Port / IDE / USB / External / SCSI
- USB Port CD-ROM writers / Parallel Port CD-ROM writers(?) / iLINK - FireWire
- QPS:
http://www.qps-inc.com/
- External Solutions: USB : CD-Rewritable: http://www.qps-inc.com/cgi-bin/display?sn=2179737832155037&tm=prod_ext_usb |
- External Solutions: FireWire : CD-Rewritable (some with BURN PROOF Technology) / Combo Drive(CDRW/DVD-ROM): http://www.qps-inc.com/cgi-bin/display?sn=2179737832155037&tm=prod_ext_fire |
- Sony Spressa 12x 8x 32x CDRW: Spressa i.LINK®: CRX 1600L-A2 (IEEE 1394):
http://www.storagebysony.com/categories/categorymain.asp?id=2l |
http://www.storagebysony.com/spressa/ |
http://www.storagebysony.com/spressa/choose/prod-crx1600la2.html
- Philips PCA363RW (?) - now USB 4x4x6 External CDRW drive kit PCRW464K:
http://www.pc.be.philips.com/cdrw/pca363rw.html |
http://www.philipsusa.com/
- HP CD-writer USB 4x4x6 External CDRW drive kit PCRW464K:
http://www.philipsusa.com/cgi-bin/pusaimgr/PUSA/products/product_list.jsp?BV_SessionID=2079665810.984687088&BV_EngineID=ealkghcedehbeflcffcgecggk.0&msectLinks=products/perip_main&msection=PC+Peripherals&mpath=/PC+Peripherals/CD+ReWritable
|
http://www.philipsusa.com/cgi-bin/pusaimgr/PUSA/products/prod_template.jsp?BV_SessionID=2079665810.984687088&BV_EngineID=ealkghcedehbeflcffcgecggk.0&oid=10431&mpath=/PC+Peripherals/CD+ReWritable&msection=PC+Peripherals&msectLinks=products/perip_main
- External USB 4x write, 4x re-write, 6x read ,
- Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4
- HP Surestore CD-RW : http://www.hp.com/storage/cdwriter/7200.html | http://www.hpcdwriter.com/
- HP CD-writer 9600se: http://www.hpcdwriter.com/products/9600se/index.asp
- HP CD-writer 8200e (external USB 4x4x6x cd-rewritable): http://www.hpcdwriter.com/products/8200e/index.asp
- QPS:
http://www.qps-inc.com/
- FireWire CD Writers Advance to New Level
- "You want a fast CD-RW drive, but you don't want to mess around inside your PC to install it. Until recently, your only choice for a fast,
external CD-RW drive was a SCSI-connected model, but that still required an expensive, internal SCSI adapter. No longer; FireWire
has arrived in two new CD-RW drives from Sony and QPS.
The simplest way to describe FireWire is to say that it's a lot like USB, but it's much, much faster. Officially known as IEEE 1394 and also called i.Link in its Sony variation, FireWire is a high-speed interface for external devices that's capable of connecting up to 63 separate devices and achieving data transfer rates of up to 400 megabits (50MB) per second. FireWire ports come standard on the latest Apple systems, and they're even starting to show up on PCs.
While it is often described primarily as a connection for transferring digital video between a camcorder and a computer, FireWire is good for any external devices that benefit from high-speed data transfer, including hard drives, scanners, tape drives, and CD-RW drives. With respect to CD-RW drives, FireWire goes where USB cannot. The latest CD-RWs can write at 12X, well beyond USB's maximum transfer rate but well within the capabilities of FireWire. " - At http://aolcom.cnet.com/hardware/0-1094-7-4200386.html
- "You want a fast CD-RW drive, but you don't want to mess around inside your PC to install it. Until recently, your only choice for a fast,
external CD-RW drive was a SCSI-connected model, but that still required an expensive, internal SCSI adapter. No longer; FireWire
has arrived in two new CD-RW drives from Sony and QPS.
- Easy CD Creator (was by Adaptec, now by Roxio)
- Old code defeats new CD anti-ripping technologies
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/20947.html
- "Essentially, RAW mode allows data to be read and written as pure binary data rather than files (as a CD drive does) or music tracks (the way a CD player works). CloneCD generates a perfect copy of the data on the source CD - including all the noise and other modifications to music and control data made by the likes of Cactus and SafeAudio."
- NewTech Infosystems (NTI) CD-Maker 2000
- Nero CDR Software
- GEAR Pro CDR Software
- Oops! Tayside cops refer kids to Russian porn site
- List of software Patents starting (hopefully) for beginners down to experts
- Patently Absurd by James Gleick (When twenty-first-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they
will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and their special invention: "the patented
1-click feature," Bezos calls it.):
http://www.around.com/patent.html
- With link to "Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?" - "Bruce Dickens, for one. On the basis of a single patent for a method of fixing Y2K problems, he's demanding billions of dollars from corporate America."
- Software Patents: Goliath Killing David?:
http://www.complete.org/news/952490640/index_html
- Software Patents: Trolling for Dollars :
http://www.law.com/jsp/statearchive.jsp?type=Article&oldid=ZZZV4RVSSPC
- Software Useright: Solving Inconsistencies of Software Patents by Jean-Paul Smets:
http://www.smets.com/it/policy/useright/ and
http://www.smets.com/it/policy/useright/useright.pdf
- Software Patents: Introduction to some of the history:
http://www-cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/projects-99-00/software-patents/introduction.html
- Patent nonsense - Apr 6th 2000 - From The Economist print edition:
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=300582
- The broad concern is over "bad" patents that should not have been awarded because somebody else got there first, or where the idea was too obvious to deserve protection. It has happened often, most embarrassingly in 1993 when a company called Comptons New Media was given, in effect, a patent on multimedia. Not only was the patent absurdly broad, but much of the work had been done by Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre two decades earlier.
- Patent Upending - (The invention police can't stand Greg Aharonian,
who says the fuss over Amazon's "one-click" plan is old news. The real problem: The
government lost its grip on intellectual property long ago.) :
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/patents_pr.html
- Software Patents Pending? by Robin Widdison :
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/anatomy-trivial-patent.txt
- Free Patents - Protecting Innovation & Competition in the IT Industry - Examples of software patents.:
http://www.freepatents.org/examples/
- Software patents: an industry at risk by Gordon Irlam and Ross Williams - SUBMISSION "To The Patent and Trademark Office" By The League for Programming Freedom :
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/industry-at-risk.html
- Against Software Patents:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html
- Why Patents Are Bad for Software:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/issues.article
- The Anatomy of a Trivial Patent:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/anatomy-trivial-patent.txt
- Software Patents: A New Industry Transforms the Patent System (Cypress is one of a growing number
of companies willing to go to court to fight off claims of infringement brought by companies
that want money for a patent license. It successfully fought five patent infringement
suits -- three brought by Texas Instruments Inc. and two by EMI Group North America
Inc. -- and is currently battling the granddaddy of patent enforcement outfits, the Lemelson,
Medical, Education and Research Foundation. ):
http://www.law.com/jsp/statearchive.jsp?type=Article&oldid=ZZZP3ISKSPC
- Software Patents: Battling the Patent Trolls :
http://www.law.com/jsp/statearchive.jsp?type=Article&oldid=ZZZ4DX7MSPC
- The Free Protocols Foundation Mission - dangers of Software Patents:
http://www.freeprotocols.org/freeProtocolProcess/split/node2.html
- Computer-Related Invention Guidelines - US Patent Office :
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/oppd/patoc.htm
- Software Patents: AltaVista to become only Net search engine:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16180.html
- British Telecom: We Own Linking :
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,37095,00.html
- Against Software Patents - February 28, 1991 - The League for Programming Freedom :
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html
- Software Patents: Prodigy to fight BT's 'shameless' hyperlinks patent lawsuit:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/15527.html
- Software Patents: BT launches US hyperlinks legal action :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15485.html
- Deep-Sixing the Submarine Patent :
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C4F59-8093-1D2B-97CA809EC588EEDF
- Software Patents: Amazon sues Barnes & Noble over checkout system :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/7437.html
- Software Patents: US patent mess will get worse before it gets better :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10119.html
- Software Patents: JPEG Patent Claim Sparks Concern :
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53981,00.html
- Software Patents: JPEGs are not free: Patent holder pursues IP grab :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26272.html
- Software Patents: JPEG Patent Claim Sparks Concern :
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53981,00.html
- Software Patents: JPEG guardians vow to defend free images :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26296.html
- Software Patents: No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard :
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25711.html
- The Danger of Software Patents : Speech by Richard Stallman at Cambridge University, 25 March 2002 :
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/danger-of-software-patents.txt
- Kid gets patent on a way of swinging on a child's swing: (The US
Patent Office issued patent 6,368,227 on 9 April to Steven Olson of St Paul,
Minnesota for a "method of swinging on a swing".) :
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992178
- Software Patents: Boycott Amazon! :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html
- Software Patents: MP3 owners get stroppy with open source coders :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19982.html
- Patents declared invalid by the pto or the courts :
http://www.bustpatents.com/invalid.htm
- Problems with the examination of patent applications :
http://www.bustpatents.com/exam.htm
- Software Patents: Software download patent refuses to die :
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-270021.html?legacy=cnet&tag=mn_hd
- Software Patents: Patent On Software Downloads Upheld: (This latest ruling indicates that the courts consider the patent, filed by a company called E-Data in 1985, a valid patent. E-Data's plan is to charge a license fee for all data downloaded over the Internet. ) :
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/07/17/0316219.shtml
- Software Patents: "The Limits of Copyright" by Harvard Law prof. Lawrence Lessig :
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16071,00.html and
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/.
- Protecting Information Innovation against the Abuse of the Patent System:
http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
- www.oreilly.com -- Ask Tim! -- Software Patents Issue: http://www.ora.com/ask_tim/amazon_patent.html
- Patently Absurd by James Gleick (When twenty-first-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they
will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com and their special invention: "the patented
1-click feature," Bezos calls it.):
http://www.around.com/patent.html
- Resources relating to software Patents
- Patently Abusrd :
http://www.patent.freeserve.co.uk/othersites.html
- Software Patent Resource :
http://www.softwarepatent.com/
- Software Patent FAQ :
http://www.noamazon.com/faq.html
- Bustpatents.com - (Legal resources and tools for surviving the patenting frenzy of the Internet, bioinformatics, and electronic commerce) :
http://www.bustpatents.com/
- League for Programming Freedom:
http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/
- Software Patent Index :
http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/
- Information sources on Patents and Intellectual property :
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/reperes/patents/
- EUROLINUX Alliance - on Software Patents : http://eurolinux.ffii.org/index.en.html
- Patently Abusrd :
http://www.patent.freeserve.co.uk/othersites.html
- A tale of two software patent strategies
- "For profit or protection, companies are getting more aggressive about patents"
- At http://www.eb-mag.com/registrd/issues/9910/1099ip.htm
- Eldred v. Ashcroft (This site collects material related to the
constitutional challenge of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act,
which extended by 20 years both existing copyrights and future copyrights.):
http://eldred.cc/
- Eldred v. Ashcroft : Richard Epstein: All Roads lead to Rome (But the key
concern now is not with the CTEA's wisdom, but with its constitutionality, which is
now before the US Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft. The petitioner's case,
spearheaded by my co-columnist Lawrence Lessig, rests on two claims. The first
is that the CTEA falls outside Congress's power "To promote the progress of
science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors
the exclusive right to their respective discoveries and inventions".
The second argument is that the CTEA falls foul of the US Constitution's guarantee of freedom of speech. A third road, not pressed before the Supreme Court, treats the CTEA as a violation of the judge-made "public trust" doctrine, which, in its narrowest form, holds that Congress cannot give away public lands and waters to private individuals.):
- Eli Noam: The web is bad for democracy: http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028186097523&p=1020498309075
- Stop typing amazon.com - Start typing noamazon.com
- Protest site over Amazon.com trying to sue Barnes and Noble over trivial software patent.
