Quick Index for Computer Science Page

Some Major Players

• ADOBE, download the most recent version of Acrobat Reader
• Alchemy Mindworks, makers of Graphic Workshop
• Apple Computers
• Corel , A Canadian Company and the home of WordPerfect
• CygWin, GNU Dev tools for Win32
• EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
• It said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Gwynux.
• Kill Ad SiteA web popup killer for browsers version 4 and under
• The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
• QNX, THE leading realtime OS (now Multiplatform)
• Quick Time
• Real Audio, Real Player Archives
• Red Hat Software Linux Distribution
• Slackware Linux
• Sun Microsystems
• Finally, some truth in comparing UNIX and NT
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®) Home Page

Freeware and Shareware Download sites

• TuCows,, Download.com Shareware, and No Nags
• Nerd's Heaven software directory
• FreeOS.com is a resource center for Free Operating Systems.
• SCO Skunkware Downloads (GNU, OSS)
• ZDnet downloads and more (Ziff-Davis Inc.'s)
• The Free Site
• Wuarchive
• Simtel HTTP archive and also by FTP or Pay for a CD
• Digital Blasphemy, A wallpaper resource site
• My download on Angelfire

Programming and Technical

• General and NEC
  • TextPad, a language-aware editor with spell check capabilities
  • Free programming courses from CodeWarriorU
  • Programmer's File Editor Home Page
  • GNU.ORG and FSF.ORG, sites with tons of dev software for Linux, Windows, Solaris et al.
  • Training tools
  • The Language Guide
  • How-To Advice from the Jargon File
  • CygWin, GNU Dev tools for Win32
  • DevX, sources for many programming languages
  • O. S. D. N. (Open Source Development Network)
  • Free Code, C/C++, Java, PERL and VB Code Archive
  • planet-source-code.com
  • Database Developer
  • Isys Information Architects, Guidelines for good UI design
  • Freeware Libraries for web and other uses on boutell.com
  • Learning Tree International, high quality IT training
  • Learning Tree Course Supplemental Materials
    • 367 TCP/IP Hands-On Introduction
    • 431 Perl Programming: Hands-On Introduction
    • 470 Developing a Web Site: Hands-On
    • 489 JavaScript for Web Development: Hands-On
    • 504 Visual Basic© 6 Web Development: Hands-On
• C and C++ programming
  • C Programming.com
  • Neil's C++ stuff
• C and C++ compilers
  • Free Compilers
  • Pacific C Compiler (16 bit)
  • Borland/Imprise
  • Borland/Imprise Free C++ Compiler
  • FTP link for the Borland Compiler
  • FTP Link to Borland Turbo Debugger
  • DJPGG, the 32-bit DOS port of GNU's C++ Compiler
  • DJGPP Frequently-Asked Questions List
• Perl Programming
  • CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  • Activestate, win32 port of Perl
  • Perl mongers
  • Perl.com (O'Reilly Books)
  • Perlmonks Forums
  • Andrew Johnson's PERL Page (Andrew is a Learning Tree instructor)
  • Perl Regular Expression, a free chapter from Andrew Manning's book
  • libwww-perl, the WWW Protocol Library for Perl
  • Perlfect Solutions Articles
  • CGI Scripts on this page
  • nms is a set of CGI drop-in replacments for Matt's Script Archive.
  • Matt's Perl Pages (early work done by a 14 year old British kid)
• JAVA Programming
  • JavaFile.com
  • JavaTM 2 Platform (Sun)
  • Introduction to Java (and JavaScript) for Nonprogrammers
  • MazeWorks, Java Games and puzzles
  • JavaScript on this page
• Web Programming
  • HTML, CSS et al.
    • DTD and <META> tags (on this site)
    • Here be dragons: CSS boxes with code snippets
    • W3 School
    • Intro to HTML and CSS from the W3
    • HTTP Primer HTTP Primer FAQ
    • CSS level 1 compatibility grid(on Web Review.com)
    • CSS level 2 compatibility grid (on Web Review.com)
    • Sense of Style
    • The CSS Anarchist Strikes Again!
    • glish.com on CSS 2 and 3 column flow without tables
    • Validation services
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      • W3C® Link Checker
      • Dr. Watson is a free service to analyze your web page on the Internet
    • HTML and Web-Related Standards
      • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
      • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®) Home Page
      • Web Design Group and their FAQ Archives
      • Search the W3C® site
      • List of all W3C® Recomendations (web standards)
      • Most Recent version of HTML Standard at W3C®
      • WaSP, the Web Standards Project
        
