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Dear Professionals, These are a collection of links to various sites that I've found useful. Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia http://freesoft.org/CIE/ "A readable and useful reference to the technical operation of the Internet." Browse over 100 Internet engineering essays and read RFCs. A full text search is also available. Teaching Use of the Web a.. http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/pyramid.htm Good resource for teaching web use to non-technical novices. Web Publishing a.. http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/ (and http://photo.net/wtr/) Well-written explanation of web publishing, geared for the novice. Learning HTML a.. http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/NewHTML/intro.html The best net resource for fledgling webmasters learning HTML English Dictionary a.. http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and thesaurus. Internet Search Engines a.. http://members.tripod.com/~srohit/search.html Short list of Internet search engines - Yahoo, AltaVista, etc. b.. http://www.devsearch.com Search engine for web developers. c.. http://www.calvin.edu/library/as "The primary purpose of AlphaSearch is to access the finest Internet 'gateway' sites." Sites that review other sites a.. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu "The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators." b.. http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.htm CHOICE Web Reviews - "a list of 600 important Web Sites in all academic disciplines." Catalogs and Collections a.. http://www.vlib.org WWW Virtual Library - "the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee" . b.. http://www.ipl.org "The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection contains over 10,000 titles" c.. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ Oxford Text Archive - "high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching" d.. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html "approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images" e.. http://promo.net/pg/ Project Gutenburg's online texts are mainly literary works Foreign Languages a.. http://moolist.yeehaw.net/esl.html The Internet's greatest contribution to foreign language education to date is the MOO. This is a list of several foreign-language MOOs. b.. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/llc/es/TeclaHome.html Tecla: Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish c.. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com Tool for translating web pages from English to French, German, etc. U.S. Patents a.. http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/pats.html Freely available, TIFF page images of U.S. Patents. Full text search. Internet FAQ Archives a.. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ Frequently Asked Questions, on topics from audio to zoroastrianism. Major Software Archive Sites a.. http://metalab.unc.edu/ b.. http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ Each of these sites is well-known as a major public archive, i.e, an Internet-phile's equivalent of a public library. Sites similar to mine a.. http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/ Ohio State professor Raj Jain has made videos of all his networking lectures available on-line [bwb] b.. http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/index.html Hobbes' Internet Timeline a.. http://www.isoc.org/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html The best on-line history of Internet's development Risks Digest a.. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ "Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems" f ¡ ® s T - m o ñ d @ ¥ a.. http://firstmonday.dk/ On-line journal focusing on social implication of the Internet Outstanding Individual Efforts a.. http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/ b.. http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/Thierry.Turletti/ c.. http://fare.tunes.org/"; Computer Languages ADA a.. ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/ GNAT - The GNU ADA implementation C a.. http://gcc.gnu.org/ GNU C Compiler (FORTRAN, too) b.. http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/bookcpdf.html A great collection of mathematical routines in C. Licensed. C++ Standard Template Library a.. http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/stl.html Common Lisp a.. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/cltl2.html Fortran a.. http://www.ionet.net/~jwagener/j3/Fortran-200x.html Fortran 2000 draft standard Erlang a.. http://www.erlang.org/ "Erlang is a programming language which has many features more commonly associated with an operating system than with a programming language: concurrent processes, scheduling, memory management, distribution, networking, etc." Haskell a.. http://haskell.org/ Lucid a.. http://www.csl.sri.com/Lucid.html Java a.. http://www.blackdown.org/ Port of Java to Linux. See also http://www.kaffe.org/ b.. http://www.transvirtual.com/products/downloads.html Another Linux port c.. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/ Java to C translator Perl a.. http://www.perl.org/ SQL a.. http://www.postgresql.org/ Tcl/Tk a.. http://www.scriptics.com/ b.. http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html c.. http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/ General Programming a.. http://www.harlequin.com/mm/reference/ The Memory Management Reference Standards ITU Standards a.. ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/doc/standards/ITU (free, but old) b.. http://www.itu.int/publications/bookstore.html (complete, but commercial) IEEE Standards a.. http://standards.ieee.org/catalog/sol/index.html In early 2000, not nearly as nice as ITU's on-line service Computer and Communications Standards a.. http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html One of the best set of pointers to good networking information on the Web. [kec] UNIX Man Pages a.. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/toc.htm b.. http://inti.devnull.net/webutils/man.html Operating Systems a.. http://www.linux.org/ b.. http://www.freebsd.org/ Linux's main competitor c.. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/ Bell Labs' research UNIX system, now open source d.. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120mindx/index.htm Cisco IOS Release 12.0 documentation DoD Trusted Computer Systems Standard (Orange Book) a.. http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/5200.28-STD.html A layered model for secure computer systems, yet to be fully realized Intel x86 Processor a.. http://x86.ddj.com/intel.doc/inteldocs.htm Excellent collection; includes TIS ELF standard b.. http://developer.intel.com/design/mmx/manuals/ MMX Technology PowerPC Processor a.. http://www.mot.com/SPS/PowerPC/overview/overview.html The "Library" link contains full PowerPC architecture specs b.. ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com/pub/technology/spec c.. http://www.chips.ibm.com/products/ppc/ Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) a.. http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet Includes Metcalfe's 1976 drawing of the first Ethernet Wireless (IEEE 802.11) a.. http://www.intersil.com/prism/prism.asp Most popular DSSS chipset b.. http://www.raylink.com/micro/raylink/welcome.htm Most popular FHSS chipset ISDN a.. http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn (Dan Kegel) The most complete ISDN site on the Web! [kec] b.. http://www.ralphb.net/ISDN AppleTalk a.. http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/Networking/Networking-2.html FCC Wireless Telecommunications Bureau a.. http://www.fcc.gov/wtb Any form of radio communications in the U.S. is regulated by the FCC WTB Frame Relay a.. http://www.motorola.com/networking/frame-relay/ The most complete Frame Relay page around. b.. http://www.frforum.com/. FRF Implementation Agreements and some good white papers. ATM a.. http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/. Be sure to check out the Getting Started section. Of special note is a Java-based application that demonstrates UNI 3.1 signaling. b.. http://www.atmforum.com/. The best ATM glossary available and all the ATM standards you can stand. Fiber Channel a.. http://www.fibrechannel.com/ ATM seems to be more popular, but this is the site for Fiber Channel OSI a.. http://www.salford.ac.uk/iti/books/osi/osi.html (by Dr. John Larmouth) Good introduction to all the concepts underlying the OSI protocol suite [bwb] b.. http://renoir.vill.edu/~cassel/netbook/chap7/node1.html (by Dr. Lillian Cassel) A chapter from her book on OSI technology includes a C-code example using ISODE. c.. http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html ASN.1 page - pointers to tutorials, papers, compilers H.323 Series Standards (Videoconferencing) a.. http://www.databeam.com/h323/h323primer.html Overview of the ITU standards suite used by Microsoft NetMeeting [bwb] b.. http://www.hut.fi/~tttoivan/index4.html Another overview of H.323 [bwb] c.. ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/H.323/DOCS Microsoft Word documents gives technical details of H.323 operation. Includes packet dumps. [bwb] d.. http://support.intel.com/support/videophone/trial21/H323_WPR.HTM Good explaination from Intel about how H.323 works [bwb] e.. http://www-sop.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/Thierry.Turletti/ Thierry Turletti developed the IVS videoconferencing system, and maintains a good set of videoconferencing links. [bwb] f.. http://itel.mit.edu/ Their "Links and Resources" page has some good reading g.. http://www.goan.com/radio.html International list of on-line radio stations, mostly transmitting via RealAudio (not H.323) [bwb] RSVP a.. http://www.isi.edu/div7/rsvp/rsvp-home.html Information about the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) [bwb] SNMP a.. http://www.net.cmu.edu/groups/netdev/software.html CMU SNMP Library - access SNMP agents via either a C API or UNIX command line interface [bwb] DNS a.. http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ DNS Resources Directory (DNSRD) - lots of good DNS links [bwb] b.. http://www.isc.org/bind.html ISC Bind - the most popular DNS nameserver [bwb] c.. http://www.nic.us/ U.S. Domain - register for DNS names like freesoft.washington.dc.us here [bwb] World Wide Web a.. http://www.w3c.org/"; The World Wide Web Consortium develops standards such as HTML and guides the development of the web [bwb] b.. http://www.apache.org/ Apache - the most popular web server c.. http://www.squid-cache.org/ Squid - popular web cache to make things run faster d.. http://www.webdav.org/ WebDAV - "a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers." [bwb] e.. http://www.masonhq.com/ Open source Perl-based web site development engine. [bwb] Security a.. http://security.tao.ca/ Information about encryption, anonymous remailers, anonymous web surfing [bwb] b.. http://www.secureroot.com/category/anonymity/proxies/ Lists of web proxies [bwb] c.. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/xkernel/www/ipsec/ipsec.html IETF's IP Security Group d.. http://www.skip.org/ IP-level packet encryption [bwb] e.. http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~skip/ Linux SKIP implementation [bwb] f.. http://www.ssleay.org/ Australian, open source SSL implementation g.. http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/dridi/Certs.html Information about the X.509 certificates used by SSL [bwb] h.. http://www.ssh.org Secure Shell (SSH). Encrypted, RSA authenticated UNIX login. Currently the preferred remote login protocol for most UNIX websites. [bwb] i.. http://www.mindbright.com/mindterm/ MindTerm SSH SSH terminal implemented in a Java applet. Great for making secure connections from hosts without ssh installed. Seems to work better with Netscape clients than Microsoft (Feb 2000) [bwb] j.. http://munitions.vipul.net/ Linux cryptography archive [bwb] k.. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ NSA's Security Enhanced Linux l.. http://www.gnupg.org/ "GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP." [bwb] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) a.. http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/index.html Good pointers to LDAP resources, including University of Michigan code [bwb] Network Time Protocol (NTP) a.. http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ NTP source code, FAQ, list of public time servers [bwb] MIDI a.. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/multimedia/emusic/info-docs-FAQs/MIDI-doc/ Musical Instrument Digital Interface [bwb] Electronics Design software a.. http://www.staticfreesoft.com/ Makers of GPL-ed VLSI design tool Electric See also Rubin's on-line book IC data sheets a.. http://www.questlink.com/ Good database of ICs, searchable by part number, PDF datasheets. Free registration required. [bwb] Simulation a.. http://www.emclab.umr.edu/emap.html ElectroMagnetic Analysis Programs (EMAP) Simple finite element modeling programs [bwb] b.. http://cemtach.lcse.umn.edu/software/ToyFDTD/ToyFDTD.html Visualization a.. http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html Excellent program to visualize data sets in five dimensions (three spatial, time, and multiple variables) See also http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/ [bwb] b.. http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ Heirarchical Data Format (HDF) for exchanging complex data sets [bwb] c.. http://www.llnl.gov/bdiv/meshtv/ X Windows program to visualize complex data sets (flow simulations, 3D surfaces). Slow for large data sets [bwb] Antennae a.. http://members.home.net/nec2/ Antenna modeling program [bwb] b.. http://www.antennex.com/ Companies a.. http://www.digikey.com/ On-line mail order distributor [bwb] b.. http://www.mosis.org/ Low volume silicon foundary [bwb] Amateur Packet Radio a.. http://www.wa4dsy.radio.org/ WA4DSY 56kbps radio modem A modern, FPGA-based design intended for amateur radio use. Schematics and a good technical paper available for download. Great design to study! [bwb] b.. http://www.tapr.org/ General Electronic Engineering a.. http://www.eg3.com/ b.. http://emlib.jpl.nasa.gov/ Software Linux a.. http://www.linux.org/ Generally lives up to its name b.. http://www.linuxdoc.org/ The Linux Documentation Project c.. http://www.ExecPC.com/lsm/ Linux Software Map (LSM) d.. http://www.kernel.org/ The Linux Kernel Archives e.. http://www.linuxmama.com/ "This site is dedicated to offer you all available `unofficial' patches for Linux." f.. http://www.uk.linux.org/ Alan Cox's Linux U.K. Page g.. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ THE reference page for Linux on laptops h.. http://www.isdn4linux.de/ Linux's ISDN implementation [bwb] i.. http://www.rustcorp.com/linux/ipchains/ Packet filtering on a Linux system (like Cisco access lists) [bwb] j.. ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/ Queueing policy for Linux. Documentation is buried in there somewhere. [bwb] k.. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beowulf/beowulf.html Excellent resources for building massively parallel Linux systems l.. http://www.linuxppc.org/ Linux on PowerPC (i.e, PowerMacs and RS/6000s) m.. http://www.alsa-project.org/ Advanced Linux Sound Architecture n.. http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/ Sound and MIDI for Linux [bwb] o.. http://linas.org/linux/ Good pointers to CORBA, Linux on IBM/390 [bwb] p.. http://www.rtlinux.com/ Real-time Linux [bwb] q.. http://obelix.chemie.fu-berlin.de/ Linux Lab Project Fledgling project to use Linux in a laboratory environment (data acquisition, etc) See also ftp://stm.lbl.gov/pub/comedi/ r.. http://delamancha.org/users/tex/papers/thesis/index.html Integrity Checked Linux A neat idea to secure Linux better using RSA authenticated executables s.. http://www.linux-ha.org/ High-Availability Linux Project focuses on building highly reliable Linux servers through RAID, mirroring between servers, monitoring, and IP address takeover in case of failure [bwb] t.. http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Linux Virtual Server software builds clusters of servers distributed with a load balancer [bwb] u.. http://rufus.w3.org/linux/httpfs/ v.. http://home.att.net/~artnaseef/ovlfs/ovlfs.html Free Software Foundation and related sites a.. http://www.fsf.org/ [bwb] b.. http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program [bwb] c.. http://www.gnome.org/ GNOME - GNU desktop [bwb] d.. http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html Guile - the GNU extension language [bwb] e.. http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS Maintains source code repository on a server and allows developers to check out code over the network. Aging, but mission-critical for almost every open source project. f.. http://grope.nat.org/ Search Engines a.. http://www.etymon.com/Isearch/ Full text search engine used by Freesoft. [bwb] b.. http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/ Probably the most popular full text search engine [bwb] E-mail a.. http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/ Converts mail messages into web pages. Often used for public list archives. [bwb] b.. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail Convenient program to pull email down from a mailbox [bwb] c.. http://www.andrebacard.com/remail.html Information about sending anonymous email messages (remailers) d.. http://www.gnupg.org/ Information about sending secret email messages (OpenPGP) See also http://www.pgp.com Computer Vision a.. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html Lots of links - software toolkits, conferences, test images [bwb] b.. http://www.vislist.com/ Web-based computer vision digest (aka comp.ai.vision). Job listings, calls for papers. [bwb] c.. http://documents.cfar.umd.edu/ document understanding, character recognition and some related domains such as information retrieval Speech a.. http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/SA95/SpeechAnalysis.html [bwb] Good introduction to the technology of speech compression and recognition b.. http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/comp.speech/ Good FAQ [bwb] c.. http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/ Computer generated speech in different languages. [bwb] d.. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/ Sphinx open source speech recognition system [bwb] e.. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ University of Edinburgh speech synthesis system [bwb] CODA File System a.. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Next-generation network file system (after NFS, AFS). Server replication, WAN adaptation, disconnected operation. PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine a.. http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/ b.. http://www3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~zimmerms/ppmake/ Virtual Machine a.. http://www.bochs.com/ Intel x86 PC emulator (LGPL) [bwb] b.. http://www.vmware.com/ Faster, proprietary x86 system 3D Graphics a.. http://www.povray.org/ Pretty good, open source ray tracer for building realistic scenes b.. http://www.mesa3d.org/ Open source, 3-D graphics library Plug-in replacement for OpenGL [bwb] c.. http://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/GOOD.html Programming environment for 3D graphics Miscellaneous a.. http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes.html On-line reference documentation for PDF, Postscript b.. http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/ Research project in network executable content c.. http://www.uk.research.att.com/ Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a lightweight X-windows like system d.. http://ee.lbl.gov/ Van Jacobson, Sally Floyd, packet sniffers, RED queueing, multicast video e.. http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm PC parallel port documentation f.. http://www.nr.com/ Numerical Recipes available as on-line PDF files [bwb] g.. http://www.cisco.com. h.. Lots of good information. Once you sign in, check out the white papers & FAQs under the 'Service & Support' -> 'Technical Documentation' area. [kec] i.. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/120mindx/ j.. IOS command reference, or some permutation like http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ [bwb] DejaNews - Usenet News Archive a.. http://www.dejanews.com. b.. An excellent Usenet News archive site with searching capabilities. Set up a "Power Search" on comp.dcom.sys.cisco. Cisco Mailing-List Search a.. http://www.nexial.nl/cgi-bin/cisco. b.. This is a "fuzzy search" front-end that queries all of the messages that have been posted to the Cisco mailing-list. Excellent fuzzy search engine lists results based on how well it matches the search criteria. Extremely useful!! InterNIC Internet Documentation a.. General Info: http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html. b.. Domain name lookup: http://rs.internic.net/ Computer and Communication Standards a.. http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html. b.. One of the best set of pointers to good networking information on the Web. The ATM Forum Home Page a.. http://www.atmforum.com/. b.. The best ATM glossary available and all the ATM standards you can stand. The Cell Relay Retreat a.. http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/. b.. Be sure to check out the Getting Started section. Of special note is a Java-based application that demonstrates UNI 3.1 signaling at http://www.ultranet.com/~dhudek/junidemo1.shtml. Interoperability Lab Training Page a.. http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/index.html. b.. Tutorials and information on many networking topics. The Routing Arbiter a.. http://www.ra.net/. b.. A wealth of BGP-related resources and statistics. Get graphs of current and past Internet routing activity. Data Communications Magazine -- Tech Tutorials a.. http://www.data.com/Tutorials/. b.. Many good tutorials and papers. Telecommunications Information a.. http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~blight/telecom.html. b.. More good pointers. Dan Kegel's ISDN Page a.. http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn. b.. The most complete ISDN site on the Web! Frame Relay Resources a.. http://www.mot.com/mims/isg/tech/frame-relay/resources.html. b.. The most complete Frame Relay page around. Frame Relay Forum a.. http://www.frforum.com/. b.. FRF Implementation Agreements and some good white papers. Anixter, Inc. a.. http://www.anixter.com. b.. Good white papers and technology guides under "Enterprise Networks" and "Structured Cabling." Novell, Inc. a.. http://www.novell.com. b.. Obviously, this is very specific to IPX-type issues. However, there's some fairly good stuff here. Welcome to 3Com a.. http://www.3com.com. b.. Some excellent white papers. Internet Protocols a.. http://www.access.digex.net/~jcollins/intpcols.html. b.. A glossary, RFC index, good-pointer page. 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