- At http://www.noamazon.com/
- Patent Information at: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05960411__
- Linux Remote-Boot mini-HOWTO: Configuring Remote-Boot
Workstations with Red-Hat Linux, DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and
Windows NT
- Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
- UK Advice: If You're Arrested
- UK Advice: Defending yourself in court - The Lord Chancellor's Department
- UK Citizens Advice Bureau - Information for England and Wales
- Dell Latitude LM P-100 Linux/Win95 Dual-Boot System
- NT Lies
- Linux and Decentralized Development - Including IBM's poor support of OS/2
- At http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html
- At http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/footcannibals.html#ICONTROL
- Some general facts about the X-PLOR License Agreements
- At http://xplor.csb.yale.edu/xplor/xagree/
- At http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829559/0000936392-97-000125.txt
- Search the EDGAR Database : http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
- "The REAL Multi-boot"
- Tutorials on using shareware/freeware Ranish Partition boot manager and partition manager to get around the 4 Primary Partition limit with PC
- At http://members.tripod.it/Trombettworks/multi-boot.htm
- Ranish Partition Manager
- Free Partition and comes with a nifty Boot Manager
- At http://www.ranish.com/part/
- Australian Mirror: http://www4.au.freebsd.org/~ranish/part/
- European Mirror: http://www.lester.co.uk/ranish/part/
- US Eastern Mirror: http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
- US Western Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/ranish/part/
- NT Boot Problems: "Q:When I try to install Windows NT it couldn't continue after reboot. What's wrong with it?
A: There is a problem with NT - it wouldn't boot from partitions above 2G. You have to place NT partition under 2G or make a small FAT-16 partition at the beginning of the disk where NT could put its boot files. Alternatively you may install a patch for FAT-16 boot sector that comes with Partition Manager version 2.38, which could boot NT from the partitions above 2G. For installation procedures, please, refer to readme.txt file that is included with version 2.38."
- Smart Boot Manager
- At http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/
- UCL compression library: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl
- "MS-DOS 5.00 - 8.00 - Undocumented + Hidden Secrets"
- Making a Multiple-Boot CD
- Fresh Tortillas and CD-ROM Standards: The El Torito Bootable CD-ROM Specification
- "Freeloader Boot Manager"
- Multiboot manager Freeloader based around Reactos but can handle many other operating systems.
- At http://www.reactware.com/freeldr/
- "FreeBSD booting above 1023 Cylinders
From: Henry Whincup Cc: "freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Installing in cylinder in > 1024 List-Archive: http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-users/ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:37:43 +0100 (BST) This looks like it may help: From 'man boot0cfg': -- -o options A comma-separated string of any of the following options may be specified (with ``no'' prepended as necessary): packet Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface, as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing disk I/O. This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but requires specific BIOS support. The default is `nopacket'. -- However you can use grub if you prefer (I think there was an article on it at http://www.daemonnews.org/). As for 4.3 it is in the process of being released, so soon-ish! cheers Henry
- Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL) - Boot Manager - GPL'd by Geurt Vos
- Gui and user friendly boot loader: Up to 24 boot items
- At http://www.xosl.org/
- MBRWork 1.03 - Utility for working with the MBR/EMBR (2/21/00) (14K)
- "MBRWork is a utility to perform some common and uncommon tasks to the MBR/EMBR of a hard drive. It should only be used by power users who understand how computers work. The readme.txt file in the zip contains a list of the tasks available."
- At http://www.TeraByteUnlimited.com/FREESTUF.HTM
- BootIt Direct / BootIt Lite/ BootIt
- Shareware and commercial software
- At http://www.TeraByteUnlimited.com/
- Mr BIOS
- "If your BIOS doesn't support large hard drives and your mobo manufacture doesn't have an update, no problem, follow this link to the Mr BIOS page and get a new BIOS. "
- At http://www.mrbios.com/
- Boot Util software at Garbo
- Including MrBoot and MasterBooter v2.6 boot managers
- At http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bootutil.html
- MasterBooter v2.6
- Boot Manager
- At http://www.vein.hu/~nagyd/mrbooter.html
- Memory Useage Analysis Programs for Win95 and Win98
- mspy3210.zip B 245131 960901 MemorySpy32 v1.0: Memory gauge for Windows 95
- At http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/desktop/
- minfo100.zip B 12253 980303 FMH MemInfo: Memory status viewer
- At http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/
- rampg1_0.zip B 38578 990901 RAMpage v1.0: Memory Monitor Utility. Freeware
- At http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/
- tfimp11.zip B 440852 990824 Monitor and control your program's memory use
- At http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/
- wa1_01.zip B 945223 990411 WinAnalyst v1.0: Watch CPU & memory use
- At http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/util/
- AMD, Intel fight wars using memory chips: Rambus memory vs DDR (double date rate)
- Top 100 Kiwi company websites are a waste of money
- At
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0307/S00215.htm
- Report finds Top 100 Kiwi company websites are a waste of money
Shock New Zealand survey reveals how firms are 'sabotaging' their own ability to be found on the Internet
Web Rank, Christchurch, 23-Jul-03: Respected search optimisation company Web Rank has today launched a study on the search engine compatibility of the websites of the country's leading organisations.
The study reveals that every website belonging to our top 100 businesses contains significant design flaws that make it harder for them to be found in search engines, thereby negatively impacting the potential revenue of the organisation.
"In designing their sites as they have done, nearly all of New Zealand's top performing companies are sabotaging their own ability to be found by their target market(s)," says Director Kalena Jordan.
Most Internet users rely on search engines to find product and service providers. Unless they know the exact website address (URL) or search by the company or brand name, they will try to find what they are looking for by using keywords that describe a product or service's features, benefits or attributes.
Web Rank's extensive analysis, which is available at www.webrank.biz/Top100NZ.htm, reveals where major New Zealand corporations have overlooked search engine visibility in designing their websites. The report also advises how these websites can be improved to help potential customers find their sites easier and increase business generated online.
Amongst the many findings, the report revealed that:
- Every top 100 Kiwi company website had defects that hindered their ability to be found in search engines,
- A quarter could not be found for their chosen search terms in either US or New Zealand search engines,
- 34% are not listed in popular New Zealand search engines,
- Almost a third are not listed in popular US search engines, and
- One-in-eight use techniques that could get their site penalised on search engines for "spamming."
The authors say it is amazing that firms may spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on website design and related marketing, but that they often overlook search engine compatibility. "What is the point of paying so much money for a web site that will never be found?" says Ms Jordan.
Why is search engine optimisation important?
Search engine compatibility is loosely defined as employing design elements that help search engines index a website and "understand" it's relevance to a search query. To make a site more compatible with search engines Web Rank, and other Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts correct design flaws and implement techniques to ensure a website attracts highly relevant, targeted traffic via those engines.
"Search engine optimisation is the technique of attaining a higher ranking in search engines and directories for relevant search queries, via changes to a site to make it more search engine compatible," explains Ms Jordan.
UK studies by Forrester Research show that four-fifths of people find websites by using search engines. According to Australasian market research firm, RedSheriff, four of the 20 most popular New Zealand websites are search engines. In addition, 55% of online purchases in the US are made on websites found through search listings.
How to improve the search-ability of a website
Every effective website should include within the HTML code for each page a TITLE Tag, a META Description Tag, a META Keywords Tag and text-based content. Search engines rely on this information to determine how relevant a website is to any given search query.
These elements are often overlooked by webmasters, or are too short and generic to be effectively picked up by many search engines in connection to a search query. Search engine optimisation of a website involves changing the code to include more keywords and phrases that relate to the products and services offered by the business, as well as changes to the site's structural design to ensure it can be indexed and matched to relevant searches.
Web Rank's "Search Engine Compatibility and the Top 100 New Zealand Company Web Sites" report offers businesses comprehensive suggestions on how to improve the search-ability of their website. Using case examples, Web Rank highlights typical mistakes and advises on how these could be improved.
The report considers how to use graphics, correct tagging, the right keywords in text, how important links from other sites can be and how firms can avoid being penalised in the search rankings from the inadvertent use of "spam" techniques.
"By ignoring the most important method used by people browsing the Internet, these companies are sacrificing an enormous opportunity to attract more traffic to their websites," says Ms Jordan.
"Websites are often a very large expense for these companies, ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars. To invest such a massive amount of time, money and effort into an online presence and not ensuring it can be found is like constructing a storefront without any doors.
She continues, "It is obvious from the findings of this study that New Zealand companies need to invest in search engine optimisation services to ensure their sites are more search engine compatible and therefore visible to their target markets."
- At
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/BU0307/S00215.htm
- Simtel Partition/Boot control programs
- Controlling the booting process
- At http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/home/fischer/simtel.net/msdos/bootutil.html
- BootManager.com
- Boot Manager Software - formally OS-BS
- At http://www.BootManager.com/
- Multiple Operating Systems on a PC
- Boot Manager Software
- At http://www.abc.se/~m10354/data/multi-op.htm
- Multiboot directly into Windows NT, Windows 95, DOS, and Linux from the NT Boot Loader
- Multiboot directly into WinNT/Win95/DOS/Linux from the NT Boot Loader
- Multiboot using the Windows NT Bootloader
- System Commander
- Boot Manager Software
- At http://www.v-com.com
- FlasKMPEG
- GPL'd FlasKMPEG converts digital video in the MPEG format to other formats. AVI, MPG/MPEG, DVD
- At http://www.flaskmpeg.net/
- Internet RFCs
- AxyFTP - GUI FTP client for X Window System ("(of former WXftp fame) ")
- Thread: new mozilla.org webtool for editing web site
- At http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/114/2002/12/0/10268253/
- mozilla.org has a new webtool called Doctor that makes it easy to update
the mozilla.org web site without using CVS.
- At http://lxr.mozilla.org/webtools/source/webtools/doctor/
- Doctor - select file to edit
- At
http://doctor.mozilla.org/
- At
http://lxr.mozilla.org/webtools/source/webtools/doctor/
- From Richard: "The file 'Capture.pm' must go in a subdir relative to doctor.cgi called IO/"
- At
http://doctor.mozilla.org/
- Columbia University Academic Information Systems -
Statement on Internet Performance, October 8, 2002
- At
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~help/PCCUinfo.htm
- Many of our users have noticed and reported the poor performance related to connections between Columbia University and the Internet, both inbound and outbound. This sluggish performance on our 155 megabits per second (Mbps) Internet connection is largely due to the following activities on staff and student machines:
File sharing applications such as KaZaA, Morpheus and Gnutella. Computers that have been broken into and then used to launch attacks. See http://www.cert.org/current for a list of currently active attacks that affect Microsoft Windows and Linux machines.
Streaming media servers.
Game servers.
These can all be legitimate uses of the network. However, total traffic is stressing our Internet capacity.
We are taking the following actions to manage performance:
Using measurement tools to detect computers that are using excessive amounts of Internet bandwidth for extended periods of time. For example, machines that are found to be using bandwidth of 2 Megabits per second or more over a 10-minute period are removed from the network and the responsible parties notified.
Continuing of "traffic shaping" of several popular file sharing applications across all network users at Columbia. This shaping began several months ago, and consists of limiting the bandwidth that is taken up by these applications. Since these applications use the TCP protocol, they automatically adjust to this limit by running a little more slowly.
Installing a faster Internet router. This new router will also facilitate more sophisticated traffic shaping than our current router is able to handle. It will also be able to handle extremely high numbers of packets (usually associated with Denial of Service attacks).
Continuing to monitor and analyze performance.
What you can do to help:
If you use a popular file-sharing application such as KaZaA, Morpheus, Gnutella, etc., please be considerate of others on the network and make the necessary configuration changes to:
1. Not share files from your computer. Don't be a KaZaA supernode.
2. Limit the bandwidth of your file sharing and/or the number of connections to your machine.
3. Similarly, media and game servers should be throttled in such a way that they do not consume inordinate amounts of bandwidth.
Please keep in mind that there are potential legal ramifications to sharing copyrighted materials such as music and videos.
