| Top vs Bottom posting |
A style guide in USENET replies. Why 'top posting' is BAD: It makes the READER work harder!
The 'Jargon File' addresses this issue HERE |
| Duck Duck Go |
RECOMMENDED Search Engine. These guys do NOT filter results based on history, or even
TRACK YOU in any way, and the quality of search results are comparable to other engines. |
| GOOGLE |
'Good' Search Engine (i.e. one of the best ones, when personalization and tracking are disabled).
For UNFILTERED 'anonymous' searching (i.e. not logging into any google services that might identify you)
you can disable the personalized history-based filtering by going
HERE and disabling
'customizations based on history'. |
| Blekko |
Another (alternate) Search Engine. They promote themselves as the "spam free" search engine |
| RFC Editor, official RFC site. |
RFC's are the basis for the internet itself,
and are the documentation for the standard internet protocols
(including HTTP, HTML, FTP, e-mail), as well as the more technical side of the internet
and networking in general. A 'must read' for any hacker in larval stage, and a useful
reference for the rest. |
| ASCII |
ASCII is the core alpha-numeric character encoding scheme used by modern computers. This
web site documents the 8-bit extended ASCII standard, along with corresponding HTML elements
and other useful information. |
| INTERNIC - internet naming authority |
Although less centralized than when the internet was originally formed, the INTERNIC site provides
the 'central naming authority' for registering domain names. You can use it to look up the owner
of a domain name, or as a starting point to register your own domain name. |
| ARIN - Internet Numbers |
This is the 'American' Internet Numbering authority, but it provides the central database of
the other naming authorities. If you want to find the owner of an IP address, this is where
you will normally start. |
| IANA - assigned names/numbers |
The IANA web site is the official place for the documentation of protocols and services
and their corresponding 'numbers' (such as 'listening ports'). If you have a protocol
that you are developing and want to register your own port for it, you can do this here.
(don't do it for the sake of doing it, though, there are a limited number of available
ports and your OS needs something to connect to the internet with). |
| ICANN |
The ICANN web site is the central organization for coordinating "the internet"
and all of the other 'naming' organizations within it (such as IANA and INTERNIC), and
serves the role of accrediting DNS registrars, among other things. |
| W3C |
The World Wide Web Consortium, definer and maintainer of standards
for HTML and other web-related data formats. Additionally they have
defined the official standards for the HTTP protocol, though the actual
standard itself has been maintained within the RFC's. |
| IETF |
Internet Engineering Task Force, overseeing "the internet" from
an engineering point of view. |
| IRTF |
Internet Research Task Force, primarily dealing with research with respect
to "the internet" in accordance with
RFC 2014 |
| CAUCE - anti-spam |
Unsolicited Bulk/Commercial e-mail (aka 'spam', all lower case) is a serious problem
on the internet. The CAUCE web site has a LOT of information that can help you to
to fight internet spam. But the Hormel lunchmeat is ok. |
| Free Software Foundation |
The Free Software Foundation (aka GNU) is an important
place for hackers for a number of reasons, but primarily because 'free software' is generally
open source software, and freely distributable. Open Source software is also very
useful when learning how to program computers, and it enables you to modify existing works to
suit your own needs. |
| Zen and the Art of the Internet |
An old, but great resource on the internet. A lot of the information is a bit outdated (like 'archie') but it is still a worthwhile resource. |
| IBM's Linux Tutorial |
This is IBM's guide to using Linux, written for newbies, but still potentially useful for experienced people (like us).
The section on running GUI applications as another user, for example, might prove helpful. |
| The Jargon File |
The classic 'jargon' file, also known as "The New Hacker's Dictionary" with
a plethora of information about hackers and hacking, definitions, terms, and so on. |
| Care and Feeding of Your Hacker |
An employer's or co-worker's guide to the proper treatment of a hacker. If you want a hacker to
maximize his usefulness or helpfulness, or to simply understand the way hackers think
and operate, you should read and study this. |
| How to Become a Hacker |
From the maintainer of the Jargon File, a witty 'howto' on becoming a hacker |
| Asking Smart Questions |
If you want hackers to ask your questions, you should ask wisely. This short
guide is a good reference for how to get a hacker to help you on IRC or USENET. |
| The entire Hacker FAQ list at 'catb.org' |
The abovementioned links, PLUS additional goodies can be found within this list of FAQ pages
regarding hackers, hacking, and hackerdom. |
| Why 'Emotional Quotient' is CRAP |
There's been a lot of wasted effort on this RIDICULOUS concept, the 'EQ' or 'Emotional Quotient' or 'Emotional Intelligence'.