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    • Practical Design Tips and Tools
      • Vince Flanders' Web Pages That Suck.com: learn good design by seeing bad form
      • Text Friendly Authoring
      • Richard M. Smith's Advanced Web Programming
      • useit.com: usable information technology (Good Web Design tips)
      • useit.com's top 10 mistakes of web design
      • Web Design Tips
      • Web Page Design for Designers
      • Creating Killer Web Sites
      • HTML Hell Page

      • Killer Sites Tools page (Mac & PC)
      • Kira's Web Toolbox
      • Really Big.com, 'The complete resourse for web builders
      • Big Nose Bird.com, 'Everything you need to build web sites'
    • Graphics Engines and Colour Guides
      • The Gimp (Gnu Image Manipulation Program)
      • GIMP for Windows
      • GIMP Plug-in Registry
      • GIF Construction Set ($20, but worth it)
      • GIF Optimizer

      • Colour Design Theory (provided by Katherine Grace)
      • Web Safe Colour Table (this site)
      • 135 named HTML colours (this site)
      • Yaromat's Colour mat (sliders to display HexCode)
  • Web CGI scripting
    • The Most Simple Intro to CGI
    • nms is a set of CGI drop-in replacments for Matt's Script Archive.
    • Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts (early effort in PERL, written by a 14 year old kid)
    • CGI Scripts from about.com
    • The CGI Resource Index
    • CGI-Resources.com
    • CGI Variables
    • CGI Redirects
    • Remote CGI Hosts
    • Free Forms by Email, no CGI required
    • FormMail, a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway
    • Richard M. Smith's web site Programming help
  • JavaScript
    • The JavaScript Source
    • Mike McGrath's Just JavaScript page
    • The JavaScript Source Master List (750k+)
    • Nic's JavaScript Page
    • Introduction to JavaScript (and Java) for Nonprogrammers
  • PHP Scripting
    • PHP Hypertext Processing (server side scripting language)
    • About PHP on ZEND.com
    • PHP Builder
    • The WebMasters PHP resources and link farm
    • Phorm and other PHP Scripts from Holotech.net
    • Phplib on Sourceforge
  • DHTML and Miscellaneous Web Tricks
    • Dynamic Drive.com
    • Imbeding Fonts in Netscape 4+ (in the CSS)
    • Imbeding Fonts in MSIE 4+ with WEFT 2
  • Microsoft Proprietary ASP Scripting
    • ASP Web Ring
    • ASP Index
    • How to disable Windows Scripting Host (Disable Email Viruses such as Melisa and ILOVEYOU)
• Logo, an Educational Programming language
  • Logo Foundation
  • Logo Web Ring (list)
• Microsoft Visual Basic
  • Micro$oft Practice Exams
  • Java and Visual Basic: Programming's New Breed
  • Visual Basic and VBA Tutorials by Jacques Surveyor
  • VB Bookmark VBA Tutorial
  • Visual Basic on CodeGuru
  • VB 2 the max.com
  • VB World
  • Windows API Guide
  • Visual Studio Magazine
  • Microsoft Developers Network
  • What are the Microsoft Data Access Components (MSDA)?
• Database Protocols and languages
  • MySQL (open source SQL RDBMS)
• TCP/IP Protocols
  • ITCoach's Subnet Mask apriori memory sheet
  • Ethereal, a free network protocol analyzer for Unix or Windows
  • Learning Tree bonus material, Course 367, introduction to TCT/IP
  • TCP for the Uninitiated - Part I
  • An overview of the TCP/IP protocol suite
  • RFC1180 - A TCP/IP Tutorial
  • An Introduction to TCP/IP
  • Uri Raz's TCP/IP resource page
  • IPv6 Information (compiled by Sun)
  • The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org)
  • Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (iana.org)
  • ISO 3166-1 two-letter country codes
  • A non-technical explanation of how domain names work on the Internet
  • playground.sun.com (documents and info)
  • Firewalls and network security
    • The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks Against GRC.COM
    • The World Wide Web Security FAQ (W3)
    • Security Writers Guild Text Library
    • Gibson Research--Opt out and Shields Up
    • LeakText, Firewall Leakage Tester
    • Zone Labs, PC Firewalls (as recommended by grc.com for protection against DOS Zombie infection)
    • Sycate Personal Firewall 4.0 (Free for personal use)
    • The World Wide Web Security FAQ