- At
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~help/PCCUinfo.htm
- Columbia University Network Bandwidth Quotas
- Copyright Information for Network Users at Columbia
- Instructions for Disabling File Sharing in KaZaA
- Disabling Peer to Peer File Sharing
- Kazaalite - peer-to-peer file sharing service but without spyware, p2p programs
- Knowbuddy's Gnutella FAQ
- Gnutella (Gnutella protocol: file sharing - napster replacement)
- AsiaYeah web based Gnutella Search (Gnutella protocol: file sharing - napster replacement)
- Cap'n Bry's gnutella search - gnutella protocol
- At http://capnbry.dyndns.org/gnutella/protocol.php
- TComponent-derived class in Delphi 5. : http://capnbry.dyndns.org/gnutella/my_client.php
- Gnutella News
- "Gnutella News offers the latest news and information about Gnutella and other file-sharing networks"
- At http://www.gnutellanews.com/
- Surfy, the Web Client: Gnutella networks
- "an even easier way is to go to Surfy, the Web Client and search on something simple like "mp3". This will return a lot of results, but the only thing you really care about is the line that says "Host", because this is a host that you know is on the gnutellaNet right now. Use that IP. "
- At http://www.surfy.com/page/nut.php3
- Gnutella: Gnute network search
- Gnutella servants / servents / Gnutella clients for Windows
- Gnutella servants / servents / Gnutella clients for Mac
- Bearshare client - Gnutella servent - sharing software for the Gnutella sharing network
- At http://www.bearshare.com/
- Deleting Bearshare spyware: http://www.lavasoft.de/aaw/index.html
- Digital music outlets pop up as major labels fight on
- At http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/depth/music060401.htm
- "A number of underground services emerged to fill the void. While no single site has emerged as the dominant alternative, MusicCity, iMesh and the Gnutella file sharing network attract an estimated 400,000 daily users. "
- Music City
- IglooFTP - GUI FTP and file manager for Unix/X under the Gnome System
- Primax Mice
- Chips and Technologies - PCI Video Cards
- Windows Annoyances - Unsupported Devices Under Windows95
- AWPA (Australasian Web Publishing Association)
- International Webmasters Association
- Top Ten Mistakes in HTML Revisted
- At http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990502.html
- Followon from the May 1996 article - "Top ten Mistakes in Web Design" - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
- Conclusion that top ten mistakes of 1996 are still mistakes in 1999.
- NT and UNIX: Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object
- Oracle aided Marconi collapse
- UNIX vs Windows NT -
- "As you can see, under the types of workloads typically used in the publishing and graphics industries, there is an exponential increase in processing time when using NT as an operating system!"
- At http://www.ugraf.com/unix-nt/jt/unix-nt.nob.html
- UNIX vs Windows NT
- Open Source
- TechSmith
- Software for Creating software demos, training videos, technical documentation
- At http://www.techsmith.com
- Camtasia: ("video screen capture and production tool that allows anyone to capture, edit and publish high-fidelity AVI videos of on-screen activity. Record the action from any part of the Windows desktop and save it to a standard AVI movie or streaming video. Create software tutorials or broadcast live desktop activity over the Internet"): http://www.techsmith.com/products/camtasia/camtasia.asp
- SnagIt: ("powerful screen capture utility to capture images, text, and video from your Windows desktop. From one-step capture of scrolling web pages to video capture and text conversion, SnagIt does it all."): http://www.techsmith.com/products/snagit/default.asp
- DubIt: ("Real-time AVI audio editing tool. Add or revise the audio track of your AVI while viewing the video. Also creates an AVI from your graphical image and voice annotation or WAV sound clips"): http://www.techsmith.com/products/dubit/default.asp
- Musings on open source security models - Does open source mean open season for crackers?
- robots.txt as a possible security hole
- The Great Linux-vs-NT Debate
- MicroSoftware ClearType fonts for computer screens
- Links to free/or royalty free True-type fonts
- At http://www.microsoft.com/typography/free.htm
- At http://members.tripod.com/~jbarta/
- At http://warp.student.utwente.nl/ffonts/
- Fonts: http://amazon.freethemes.com/fonts/mn.htm
- Fonts: http://amazon.freethemes.com/fonts/ab.htm
- Larabie Fonts: http://www.larabiefonts.com
- Tommy of Escondido's Alien Fonts Page: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4965/index.html
- For the blind/sign impaired: Download the Braille True Type Font, Download the Moon True Type Font:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/archive/welcome.htm
- Braille: ftp://ftp.rnib.org.uk/incoming/rnibbrl.zip
- Moon Type: ftp://ftp.rnib.org.uk/incoming/rnibmoon.zip
- Download Braille and ASL Specialty Fonts:
http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/fonts.html
- American Sign Language Fonts:
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/asl.html
- Dan Smith's Fantasy True Type Fonts for Windows (Runes, Tolkein/Tengwar:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/mirrors.htm
http://www.gis.net/~dansmith/fonts/index.html
- At http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/
- Digital Art Shop! Royalty-Free Clip Art, Images, Fonts and Graphics - http://www.io.com/~kazushi/xtt/
- Creating Custom Fonts
- Using Freehand 8 - http://ruku.com/fh8bbend.html
- Macromedia Freehand - http://www.macromedia.com/software/freehand/
- How to Create TrueType fonts with CorelDRAW -
- SDMI crack team launches preemptive suit
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19555.html
- "The Princeton University team which rose successfully to the SDMI
challenge is asking the US District Court in New Jersey to issue a declaratory
judgment absolving them of liability before releasing the results of their
research into cracking several anti-piracy technologies.
Arrangements had previously been made to release the results, but legal threats from the music industry citing the dreaded Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) caused the team to withdraw. In this case, the team is asking the court to rule before the fact that they have the right to release their paper. " - "But according to EFF's reply, the RIAA statement is disingenuous: "RIAA attorneys spent nearly a month on the phone threatening litigation against everyone associated with publishing the research paper and demanding changes to the paper. RIAA attorneys only started issuing press statements to the contrary after they succeeded in squelching [it]," EFF notes."
- EFF Complaint: Felten v. RIAA (June 6, 2001)
- At http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_complaint.html
- Including: "PRAYER FOR RELIEF"
- "The Declaratory Judgment Act was designed to relieve potential defendants from the Damoclean threat of impending litigation which a harassing adversary might brandish, while initiating suit at his leisure -- or never. The Act permits parties so situated to forestall the accrual of potential damages by suing for a declaratory judgment, once the adverse positions have crystallized and the conflict of interests is real and immediate."
- Kyl's Medieval and Fantasy Fonts Graphical Page - http://www.flightofthedragon.com/kyl/fonts/
- Kyle's Font Utilities - http://www.flightofthedragon.com/kyl/fonts/utilities.html
- Link to PortListener v2.2a, Port Scanner 1.1, Skream's Port Listener v2.3, Nuke Nabber 2.9 and Nuke Detector v1.0
- Listens on 50 chosen ports for TCP and UDP attack + ICMP_UNREACH
- Port 139 Nuke Detector
- At http://pages.prodigy.net/mets3/protection.html
- SGI Anonymous FTP sites containing public domain software
- Eddie - Ericsson Open Source Robust Web Site Software
- Includes, Eddie Robust DNS Server, Load balances over the LAN, Eddie IP Migration Facility
- At http://www.eddieware.org
- At http://wwweddie.serc.rmit.edu.au/
- mkrdns
- Program to automatically generate reverse DNS zone files (PTR records)
- At http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/mkrdns.html
- Spy-CD - CD Search engine
- Commercial "Full Text Searching for CDs and Intranets "I spy with my little eye ..." "
- At http://www.phdcc.com/spy-cd/
- "Spy-CD is a commercial Java applet. I chose this because I wanted a tool which would index pdf files and this was the only tool I found which would do and which worked in the evaluation version. I suspect there won't be any freeware tools which will index pdf as a license for the Adobe encryption algorithm will be needed for this."
- "Xsearch is the ultimate in javascript search-engines."
- At http://www.dynamic-core.net/projects/xsearch/index.php
- "Size; The XSearch database can't contain to much links, because, as mentioned above, the search engine will become to slow to handle. This is also the reason that the XSearch homepage is split up in multiple engines.. giving the impression of one very big database."
- searchTHIS -- JavaScript
- At
http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~cleary/this2/searchTHIS.html
- searchTHIS -- JavaScript : The WAIT is OVER, and things are prettier than ever. A new powerful JavaScript is generated by indexTHIS. It will allow users to search your site and returns results based on relevancy. The JavaScript takes much less time to load then Java, and is simply a form, that can be placed anywhere on your web pages.
- indexTHIS: indexTHIS will index your web site, generating search engines and index files which will allow your web site users to quickly search your site.
- searchTHIS -- Applet: If Applets are the answer to your problems, then here is your solution. A completely cusomizeable java applet that returns results by relevancy.
- At
http://www.user1.netcarrier.com/~cleary/this2/searchTHIS.html
- Isearch/Iindex Search Engine - UNIX
- Freely available
- At http://www.cnidr.org/ir/isearch.html
- Modern Binaries at: ftp://ftp.awcubed.com/Software/
- At ftp://ftp.awcubed.com/Software/
- At http://www.etymon.com/pub/software/Isearch/
- At http://www.etymon.com/Isearch/
- At http://www.fgdc.gov/clearinghouse/clearinghouse.html
- The Isite Information System (isite/isearch/iindex)
- Old Overview description
- At http://herkules.oulu.fi/~z/isitehtm.html
- Macromedia LikeMinds eMail
- Targetted, personality customised E-mailing spamming software.
- At http://ebusiness.macromedia.com/pads/lm_email/
- Advanced Search Facility (ASF)
- Freely available
- At http://www.etymon.com/asf/
- At http://asf.gils.net/
- Microsoft Media Player
- My SQL - UNIX
- SQL query database freely available for non-commercial use
- At http://www.tcx.se
- TPC Benchmark Results (Transaction Processing Performance)
- "In TPC-C, throughput is defined as how many New-Order transactions per minute a system generates while the system is executing four other transactions types (Payment, Order-Status, Delivery, Stock-Level)"
- At http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp
- RIB - Software Repository in a box - UNIX
- Freely available. Version 2 announced 12th August 1999
- At http://www.nhse.org/RIB/
- Xavatoria Search Engine by Fluid Dynamics - as on Armel Le Bail's Page
- Freely available
- At http://www.xav.com/
- At http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/
- SWISH-E (for UNIX and Windows) - Free Search Engine including Code
- At http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/SWISH-E/
- Swish++ at http://www.best.com/~pjl/software/swish/
-
![[SWISH++]](images/swish-powered.gif)
- Swish 2 for UNIX: http://www.boe.es/swish-e/
- Swish 2 for Windows binaries: http://www.webaugur.com/wares/swish
- Swish 2 can search also on PDF files but needs XPDF (A PDF Viewer for X): http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- htDIG - Campus Wide Web Indexing and Searching
- The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site. As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.
- At http://htdig.sdsu.edu/
- Best search engines for finding scientific information in the Web
- for Crystallography and Science - Alexander Lebedev, Moscow State University (May 17, 1997)
- At http://www.chem.msu.su/eng/comparison.html
- Searching on altavista
- At http://www.altavista.com
- e.g.:: host:ac.uk + "south park links" + pic*
- Finding Information on the Internet Tutorial
- ICONS for Building Web Pages
- Windows 95/98 Icon Editing Tools
- Freeware Icon editor for Windows
- At http://www.hodder.com/programming.html
- At http://www.hodder.com/aprogramming.html
- At http://www.hodder.com/download/ICONEditor.exe
- AX-Icons for Windows - Shareware Icon Editor and Library Manager for Windows
- Search Engine Watch
- The Spyware Infested Software List
- At http://www.infoforce.qc.ca/spyware/
- List of Known Spyware Infested Software : http://www.infoforce.qc.ca/spyware/enknownlistfrm.html
- Opt Out Software for Windows (Tell Unwelcome Spyware to Pack its Bags!)
- Windows Software for detection of Spyware Packages operating on your computer.
- Information on Spyware Software Packages
- At http://grc.com/optout.htm
- At http://grc.com/oo/program.htm
- At http://grc.com/oo/packetsniff.htm
- Packet Sniffers for Windows (How to Watch Spyware Watching You!)
