The reason I am reposting the entire list again is that as these forum may disappear any day, I have cleaned up the list (removed the dead links etc etc), and also added some of my own stuff.
Anything you do in these links or advice you follow is entirely at your own risk
Linked Alphabetically for ease of use. Some things are contained in different section, i.e: Flash is in the web design section.
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.NET Framework & General
http://www.15seconds.com/
http://www.gotdotnet.com/
http://www.kwise.com/kskin/ - Custom skin form implementation.
http://www.codeproject.com/ - .NET Programming & Active forum - also covers many other languages.
http://www.developer.com/
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Administration
http://www.bigfix.com/ - Maintainance tool
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Apple Mac
http://www.apple.com/ - Official Apple site.
http://www.versiontracker.com/ - THE download source for mac.
http://www.macfixit.com/ - Quite good help site for nearly all possible problems you could get with a mac and their solutions.
http://www.securemac.com/ - A mac isn´t target number one for hackers or a virus, but still...
http://www.macnews.de/ - Very good site for the german speaking people.
http://www.snak.com/ - MacOS X/Classic.
http://www.shadowirc.com/ - MacOS Classic.
http://www.ircle.com/ - IRC Client.
http://www.macgold.co.uk/ - Games and software store.
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ASP
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/
http://www.15seconds.com/
http://www.kamath.com/
http://www.asp101.com/
http://www.asp-help.com/
http://www.aspkicker.com/
http://www.aspin.com/
http://www.haneng.com/ - Nice ASP tutorials at haeng's home.
http://www.411asp.net/
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ASP .NET
http://docs.aspfree.com/quickstart/aspplus/
http://www.15seconds.com/
http://www.411asp.net/
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Bandwidth Tests
See Networks and Internet Connections
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Benchmarking
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ - Great utility, benchmarks and tests everything on your PC.
http://gamershq.madonion.com/ - Mad Onion, the makers of the 3Dmark benchmark.
http://www.passmark.com/ - More general PC benchmarking
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Bios Infomation
http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboar...101/index.html
http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/bios/print.shtml
http://www.itcp.net/~awsh/ - The Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide.
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Bryce
http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Good tutorials.
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Building (PC)
http://www.pc-arena.net/
http://www.hardwarehell.com/ - Good site with information on (some old) hardware.
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C++
http://www.cprogramming.com/ - A site with extensive information on C/++.
http://www.cplusplus.com/ - Another great resource for C.
http://www.codeproject.com/
http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in C++.
http://www.codeguru.com/ - visual C++ dev site.
http://www.developer.com/
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Cases
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/
http://www.bit-tech.net/
http://www.paintballtimes.com/anodize.htm - Andonising.
http://www.caseetc.com/cgi-bin/casee...-blowhole.html - Blowhole Guide.
http://gizzo.8m.com/fans/ - Fan specs and database.
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CGI
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/
http://www.cgi101.com/
http://www.w3.org/CGI/
http://www.hotscripts.com/
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Chat Programs
http://www.mirc.com/ - The most popular IRC chat program.
http://www.icq.com/ - As it says, ICQ.
http://www.trillian.cc/ - Program that lets you use MSN and ICQ through one program.
http://www.licq.org/ - Graphical ICQ clone for Unix.
http://gtkmsn.sourceforge.net/ - GTK based MSN compatible client.
http://www.sprintbiz.com/icc/app/sim/ - free online messenger... can connect to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ and other networks... for those who can't have these messengers on their work-place.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ - MSN for linux
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CPU
http://www.dalantech.com/rtfm-cpu.shtml - CPU guide/PC FAQ.
http://www.2cpu.com/ - Everything to do with running a dual CPU system.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1635&p=4 - Cpu Speed and temperature database.