THIS article talks about how wrong the concept is and gives some rather compelling examples, INCLUDING how the test can
be 'fudged' (the author did), and why many of the claims are just, plain, WRONG |
| Debian Linux |
Debian GNU/Linux, considered by many to be the best version of Linux, and is
'free software' according to the definition by the Free Sofware Foundation. |
| FreeBSD UNIX |
FreeBSD, one of the best versions of UNIX using the BSD kernel, also 'free software'.
Download and installation are free. Funded by purchasing installation CD's. |
| SUSE Linux |
SUSE Linux, a commercial Linux distribution that is very popular in Europe, and appears
to be gaining popularity in the U.S.. Free installation possible via FTP on i386 platforms. |
| Slackware Linux |
Slackware Linux, another commercial Linux distribution. Free to download and install.
Funded by purchasing installation CD's. |
| Apple's Mac OS/X |
Apple's Mac OS/X is an interesting evolutionary step forward that makes use of the BSD
UNIX kernel with Apple's windowing system. |
| Microsoft Windows |
By far the most popular OS to date, Microsoft's Windows operating system operates on more
computers than any other OS. |
| Microsoft Services for Unix |
This is a fully functional UNIX subsystem (Interix) for Windows 2k/XP, available at no additional cost.
It includes the GNU compiler suite and standard tools (including csh) and is POSIX compliant.
Additional (useful) information regarding Interix can also be found HERE |
| PalmSource |
PalmSource, the home of the Palm OS, which was once the most popular OS being used by hand-held computing
devices (somewhat recently upstaged by Android and iOS) |
| Learn Code the Hard Way |
A series of online (and dead-tree 'hardcopy') books that teach various programming languages |
| W3Schools |
An EXCELLENT and comprehensive reference for web development, or as they put it
on their own web site:
Free HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, ASP, PHP, SQL tutorials with lots of
working examples and source code. |
| GNU Compiler 'gcc' |
GCC is the primary compiler used today in open source operating systems, (such as Linux and FreeBSD),
and is even included in Microsoft's Services for Unix (Interix). GCC supports many software
languages and CPU architectures. |
| C++0x specification FAQ |
C++ is about to get a makeover with a new ISO standard (last one was 1998), and some of the new
features may or may not be compatible with your code, so here's the new spec's FAQ. |
| MSDN - Microsoft |
This is Microsoft's development platform, available as an annual subscription. Although it may
seem 'pricey' for a 'professional' subscription, having all of the information, the operating systems,
and compilers/tools seem a worth-while benefit for professional Windows developers.
This web site also offers free on-line documentation for Windows operating systems, and a large
number of downloadable tools. |
| Gnome |
Gnome is essentially a desktop environment for X Windows, that is gaining a great deal
of popularity, and is likely to become a 'de facto' standard for X Windows development
at some point in the future. Gnome uses the GTK (see next section). |
| X Windows |
Probably the best 'central' link point for X Windows documentation and information, hosted
by the 'X.Org' Foundation |
| XFree86 - X11 |
XFree86 is an X11 implementation that is 'free software'. It appears to be the most
popular X system currently being used by *nix-based operating systems. |
| FreeBSD 'man' pages |
Probably one of THE most useful on-line documentation sites for *nix developers, is the FreeBSD 'man'
page CGI gateway. You can look up just about anything that would appear in the FreeBSD man pages
from this site, including docs for X Windows and packages you haven't installed (but are available
for FreeBSD). You can also download the source of the CGI application (for FreeBSD) so that you can provide
a similar CGI gateway to man pages (it uses Perl and sed), from the 'FAQ' page. |
| Linux 'man' pages |
Similar to above, but for Linux. Provided by 'die.net' Related link HERE. |
| PHP Programming |
PHP Web Page programming reference index page. PHP is the most popular server-side scripting
language, and is a project of the Apache Software Foundation. |
| JavaScript Resoures |
What it says on the tin - links to a number of javascript resources |
| Code Project |
Articles, news, code snippets, discussions, and other info for C++/C#/.Net |
| Computer Graphics Algorithms |
FAQ page for 'comp.graphics.algorithms' newsgroup, contains reference material for graphics programming |
| Java Tools |
Java tools and resources (from sun.com) |
| Perl Archive |
Perl sample code and other resources |
| Perl Documentation |
Perl documentation (man pages, distribution docs, FAQ's, etc.) |
| C-C++ Users Journal [archived] |
C/C++ Journal [archived] - The magazine web site, with on-line articles and plenty of sample code |
| Open LDAP |
Probably the most popular open source LDAP implementation, with plenty of on-line documentation. |
| LDAP World |
A 'jumping off point' for documentation and other information regarding LDAP, maintained
by Innosoft International |
| Unix Directory Structure |
A newbie's guide to a typical Unix directory tree, nice explanations of 'the differences' and where things are.