- At http://grc.com/oo/packetsniff.htm
- The SpyNet Sniffer: http://members.xoom.com/Laurentiu2/
- The CommView v2.0 Sniffer: http://www.tamos.com/cv.htm
- Unzipping & Decompression Utilities /List of ZIP and unzipping software for Windows
- FreeZIP for Windows
- WinZIP for Windows
- PKZip for DOS and Windows
- Aladdin Expander (Mac and Windows - decompression/unzipping software)
- DataGate's Connector
- Web-based Instant Intranet solution. - Linux
- At http://www.datagate.co.uk/products/connector/index.html
- Graphics File Converter for Windows (Hijaak)
- Convert various graphics file formats - including Postscript to Windows Metafile format.
- At http://www.imsisoft.com/graphicsconverter/graphicfileconverter.html
- Graphics File Formats FAQ (Part 2 of 4): Image Conversion and Display Programs
- ACDSee Graphics Viewer for Windows
- Irfan Graphics Viewer for Windows (freeware for non-commercial use)
- Lview Graphics Viewer for Windows
- Graphics Viewers for Windows
- Convertafile - online file conversion.
- Internet PostScript Resources
- Ghostscript - Postscript Viewer
- PostScript Sources monthly FAQ v1.13 04-30-95
- Hints on postscript viewers and converters.
- At http://saturn.las.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/postscript.programs.html
- HTML Converters and Editors
- libwmf, library to convert wmf (Windows metafiles) files
- Windows Metafiles: a guide for non-windows programmers
- wvWare
- "wv is a library which allows access to microsoft word files. It can load and parse the word 2000,97,95 and 6 file formats. The wv library is the new name of the project previously known as mswordview"
- At http://www.wvWare.com/
- Articles on poor programming/rushed software out the door/buggy software
- Bomb Squad by Clive Thompson: http://www.shift.com/shiftstd/SiteMap/frames/mag7.6.asp?searchfor=7.6bombsquad
- SiteMap (Linux/Unix)
- "SiteMap is a small bash script that creates an HTML SiteMap of your *.*htm* files. A sample output page is available at the homepage."
- At http://www.klografx.de/software/sitemap.shtml
- Strip base tags (Linux/Unix)
- "Strip base tags strips HTML base tags from documents, saving them at the end of the document in a comment so that they can be rematched if necessary. There can be any number of href= or src='s. The script actually takes anything between "" and removes all but the rightmost element, where elements are delimited by '/'."
- At http://satyaonline.cjb.net/download.html
- MainZone PostScript World
- Links to postscript viewers and converters.
- At http://www.mainzone.com/POSTSCRIPT.html
- Cracked: MS' New Music Format
- "Microsoft launched the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format as an alternative to the popular MP3 technology on Tuesday. WMA files can be encoded to restrict playback to a single PC, time period, or number of plays."
- At http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,21325,00.html
- PostScript Sins - 1995 article by Kevin Thompson
- "PostScript is now a common means of exchanging formatted documents. So why so many problems?"
- At http://www.byte.com/art/9508/sec13/art3.htm
- The Librarians' Index to the Internet
- A database of about 4,000 annotated links to Internet resources.
- At http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/InternetIndex/
- Pollera for Linux
- "A www poll system meant to be run via CGI."
- At http://bachue.com/alejo/pollera.html
- X-CD-Roast for Linux
- CDR/CD-Writer for Linux
- At http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast/
- Gnome Toaster for Gnome/Linux
- "Gnometoaster will be a full CD creation suite for X11 and Gnome. It can be used to copy data, audio, and hybrid cds on the fly or with precaching. Data tracks can be easily created with the built-in file manager. Gnome drag and drop is supported throughout the program. It can write mp3 files on the fly."
- At http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/
- Slink-CD for making Bootable Debian Linux CDs
- Obtaining Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 ISO CD Images for a variety of Computer Types
- Mainly using the rsync protocol - though some do offer anon ftp
- Debian GNU/Linux CD-Image Mirrors: http://cdimage.debian.org/rsync-mirrors.html
- I386 ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/debian-cd/2.2_rev0/
- I386 including Sparc (might be the old architecture - not the Ultras?): ftp://ftp.se.debian.org/debian-iso/2.2_rev0/
- Mail Filtering with Procmail
- Pinpoint - search engine service for websites
- Samba
- At http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/
- Use smbstatus to see what is happening when Samba is running.
- Updated Samba one less reason for buying Windows
- SAMBA team plots 'killer appliance'
- Uses PAM - pluggable authentication modules
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/11183.html
- Samba running on SGI Indy IRIX 6.5
- How Mindcraft could have made a better Linux file server - Tuning Linux
- Tuning WinNT File Serving/Tuning Samba File Serving/Tuning Apache Serving
- At http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-mindcraft.html
- WebStone
- "The Benchmark for Web Servers", Benchmarking web servers/webservers
- At http://www.mindcraft.com/webstone/
- Benchmarking PC CPUs
- "Duron 900"
- At http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1447
- At http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=622
- At http://www.cpureview.com/rev_dur900_a.html
- At http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/duron900/default.asp
- At http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=169
- At http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010402/index.html
- PHP tutorials
- Basic PHP: http://www.php.net/tut.php
- PHP/MySQL Tutorial: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/21/index2a.html
- PHP3 Introduction: http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Introduction/
- Getting Started With PHP3: http://www.phpbuilder.com/getit/
- Installing Apache and PhP
- PHP: Hackers Paradise
- The UNIX versus NT Organization
- At http://unix-vs-nt.org/info.html
- "The UNIX versus NT Organization is dedicated to setting the facts straight about the various commercial and Open Source UNIX operating systems as they relate to Microsoft Windows NT. "
- "Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX" by John Kirch - Networking Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT): Last update: 7 August 1999: http://unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/
- Web Servers of 103 Prominent Companies/Organizations
- At http://unix-vs-nt.org/webservers.html
- "All of our configuration files refer to the spooler by a DNS alias (CNAME) rather than the host's real name. If the spooler dies, a simple change to the DNS will direct all print jobs to a replacement machine."
- Providing Reliable NT Desktop Services by Avoiding NT Server
- LPRng - An Enhanced Printer Spooler
- On Mindcraft's April 1999 Benchmark
- Discussing kludges/bugs in the Linux and apache kernels.
- At http://www.kegel.com/mindcraft_redux.html
- NT vs. Linux Server Benchmark Graphs - http://www.kegel.com/nt-linux-benchmarks.html
- Mindcraft's NT vs Linux-Samba/Sun Solaris/Novell Netware benchmark results
- At http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html
- At http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4sol26file.html
- At http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4nw5filesvr.html
- Further Rebuttals/comments to the Mindcraft Tests
- At http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5424.html
- At http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5628.html
- Redhat replies - http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2242246,00.html
- At http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/mslinux990428.html
- At http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/04/27/mindcraft/index.html
- At http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5424.html
- IIS - Installing the MapServer CGI Program and the Tutorial
- CGI Tutorial and IIS
- IIS tutorial
- Sm@rt Reseller's - Linux combined with Apache and Samba, beats NT and IIS handily
- Linux Up Close: Time To Switch - http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,387506,00.html
- Samba 2.0: A License to Kill NT - http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,396321,00.html
- Ditch Microsoft IIS now, says Gartner
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21853.html
- "But the Gartner Group has issued a remarkable advisory recommending - in the strongest terms - that enterprises abandon their investments in Microsoft's web server IIS (Internet Information Server). In the usually cautious, diplomatic language of analyst reports, weighted as they are with percentage probabilities, this is a blunt as they come: a kind of "flee now - and don't wait around to collect your possessions" warning."
- How you hack into Microsoft: a step by step guide
- Microsoft's guide to securing IIS web servers
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19000.html
- Tory Party site 'practically unhardened' - a hacker honeypot : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19000.html
- Yet another IIS exploit reported (Posted: 16/05/2001 at 06:32 GMT) : http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18978.html
- Microsoft IIS hole gives System-level access - Posted: 01/05/2001 at 20:28 GMT
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18664.html
- Remote Shell Exploit: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/jill.c
- Exploit: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/webexplt.pl
- Exploit: http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/iishack2000.cl
- Solaris/IIS worm hits 9000 boxes in 48 hours
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/18882.html
- At http://attrition.org/security/commentary/worm01.html
- Confusing MS security bulletin aided IIS worm
- NeoLite - Program Encryption and Compression for Developers
- "NeoLite encapsulates Windows 32-bit executable files, DLLs, and their resources resulting in protected programs with smaller executable sizes. Protect your program from hackers, decompilers and resource modifiers. Neolite typically provides a 50% space savings, sometimes over 70%."
- At http://www.neoworx.com/products/neolite/
- Linux Kernel development/Fine-tuning - Linux Weekly Times
- Microsoft's knowledgebase
- Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation NetBench 5.01 benchmark
- Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation WebBench 2.0 benchmark
- Benchmart Tests: Web-servers - showing NT and IIS to be best
- The MIT Gallery of Hacks
- Secure Ping and Smurf Logger
- Documentation on the Smurf "Ping" attack - cousin of the UDP based Fraggle
- At http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.txt
- Dated July 1998
- Uses Directed Broadcast/IP Broadcast
- Tracing of IP packets as they hop.
- There is a Perl script called DOSTRACKER to log into CISCO boxes and trace these packets back to the source http://www.security.mci.net/
- IRIX has non-forwarding of broadcast as a default which is tunable in the /var/sysgen/master.d/bsd file
- Defining Strategies to Protect Against TCP SYN Denial of Service Attacks - http://cio.cisco.com/warp/public/707/4.html
- CERT Advisory CA-96.21 TCP SYN Flooding and IP Spoofing Attacks - http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-96.21.tcp_syn_flooding.html
- Information on Denial of Service Attacks - http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html
- What Are Denial of Service Attacks
- Configuring TCP Intercept (Prevent Denial-of-Service Attacks)
- U/WIN
- Package provides a mechanism for building and running UNIX applications on Windows NT, Windows 98, and Windows 95 with few, if any, changes necessary.
- At http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/
- Dvorak keyboard layout or 'Simplified' keyboard
- How do I find all setuid and setgid files?
- From comp.security.unix FAQ
- find / -local -type f \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -print
- find / -local -type f \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -exec ls -ld '{}' \;
You may want to add the "-u" option to ls to see last-accessed times rather than last-modified times (esp to help gauge how harmful it would be to unsetuid the file).
- Free X Windows Servers for Windows 95/NT, etc
- At http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/kdefaq-15.html#ss15.12
- At http://www.microimages.com/
- At http://www.microimages.com/mix/
- Technical X Window System and Motif WWW Sites: http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html
- Window managers for The X Window System.
- Running X that port 6000 is not open
- Add flag '-nolisten tcp' to the X server command line.
- MI/X: A Professional, Free, X Server for Windows and Macintosh
- Linux On-line
- VMWARE
- Virtual Machines. Linux on WinNT, WinNT on Linux, Linux on Linux.
- Software of high quality.
- At http://www.vmware.com/
- FreeM-Ware
- Simulates a PC on UNIX (included in FreeBSD under ports) called bochs
- At http://www.freemware.org
- Connectix previews virtual Windows, Linux even OS/2 tech
- Runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a PC
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18678.html
- At http://preview.connectix.com/vpc4w_wp_01.html
- Linux From Scratch!
