Computer Stuff

• Cygwin is a fairly successful attempt to provide a real Uni*x-style command-line environment onto a dos box.
• DOS sucks! I vastly prefer Macs over PCs running mickey$oft operating systems. For all you other mac fans out there, here's a giant list of Macintosh ftp sites. Warning - I have no idea how many of those sites are still active - I acquired the list before this new-fangled "world wide web" became popular.
• The IETF homepage
• LBL Network Research Group Papers
• FreeNet
• Doom as a tool for system administration
• Star Office is an attempt by Sun to build a multi-platform "office" application that can read MS files, and it actually works fairly well.
• SGI has a programmers guide for those fools doomed to program using C++'s Standard Template Library.

  Security

• SANS Emergency Incident Handler
• Packet Storm Security
• Anonymizer.com
• OpenSSL and OpenSSH
• SSLeay documentation
• L0pht
• cr.yp.to
• Help Net Security
• Hacker News Network
• RootPrompt.org
• SecurityFocus
• Security Space
• The IETF and IAB have spoken out against key escro, export restrictions, and other governmental inanities in RFC 1984
• In March (of which year?), Phil Zimmerman acquired some venture capitol, formed Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., and ate ViaCrypt for lunch. And there was much rejoicing.
• You can look up information about PGP at a page in England.
• ITAR Civil Disobedience
• Cryptography.com
• Countepane Systems, Bruce Schneier's security consulting company, has a vast amount of interesting information on the web.
• Some Randomness Resources
• Information Warfare

  Smartcards

• M.U.S.C.L.E.
• Gemplus smartcards

  Linux

• Linux Online
• Red Hat
• Loki Entertainment Software has been porting games to Linux, including Myth II.
• The Linux Game Tome at happypenguin
• LinuxSecurity.com

  Games

• Electronic Arts
• Blizzard Entertainment
• Interplay Productions, the makers of Starfleet Command - a computer game based on SFB.
• Bungie wrote Myth and Myth II.

  Stores

• CompUSA Online
• Circuit City
• Computer City
• Micro Center

  HTML guides

• The World Wide Web Consortium provides a Style Guide for online hypertext, an html-ized version of the HTML 2.0 spec, and a free real-time HTML Validation Service.

  Internet Service Providers

• DSL Reports, a cross-indexed listing of many, many DSL providers with reviews.
• The List, a listing of over 2,700 ISPs.

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