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CIO Magazine - lots of articles,
resources and forums: Information Technology Association http://itaa.org/ From CIO Magazine: Let's
stop wasting $78 Billion a Year Employees surfing the web?
Get some policies in place: Pete Shikli's EE Times Column
http://www.eet.com/columns/weaving_your_web/default.html Prevent Commerical Email
Spam (a serious org) http://www.cauce.org
Internet Virus Hoaxes as revealed By Symantec: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html Other Email Rumours, Requests,
Petitions - Find out here before sending Quickbooks info
Total
Cost Of Ownership Introduction
Several of the links below are no longer functional, but they give an idea of what subjects are potentially available at those sites. So consider searching companies like Microsoft, Intel, Novell, Gartner, Giga for articles on TCO. Other terms in use include TEI (Total Economic Impact) or ROI (Return on Investment) or REJ (Rapid Economic Justification).
Here
are 'The Best of' articles, having hard figures or worthwhile for their
general analysis. Intel: TCO is $5700-9800/yr per user. The original link is gone now, but we've located the material and placed it's text here. Old link was this. For Notebooks, TCO has dropped
from $12,000 per year to $8500 Windows Server 2000 has some substantial costs. Roughly $8000/yr per user. Click here for MS view. The transition cost to Windows 2000 is $3100 per workstation! http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1008-200-114579.html Microsoft TCO/TEI Claims
for Exchange Server (Increases direct support costs but user productivity
increases are greater): Groupwise vs Exchange, according
to Novell. It discuses quite a few corporate email needs and cost of
ownership issues: old
link
Other
Articles with good material for study, some with costs. Windows 2000 is not "inexpensive" and should coincide with hardware changeovers. From MS here. MS products reduces costs for some customers, but benefits are largely qualitative or subjective. Click here from MS. Case Studies of users who
found Windows 2000 lowering their costs. From MS here. Microsoft's view of TCO for Office 2000 http://www.microsoft.com/TCO/resovw01.asp Components of TCO for organizations in various states of IT deployment: http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/tco/bestprac.asp?a=frame MS's REJ view of cost-benefit
analysis The Gartner Group: http://www.gartnergroup.com More TCO from Intel: (these
are old ones which might not be around) http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/estrategies/network/n_tco.htm http://channel.intel.com/business/ia_chan/micinfo/wired.htm
Lots of IT info and resources: Site that covers generals
and specifics Site with many practical
reviews of products News for nerds Excellent articles on importance
of latency, etc: Novell's NDS has been around a lot longer than MS's upcoming Active Directory. Here are some of Novell's views http://www.novell.com/advantage/nds/ndsv8-check.html Home networking is increasing. The emerging technologies are phone wire, AC wire, and wireless. There are standards from PNA and IEEE. See http://www.homepna.com If you need to view or translate a document from one program to another, check out QV plus from http://www.jasc.com Index of NT articles Places to get stuff:
Bandwidth
Speed Tests
Download a free network scanner Stress Test your webserver Also, netscanner from netcop is v. good. Consider replacing NT's recyle bin with this product. It'll save files deleted over the network. http://www.executive.com/undelete/undelete.asp If you think your network is being probed, nukenabber may help identify the attackers. http://support.shaw.ca/networks/nukenabber.htm
What TCP and UDP ports
are commonly used? http://www.good-stuff.co.uk/useful/portfull.html or search here (and see full
list): http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/port-table.html Ports used by Windows NT/2000,
Exchange, Terminal Server Exploitive Ports - Ports
used by hacker programs and trojans: Trojan ports: http://www.simovits.com/trojans/trojans.html Exploits: http://advice.networkice.com/advice/Exploits/Ports http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~rakerman/trojan-port-table.html
General
Network Security Resources A good organization we get
updates from Another good one Home for the mailing list
and discussion group of "Security Exploits and Bugs" of MS
OS products. Good source. A Firewall Tutorial: http://www.lsli.com/tutorial.html Firewall and port info: http://www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html Microsoft (and Other) Security Patches http://www.technotronic.com/microsoft.html Security Issues taken seriously here: http://www.finjan.com/ Geeky Info, including Firewalls: http://www.geek-speak.net/ InfoWorld's Security Page: http://www.idg.net/english/channel_menus/top_security_news.html And current news: http://www.infoworld.com/researchtools/subject_index/security.html More Firewall Info: http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/ The case of the attack that
wasn't.