- "LinuxFromScratch is a project aimed at teaching the reader more about the inner workings of Linux. It's intended for those seeking to learn more about how Linux works and how the various pieces of the Operating System fit together and interact. This probably isn't a good resource for people who just started with Linux or who are about to move from the Microsoft world to the Linux world. "
- At http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
- Extreme Linux
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) Homepage
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) for the WIN32-bit platform (WinNT, etc)
- Money and Currency Conversion
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine): PVM++: A C++-Library for PVM
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine): PVMmake
- "PVMmake is a parallel make utility written in PVM by Judy Devaney and Mark Edwards. It allows you to:
1.broadcast files to any number of machines in your virtual machine
2.execute commands on any machine in your virtual machine" - At http://www.nist.gov/itl/div895/sasg/parallel/pvm/pvmmake.html
- "PVMmake is a parallel make utility written in PVM by Judy Devaney and Mark Edwards. It allows you to:
- Index for PVM3 Library (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing
- At http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/pvm-book.html
- At http://netlib.ccp14.ac.uk/pvm3/book/pvm-book.html
- An Introduction to PVM Programming (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- PVM - More Than 9,000 Copies Distributed (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- PVM Guide (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- Introduction to PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- Introduction to PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- Star Bridge Systems - SuperComputing
- At http://www.starbridgesystems.com/
- NASA's new supercomp sits on a desktop:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17979.html
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has taken delivery of a desktop-sized supercomputer which draws no more power than a hair dryer, based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology instead of a CPU.
FPGA chips can reconfigure themselves thousands of times a second, making it possible for numerous applications to run simultaneously. This setup simply leapfrogs over Moore's Law, yielding a desktop box with 1000 times the power of one running on a CPU.
The power boost comes from the ability of an FPGA array to maximize the use of transistors. A CPU is designed to handle many different sorts of tasks, so only a fraction of its transistors is in use at any given time. An FPGA array, by contrast, can dedicate as many of its transistors as needed for a task on the fly.
- Bowolf/Bowulf/Beowolf/Buewolf/Beuwulf/Boewolf/Boewulf/Beowulf Linux - Parallel Computing
- At
http://www.beowulf.org
- Links from the above page:
- Stonesoup/Stone SouperComputer Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) a 126 node cluster at zero dollars per node
- Grendel Clemson University PVFS and system development
- Drexel Drexel University
- PACET George Washington University
- Naegling CalTech's Beowulf Linux cluster
- Loki Los Alamos Beowulf cluster has an especially cool logo
- Megalon Sandia's large Beowulf
- theHive Goddard Space Flight Center one of the large Beowulf cluster at Goddard
- AENEAS University of California, Irvine
- MAGI CTU Prague's Beowulf cluster used for speech recognition
- Brahma Duke University's cluster
- Topcat University of Southern Queensland's Beowulf cluster
- USM University of Southern Mississippi online discussions about bringing a Beowulf to the campus
- LoBoS NIH
- SWARM Oregon State University
- smile Smile Cluster at Kasetsart University
- Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A DEC Alpha 300XL based system used to support the LIGO Experiment within the Physics Department at UWM
- HIDRA University of Barcelona's UB-UPC Dynamical Systems Group
- DeepFlow Viscoelastic Group at Universite' catholique de Louvain A 16 node Alpha-PC based cluster
- Avalon Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Nonlinear Studies and Theoretical Division
- Hyglac JPL's High Performance Computing Group
- Collage ANL distributed rendering and visualization
- U. Louisville U. Louisville Pentium-II system running CFD codes
- Weland Memorial University Seismic Imaging Consortium
- CPGE Intel Cluster Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
- wonderland Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
- ERATO-I Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project 32- Pentium-II, 100Base-TX, Catalyst 5505
- Enterprise Voyager and theBorg Deppartment Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University, UK
- Medusa Electromagnetics Laboratory, New Mexico State University
- CTF CASPUR, Italian Academic Consortium for Supercomputing Applications Rome
- Clarkson Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering used for geometric and material nonlinear finite element analysis of Geotechnical problems
- ICE Box Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah one of many Beowulf clusters at U of Utah
- Wulfpack Johns Hopkins Medical School
- highpoint Computer Science Dept of High Point University primary use is education / research
- GALAXY Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Monte-Carlo particle transport simulation
- COCOA Aerospace Engineering, Penn State University 400MHz Pentium II, Fast Ethernet
- Spectra Cluster Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ of Alabama in Huntsville
- Storm rendering raytraced environments in interactive rates
- Texas Tech Tornado Dept. of Computer Science, TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY cluster is used for both research and teaching
- NCHC PC Cluster National Center for High-performance Computing, Hsichu, Taiwan
- Marina Case Western Reserve University
- PPME Monash Parallel Parametric Modelling Engine
- Helge Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University Physical Chemistry
- Yggdrasil Institute of Theoretical Dynamics at the University of California, Davis primarily used for computational biology
- PPCC Indiana University Pentium II's with Gigabit Ethernet: half the system runs Windows NT and half runs Linux
- CARRIER University of Florida This cluster supports simulative and experimental architecture, interconnect, and algorithm research
- ISCTE/ADETTI Lisbon/Portugal University rendering/ray trace anfd other scientific applications
- LAMA LAMA's Materials Laboratory at UPV/EHU Monte Carlo simulations of phase transitions in condensed matter physics
- Calico Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility studying the feasibility and efficiency of Lattice QCD calculations on a COTS cluster
- Störtebeker Institut für Technische Informatik, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck Research projects: fault tolerance, intelligent and configurable networks, load management with mobile agents, mobile robots. Application projects: medical and multimedia.
- earthdome Watson Technical Consulting runs TAOS/mpi and various meteorological software packages such as MM5 (a mesoscale model) and CCM3.6 (a climate model) for storm hazard risk assessments and research, concentrating on Tropical Cyclone research
- SPARROW University of Arkansas network research and computational server
- BlackAdder Someplace in Canada A personal Beowulf Cluster built to study clusters and parallel rendering
- NA49 Hewlett-Packard/GSI/CERN Particle physics data processing
- YAC Bioinformatics, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and the Univeristy of Toronto All-atom ensemble-based protein folding simulations and URL/HTTP-based distributed clustering
- GRAVITOR Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva used for astrophysics problems
- Tempest and Lear Department of Physics & Astronomy,University of Pittsburgh Lear is dedicated especially for large lattice QCD computations
- wiglaf Harvey Mudd College teaching and research including fluid dynamics and medical modeling applications
- Trojans Cluster Project Internet and Cluster Computing Lab at University of Southern California Cluster middleware research
- ClusterTux NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research MM5 (weather modelling)
- ParaStation University of Karlsruhe: Dept. of Informatics Enables high performance cluster computing by reducing latency and increasing throughput
- VALHAL Center for Atomic-Scale Materials Physics A 60-node Alpha cluster running Tru64 UNIX
- Bolo a heterogeneous beowulf cluster.
- supercom Korea University A large Beowulf in Korea used for economic forecasting: bond yields, stock prices, exchange rates
- Valhalla University of Missouri - St. Louis Being used for computational chemistry and problems in the Business Administration/MIS departments
- Chaingang Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Flagship of the West Center for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery used for computational chemistry calculations.
- Gargleblaster Parallel Computing Facility, Dept of CS, UC Santa Barbara used for research and education
- Gollach University of Cape Town's Radar Remote Sensing Group used for radar and image processing and development of parallel processing techniques
- ODIN Materials Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory ODIN is a 37-node PIII 450MHz cluster
- UMD Cluster in Duluth Pentium III system
- HDWT-BeOne Ecole Centrale d'Electronique used for research
- THOR Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Canada a (40 dual PII/III) Linux cluster in production for High Energy Physics analysis at the Center for Subatomic Research
- ANUWulf The Australian National University a 192 CPU PIII/550 machine using a novel arrangement of fast ethernet interfaces
- Telaketju Wireless Internet Laboratory, VTT Electronics, Finland A Beowulf "environment" consist of two clusters, Smaug (9x PII-266MHz) and Glaurung (32xPIII-500Mhz).
- Realm Dept. Geography, University of Maryland a 72-node (36 dual-processor) parallel image database for manipulating Landsat satellite data.
- w3lotus Laboratoire de Physique de l'Etat Condense, Universite du Maine, Le Mans used for computational physics and computational physical chemistry
- LANNA High Performance Computing Reseach Labs in Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand used to study parallel computing and image processing
- ALICE Ames Ames Laboratory ISU Cluster Environment: 64 dual-processor Pentuim Pros connected by Fast Ethernet
- Ames' IBM cluster Ames 22 dual-processor IBM 43P machines connected by Gigabit Ethernet
- GECOA Ames Ames Laboratory Gigabit Ethernet Cluster of Alphas: 24 Alpha 21164 machines connected by Gigabit Ethernet
- Links from the above page:
- At
http://www.beowulf.org
- XIG Commercial Xserver for Linux/UNIX
- Good at detecting a wide variety of graphics cards.
- Time limited demonstration version is available
- At http://www.xig.com
- Beowulf Underground
- MPIch message passing system for Parallel Computers such as Beowulf
- At http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/index.html
- "MPI (Message Passing Interface) is a library specification for message-passing, proposed as a standard by a broadly based committee of vendors, implementors, and users": http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/index.html
- Linux HQ
- BSD vs Linux Gossip
- Jonathan Thornburg's Home Page
- Borrocks / Bollocks / Pants / Stanes
- On Pants - Borrocks software
- At
http://disarray.wh3rd.net/journal/Synapse?start=3
- While some may see this as Mindless Link Propagation, I chose to write
this article because of the uses of the phrase pants amongs the disArray
readership. I hope that this will shed a bit more light on the origins
and usage of this phrase.
During a pwatkins incursion, izzo has brought this ASCII text stamper (borrocks) to the attention of readers of rmit.cs.chat. (For those unfamiliar, a stamper 'imprints' an ascii art image on/over some text) I quote from the homepage:
"A late modification to satisfy the Oxford Toff types is the addition of the "PANTS" stamp."
- At
http://disarray.wh3rd.net/journal/Synapse?start=3
- Bullfighter Bull Software
- The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (Annotated Edition)
- Linux International
- SlashDot
- Linux Documentation Project (LDP) Homepage
- tomsrtbt, a Linux distribution on a single floppy disk
- linuxpower.org
- Securing Linux
- Armoring Linux - http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/linux.html
- At http://linux-firewall-tools.com
- At https://www.seifried.org/
- At http://sysfail.org/sekurity/skull-ln.htm
- At http://www.interhack.net/pubs/
- At http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cp171/files.html
- advICE :OS :UNIX :Linux
http://www.networkice.com/Advice/OS/UNIX/Linux/
- Altivore
- alternative for Carnivore for complying with Court Orders for monitoring Users (FBI style court orders) - for ISPs
- monitors suspect's e-mail (either headers or full content)
- monitors suspect's accesses to certain types of servers (FTP, HTTP, etc.)
- full "sniffing" of suspect's IP address
- discovery of suspect's current IP address through RADIUS logon
- At http://www.networkice.com/altivore/
- altivore.c : http://www.networkice.com/altivore/altivore.c
- alternative for Carnivore for complying with Court Orders for monitoring Users (FBI style court orders) - for ISPs
- Anasil - Software Network Analyzer
- Carnivore FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
- FBI Sniffing software for evidence gathering
- At http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/carnivore-faq.html
- FBI Carnivore Page
- Kha0S Linux - most secure Linux distribution possible http://kha0s.org/
- Bastille Linux (Secure Linux) - http://www.bastille-linux.org/
- Secure Linux - http://www.reseau.nl/securelinux/
- Linux Administrators Security Guide
- Stackguard for Linux - a gcc enhancement compiler
- Adds security to the Linux kernel - protecting from stack smashing attacks.
- At http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/immunix/StackGuard/
- Wanting to compile with gcc - but system keeps finding cc:
"checking for gcc... (cached) cc"
- "remove config.cache and try again.
config.cache should always be removed if you have changed the CC, CXX, CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS environment vars."
- At http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//plib-devel/2000-May/000346.html
- "remove config.cache and try again.
- Linuxconf
- Linux administrative tool. Windows style and looks well thought out
- At http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
- Motivations for writing Linuxconf - http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/motivation.html
- Connect for Linux
- Share a single PPP connection in a small network
- At http://www.caesium.fr/freeware/connect/
- Linux Laptop Volunteer Support Database
- At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/fs
- At http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/volunteer.html
- Linux Installation notes - Toshiba Tecra 550CDT laptop
- Linux FAT32 Support
- FIPS
- A program for non-destructive splitting of harddisk partitions.
