WELCOMES YOU TO A LIST OF OUR FAVORITE LINKS
Links where you can learn more about the Internet
Links to Museums around the world
Links to News Sources around the world
HARDWARE LINKS
www.driverguide.com is a place to look for a hardware driver. They have over 50,000 free drivers that you can download. Note that you have to login. The Overclocker Cafe is a place that is full of computer hardware stuff. Tom's hardware guide is the home page of an M.D. who does extensive research on all kinds of hardware including mother boards, processors, memory, video boards, hard drives etc. etc. etc. It is a VERY interesting site. Gigaparts is a great place to find parts for your computer. It is a huge online warehouse of computer parts for sale. The Microsoft Hardware Compatibility List Database is where you can check to see if Microsoft has, in it's opinion, established whether or not there are any drivers for your particular hardware for XP and other operating systems. www.dvdrhelp.com is an excellent place to get help on DVD issues. Don't miss their DVD player compatibility database which can be used to find a DVD player that meets your requirements and/or which DVD players will play or record from your particular kind of DVD disk.
SOFTWARE LINKS www.google.com is an extremely popular search engine that can be used to search for details of almost any kind including unknown buzz words, hardware and software definitions, error codes etc. If you have a buzz word that you want to find out about, before you post to the group asking for help, please put your buzz word into Google to see if you can find answers there. Belarc builds a private detailed profile of your installed software and hardware. It is highly recommended. And it is free. www.bootdisk.com if the place to go if you want to create a bootdisk. Many formats are available. SpyBot is a very popular free program that can be used to check your system (hard drives and memory) for bots and other uninvited software that can clog up your system. There is a nice help facility by Tom Coyote. Partition Expert 2003 is a $49. program that you can use to partition your C (or any) drive on a running system. You can also use it to resize, copy, and/or move FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP partitions. Network-tools.com has a lot of tools that you can use to help examine your network such as Who is, DNS records etc. They also have a help facility where you can look up commands to run in DOS if you wish to do some of this yourself. The software is free for non commercial use. Test your Internet connection speed to see where hang ups are. Www.simplysup.com is a free Trojan remover. You can pay for it to get all the functionality, but the free version seems to work just fine. BlackViper is a great Windows resourse that can be used to help identify which programs are started automatically when you boot. Some experts however suggest that there is little to be gained by eliminating such startup programs. The Symantec Security Check at the lower left of the page can be used to check your entire system for all known bots and viruses and trojans, and it is free. Download.com is a great place to download a huge variety of software some of which is free - others are free to demo. Prorec.com has a lot of great articles in their ARCHIVES section. If you are into computer generated music there is TONS of stuff there including how to build your own computer. Ad-Aware by Lavasoft is a respected free tool to help get rid of pop-up ads. ZoneAlarm is a firewall that was built to protect the personal computers used at the Pentagon, the CIA, and other government sites. It is free for individual use and is HIGHLY recommended. TweakXP is a famous site dedicated to improving and customizing XP. Email with Google is a brand new free email environment which promises advanced search mechanisms. Not quite ready for production yet but you can register here to be notified when they are going online. Backup and restore Outlook Express version 6 with this free program.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE INTERNET The World Wide Web Consortium is THE home page of the people that define and set HTML and Web standards. The Internet Engineering Task Force at www.ietf.org is the group that defines and sets standards for the Internet. The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). They have a great web page having to do with Internet Standards. The Requests for Comments (RFC) document series is a set of technical and organizational notes about the Internet. If you wish to learn all about the details of the bits and bytes of the Internet this is another place to begin your search. All the above groups are always looking for volunteers. Home Network Security is the topic of this interesting discussion from the folks at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. To quote: "This document gives home users an overview of the security risks and countermeasures associated with Internet connectivity, especially in the context of “always-on” or broadband access services (such as cable modems and DSL). However, much of the content is also relevant to traditional dial-up users (users who connect to the Internet using a modem)." If you have a subject you wish to learn more about you may wish to put the sting "buzzword tutorial" (without the quotes) into www.google.com to find sources of information about your buzzword. Keep an eye out for tutorials from educational sites (those ending in .edu) - there are a lot of excellent online courses that are available free of charge. Also note that you can get a LOT of information from the Internet on any subject by giving www.google.com the string 'define:buzzword' without the quotes where buzzword is the subject of interest.
MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD Museums in Paris, France Museums in New York City Other Famous Museums Museums in Other Parts of the World Lists of Museums
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