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C# - C Sharp
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/
http://www.icsharpcode.net/
http://www.dotnet247.com/ - Newsgroup and namespace searches.
http://www.csharp-station.com/
http://www.softsteel.co.uk/tutorials/cSharp/cIndex.html - Beginners tutorial.
http://www.csharphelp.com/
http://www.cshrp.net/
http://www.mantrotech.com/technology...r_csharp_1.asp - Use XML to document C#
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive261.html - P2P Applications in C#
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Delphi
http://www.drbob42.com/
http://www.swissdelphicenter.com/
http://home.pacifier.com/~mmead/jni/delphi/ - JNI with Delphi
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Drivers
http://www.windrivers.com/ - links to almost all hardware manufacturer's sites, sorted by hardware type.
http://www.driverguide.com/ - Very usefull for finding older drivers, or drivers that are otherwise hard to locate. People can upload drivers that they have found which makes it very usefull for finding drivers from companies that have gone bust.
http://www.driverzone.com/ - Another driver resource .
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Downloading (sites to download a variety of things)
http://www.tucows.com/ - A site that has almost everything.
http://www.download.com/ - same as above.
http://www.edonkey2000.com/ - eDonkey.
http://www.kazaa.com/ - The Kazaa Download Program.
http://www.kazaalite.nl/ - Kazza, but without the spyware \o/.
http://www.musiccity.com/ - The Morpheus Download Program.
http://www.neo-modus.com/ - Direct Connect.
http://www.3ddownloads.com/ - Game related downloads.
http://www.fileplanet.com/ - Game related downloads.
http://www.avault.com/ - Game related downloads.
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FAQ's and General Information
http://www.anandtech.com/guides/faqs.html - A good source of answers (hardware related).
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Firewalls
http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm - Firewall Leak Tester (if you like MR Gibson).
http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1bi2l2=4n543pmi - Another firewall tester for windows users.
http://www.smoothwall.org/ - Linux firewall.
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Flash
See Web Design
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Forums
http://www.vbforums.com/ - Extremely informative, could learn more from here than from any other tutorial. Almost all questions answered.
http://www.hardforums.com/ - Very large American computer website.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ - Probably the UK's best computing forums.
http://www.bsdforums.org/ - great new site to get help on *BSD.
http://www.sitepointforums.com/ - Excellent web design forum, very active community.
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Games/Gaming Programming
http://www.gamedev.net/ - Tutorials, news, and forums to help you hack out the next Quake.
http://www.gamasutra.com/ - An excellent all around site on game programming.
http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - OpenGL programming
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Graphics - 3D Tutorials
http://www.highend3d.com/ - Different tutorials for many 3D/2D programs. Mostly 3D though. ALso has a somewhat active forum.
http://www.mayaring.com/ - Benelux Maya Users Ring: Great tutorials on modelling the human body. Somtimes pretty slow.
http://www.edharriss.com/ - Plenty of Softimage 3D + XSI tutorials. He also has his own videos for sale.
http://www.joncrow.com/ - XSI & Soft3D tutorials. Be sure to have your sound down, as some music plays.
http://archives.itg.uiuc.edu/softimage/ - Softimage Mailing-List Archive: Huge database of Softimage related questions and answers. Has a search engine too.
http://roger.rosa.free.fr/start.html -RCR HomePage: A couple of cool XSI tutorials. He makes a dog out of poly's.
http://www.xsifiles.com/
http://www.zoorender.com/ -Some XSI and Maya tutorials. Also has a bunch of textures on the site.
http://www.3dluvr.com/content/ - Some Rhino and 3DSMax Tutorials.
http://www.3d-animated.com/
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Graphics - Programming
http://www.libsdl.org/index.php - SML, 3D programming interface that bridges over Linux, Windows, MAC and many more OS'es
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Graphical - General (sites with a bit of everything)
http://www.pixeljunction.com/about.php - Something for everyone!
http://metaeffect.com/ - Another site generally dedicated to all sorts of Graphical Design.
http://www.jermexpress.com/ - Some great web design stuff.
http://www.eyeball-design.com/page01.htm - Web Design, graphics Design, scripting, etc.