- Homepage at (though presently not working): http://www.student.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~schaefer/fips.html
- At http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fips/fips.html
- Download the latest FIPS via FreeBSD or Linux mirrors: i.e., [ ftp://redhat.ccp14.ac.uk/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/dosutils/] | [ http://redhat.ccp14.ac.uk/pub/redhat/redhat-6.1/i386/dosutils/]
- How to use FIPS (in French): http://www.linux-kheops.com/doc/didact/html/fips.htm
- Dr. Dobb's Journal Microprocessor Resources
- Including Undocumented Corner: http://www.x86.org/
- Including Intel Secrets and Bugs: http://www.x86.org/secrets/intelsecrets.htm
- At http://www.x86.org/ddj/ddj.htm
- Computer Systems Documentation
- Tom's Hardware Guide
- "The Internet's premier source for PC Hardware information"
- Intel vs Cyrix vs AMD, ethalon, etc
- At http://www.tomshardware.com/
- V2_OS is the fastest Operating System available for the 386+ PC
- Open Source High Performance Operating System for PC written entirely in 100% pure 32Bit Assembler
- At http://www.v2os.cx/
- memtest-86 for Linux and Windows - A Stand-alone Memory Diagnostic
- QNX Operating System for PC/Real-time operating system for PC
- GUI-OS - fits on a single floppy disk
- At http://www.QNX.com/
- "Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) with the QNX® Neutrino® Microkernel RTOS: A Technical Overview": http://www.qnx.com/literature/whitepapers/smp.html
- AtheOS Operating System PC
- "AtheOS is a free desktop operating system (currently) under the GPL lisence. AtheOS currently run on Intel, AMD and other compatible processors and support the Intel Multi Processor architecture."
- "AtheOS is not meant to be a new Unix clone (like Linux and *BSD) but a new clean desktop OS. It does support large parts of the POSIX standard and hence are able to run most of the UNIX CLI tools and it comes with a standard UNIX shell (BASH) but this does not compromise anything in AtheOS as a desktop OS. AtheOS have a integrated GUI that works in conjunction with the kernel and various other components to create a complete and consistent system."
- At http://www.atheos.cx/
- Redhat Linux on a Sony Vaio PCG FX401
- Vaio FX150/170/190 mini-HOWTO.
- Linux on Sony Vaio - BIOS kludges included
- BeOS for PC
- High Performance Operating System for PC and Mac
- At http://www.be.com/
- Fortune Cookie software kex for UNIX (users a server in Sweden to read the cookies from)
- AltOS
- Info on non-Microsoft Operating systema
- At http://www.altos.org.uk/
- Hypermail - the best tool for mail list archives
- Beta Version primarily written for linux - but compilable on others
- At http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast/hypermail/
- Hypermail
- MailServ
- MailServ provides a World Wide Web interface to several types of mailing list servers including Majordomo and administering Majordomo
- At http://advicom.net/~fitz/www/mailserv/
- Mailman listserv software - The GNU Mailing List Manager - uses Python
- Very slick web-interface user and owner administration options.
- At http://www.list.org/
- Majordomo listserv software
- At http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
- Majordomo Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/majordomo-faq.html
- Majordomo Tutorial for ListOwners - http://eleccomm.ieee.org/demo1/
- Smartmail listserv and mail software
- rpm2html : a generator of Web pages for RPM packages
- RPM repository on ns.kaybee.org
- Software which automatically blocks or screens material on the Internet
- Evading the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Act 1999
- At http://www.2600.org.au/censorship-evasion.html
- At http://members.xoom.com/2600aus/censorship-evasion.html
- EFF
- Censorship in action: Silenced by the DMCA
- World's first DeCSS executable prime number
- DVD descrambler encoded in 'illegal' prime number
- Antionline
- Including security problems with specified computer systems
- At http://www.antionline.com/archives/
- Infowar
- Including security problems with specified computer systems
- At http://www.infowar.com
- Ping Deamon - pingd - for linux
- Refer Phrack 52, article 7
- At http://www.phrack.com
- The World of DOS - Creating Batch Files
- WinBatch for Windows
- Powerfull batch editing for MS-Windows. Recommended by others.
- At http://www.winbatch.com
- Secure Networks Inc
- "Honey Pot" software - Deception based Intrusion Detection and Logging
- At http://www.secnet.com
- Web Test Tools List
- Various types of scanning
- At http://www.charm.net/~dmg/qatest/
- Load and Performance Test Tools
- Java Test Tools
- Link Checkers
- HTML Validators
- Free 0n-the-web HTML Validators and Link Checkers
- PERL and C Programs for Validating and Checking
- Web Functional/Regression Test Tools
- Web Site Management Tools
- Other Web Test Tools
- CSE HTML Validator for Windows
- Welcome to Bobby 3.2
- Web Content Accessibility Notes for Web Maintainers
- At http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ccs/docs/web/
- What are the fourteen Web Accesibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines?
- Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Don't rely on colour alone. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Use markup and style sheets and do so properly. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Clarify natural language usage. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Create tables that transform gracefully. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Ensure direct accessibility of embedded user interfaces. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Design for device-independence. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Use interim solutions. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Use W3C technologies and guidelines. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Provide context and orientation information. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Provide clear navigation mechanisms. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
- Ensure that documents are clear and simple. [ see checkpoints & examples ]
Also see the WAI HTML Techniques and CSS Techniques documents.
- TechDis: Technology for Disabilities Information Service
- Disability and the Web from TechDis
- How People with Disabilities use the Web - W3C Working Draft, 4 January 2001
- Online shopper with color blindness
- Wildcard Renamer
- Rename4u
- At
http://www.kellysoftware.com/software/Rename4u.asp
- Rename4u is a fun and easy program for renaming files! It's a free program that allows you to rename any files, using various methods, including search/replace, renumbering, prefixes/suffixes, permissions, uppercase/lowercase/propercase, etc. Includes test mode, so you can test your combination(s) before renaming the files.
- At
http://www.kellysoftware.com/software/Rename4u.asp
- System Utilities - File Management - Multiple File Renaming
- Lupas Rename
- Rname-it
- FreeFile
- At
http://www.freewarehome.com/System_Utilities/File_Management/Miscellaneous_File_Management_p.html
- Are you fed up with error messages that say "Cannot delete file: Access is denied - Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use." FreeFile will find the process that holds the lock, you can terminate that process and free the file! Program will also run on WinNT and Win2K but requires the .NET framework which is included in XP or can be downloaded (20 Megs) from Microsoft.
- At
http://www.freewarehome.com/System_Utilities/File_Management/Miscellaneous_File_Management_p.html
- Changecase/chcase perl script - for UNIX
- Change lowercase files names to uppercase and visa versa
- chcase -r -d '*' (to convert all files recursively to lower case)
- At http://eternity.2y.net/chcase.html
- At http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/01/26/948918095.html
- Linux Console/Utilities: http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/utilities.html
- Changecase/CDirCase perl script - for UNIX
- Change lowercase files names to uppercase and visa versa
- At http://venus.spaceports.com/~alkatraz/cdircase
- At http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/12/18/945519894.html
- Linux Console/Utilities: http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/utilities.html
- Changecase for Windows
- Freeware - Change the case of filenames in Windows - useful for webwork.
- At http://member.netease.com/~zealsoft/changecase/index.html
- Problems with Windows Explorer and Windows recognising change in case - http://member.netease.com/~zealsoft/changecase/tips.html
- Why Change Case seemed not to change all filenames to upper case?
Some users report that when they use Change Case to change the filenames to upper case, Windows Explorer shows filename with an initial capital and the rest is lower case after this change. In fact, this is NOT a bug of Change Case. This is a problem of Windows. If the length of folder/file name is less than or equal to 8 and the folder/file name is in upper case, Windows Explorer will display it with an initial capital. But if you use DIR command in MS-DOS prompt or in Netscape Navigator or FTP clients, you will see the filename is really upper case. This is designed by Windows.
Change Case is a CARDWARE. If you are using the program, please send a postcard to Hai Li No. 1607 Unit 133 Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 100081 PR ChinaNewsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.networking.win95 In article [3403e909.767220765@harrogateX51], we heard from "jegan@shipway.u-net.com (James Egan)", who said: >IMHO an important requirement is to be able to force lowercase in >filenames. Win95 tends to mix and match upper and lower case which can >cause unneccessary problems on unix machines. Before anyone else gets confused, let's note that Unix also uses mixed upper and lower case. Or at least, Unix users often do. The difference is that Unix requires you to access the file with the same case that it was originally created. Win95 doesn't care what case you use, and will happily read file "README.TXT" when it is asked for "readme.txt" - Unix will simply insist the file does not exist. The Unix method is known as Case Sensitive, and the Windows method is Case Preserving. It's only a matter of convention that most users will give their file names in lower case on Unix machines. And it's a matter of poor programming that even telling a Windows NT command-line FTP client "put filename.dat filename.dat" may result in a file on the remote machine called "FILENAME.DAT". Alun. ~~~~ --- Texas Imperial Software | Try WFTPD, the Windows FTP Server. 1602 Harvest Moon Place | Available at the web site Cedar Park TX 78613 | http://www.wftpd.com Fax +1 (512) 378 3246 | or email me at alun@texis.com Phone +1 (512) 257 2578 | Now accepting credit card orders! =================================================================== ***** WFTPD Pro, an NT Service FTP Server supporting multiple ***** ** simultaneous virtual hosts, is now available for $80 per copy **
- WFTPD - for Windows
- Buffer the FTP Slayer - FTPD Exploits
- BKReplace/BK ReplaceEm for Windows
- Freeware - Powerful and solid search and replace software for Windows.
- Multiple search replace - search-replacements rules in one pass and have applied to > 12,000 html files.
- Will stitch broken lines together, etc.
- At http://www.orbit.org/replace/
CARDWARE to Bill Klein 6950 Fielding, Apt 606 Montreal, Quebec H4V 1P7 Canada
- Multi-Replace Version 2
- Search and replace in text and other tools. Shareware
- At http://www.cict.co.uk/software/dev/mrep.htm
- replace for UNIX - replace 2.01 - The sane person's alternative to sed
- Search and replace in text (replaces sed and perl - hurrah!!)
- At http://replace.richardlloyd.org.uk
- Manpage at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/man.html
- Download at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/
- Download at ftp://hpux.connect.org.uk/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/
- rewrite
- "This tool reads a file, feeding its contents thru a shell command
or a pipeline, and reads the output from the pipeline writing it back to the file.
It allows for in-place (re)compression, for example. For large multi-part archives you may not otherwise have been able to uncompress and recompress the data again because of lack of temporary disk space.
If the output from the pipeline is bigger than the file, the program will continue to allocate memory to buffer the difference, it will never over-write data in the file before reading it. "... - At http://oss.ezic.com/
- "This tool reads a file, feeding its contents thru a shell command
or a pipeline, and reads the output from the pipeline writing it back to the file.
- Greppes Text Tools for DOS
- Search and replace in text and other tools. Freeware
- At http://info.apnpc.com.au/swlib/Computer_Programming/Programmers_Utilities/000SKR.html
- AD Search&Replace (Shareware)
- Search and replace in text and other tools. Windows 95/98/NT
- At http://www.tiklsoft.com/word/2922.html
- Tessera Search & Replace 1.05 for Win9x
- "Tessera Search & Replace is a free utility that searches multiple files for text strings. It also allows any occurrences found in the searched files to be replaced. Requires the VB6 Runtimes."
- At http://www.bigfoot.com/~zurob/tessera/sr/
- Multi Search and Replace 1.1 For Win9x/NT4
- "Multi Search and Replace v1.1 - A 32-bit Win95/NT application which allows you to replace a string of characters (or words) with one of your choosing on one or more files. Extremely fast and flexible with complete logging. Will work with any file that is readable in a text editor. Not for use with binary files."
- At http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5480/
- TreeRep 2.0 For Win95/NT
- "With this program you can select any files anywhere on your computer or on the network and do search and replacement on them. In fact, you can replace a string in all the files in a directory. If you like, you can even replace a string in all the files in the current directory and in all the files in all the subsequent subdirectories - which I call tree-wide string replacement." Needs VB40032.DLL
- At http://www.uhu.com/tinkershop/
- Markin - computer based essay marking software
- New Software Can Help to Grade Students' Online Essays
- NetSwitcher
- shareware network setup utility for Windows machines lets you save and restore various network setups.