Internet Security Resources and Tools An example of Hotmail vulnerability How MS's Passport is vulnerable Denial of Service Attack
Frequencies, Academic Study The site that keeps track of hacked sites: http://www.attrition.org Defacement Archive (with
examples) Very complete list of resources: http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/links/security_corner.htm Take the tests at this site
to see how exposed your PC is: And if you are a home user and have got exposures, get ZoneAlarm (free for personal use): http://www.zonelabs.com or blackice.
Internet Security Issues: http://www.commodon.com/menu.htm ICSA's parent Are the Internet DNS servers vulnerable? http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2073583.html?pt.snap.feed Have the black hats gone legit? See http://www.l0pht.com/ They've been bought/merged into the @stake consulting group. IT Professionals can get
tools and links here
Anti-Security Ideas, here: http://www.hackersclub.com/km/library/ Back Orifice Official Site: you type it in if you want www.cultdead.cow/tools/bo.html Simple examples of hacking anonymously: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=192081 Dsniff (ARP reprogramming), mailsnarf and other tools. http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff If that doesn't work, go to http://www.monkey.org Then DugSong and then his dsniff page. More items: http://www.insecure.org More anti-security: http://prozac.iscool.net/ or http://www.petitmote.net/dsfa (See the Docs area…) And then there's: http://pages.hotbot.com/humor/eliminat/netbios.html More lists of links for anti-security: http://grc.com/su-reading.htm Exploits listed and linked: http://www.rootshell.com How about those fake digital
certificates. What does the future hold... Many trojans modify winsock.
Here are some details from MS on winsock layers.
Funny Quote: Come to think of it, there already are a million monkeys on a million typewriters...and the Internet is NOTHING like Shakespeare... RFC's define the Internet. Here they are: http://www.rfc-editor.org/ Consider how IP blocks are allocated: http://www.arin.net Here's the US Nap: http://www.nap.net/network.html and their home page with more general stuff http://www.nap.net And here's how it's doing lately (Be sure to click on the Internet Weather): http://stats.nap.net/noc/public/index.html And here's how MAE West's Traffic is like: http://www.mfst.com/MAE/west.ds3.overlay.html Internet Backbones, for England - But very informative. http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/isp_maps.html Understanding IP Addressing http://www.3com.com/nsc/501302.html TCP/IP Faq http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet/tcp-ip/tcp-ip-faq/part1/ More good info on IP and the NAT implementation of local IP schemes: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzdmacka/the-nat-page/natinformation.html So who are ISPs? http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/ac/index.html http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/spring99/internetarch.html Go to their main page for all kinds of info http://www.boardwatch.com The Great Peering Debate of '97. Where was your ISP? http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/debate.html If you want to see good statistics of page hits, referring sites and IP ranges, visit http://www.payphones-usa.com and check their Site Statistics. Lots of links of ISP network maps, and also undersea cables: http://myweb.clark.net/pub/rbenn/isp.html Search Engine submission
and techniques Infamous Note: Consider weird rebel site etoy.com which hijacked search engines to hijack.org and was sued unsuccessfully by etoys.com for name infringment (etoy was there first). Click on the hijack site for information about their kind of internet warfare. Then there's the guy who makes millions a year from mispelled domain names, though the FTC is after him. Here.
What's available? Lookup for multiple suffixes: http://www.swhois.com may not be totally up-to-the-minute accurate as the internet grows so fast. Lookup keyword: http://www.whois.net How many sites have the word "Performance" in it? Tons. Do a Lookup for ownership: http://www.swhois.net also http://www.networksolutions.com and their whois page http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois The group which now oversees domain name registration http://www.icann.org/ InterNIC is a registered service mark of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the website is operated by ICANN http://www.internic.net Buy and sell Domain Names http://www.greatdomains.com/ This person has reserved thousands of domain names. One we inquired about had an asking price of $100,000. http://www.vanityweb.com/shownames.cfm It's a good idea to check to see if a name is trademarked: http://www.uspto.gov
Internet Connection Sleuthing Check out your own browser
for "problems": Phone Number Reverse Lookup
and IP Spoofing, etc. : Do A Trace Route from Outside
Your Network Info, Tools and So Forth
for Understanding the Internet Internet Weather Sources Internet ISP discussions
of issues they see
HTML Explanations and References http://www.htmlgoodies.com http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/HTML_quick.shtml HTML Forms and CGI Scripts (This one is interactive - very well done) http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/~mas/mas/courses/html/html.html http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~acs/docs/other/forms-intro.shtml#target15 Browser problems from supporting
(or not) various html standards.
How to tell your version
of Windows 95, 98, ME Converting to or from Netscape: What are those annoying MS-TNEF attachments: http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/981102-1.html Maxtor's list of various
drive limits that have been hit (limits by the OS usually). Why there is an 8 gig limit: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/library/8.4gb.htm Note, MS generally recommends
keeping FAT32 drives to a max of 32GB for Windows 2000 purposes. This
and other limits explained by MS here.
