Erco's Links Page

Search Engines

• Web: google(usenet), google(web), yahoo, altavista, infoseek, excite, lycos,
• People: whowhere

Maps

• mapquest

Dictionaries

• Dictionary.com
• WWWebster's
• Thesaurus
• Encyclopedia
• Unit Conversions
• Acronyms
• More Acronyms
• Email Acronyms

Entertainment/News

• 777-film
• imdb
• memepool
• boingboing
• digg

Local Links

• Topanga Online

US Government

• IRS - Internal Revenue Service forms
• NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day
• FAA - Federal Aviation Administration
• USPTO - US Patent and Trademark Office
• PassPort - How to renew, etc
• NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • NOS (National Ocean Service)
  • CO-OPS (Products + Services)
• LBL - Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Network Research

Unix Reference

• Unix Rosetta Stone -- Differences between unices

Internet Reference

• Firewall Probe - checks your firewall's ports for holes
• Usenet FAQs
• www.faq.org
• Domain Name Country Codes
• RFCs
• Internet Routing - This is really good
• Traceroute.org Traceroute from other machines to you (or others)

• ISI RFC Index, Archive RFC Index (HTML)
• Netiquette (1855)
• ARP (826)
• SMTP (821, 822)
• POP3 (1939,1957,2449)
• MIME (1521,2045,2046,2047,2048,2049,..)
• DHCP (2131,2132)
• TFTP (783, 1123)
• FTP (959, 1123, 2389)
• Telnet (  652,  653,  654,  655,  656,  657,  658,  698,  726,  727,  732,  734,  735,  736,  854,  855,  856,  857,  858,  859,  860,  861,  885,  927,  933,  946,  1091,  1073,  1079,  1372,  1184,  1408,  1416,  1572,  2066,  2355,  2941,  2942,  2943,  2946,  2951 )
• UDP (768, 1122)
• TCP (793, 896)
• NFS NFS2:1094, NFS3:1813, NFS4:3010
• DNS (1034, 1035,..)
• Usenet (1036)
• Echo (862)
• RIP (1058 1388, 1723)
• RIP-2 (1388, 1723)
• SLIP (1055)
• PPP (1661,2153)
• NTP (1305)
• SNMP (1157)
• Daytime (867)
• Time (868)
• HTML (1866, 1867, 2068, 2069)
• HTTP (1945)
• Mcast (1112, 1458)
• NetBIOS (1001, 1002)
• Assigned-IP (900, 1700)
• GZIP (1952)
• PNG (2083)
• Internet Security Handbook (2504)
• Official Internet Protocols (1011)
• Internet General (1594)
• Name your computer (1178)

Internet Wizards Personal Homepages

• Jon Postel -- IANA / RFC Internet God (RIP)
• Brian Kernighan -- AT&T Unix / C God
• Dennis Ritchie -- AT&T Unix / C God
• Ken Thompson -- AT&T Unix God
• Richard Stevens -- Unix / Networking Wizard(RIP)
• Linus Torvalds -- Linux God
• Richard Stallman -- GNU God
• Larry Wall -- Perl God

Linux

• The Open Source, Luke (debaian)
• Lanana (Linux Assigned Names And Numbers): Device driver major#'s, etc)
• Writing character device drivers ( 1, 2, 3)

Sgi

• Active Cases - Short cut to Surf Zone
• List of SGI FTP sites
• PPP/SLIP - Scott Henery's PPP config docs
• comp.sys.sgi.* Archives
• Tech Library
• Usenet FAQs - Texas A&M Visualization Lab
• Usenet FAQs - Ohio State
• Support FAQs
• SGI's hardware FAQ
• webmaster faq
• Antics
• Myths
• SGI's technical specifications for the Onyx
• Wacom Driver wacom.c
• Sendmail 8.8.8 - IRIX specific config & readme
• Linux - Linux on the sgi?!
• tcpdump - dump packets (official source)

Dns

• DNS Homepage - Internet Software Consortium (current maintainers of DNS/BIND)
• DNS FAQ - Setting up a basic DNS server for a domain
• Ask Mr. DNS - Answered questions about DNS (Acme Byte and Wire)
• RFC1912: Common DNS Operations and Configurations Errors
• DNS Walk - DNS Debugger
• lamers.sh - Shell script notifier
• Taking Care Of Your Domain

Freeware

• gatekeeper
• SGI Freeware
• A shit load of SGI freeware links
• Official gnu web server
• Copyleft How to use the GPL
• Gatekeeper GNU ftp mirror

Sendmail

• Sendmail.org

Langauges

• Perl www.perl.org, CPAN
• Html WDG, Apache 'Server Side Includes', AltaVista "Excluding Robots"
• Java Anfy Java
• PostScript PostScript Command Syntax,

MicroSoft

• Windows NT Resource Kit

Art

• F.Scott Hess - An american in Iran

Science

• Function Plot - University of Texas Java Function Grapher
• Alternative Physics
• Live Graphics 3D

Animation

• The Thief And the Cobbler - Eddie Bower's Page

Programming

• C++ Coding Standards - Good example of coding standards

Networking

• Linux IP Networking - Amazing. How packets move thru the kernel, routing, etc.
• Ethernet codes from IEEE. There's also this list of old ethernet codes which may be out of date (1999).
• Computer Problem Report Form - humor
• CERT Intruder Checklist - Things to do when an intruder is detected

Misc

• KCRW - Santa Monica College - 89.9 FM - Some of the Joe Frank shows are great.
• This American Life
• Alternative Books
• Bed And Breakfasts - California B&B's
• Kevin & Kell - Comics (weekly, all)
• Gus Guide - LA Anime Bookstores, Video Rentals
• Windows 95 Annoyances
• Windows 98 Annoyances
• Msql FAQ, Msql Downloads
• Micro Computer Exchange
• Bahamas News Group - Letters from tourists
• Healthcare Info - A Patient's Guide