Internet Tools and Resources

• Resources, Organizations and Geek Tools
  • CheckDomain
  • Net Craft: What OS that site running and what is its uptime?
  • Privacy.net (How much info is available about you on the net)
  • SamSpade.org: various trace tools, anti-spam tools, anonymizers and utilities.
  • GeekTools.com: Web-Friendly tools
  • BellNexxia TraceRoute to any DNS
  • DSL Reports' tools (Internet connections)
  • WhatIs.com, a handy reference web site
  • TRIUMF Network Monitoring
  • Privacy Foundation (Richard M. Smith)
  • Security Writers Guild Text Library
  • W3 Tools for WWW providers
  • WWW Software products
  • Index - GNU (unofficial)
  • 404 Research Lab
• Built in Win32 applications
  • Windows 9x program to see your IP Configuration (WINIPCFG.EXE) (Netscape style link)
  • Windows 9x program to see your IP Configuration (WINIPCFG.EXE) (MSIE style link)

  • Windows 9x Registry Editor (Netscape style link)
  • Windows 9x Registry Editor (MSIE style link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Registry Editor (Netscape style link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Registry Editor (MSIE style link)

  • Windows 9x Notepad (Netscape style link)
  • Windows 9x Notepad (MSIE style link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Notepad (Netscape style link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Notepad (MSIE style link)

  • Windows NT/2000 Task Manager (Netscape style link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Task Manager (MSIE Style Link)

  • Windows NT/2000 Command prompt (Netscape Style Link)
  • Windows NT/2000 Command prompt (MSIE Style Link)
  • Windows NT/2000 DOS prompt (Netscape Style Link)
  • Windows NT/2000 DOS prompt (MSIE Style Link)

• Free Email Services and Servers and POP services
  • EmailAddresses.com, a free email services directory (very good site)
  • Free Email Providers Guide
  • Angelfire Web Email
  • Flashmail, a simple, quick web mail and POP server
  • Netcourrier, service français
  • Graffiti.net (also free web host)--I have not tried, but good reviews
  • Hush Mail, claims to offer 1024 bit encription to other member accounts, plus anonimizer
  • In-box.net: claims to handle attachements up to 50MB and offers Email-to-Fax. REQURIES COOKIES!
  • QdPop on Entrenet.ca (check any POP account from anywhere)
  • QDPop on AccessMasters

  • Mes News.com, Service NNTP Web en français
  • PULIN (Permanently Updated List of Interesting News Servers)
  • Open NNTP FAQ (bilingual)
  • NewzBot.com, NNTP list directory
  • List of NNTP servers from free.fr
• Free Win32 internet access (416/905 and others) Use at your own risk
  • Net Zero, 10 hours free/month (tested and works x2)
  • Juno (tested and works)
  • ISPnut.com (US-centric free ISP lists)
  • 3Web Network Removed: No longer free
  • Fun Cow Removed: now bankrupt
• Free Web Site Hosts
  • netFirms--not tried yet, but ad looks good. Banner ads, 25mb, CGI-PERL, POP Email, FTP Access.
  • Free ProHosting. 50mb, CGI Inline banner, FTP access. Administer ProHosting online here (requires cookies)
  • Angelfire, 20-50 MB, choice of pop-up or inline banner, FTP access.
  • DotEasy, 20 MB without banner ads (requires domain name, domain technical contact must receive daily SPAM)
  • FolkSites.com/YourSiteName. Two free pages, 100% FROM BASED pages
  • FREEservers, 20 MB, inline banner ad
  • Graffiti.net--not tried, but good reviews, also POP email
  • How to get rid of popups on most free sites. (now offline)
• Site Promotion and Domain Registrations
  • Checkdomain.com, to check for the availability of domain names on multiple servers
  • I-Mecca, A Canadian company that provides hosting services at a very reasonable cost
  • Canadian Internet Registration Authority (from Fall 2000)
  • Google URL submission form
  • How to Suggest Your Site to Yahoo!
  • Search Engine Submission Tips from
  • Spider-food, information on improving search engine compatibility
• Free web page content
  • Media Builder
  • Celtic Interlace Designs (very nice)
  • The Free Site--Free Graphics
  • Freegraphics site
  • AnimFactory

Computer Science sites unrelated to programming

• Computer Science University sites
  • W3 School
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)
  • Perdue Computer Engineering
  • UCLA PI to 100000 Digits
  • Jefferson County Schools Technology Tutorials
• Web Design qua. Consulting and Planning
  • GANTT Charts: SmartDraw's tutorials and their Gantt chart resource page
  • Web Strategy Soapbox
  • Log Analysis
    • Web Trends
    • http-analyze Freeware

