Useful quick links and bookmarks.

This is full of sites you probably have seen before, but instead of having pages full of them (and putting them up in the main weblog) most external links are here as a one-size fits all page.

The links are maintained by blosxom. Just changed the code to trace for .ln files instead of .txt and using a special flavour which refers to a separate class in the sundot stylesheet (to make the font smaller).

Networking (email, dns, routing, adsl etc) resources.

DNSstuff
EveryDNS
Dynamic DNS (dyndns)
UltraFunk Popcorn - a much recommended minimal email client

linux quick links

what's new in redhat 9 (gurulabs)

certification sites and hints

generic search links (no link to google obviously).

This site does not yet need a simple search facility. When we install one it seems like perlfect search might be able to do the job working together with blosxom (i.e. not just showing the raw .txt files but instead showing the blosxom'ised and css'ed view of the pages). We'll see.

Sun Microsystems quick links

A useful document hidden on Sun's developer connection is Device Mapping on Sun Servers
BigAdmin - one stop location for sysadmins.
DotCom Builder - excellent articles on web architecture. Sun has decided to retire this excellent site from 20021223.
Blueprints online
Security - including instructions (pretty accurate) on how to build OpenSSH.
I have compiled OpenSSH using these instructions and a Solaris 8 package is now available for download. Please be aware that this package will install in /usr/local and that the /dev/random patch (112438) is needed for Solaris 8.
SunScreen Lite is now free.

Commercial firewalls

Plenty around (watch the market consolidate over the next couple of years) - they all claim to be the fastest and most secure (even Microsoft does one!) ... I've only got experience with Checkpoint FW-1 and Cisco IOS.

Checkpoint Firewall-1 - the (former?) market leader.
Cisco does the PIX firewall and they also provide an add-on firewall to IOS.
Nokia - makes some serious and easy to configure appliances based on the Checkpoint engines. They used to make some excellent wellingtons as well - but Nokia is now a pure high tech company
Symantec Enterprise Firewall - the firewall formerly known as Raptor.
SunScreen - there's a Lite version available for free from Sun.
StoneSoft started out with clustering for Firewall-1 only but now has quite a wide range of products.
For a more comprehensive list do also check out the obvious firewall.com.

General sysadmin resources

Stokely Consulting - a goldmine. If you are a freelance consultant take the time to read their golden rules of consulting.
FreshMeat, SourceForge and Slashdot - invaluable as soon as you start working with Linux.
For OAP's like myself: UnixWorld magazine is now part of Networkcomputing and even have links to it's old rival UnixReview.
starfire (e10k) admin - by Jeff Ruggeri

CSS guides and references.

Mulder's excellent stylesheets tutorial
A good printable CSS reference sheet (and HTML as well).

Freelance, consultancy and contractor links.

Some useful tools,guides and sites for web design and markup

have a lynx view of any site (delorie.com)
the web design group aka htmlhelp provides some very good tools for checking html and links. The html checker found a few missing end tags and quotes (which will help me move to xhtml).
xhtml 1.0 tags reference by function from w3schools
Bejoy's rather good article on converting html documents to xhtml
w3 org tutorials
webreview
visibone - very useful web colorlab and includes a reference to a BT site about web colours and colour blindness.
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com
HTML tidy for cleaning up html and checking for missing tags.
surfstation
The Best of Web Design
Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource

Web design and hints.

useit evaluated using Jakob Nielsen's own injunctions.
apply for some of those web awards

Browser security and more.

test your browser for security leaks at qualys

links and sites not yet categorised.

need to know uk date format on 20021227 (link later)
linux planet
bell labs - creation of the unix operating system
linux daily news
webwasher
firewall leak test from grc
eicaranti-virus test file
irfanview free image editor
lavasoft - home of ad-aware
Backup Central Free Storage, Backup, and Recovery Resources
Computer Manuals Online Bookstore - the UK mail order computer book specialist supplying COMPUTER BOOKS online
DNS Resources Directory (DNSRD)
doshelp
Fish List
Geek.com - The Online Technology Resource
Solaris Systems Administrators Guide
USG - SCCS

blog and writing links (and a showcase for getting blosxom to use alternative file extensions).

A List Apart: 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
blogskins - customize the look of your blog (does not apply to blosxom though!)
Weblogs for Professional Sites (webreview).

Solaris quick hints and cookbooks.

creating solaris packages by mark at ibiblio.org. Superb intro to the pkg commands.

Personal "firewalls" (Windoze)

Tiny Personal Firewall - now costs money, but you can still get excellent free personal version 2 of this firewall with a Checkpoint-like management interface.
ZoneAlarm - I tried the free version of ZoneAlarm when we first got ADSL installed. The connection would then hang for minutes every two hours or so - so I switched to Tiny.
Agnitum Outpost - recent PC Plus (UK) Editors Choice (the free version).
Sygate Personal Firewall - another free test winner.
For (lots of) more information check out the home PC Firewall guide.

Some useful veritas volume manager links

unixway's veritas tips and documentation.
the useful veritas cheat sheet at cuddletech. Some useful commands (found in /usr/lib/vxvm/bin) like vxdisksetup, vxrootmir, vxmirror, vxdg adddisk are nowhere to be found in the cheat sheet. I used to have a a cheat sheet (hardcopy) made by veritas themselves - but it's lost (sort of like the command summary at the back of the volume manager manuals but with more info).
veritas support has lots of useful free information (including pdf manuals).

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