A more detailed and comprehensive explanation can be found
HERE
(for FreeBSD) and
HERE (for Linux) via 'man hier'. |
| Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |
Official web site for the 'Filesystem Hierarchy Standard', a specification for a Unix file system directory
hierarchy, designed for unix distribution developers, package developers, and system administrators. |
|
Cross-Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet |
Cross-site scripting is a serious problem, particularly with respect to overly-complex web pages that make
heavy use of scripting, and insert data elements from other web sites (or user input!) into the HTML or
script, directly [including JSON]. Preventing this from becoming a security crater is important. That's
what THIS web page is about, basically giving you a list of things NOT to do. |
| OpenMotif |
'OpenMotif', hosted by MotifZone (also http://www.openmotif.org/.
The 'Motif' toolkit is the "Industry Standard Toolkit" for X11 development, and is typically
installed along with the X11 binaries in an X Windows installation. |
| GTK |
The highly popular 'GTK' toolkit, for use with X11 and Microsoft Windows. |
| wxWidgets |
The 'wxWidgets' toolkit, which uses GTK for cross-platform development. It's "MFC-like"
syntax makes it ideal for converting existing Win32 C++ applications written using Microsoft's
development tools to cross-platform applications that run on Windows, BSD/UNIX/Linux, or even
Apple OS/X. The wxWidgets License allows
distribution of "derived works" in BINARY form, so 'closed source' developers can
still make use of the toolkit.
Additionally, they have an excellent resource on
coding standards
that they use for contributions to the toolkit, although C/C++ developers should still pay close
attention to what it says, despite the obvious influence by Microsoft code. |
| Winelib |
"Winelib" is a library that allows a Win32 application to be re-compiled for
BSD/UNIX/Linux by linking with this library rather than with the Win32 OS libraries.
The resulting 'subsystem layer' translates windows function calls into their equivalent
"native" system calls and X11 calls (Wine and Winelib do not appear to require
any additional toolkits to run). |
| CERT Coordination Center |
Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering - CERT Coordination Center - Systems Security 'technical expertise' |
| K-OTIK French IT Database |
A 'grey hat' web site that posts information about known system vulnerabilities, often including sample
source that demonstrates the vulnerability (hence 'grey hat'). |
| Network Security Library |
Security information and bulletins, primarily for Windows. Affiliated with WindowsSecurity.com |
| chkrootkit |
locally checks for signs of a rootkit |
| SANS |
SANS, SANS school store - Computer security training, certification, research. Also on-line security
information, forums, news, surveys, and so on. See also incidents.org |
| Dutch Security |
Dutch Security Information Network (english language also) and
LINKS page.
|
| Security Forums |
Security Forums 'link site' (main web site) |
| Security Focus |
Magazine-like web site, 'Security Focus' (news, columnists, and so on) |
| SecuriTeam |
Another Magazine-like web site, "Beyond Security's SecuriTeam" |
| DShield |
Distributed Intrusion Detection System - open source, free system, has graphical display on web site.
A related 'FAQ' can be found HERE |
| SNORT |
SNORT - another (popular) open source intrusion detection system. A related link to PHP software that
makes use of snort can be found HERE |
| Honeypots |
Intrusion-detection, incident handling, and (of course) honeypot information resources |
| Web App Security |
A security-related web site that focuses on 'web applications' (i.e. CGI, PHP, '.Net', and so on) |
| Wireless LAN FAQ |
Wireless LAN Security FAQ, of particular interest because insecure wireless LANs are often exploited by crackers |
| Unsafe File List |
Knowledge Base 291369, the Internet Explorer list of file extensions that Microsoft believes to be 'potentially unsafe'.
This is a good general resource for anyone concerned about filtering anything based on file extensions. |
| XP Services |
'BlackViper.com Windows XP Home and Professional Service Pack 2 Service Configurations', a fairly long
title to describe an informative web site regarding XP services. If you think you have a trojan
or virus on your XP system, you might want to do 'netstat -a', list the running processes with taskmgr,
and compare what you see to what's shown here. |
| PGP aka 'Pretty Good Privacy' |
The original PGP in its latest incarnation |
| GnuPG (open source PGP) |
The 'Gnu Project' version of PGP, open source free software. |
| Bletchley Park encryption info |
(broken, for sale?) Site is named for the famous 'Bletchley Park' group that cracked Enigma in World War 2 |
| RFC 2440 (ftp) |
OpenPGP Message Format |
| RSA Security |
RSA Security owns the patent to the 'RSA' public key encryption algorithm, used by PGP and other systems. |
| Cryptography Research, Inc. |
| Blowfish (no royalty, free source) |
The 'Blowfish' algorithm is a well-tested symmetrical encryption algorithm that is royalty free. |
| Crypto Chamber (broken) |
A non-U.S. based site with plenty of links to other cryptography sites |
| Online Cryptography Guide |
Another cryptography info site, hosted by 'Online Computer Science Degree' |
| SSH Cryptograph A-Z |
Another good resource for SSH, SSL, and https |
| 'funet' cryptology (FTP) |
This is one of the BEST resources (located outside of the U.S. of course) for sample code that demonstrates
a wide variety of encryption techniques, both public and private key. |
| Crypto Introduction |
A good introduction into Crypto |
| Randomness |
Information on 'randomness' (which is helpful for crypto analysis) |
| U.S. 'Gummint' Regulations |
Commercial Encryption Export Controls - the 'official' policy from the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security,
U.S. Department of Commerce (updated in 2010, old link now broken) |
| C S R C - Publications |
Computer Security Resource Center, Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology. |
| Handbook of Applied Cryptography |
The 'Handbook of Applied cryptography', with sample chapters on-line. |
| Downlink's Files Page |
a useful link page, recommended by silver |
| Encryption Learning Center |
Lots of links to a number of educational resources on encryption on a number of different web sites.
