Gyges.org: Computer Science and Applications

Some Major Players

• EFF's Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy
• The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign
• NT vs Unix, an objective comparison of using NT and Unix
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®) Home Page

Computer Publications and Information Sites

• Slashdot, News for Nerds. Stuff that matters
• Archive.org, historical web pages... all of them
• The Register (UK IT news)
• Infosec Writers Guild
• GNU Index (unofficial)
• WWW Virtual Library
• The Jargon File, AKA Hacker's Dictionary
• Whatis.com
• Computer User Dictionary
• Webopedia
• 45,000 text files old skool style
• Massive Tutorial selection
• Online book collection
• Internet FAQ archive
• W3 School
• Free online courses from MIT
• Virus and Virus Hoax pages
  • Clamwin, Windows port of the opensource antivirus tool
  • Clamwin Portable
  • Symantec Virus Definition Download Page
  • Symantec Internet Security (Free: detects, does not clean)
  • Symantec Anti-virus Research Center Hoax page
  • Datafellows Virus Hoax page
  • Hoax Busters (CIAC)
  • US DOE Computer Incident Advisory Capability
  • Spam and Spyware (local link)

Strong Encription and Cryptography

• Open PGP Aliance
• Pretty Good Privacy Inc.
• International PGP homepage
• PGP as Freeware from MIT
• All about RSA
• mozdev.org - enigmail PGP port
• GnuPG-Plugin
• The GNU Privacy Guard - GnuPG.org
• Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) Mini Howto (English)
• WinPT: Windows Privacy Tools - Easy installation and use of OpenPGP tools based on GnuPG

Stable Browsers and Mail Applications

• Firefox, the Standards-Complient Open Source browser
  • Mozilla Add Ons
  • Plugin.mozdev.org
  • 101 things you can do in Mozilla
• Opera Browser
• Arachne DOS Browser
• Lynx Text browser
• Dos Internet Pages on FDISK Site
• evolt browser list (comprehensive archive)
• Mail Clients
  • Thunderbird
  • enigmail on mozdev.org
  • Pine (as in Pine Is Not Elm), an excellent, virus-proof Email client
  • MUTT, Unix-based mail client
  • Squirrel Mail
  • MajorDomo Home Page
• Shell Clients
  • Putty SSH tool

Operating Systems

• Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems
  • Korn Shell, VI and shell scripts.
  • Wedmin, a web-based interface for remote Unix admin

  • NT vs Unix, an objective comparison of using NT and Unix (local miror)
  • It said it required Windows 95 or better, so I installed Gwynux
• Linux
  The OS people choose without billions of dollars of persuasion
  • DistroWatch
  • ISO Linux
  • Wikepedia entry on Linux
  • Unix / Linux timeline
    • QNX: Best overall OS: Secure, real time, and is 100% Stable and bug-free
    • Ubuntu (Debian based Linux, probably the best open source distro) Ubuntu IRC Channel
    • xUbuntu, Smaller footprint, same great UI as Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • SUN freeware Free Solaris
    • Gentoo Linux Another good distro
    • Slackware
    • SuSE - a Novell Company
  • CD and Floppy Bootable Linuxes
    • Damn Small Linux, minimal hardware requirements (Debian Based)
    • TomsRTBT, the most Linux on a floppy
    • TomsRTBT, Linux on a 1.44 floppy (Disto on tux.org)
    • Knoppix Home page (CD)
    • Knopper, a Knoppix distro (CD)
    • Helix, Ubuntu based forensic disk
    • Knoppix-std 0.1 security tools distribution
    • SYSLINUX - The Easy-to-use Linux Bootloader
  • dial PPP from Linux.txt (local echo)
  • Putty Owners manual
  • Linux for Beginners
  • The Linux Documentation Project
  • Tux.org
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Berkley Software Distributions (BSD Unixes)
    • FreeBSD Basics at onlamp.com
    • FreeBSD, fastest tcp-ip, most known
    • NetBSD, runs on anything
    • Open BSD, the most secure
    • Darwin, the o/s part of Mac OS X
  • WinDoze ports for *nix
    • CygWin, GNU Dev tools for Win32
    • WINE, a free implementation of Windows on Unix
    • ReactOS, an open source port of NT
    • Running an X session on a Windoze PC and Putty Alternate link
• Apple and Macintosh
  • Apple Canada Computers
  • Jagwerk's Media, where older Macs still rock
  • Everything Mac, a link farm
• Dos-like OS'
  • Got Dos, Get the web!
  • FreeDos
  • MS Dos on ComputerHope
  • TameDos, DOS VDM fix for NT, XP and Vista
• A blast from the past
  • Deja Vu, the web as we remember it
  • OldVersion.com
  • The C64 Web Ring
  • 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

Alternative Office suites, Editors and Web Servers

• Text Pad, a full power editor with code colouring and multi-lingual spelling (Shareware, but well worth it)
• PFE32 1.01 (final), Programmer's File Editor. Free, and handy full editor for Win32 PFE32 Local Echo
• Open-source software
• AbiWord
• Open Office, the free port of Star Office
• Word Perfect for DOS Updated
• TameDos, DOS VDM fix for NT, XP and Vista
• Apache! Web Servers: open source, fast, standards-compliant, and popular -- what more could you want?
• VI Links
• VIM (VI iMproved cross-platform editor)
• Alchemy Mindworks, makers of Graphic Workshop
• Web Based Editors and Collaboration tools
  • Writely (Word Processor)
  • FCK Editor (MS Word like)
  • gOFFICE (Word Processor and Desktop Publish, PDF output)
  • NumSum (Spreadsheet)
  • 5S, (Slideshow, Power Point like)
  • Think Free (Office Like)
  • Web Note (Post It® like)
  • Write Board (Whiteboard like)
  • TWiki - A Web Based Collaboration Platform
  • Google Sketchup, CAD
  • Google Docs

Microsoft Related Links

• 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE 6 cannot.
• Register.com's review of Microsoft's HailStorm .NET initiative
• WinInformant.com
• The Halloween Documents
  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: Robin Hood and his merry band Halloween V: The Sheriff of Nottingham rides again. Halloween VI: The Fatal Aniversary Halloween VII: Survey Says! Halloween VIII: Doing the Damage-Control Dance Halloween IX: It Ain't Necessarily SCO Halloween X: Follow The Money Halloween XI: Get The FUD Halloween FAQ

• Microsoft Utilities and handy tools
  • Bad Vista, notes and warnings about the latest version of Windows
  • Daniel Petri's website, MCSE Info indexed
  • Rooting XP, gaining admin via system screen saver
  • Windows Genuine Advantage concerns
  • Getting rid of Windows Genuine Advangage (Microsoft KB)
  • Fix for ScriptEngine Vulnerability
  • Dealing with Spyware (local links)
  • Pc Hell Troubleshooting guide
  • Systernals, Utilities
  • Secutity Task Manager
  • XPLite and 2000Lite: creating a modular Windows OS where YOU are in control
  • LitePC Free Downloads
  • Unix ports of Windows
  • Unix Dos A B C D
  • Cygwin--Unix tools to for WinBlows
  • Cygwin XFree86
  • Samba, Unix port of MS File Server
  • Microsoft Windows Annoyances, the web site companion to the book
  • Woody's Watch, Advice, tips and news Microsoft software victim Woody Leonhard
  • TameDos, DOS VDM fix for NT, XP and Vista
  • 9x Power Toys

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