- At http://www.netswitcher.com/
- Software rams great firewall of China
- At
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39127360,00.htm
- "The news and propaganda wing behind the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcasts has commissioned software that lets Chinese Web surfers sneak around the boundaries set by their government. "
- At
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39127360,00.htm
- Network Hubs vs Switches
- At http://www.farallon.com/products/hubs/hubvsswitch.html
- At http://www.techextreme.com/hardware/networking/hubswitch/2.shtml
- At http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/nd2012.htm#xtocid454119
- At http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/tag/6.html
- At http://www.enetdepot.net/hubandswitch.html
- At http://www.sbdsx.com/page23.html
- ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
- At http://www.icann.org/
- Address Supporting Organization (ASO): http://www.aso.icann.org/
- Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO): http://www.icann.org/dnso/dnso.htm
- Protocol Supporting Organization (PSO): http://www.pso.icann.org/
- Country code chiefs, registrars mull ICANN breakaway
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/14999.html
- "And what could be simpler? But Bandy argues that the raison d'etre
for an organisation with global authority for resolving these disputes is
essentially bogus. OpenNIC, he says, merges name information with other
liberated DNS servers. Where there's a conflict, the name is ignored.
What gives the liberated model such impetus though, is that these registrars would naturally look after their own TLDs, providing a natural demarcation between disputed names. Nike, for example, would need only apply to the most popular .biz, .store, .exploitation domains. And provided the registrars wouldn't embark on a land-grab, exercise, the system would fundamentally be a self-regulating market." - "How the sky might fall
As we mentioned earlier, moving to "liberated" DNS servers wouldn't be the end of the world. It could happen, silently and overnight, without anyone noticing. And it could happen like this.
Suppose the .uk names were ultimately registered in a single text file - as they all are right now - not in Herndon Virginia, home of the NSI (actually, it's owned by NSI's parent company Verisign) but on a server in the Anyplace Islands. British users, or anyone else wanting to click to a .uk domain would need to access Anyplace or one of its downstream name servers. How would they do that? Through their ISP."
- ICANN watch
- TBTF: Tasty Bits from the Technology Front
- CIRA: Canadian Internet Registration Authority
- At http://www.cira.ca/
- requirements: http://www.cira.ca/official-doc/4.registrantCanadian.txt
- annus-horribilis.qeii.ca : (CIRA, Canada's new admin for the .ca ccTLD, has published its requirements regarding who is eligible to register a domain: Canadian citizens, permanent residents, legal representatives, corporations, trusts, partnerships, associations, trade unions, political parties, various kinds of educational institutions, libraries, indian "bands," aboriginals, the government, registrants of trademark and official marks, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her successors.): http://www.tbtf.com/roving_reporter/index.html#11
- The SuperRoot Consortium (The Stable Implementation Of New Top Level Domains)
- At http://www.superroot.net/downloads.html
- The following SuperRoot files are available: http://www.superroot.net/
- "The SuperRoot Consortium root is not an alternative to the IANA/ICANN legacy root since we use the IANA/ICANN legacy root as our foundation. The SuperRoot Consortium root can be thought of as a "staging root" for the testing and implementation of new top level domains."
- WIPO still kissing famous people's arses
- APNIC - Asia Pacific Network Information Center
- ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers
- GSA - GOV Domain Registry
- RIPE - Réseaux IP Européens
- Consideration of Introducing New Generic Top-Level Domains (.sci, .itl, etc, .sex, etc, etc)
- ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
- At http://www.icann.org/dnso/gtld-topic-20apr00.htm
- New Generic Top-Level Domains
- "You might be interested to know that yesterday, ICANN approved seven new top level domains: .info for general use, .biz for businesses, .name for individuals, .pro for professionals, .museum for museums, .coop for business cooperatives and .aero for the aviation industry. The creation of top level domains like ".health" from the World Health Organizations, ".post" and ".union" was delayed until "next time"."
- At http://www.connected.org/is/dot-health.html
- Failed WHO .health domain: http://www.connected.org/is/dot-health.html
- Underlying legal basis for ICANN was also the subject of a newly released law review
- "The underlying legal basis for ICANN was also the subject of a newly released law review article by Prof. Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami School of Law. The lengthy article is available at http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf. Prof. Froomkin is highly critical of the relationship between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He states: "ICANN is formally a private nonprofit California corporation, created in response to a summoning by U.S. Government officials, to take regulatory actions that the Department of Commerce was unable or unwilling to take directly. If the U.S. government is laundering its policy making through ICANN, it violates the [U.S. Administrative Procedure Act]; if ICANN is, in fact, independent , then the federal government's decisions to have ICANN manage a public resource of such importance, and to allow indeed, require -- it to enforce regulatory conditions on users of that resource, violate the non-delegation doctrine of the U.S. Constitution." It remains to be seen whether a U.S. court will adopt Prof. Froomkin's view of ICANN's legal status."
- At http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
- Text Search and Replace Tools
- FileScan
- Search and replace in text.
- At http://ms-soft.virtualave.net/filescan/filescan.shtml
- CCGrep 98
- Search and replace in text. (Windows, freeware, simple to use)
- At http://www.cybercreek.com/ccgrep/
- LAME
- (Linux Administration Made Easy)
- At http://www.ojichan.com/linux-admin/
- At http://www.ojichan.com/linux-admin/book1.html
- The LINUX FUD factor FAQ
- Linklint
- Checking links within a website.
- At http://sofa.dartnet.co.uk/manual/linklint/specs.html
- Fn - A find utility for DOS
- Executable and source code.
- At http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/fn.html
- Source Code and Utilities
- graphics tree walker, To remove (delete) files from MS-DOS® use rms.c., Single Source Frames (frames, noframes)
- <BodyShop>, a tool for helping webmasters select the <body> tag color attributes.
- At http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/smplc.html
- Windows Links
- Including links to freeware and non-microsoft based technical stuff.
- At http://www.orbit.org/win/
- sscan
- Various types of scanning - including trying to find exploits of targetted machine depending on response from remote computer.
- At http://bear.berkeleycs.ml.org/~jsbach/sscan.tar.gz
- At http://bear.berkeleycs.ml.org/~jsbach/sscan.tar.gz
- UCLA acceptable use for personal webpages
- KNMAP (KDE GUI over NMAP)
- The Computer Museum History Centre
- ShadowScan (for Windows)
- netburst
- "simple, fast IP scanner with a flexible range-specification syntax, which lets you scan a /25 network as easily as a class C."
- At http://www.enteract.com/~tqbf/goodies.html
- FreeBSD vs. Linux (And a few other OS's, to boot!)
- e.g., FreeBSD is Republican, Linux is Democrat.
- At http://www.futuresouth.com/~fullermd/freebsd/bsdvlin.html
- Includes "Why Yahoo! runs FreeBSD": At http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6986/yahoobsd.htm
- Mail2Web
- "Mail2Web is a revolutionary service which lets you to use your POP3 email through an easy web interface. Whether you are traveling on the road or sitting behind a firewall, you only need Mail2Web to read and reply your email."
- Scanner and can try to indentify system and vunerability.
- At http://www.mail2web.com/
- Why Yahoo is Good (But May Get Worse)
- Web Pages Must Live Forever
- 2D is Better Than 3D
- Queso
- Scanner and can try to indentify system and vunerability.
- At http://www.apostols.org/projectz/queso/
- Java Password Generator
- "This password generator gives you a list of ten "pronounceable" passwords"
- At http://www.best.com/~thvv/gpw.html
- At http://www.best.com/~thvv/multicians.html#Gasser
- RADIUS server for authentication - RADIUS RFC - doing a password attack (1996)
- MNS (Multifunctional Network Scanner)
- Various types of scanning - latest version is v.91beta (22 May 1999)
- Needs libpcap installed for on system (libpcap does not seem present on default Redhat 6.0 install?)
- Libpcap at ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/
- At http://www.thegrid.net/gravitino/products.html
- Can be downloaded via http://www.genocide2600.com/~tattooman/scanners/
- Libpcap Archive
- Lamescan
- "It supports scanning domains, class A,B,C nets, random scan, multithreaded scan, scanning hostnames as they are typed on stdin, ansi, identd lookups(buggy), sending a "user lalala" string to any open port (to look less as a portscan), output to a filename and delaying between each connect() call."
- At http://home.swipnet.se/laq/prog.html
- Bronc Buster vs. Michael Jackson
- "is an ultra fast Class B style vulnerability scanner. It impliments 'argv' (joke) technology to keep up with the ever-expanding horde of so-called 0-day exploits hackers utilize to penetrate your vital network infrastructure."
- At http://www.thegrid.net/gravitino/products.html
- Leet Scanner
- "Leet Scanner is a fast, simple, and efficient single target host port scanner. It scans a pre-determined set of common tcp/ip services for listening ports using the FIN stealth technique"
- At http://www.thegrid.net/gravitino/products.html
- Soup Scanner
- "Soup Scanner is a fast, simple, and efficient domain scanner. It scans an entire Class C type domain for a specified port and simply dumps resulting hosts to the terminal window."
- At http://www.thegrid.net/gravitino/products.html
- Fragrouter
- Fragments packets for attacking sites that may be vunerable to probes via fragmented packets.
- At http://www.genocide2600.com/~tattooman/detect-unix/nidsbench/fragrouter.html
- At http://www.Genocide2600.com/~tattooman/index.shtml
- MARS
- MARS - Java application designed to help system administrators monitor the status of Internet servers they manage
- At http://www.insecure.org/sploits_irix.html
- check.pl
- Check.pl 1.0 runs through all of the files and directories that it is given as arguments and determines the permissions. It then sends a list of "dangerous" files to stdout which can be redirected to a file.
- At http://opop.nols.com/
- At http://opop.nols.com/proggie/check.pl
- At http://www.genocide2600.com/~tattooman/unix-audit/check.pl
- IRIX Exploits at Insecure.org
- Wim's PC BIOS Page
- PC Error Guide - Links to interesting TroubleShooting Sites
- Definitions and Solutions for BIOS Error Beeps and Messages/Codes Boot errors
- Net Ninja
- Including back orifice plugins
- At http://www.netninja.com/
- SC88Pro SysEx Checksum generator for Windows
- NetBus and Back Orifice - Both are threats to a user's security on the Internet
- Threats to your Security on the Internet
- Using Microsoft's netstat command and regedit to recognise presence of trojans and getting rid of them.
- Also link to Elron Software, Inc.'s "Elron Firewall and Elron Firewall for NT" with "30 minute install guarantee".
- At http://www.commodon.com/threat/frame.htm
- Having a webpage start in a new web client/web Browser Window
- <!-- Begin window.open('news.html','icsd_help','scrollbars=yes,resizable=1,width=500,height=500,left=20,top=20,menubar=no, toolbar=no,location=yes,directories=no,status=no') // End -->
- <A TARGET="lists" HREF="./lsites0999.html#Domain33">ac.uk</A>
- The human side of computer security: What are the effects of social engineering on Internet security?
- The 9-0-# Phone Scam: Fraud Education
- Stomp the identity thieves
- Online brigands take to billing fraud and identity theft
- Identity Thefts from the Rich and Famous
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17748.html
- A trainee dish washer has been arrested in New York after allegedly using the Internet to defraud millions from US celebrities and millionaires.
- According to the New York Post, which broke the story, Abraham Abdallah allegedly used Internet access at a local library and copies of Forbes magazine to steal the identities of 200 celebrities so that he could run up bills in their names online.
- During the six months of the fraud he allegedly set up an elaborate network of post office boxes, Web-enabled cell phones and online voice mail services so that he could fool banks and avoid detection. He also used couriers to pick up goods and throw police off the scent.
- The fraud was reportedly only discovered when an email request to transfer $10 million from the bank account of the founder of CRM magnate Thomas Siebel raised eyebrows at his bank, Merrill Lynch.