Note 8 TB is possible, though other limits may make 127GB the max. And though FAT32 supports up to 2 terrabytes (here), FDISK can't go past 512 GB. here. How to triple boot DOS, Win9X,
NT, from MS More computer nerdy things: like over-revving your CPU : http://www.arstechnica.com/ Motherboard info http://sysopt.earthweb.com/mboard.html
http://www.windrivers.com/ Modem drivers and more
Special Notes on Field Debugging of Windows Startup Issues: Click Here Read NTFS from DOS Converting win-me to boot
to real dos mode Online antivirus check Network and other issues So you wanted to know about Spool32 errors? http://www.starkreality.com/~callen/spool32.htm Good descriptions of General
Protection Faults, Illegal Operations, etc. Microsoft's prescription for debugging kernel32 errors: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q218/8/73.ASP Microsoft's description of the Windows 95 startup process. Note CONFIGMG is the PlugnPlay Manager: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q174/0/18.ASP **A lot of people ask why some particular crash happens. OLE is used in a lot of processes. Check out the following article to see if you understand what's happening in this small corner of the OS/application nexus: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q104/1/39.asp In addition, review the following for what programmers are up against in making an application run on multiple versions of Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q136/9/89.asp Here is a link to lots of GDI info for developers which could be handy in debugging: http://support.microsoft.com/support/platformsdk/gdi/default.asp You can also check out MS's general SDK pages for libraries of info: http://support.microsoft.com/support/default.asp?PR=psdk hit the Browse button at top for more links. If above is NA try http://support.microsoft.com/support/PlatformSDK/Win32Dev/default.asp also http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/portals/mainport.htm and for ASP programming http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/iisref/psdkwelc.htm and for Internet Service Providers http://www.microsoft.com/ISN/downloads/ms_sdk.asp Finally, the mother of all programming info is at: http://msdn.microsoft.com Then go into the libraries area. In particular, near the bottom of the index is the Technical Articles area. **Microsoft's Support Page http://support.microsoft.com and their TechWeb http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/ A site devoted to Microsoft Windows, with many bug fixes and tips mentioned (news also): http://www.activewin.com List of resources for many Windows Crashes/GPFs etc: http://www.windrivers.com/tech/troubleshoot/winexceptions.htm If you need to view or translate a document from one program to another, check out QV plus from http://www.jasc.com Don't forget to check newsgroup
postings; check a manufacturer's own site for their own boards (like
autodesk's). Check internet newsgroup postings with With a straight face, Microsoft
suggests a fix for a problem which is to restart your computer:
The Best! http://www.mikebonnell.com Wonderful photos, lots of categories http://www.webshots.com Free wallpaper: http://www.tablerocklake.nu/wallpaper.html only 640x480 Free backgrounds: http://www.fg-a.com/backgrounds.htm Misc http://www.free-graphics.com/backgroundmain.html A search engine for wallpaper: http://www.12c4.com/wallpaper/backgrnd.htm Try this place for nice photos (good advice also): http://www.naturephotogallery.com
Wonderful photos, lots of categories http://www.webshots.com Search and Find your screen saver: http://www.topfile.com/ss Try Galt and go to ScreenSaver Heaven: http://www.galt.com More screensavers: http://www.screensaver.com xaracube http://www.xara.com
The vast majority of the
installed base will still be win9X http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=101984
The MS Anti-trust settlement
gives away important issue in section J 1. Previously it had been ordered
that the API be disclosed. And here's the revision with
really very little bite to it. The section J 1 situation now has made
the privacy of the API protected only on a case by case basis MS predictions for sales
of OS at launch time. Hype City. XP 27% Slower!! Or is it about the same? Inner Technical details on
the WinXP Activation Wild site full of XP info
and links. Warning - many hacks.
Microsoft
Specific Issues, from the Source itself Did you want to know what
a DLL is or does? Top Exchange MTA Issues Browsing Problems Netbios Reference Programs which don't work
in Windows ME Or perhaps you have these strange problems:
Windows
NT/2000 http://win2000tips.home.att.net/Tipstricks.htm Silly but real (and common!)
problem with NTFS Routing in NT
http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/index.page Computing Museum History of Computing: http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/timeline.html
US Copyright Law: Copyright Reminders from
3M: Wielding the DMCA: Scientologists
Trial court says webmaster
posting breakage of DVD code innocent of infringement
Privacy
and Software: Get Rid of Ad-ware/Spy-ware MS explanation of cookies here.