Computer Publications and Information Sites

• 2600 Quarterly
• Security Focus
• phrack Magazine
• Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that matters
• Segfault.org: Linux Humor site, a slight parody on Slashdot.org
• Canada Computes
• WE Compute
• Google Groups (was DejaNews)
• The Register (UK IT news)
• Web Review IT e-Zine
• Security Writers Guild Text Library
• GNU Index (official)
• GNU Index (unofficial)
• WWW Virtual Library
• The Jargon File, AKA Hacker's Dictionary
• Whatis.com
• Computer User Dictionary
• NetLingo.com
• Jones Telecomunications Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Hardware Support
  • Tom's Hardware Guide
  • Tom's Hardware:Enhancing Performance
  • FCC ID Lookups
  • WinDrivers.com
  • Hewlett Packard
  • 56k.com (Modem Information)
  • DSL Reports' tools (Internet connections)
  • Master Booter, a low end version of Partition Magic
• Virus Hoax pages
  • Symantec Anti-virus Research Center Hoax page
  • Datafellows Virus Hoax page
  • Suncoast Freenet's Virus, Fraud and Internet Hoaxes
  • Hoax Busters (CIAC)
  • US DOE Computer Incident Advisory Capability
  • McAfee AVERT Virus Information Library
  • How to disable Windows Scripting Host (Disable Email Viruses such as Melisa and ILOVEYOU)

Stable Browsers and Mail Applications

• Opera Browser, the fastest browser on the Web
• Kill Ad Site
• Browser Watch
• Mozilla.org--the Standards-Complient Open Source browser
• Amaya, the W3C browser
• CNET's eight Rebel Browsers
• HotJava Browser Products from Sun Microsystems
• Arachne DOS Browser
• Browser.org
• Dos Internet Pages on FDISK Site
• w3m Text Browser from SourceForge '
• Lynx Text Browser Resources
  • Lynx Users Guide v2.3
  • Lynx Friendly Site
  • Lynx Browser Information Page
• Web Reaper Site
• Archived Netscape Applications
• Mail Clients
  • Eudora (download page)
  • Pine (as in Pine Is Not Elm), an excellent, virus-proof Email client
  • MajorDomo Home Page
  • QdPop on Entrenet.ca (check any POP account from anywhere)
• Spam Issues
  • Spamhaus, who's behind your spam?
  • Nadine, a story about how Internet email lists can go horribly wrong.
  • Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
  • SpamBot Beware: information on how to avoid, detect, and harass SpamBots
  • Mail Abuse Prevention System, LLC.
  • MAPS Realtime Blackhole List

Stable Operating Systems

• Apple and Mac Links
  • Apple Computers
  • Apple Canada Computers
  • Everything Mac--a meta-list of Mac links
• Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems and computers
  
  • Best overall OS: QNX has been around for over 18 years. It has no known viruses, It works in Real time, and is 100% Stable and bug-free
    
  • QNX Newsletter, issue 1
  • How about a bit of TRUTH to help you compare operating systems?
  • It said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Gwynux.
  • Linux, the OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion,
    'Where do you want to go tomorrow?'
    • LINUX: LWN.net weekly edition
    • Linux users were immune to the ILOVEYOU email virus, and Nick Petreley is here to gloat
    • Corel® LINUX, exclusively licensed to Xandros
    • Slackware Linux 4.0: kernel2.2, Kdesktop, XFree86, Netscape 4.5.1
    • Caldera's OpenLinux
    • Red Hat Software Linux Distribution
    • SuSE - The Linux Experts
    • Linux resource, with news, downloads and manuals
    • Linux Online, a Non-profit group of Linux users working to bring linux developers and users together.
    • LinuxHQ: A Penticton, BC, site that is a central resource for Linux kernel users and hackers
    • Linux Users' Exchange
    • Tux.org
    • Using Linux, but had to pay for Windows bundled with your PC, get a refund!
    • FreshMeat.net (linux software site)
    • Linux for Beginners and Inside Linux (Excellent articles from NorthernJourney.com as printed in TCP)
    • TomsRTBT, the most Linux on a floppy
    • TomsRTBT, Linux on a 1.44 floppy (Disto on tux.org)
  • Unix Insider
  • Sun Microsystems Free BSD Open BSD BeOS,now owned by Palm inc.
  • WinDoze ports for *nix
    • WINE, a free implementation of Windows on Unix
    • Win4Lin, a Win32 Emulator for Linux (not open source)
    • ReactOS, an open source port of NT
    • CygWin, GNU Dev tools for Win32
• Dos-like OS'
  • Got Dos (or C64, Apple ][ or TRS-80), Get the web!
  • FreeDos
  • Unix Dos