- Drop-dead Internet Alerts: Internet scam chain letters/hoaxes
- Advice of writing effective "real" alerts: Recipe For A Better Internet Alert
- At http://korova.com/virus/alerts.htm
- Social engineering Scams - Bell Atlantic Warnings
- At http://www.bell-atl.com/security/fraud/social.htm
- Here are some tips to protect yourself and
your business from this type of fraud:
- Know that you may be a potential target for this type of fraud.
- DO NOT provide any unnecessary information to callers unless you know who they are. Be polite and helpful, but know your limitations. When in doubt, make arrangements to call back and check company listings for phone number verification.
- Never provide PIN or passwords to anyone.
- Information on Fraud Detection Systems - Credit Card and Telco Fraud
- [ISN] Social Engineering your way in!
- Paper on "GROWING DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN ENCRYPTION PRODUCTS IN THE FACE OF U.S. EXPORT REGULATIONS
- Tricks for making banner adverts non-workable on a system
An excerpt from e:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts: 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net That line prevents the DoubleClick ads from loading, and so prevents me from clicking the ads, as well as preventing my computer from having to load the ads.
- Antimicrosoft/Anti microsoft Links
- Navy carrier to run Win 2000 - September 11, 2000
- Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water - July 13, 1998
- At http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm
- Windows NT Cripples US Navy Cruiser: http://www.info-sec.com/OSsec/OSsec_080498g_j.shtml
- Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I): Joint Service/Navy-Wide Systems: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/policy/vision/vis00/v00-ch3e.html
- US Navy just doesn't learn: http://associate.com/archive/14-Jul-173944.shtml
- US Navy carrier to adopt Win2k infrastructure: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11929.html
- Consent to Monitor at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) NIPRNet
(Non-Classified IP Router Network)
- Information on SIPRNET (Secret Internet Protocol Router Network)
- eFront ICQ Logs
- At http://www.whizkid.com/bryant.html
- At http://www.lumthemad.net/news/1798.php
- At http://gethighforums.com/Forum10/HTML/001108.html
- At http://www.allfreak.com/bubba/efuck.htm
- At http://www.geocities.com/efrontsucks/
- The Microsoft Conspiracy Interpretation of 'American Pi'
- Improving Computer Security through Network Design - by Danny Smith, Technical Director, AUSCERT
- At http://www.auscert.org.au/Information/Auscert_info/Papers/Security_Domains.html
- At http://security.tsu.ru/info/misc/design/security_domains.html
- Various Computer Security Publications
- At http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/
- Including: "Forming an Incident Response Team".
- Including: "There Be Dragons". - A description of cracker assults vs. the ramparts of ATT.COM (about Deception Toolkits DTK)
- At http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/dragon.ps
- "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule. - J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit."
- Practical Computer Network Analysis and Design book by James D. McCabe
- Industrial Strength Network(TVO)
- Multiple power supplies/UPS, Hot-swap chassis design, Multiple/alternate data paths, Redundant network actives,
- At http://www.iac.honeywell.com/services/its/TVO/its_tvo_isn_availability.htm
- Industrial-strength Network Services: http://www.iac.honeywell.com/services/its/Industrial_strength_Network/isn_services_home.htm
- Caprus offers both IPC (Industrial PC) and CPC (Compact PC) passive backplane computers
for use in industrial and all sorts of specialized applications.
- Shock mounted drives for high vibration environments
- Available with DiskOnChip® 2000
- At http://www.caprus.com/ipc.htm
- Microsoft Quotes
- At http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/quotes.html
- John C. Dvorak Archives - Tech Writer and acidic comments - Linux vs WinNT code base control: http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/insites/dvorak_print/jdindex.htm
- Nicholas Petreley article (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/petrel/980727np.htm
- Dan Gillmor (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.sjmercury.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/dg022199.htm
- Robert X. Cringely (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19980820.html http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19981001.html
- Scott Rosenberg (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/10/16straight.html
- John C. Welch, (MacKiDo): (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.MacKiDo.com/Opinion/Standardization.html
- Paul Somerson (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/opinion/opin1098/paul1098.html
- "I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT." (on Microsoft - source of quotes) - http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/9902159106
- Web/Internet companies losing money but stock goes higher
- Spares to Buy
- MS-Intellimouse http://www2.warehouse.com/product.asp?pf%5Fid=IN6980&blind=yes&cat=&cshop=&mfr=Microsoft
- ATI-Xpert Video Card - PCI: http://www2.warehouse.com/product.asp?pf%5Fid=EX9031&cat=pc
- The Microsoft Conspiracy Interpretation of 'American Pi'
- Anti Microsoft Site
- Back Orifice Spoofing Server
- List of Windows based Internet/Network Information Tools for Win95 at Winfile.com
- List of Windows based Internet/Network Information Tools for Win95 at tucows.com
- At http://www.tucows.com/
- UK - http://tucows.cableinet.net/tcp95.html
- UK - http://tucows.cableinet.net/tool95.html
- IP Subnet Calculator for Windows - freeware
- TaskInfo98 for Windows 95 - freeware
- Portmon for Windows 95 - freeware
- Will monitor up to 20 ports and also has allow/deny options
- At http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/1337/
- NetMonitor for Windows 95 - Graphic Netstat with logging and update - freeware
- HHPROXY 0.9 for Win95/NT - freeware
- DNS, Web, etc, etc.
- At http://home.t-online.de/home/sog-luebeck/hhproxy.htm
- Links to Free Software Site - from Gnu web
- NONAGS Freeware Software Site
- "Freeware Home" Software Site
- Startup Items List for Windows Win98
- "Once back into Windows click Start then click on Run, type in msconfig and click on OK. Once the window opens up, click on Help then About System Configuration Utility. "
- http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startlist.htm
- WordWeb
- "WordWeb is a powerful free English thesaurus and dictionary" for Windows
- At http://www.netword.demon.co.uk/wweb/index.html
- Xenu's Link Sleuth (Broken weblink free software for Windows)
- InContext WebAnalyzer 2.0 (Broken weblink, etc software for Windows)
- Html Optimizer
- "Html Optimizer is a user friendly application that allows the user to enhance the speed of his site by checking the size of objects. It can also fill broken links of pages and check html syntax." for Windows
- At http://www.fano.net/venusoft/
- SEVENtwentyfour (Broken weblink service)
- WININET.DLL Errors or Problems (including some downloads of unknown dodginess)
- Local Zipped up copy that gets the Rietica Rietveld
software working (thanks to Brett Hunter)
- Summary: Microsoft are desparate that you download their bloatware internet explorer and that is the only gauranteed way of getting an up to date Wininet.dll
- At http://www.borderware.com/downloads/index.html
- At http://webpageomatic.com/faq.htm
- At
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/1015e.htm
- The dll download resource center:
http://www.california.com/~rpcman/dsound.htm
http://www.california.com/~rpcman/SEARCH.HTM
- INFO: Shipping Versions of Wininet.dll: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q184/3/49.ASP
- Programming with Wininet.dll: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vccore/_core_wininet_.28.http.2c_.ftp.2c_.gopher.29.htm
- Programming with Wininet.dll: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/visualc/vccore/_core_internet_programming_with_wininet.htm
- Local Zipped up copy that gets the Rietica Rietveld
software working (thanks to Brett Hunter)
- MS Windows Update service Needs internet explorer
- CheckWeb
- "CheckWeb is a small but powerful HTML links analyser: it scans HTML pages (online & offline), explores all the links (internal, external, images) and generates a report with collected information (links, errors, page size). It requires wininet.dll (comes with MS IE)" for Windows
- At http://www.alterego.fr/dev/chkweb.htm
- InfoLink Link Checker
- "InfoLink Link Checker is an easy-to-use 32-bit program that helps verify your links." for Windows
- At http://www.biggbyte.com/
- ReactOS - Free WinNT alternative to run Windows programs.
- Bochs x86 PC Emulation Software (GPL'd open source)
- Win32 + Assembler Source Page and free assembly compilation tool kits
- Intel 1.7GHz P4 due Monday, at $350 - sources
- Computer fires man
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18417.html
- "DIY supershed B&Q is not content with positively vetting job applicants with
its telephone virtual interview system. No. The company has now decided to allow
its hi-tech cyberpersonnel department to sack people it has already employed.
Carl Filer, 18, failed B&Q's "personality profile" telephone test, after he had already worked at the company's Bournemouth branch for less than a week.
The branch manager, desperate for punters to fill an immediate workforce hole, put Carl straight to work, and even threatened to promote the likely lad to the heady heights of the checkouts.
Unfortunately, Carl's manager had not yet subjected his star employee to B&Q's 'Big Brother' phone vetting process. In short, he had employed the bloke using his own primitive intuitive faculties. These subsequently proved inadequate.
Although he had already secured employment, B&Q supremos insisted that Carl nevertheless undergo their telephonic grilling. Suitably bored and unimpressed, Carl failed the test. He was then sacked.
Quite right too. It is only to be hoped that other companies follow B&Q's lead in replacing irrational human judgement with pure machine calculation. "
- Exploit devastates WinNT/2K security - SMB/NetBIOS
- WinXP: why it's the Big One that could make MS bigger yet
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18391.html
- "Just one flame so far about yesterday's comment that WinXP is "rock-solid stable,"
but actually it's refreshing to be called a serf, rather than the more usual
worm, turd, Commie-Keynsian Linux-loving European et al. I fear this is
likely to change, because today I propose to cover the topic of why
Microsoft operating systems win, and why XP is a likely candidate
to continue, possibly even extend the process.
Naturally I mean why they win other than because they're marketed by a brutal, protectionist monopoly that strangles babies. Although as you'll see, that kind of relates."
- Windows XP Build 2428 Make Whistler Take Less RAM (For All You 64,96,128 MB RAM Userz)
- At http://www.etplanet.net/windows/whistler/crack/2428_More_Memory.txt
- Whistler uses usesless stuff to jam up your RAM, so do this for it to take less 25-30 MB RAM:
- Goto: Start -> Control Panel -> Performance And Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Services
- And here is what you can disable, and what it douse: * Read What It Douse Before You Decide To Disable
- Alerter - ,Notifies selected users and computers of administrative alerts.,,Disabled,Local Service
- Cryptographic Services ,Provides key management services for this computer.,,Disabled,Local System - Don't disable if you use encrypted NTFS
- DHCP Client - ,Manages network configuration by registering and updating IP addresses and DNS names.,,Disabled,Local System - Do not disable if you use automatic IP assignment via DHCP
- Event Log - ,Logs event messages issued by programs and Windows. Event Log reports contain information that can be useful in diagnosing problems. Reports are viewed in Event Viewer.,,Disabled,Local System
- Human Interface Device Access - ,Provides generic input access to Human Interface Devices.,,Disabled,Local System
- Messenger - ,Sends and receives messages transmitted by administrators or by the Alerter service.,,Disabled,Local Service
- Portable media serial number - ,Retrieves the serial number of any portable music player connected to your computer,,Disabled,Local System
- Remote Registry - ,Allows remote registry manipulation.,,Disabled,Local Service
- Routing and Remote Access - ,Offers routing services to businesses in local area and wide area network environments.,,Disabled,Local System
- Secondary Logon - ,Allows users to run under an alternate set of credentials.,,Disabled,Local System
- SSDP Discovery Service - ,Enables discovery of UPnP devices on your home network.,,Disabled,Local Service
- Terminal Services - ,Provides a multisession environment that allows client devices to access a virtual Windows 2000 Professional desktop session and Windows-based programs running on the server.,,Disabled,Local System
- Wireless Zero Configuration service - ,Provides automatic configuration for the 802.11 adapters,,Disabled,Local System
- Office XP: all your hyperlinks are belong to MS
- At http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19361.html
- 4. IN OFFICE XP, THE LINK YOU TYPE AIN'T WHAT YOU GET: http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/archtemplate.asp?v6-n25
- Special Edition Using Office XP by Ed Bott and Woody Leonhard : http://www.woodyswatch.com/l.asp?0789725134