(hosted by a records information management company) |
| Electronics 101 Tutorial |
A simple, moderately entertaining, and overall decent tutorial on basic electronicity and electronics |
| Wikipedia "Open-source Hardware" |
Wikipedia page worthy of mention due to its interesting list of open source hardware projects |
| Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance |
Not including THESE guys would make this list, well, LESS comprehensive, wouldn't it? |
| Open Hardware Summit |
A web site dedicated to 'comprehensive conferences' involving Open Hardware developers |
| The Hacker Workshop |
site description: "A Middle Aged Nerd Builds Stuff" |
| Arduino Playground |
A blog site within the Arduino Website, ideal place for
discussing your latest hacks with the Arduino microcontroller platform.
|
| Lady Ada |
A great project and general hardware hacking resource site, run by 'Lady Ada'
(see also Her Store where you can get LOTS of
cool hardware hacking toys, particularly microcontrollers and accessories. |
| San Diego Hardware Hackers SIG |
A 'google group' for a bunch of engineers and hackers that like to 'hack hardware', in the San Diego CA area (monthly meetings), also
mentioned HERE |
| How Stuff Works |
A general purpose 'how things work' web site |
| M I Stupid |
An online (somewhat humorous) "knowledge magazine" with info on just about everything, stupid jokes, other stuff. |
| FOLDOC |
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) |
| Wikipedia |
Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia |
| Computing Dictionary |
'thefreedictionary.com' computing dictionary |
|
I Sit in Siberia |
A relatively famous web site that provides simple instructions for invoking common web protocols via telnet
NOTE: this web site is no longer available at the original site, hence the 'web archive' version |
| Echo Echo |
Tutorials on component and web page building, including PHP |
| Free Online Books |
Online Books that are Free Online for you to READ! |
| Samizdat Press |
Another 'free on-line book' web site, also has lecture notes. |
| W3 Schools |
Free online tutorials for web page building |
| World Lecture Hall |
University of Texas web page, 'World Lecture Hall' |
| Mandragor & Apinc |
Free Documentation Base |
| 99 bottles of beer |
A web site containing MANY examples of a program in different programming languages. Useful resource
if you are trying to construct a 'hello world' type of application to test a language, or to view
the differences in language syntax for various computer languages. |
| GTK 'Hello World' |
An excellent 'hello world' GTK example, with sample configuration files for the GNU autotools
to create a complete GTK project |
| Rute Linux 'How To' |
This is an online book, a general 'HowTo' on Linux that's also applicable to other *nix flavors. It covers a
variety of topics, including shell scripting, 'sed', and regular expressions. |
| Secure Linux Programming |
Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO (online book) |
| BASH scripting (PDF) |
Advanced BASH - Scripting Guide. A PDF file with useful information on BASH scripting, similar to a tutorial |
| Ccourse (strath.ac.uk) |
An on-line C Programming Course |
| cclass (eskimo.com) |
Another on-line C programming course |
| OpenGL Tutorial |
'NeHe' web page, also has good documentation and info for game developers, and BEST OF ALL a tutorial on OpenGL programming |
| History of UNIX |
Nice resource on the history of UNIX, diagrams, other information. Good detail, very informative. |
| PERL Packets |
Packet creating/manipulation with perl |
| PERL Regexp |
Perl Regexp crib sheet |
| LISP Book |
LISP - Free Online Textbook |
| Common Lisp Cookbook |
| LISP Loop Summary |
| LISP Hyperspec |
| LISP Analysis |
| LISP links |
This web site has many LISP links and also a VERY good
"Why should I learn Lisp" article |
| All About Circuits |
This is one of the best on-line references to DC and AC circuits, components, semiconductors,
and anything else electrical or electronic that you might want to know about. |
| Best of the Internet |
A tall claim to make, it's a great answer to 'how do you keep a geek/hacker busy' |
| Darknet dot Org |
A useful link site, provided by Lord Shaolin. |