Stable Office suites, Editors and Web Servers

• Text Pad, a full power editor with code colouring and multi-lingual spelling (Shareware, but well worth it)
• Programmer's File Editor Home Page(no longer being maintained)
• Corel, home of WordPerfect
• Open-source software
• Apache! Web Servers: open source, fast, standards-compliant, and popular -- what more could you want?
• True North Software, providing email connectivity to the world
• Star Office, from Sun Microsystems: free, fully compatible, and more powerful alternative to Microsoft Office Suite.
• Back Orifice from cDc, the most powerful network administration tool available for the Microsoft OS platform.
• VI Links
• VIM (VI iMproved cross-platform editor)
• Vim Color Editor HOWTO (Vi Improved with syntax color highlighting)
• OldVersion.com
• A blast from the past
• Retro-Tech - Pre-Geeking, saving less sexy computers will benefit less fortunate kids
  • Deja Vu, the web as we remember it
  • The C64 Web Ring
  • VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator
  • Commodore Pet (TPUG )--Ah, the good old days...
  • Dos Web Ring
  • Club 100: TRS-80, Model 100 User Group
  • TRS-80.com
  • The obsolete computer museum

Microsoft Related humor and activism

• The Strange Tale of the Denial of Service Attacks feature built in for free in WindowsAgainst GRC.COM
• NEW! All your data (and biz plans) belong to Microsoft thanks to their HailStorm .NET initiative
• Melissa, I Love You -- NOT
• Micorsoft Admits planting secret passwords (back doors)
• Microsoft's PPTP "kindergarten cryptographer" Implementation
• Linux users were immune to the ILOVEYOU email virus, and Nick Petreley is here to gloat
• The Real Lessons of ILOVEYOU: Just Wait Until More Sophisticated Scripts Head our Way
• Tough Love: Fool me once, Shame on you/ Fool me twice, Shame on me!
• WinInformant.com
• Microsoft Humor from NTSucks.com
• Microsoft Jokes
• Microsoft is your friend! Another site listing reasons to treat Microsoft with caution
• Back Orifice from Cult of the Dead Cow . Demonstrates the Swiss-Cheese approach to security in Microsoft's Windows OS
• KMFMS, for people who have no pity for Microsoft
• Microsoft Watch
• The Halloween Document (again) Microsoft's review of Linux
  • Halloween I: Open Source Software -- A (New?) Development Methodology
  • Halloween II: Linux OS Competitive Analysis: The Next Java VM?
  • Halloween III: Microsoft's reaction on the 'Halloween memorandum' (sic)
  • Halloween IV: Vinod Vallopillil's boss calls us `Robin Hood and his merry band'. We return the compliment.
  • Halloween V: The Sheriff of Nottingham rides again. In this exciting episode, the things he doesn't say are more interesting than the things he does.
  • Halloween Documents Frequently-Asked Questions.
• Anti-Microsoft jeremiad on the Borg of Redmond: A Corollary to the above link
• Microsoft Survival Kit, for those of us who have no choice
  • Unix ports of Windows
  • Microsoft Windows 95 Annoyances, the web site companion to the book
  • The GIMP for Win32
  • Microsoft's SendMail port for NT
  • Blat, a command line mail engine
  • Win 95 tools (Kolsky)
  • Microsoft Office Developer Web Forum (97 generation products)
  • Microsoft Access 97 Application Tutorial
  • We Compute mag.'s Registry Editing pages

Utilities and Links Not Classified Elsewhere

• Unix Haters Login
• Telephone Area Code Maps
• The Universal Postal Union
• World Time Server
• World time server-Ontario
• ITCoach.com by Wayne McKinnon We create strategies to deal with change
• NewfieSoft, Chad Alexander's web site
• Katherine Grace, Web Designer (Approach as a graphical artist)
• Toadware Technologies, Gwyneth C. Morrison, President and CEO
• It said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Gwynux. Toadware's Linux implementation
• University of Toronto, Erindale Campus Library (a selected list of useful web sites arranged by subject)
• MicroTalk Home Page (Speach Technologies)
• @Stake
• Church of the Swimming Elephant
• Interfax, one of many web-fax text portals
• Controversial Technology Patents