Here's the first cut at a selection from my list of URLs which hopefully peopel will find useful. Not just downloads, but a micellaneous collection of thisngs I've found "useful". Where a commercial product is referenced, it comes with no warranty other than "it's worked for me in the past", or is included for completeness/balance.
Also, there are one or two links to sites delaing with "issues" that PPRuNers on this forum might be interested in
I'll try to get around to annotating some of these to indicate why the may be useful / interesting. Please report broken links, etc. Enjoy
Networking
General help
http://www.wown.com/ World of Windows Networking -- All sorts of useful
help on Windows networking
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ Bachground information on
networking and HowTos.
Wide area / Broadband
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/ All you ever wanted to know about ADSL in
the UK
http://www.bt.com/btbroadband/ BT's broadband info site.
http://www.bt.com/btbroadband/register Registration page for non-ADSL
enabled exchanges.
Windows Connection Sharing (WCS) Connection sharing software.
http://wingate.deerfield.com/
http://www.twiga.ltd.uk/
See also Firewalls/Routers below
Firewalls / Routers These are both combined firewalls (protecting your computers) and
routers (which allow you to connect multiple PCs, similarly to WCS).
You do need a separate computer to use these (but any old box will do).
Somewhat more work to setup than WCS (but does mean that the kiddies
don't have to switch
your PC to get to the internet...
http://www.smoothwall.org/
http://www.ipcop.org/
Firewalls
http://www.tinysoftware.com/
http://www.iss.net/products_services...ce_protection/
http://www.zonelabs.com/
Anti-Virus
http://www.sophos.com/
http://www.symantec.com/
http://www.grisoft.com/
http://www.f-secure.com/
http://www.messagelabs.com/
(mcafee link removed due to the excessive and gratuitous use of popups.
Try DrSolomons)
http://www.drsolomon.com/
See also Myths and Hoaxes
Microsoft / Windows
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ Check that you have all those
zillions of patches that you need to keep a Windows box half secure...
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/tips/wfmsio.asp Primary resource
for MS security information; also
http://www.microsoft.com/security/
http://microsoft.com/technet/security/ Microsoft's security alerts
page.
Java If you need to install a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) try here. For
the background, see
Rants below.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/jre/install-windows.html
Operating Systems Free OSes (mainly Unixlike
Not Linux
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ PC oriented. Better for desktops.
http://www.NetBSD.org/ Any processor going, including i386 and SPARC. Better for servers.
Linux
http://www.debian.org Free Linux
http://www.suse.com/
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/
Hardware
http://www.tomshardware.com/
http://www.overclockers.com/
Myths and Hoaxes
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
http://www.vmyths.com/
General Software downloads
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download.htm
http://www.grc.com/
Rumours / NEws / Rants / Issues
MS and Java
http://www.microsoft.com/java/xp.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/java/issues/openletter.htm This link appears to be broken Try
http://www.freelists.org/archives/ru.../msg00012.html instead.
http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles...19hnjavaup.xml
Copyright
http://www.stand.org.uk/ For all those of you who like to copy music
for use in the car, on your PC, mix'n'match, etc... (see also the
TCPA/Palladium stuff below.)
Palladium/TCPA
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html This is potentially scary
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25415.html
I'll try and add to or update this list on an ongoing basis. Would people like me to add in their contributions to this list ? (I wouldn't want to seen be misappropriating other people's efforts..
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