Consumer
review sites: And like/don't like that
commercial?
Bill Gates says at Comdex 2001, that computers are buggy and too hard, but things will get better over the next decade. Here. All Internet Faq's: http://www.faqs.org AOL has some interesting info at their LEGAL site http://legal.web.aol.com/ Do you have the feeling that society has too many lawyers performing unnecessary work? See http://www.overlawyered.com which unfortunately is a serious site.
Weird computer humor/satire
or maybe it's real. Comics about computer issues http://www.userfriendly.org/ Topical/Political Cartoons on the Web http://www.cagle.com/ Be William Shatner - an interactive web page http://www.hecklers.com/simshatner/simshatner.html Funny, simple website: the NYNMA Game: http://www.nynma.com/namegame/ Urban Legends? http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/culture/beliefs/urbanlegends/ How to spot a mad cow: http://mats.gmd.de/~steffi/madcow/madcow.htm Humor: Golf & Ann Rand's Philosophy: http://www.atomic-swerve.net/tpg/humor.html#GOLF The Ferengi rules of Acquisition: http://www.psiphi.org/DS9/rules.html Evolution of a Programmer; very funny: http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~shong/oojokes/evol_prog.html Other funny programming jokes: http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~shong/oojokes/index.html and http://server.physics.miami.edu/~chris/quotes.html The History of OJ Simpson as shown by anagrams of his name: http://www.teleport.com/~bwalter/oj.html The infamous Nerdity Test
Movies - The best site. It
used to be the movie newsgroup. Legal Cases etc. Train Accidents, from around
the world. Audio Reversal, Techniques
and Samples Music Lyrics Macro Economic Info Fantastic View of the US Stock Market by sector with links for news, financials, charts, earnings, etc: http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap Text to Speech Files to make Internet Explorer
speak to you, etc. MP3 info, again from a hobbiest MP3 to Cd, etc Searchable Ad archive Eliza, the online therapist.
The first link is done in java. The second is a course. NYC Skyscapers. The first
has a great map, done on a free site. World War One Aviation, Links Interview with Author of
The Phantom Tollbooth Find the world's texts at
Project Gutenberg See what people are doing
with these texts.
More classic literature online Critical Thinking Post-Modernism, Disrobed Post-Modernsim Generator(s) The Radio Frequency Allocation
Charts Gold Maps in California and
elsewhere Golf Course Achitect, Desmond
Muirhead. Quite a few notes, diaries and photos on carrying out golf
development projects. Get Ring tones for your Nokia Run GameBoy games on your Palm Pilot http://www.idg.net/ic_198294_1794_9-10000.html with this emulator: http://www.gambitstudios.com Run classic games on your
PC (if you have the ROM/Code) Of course Nintendo views emulation as a "grave threat": http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html But emulation is the entire
purpose of Dos and Windows emulations on Mac and unix boxes. http://www.insignia.com
for softwindows and realpc; and http://www.emulation.net
for emulators for MACs.
One of the most unusual sites
on the net. This organization together with the Smithsonian and the
Library of Congress (and donations from computer firms) has got an online
history machine of the internet as it existed over time. You can
go back and review web pages as they used to exist, even of extinct
sites and lost pages. Some interesting copyright issues may arise, but
nonetheless, a very cool and useful tool. Page availability does show
the value of pages coded in html versus javasripts. Then here's the USGS info on SoCal quakes. Check out their Realtime section. We can verify it had the info 5 minutes after the Hector Mine earthquake http://www-socal.wr.usgs.gov/ Best list we've seen about seismic activity http://seismo.ethz.ch/seismosurf/seismobig.html#calif MIT has committed to make
the materials from virtually all of its courses freely available on
the World Wide Web for non-commercial use. Game Theory Resources: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/ The link for where the 50 states self-reported their states' Y2K readiness. As of 11/30 Alabama was only 54% done and on 12/29 they were 75% done. Though old news, the site reveals many details of IT control within state governments. http://www.nasire.org/hotissues/y2k/survey/ Perhaps visiting a page (there are many on this) on the Durer's Praying Hands will help: http://www.trosch.org/ant/hands.htm Source for out of print books: http://www.abebooks.com/ Want to find satellite photos of your home or office? http://terraserver.microsoft.com Dozens of free complete Bibles
for download Good Anagram Generator: http://www.easypeasy.com/anagrams/ Need to check an acronym? http://www.acronymfinder.com and check their most common requested ones: http://www.acronymfinder.com/mostcommon.asp Links to all sorts of TESTS: http://www.allthetests.com Collection of material from around the web: http://www.robotwisdom.com/ Hidden Mickey Mouse, Hobbiest
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