http://www.tutorialforums.com/ - Great forum for most popular graphical stuff!
http://www.wastedyouth.org/ - Photoshop, Bryce, dreamwaver, Cad, you name it!
http://www.gurusnetwork.com/ - Again, another site with tons of info and tutorials for lots of programs.
http://www.somethingleet.com/forum/ - Forum with tons of...'everything'.
http://www.carbonfour.com/indexmain.html
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Graphical – Textures
http://www.google.com/images/ - Google Image Search: Should be in the arsenal of any texture looking for person.
http://www.freefoto.com/ - More just random images of different things. Not very good for textures though.
http://www.visipix.com/ - Huge database of images. All in their original sizes too. I.E. One image is 2827x1854
http://www.suurland.com/ - Tons of blueprint images. Great for finding stuff to model from. He mostly has Vehicles, Aircrafts and Ships.
http://www.o3games.com/morek/index.asp - Quite a few very high quality textures.
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Hard drives & Raid
http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/
http://www.storagereview.com/guide/guide_index.html/
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Hard drive utilities, and support pages
http://www.fel.fujitsu.com/home/drivers.asp?L=en&CID=1 - Fujitsu
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/index.htm - IBM (RMA link on top right of page).
http://www.maxtor.com/maxtorhome.htm...ad/default.htm - Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/Quantum/suppor...e/softmenu.htm - Quantum
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/index.html - Seagate
http://members.aol.com/don5408/drivespace/fdisk.html - Infomation on how to FDISK a new hard drive to get it ready for formatting and use.
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Heatsinks
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HTML
See Web Design
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ICQ
http://www.icq.com/ - One of the most popular chat programs.
http://kickme.to/adbusters/ - Guide to removing the annoying advert banners in ICQ.
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IRC
Clients
http://www.klient.com/ - An alternative IRC client to MIRC.
http://www.irssi.org/ - Text mode UNIX IRC client.
http://www.xchat.org/ - UNIX GUI.
http://www.bitchx.org/ - Text mode UNIX.
http://www.epicsol.org/ - Text mode UNIX.
http://www.eterna.com.au/ircii/ - Text mode UNIX.
http://www.ircle.com/ - MacOS.
http://www.pirchat.com/ - Win95/98/NT.
http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ - CGI based IRC client.
IRC Daemons
http://www.unrealircd.com/
http://www.funet.fi/~irc/server/
IRC Bouncers
http://www.netknowledgebase.com/tutorials/psybnc.html
http://mind.riot.org/muh/
http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/
http://pimpbnc.konge.net/
http://bre.klaki.net/programs/tircproxy/
http://www.gotbnc.com/
Other
http://irchelp.org/ - IRC help.
http://www.realityx.net/irc/ - The premier script for KVIrc.
http://www.rotfl.com/irc-addict/ - IRC humour.
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Java (not Javascript)
http://www.java.sun.com/ - Full Tutorials and application statistics from Java Home.
http://www.javaboutique.com/ - Contains many free applets and Java sourcecode.
http://chortle.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/cs151/cs151java.html - One of the best Java introductions around.
http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Java.
http://docs.sun.com/
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Linux/Unix
Distros & related
http://ocuklinux.tk/ - Outlaw Linux by the OcUK Outlaws (in development).
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
http://www.jblinux.net/
http://www.redhat.com/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.debianplanet.org/
http://www.slackware.com/
http://www.linuxmafia.org/ (slackware worship)
http://www.suse.com/
http://www.turbolinux.com/
http://www.gentoo.org/
http://www.linux.corel.com/
http://www.smoothwall.org/ - Firewall
http://www.ipcop.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
General Downloads & Software Resources
http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ - buy any distro on CDR
http://www.linuxapps.com/ - Download site.
http://www.cheeplinux.co.uk/ - Alternative to above.
http://freshmeat.net/ - THE place.
http://rpmfind.net/ - A huge database of RPMs.
http://www.linuxiso.org/ - ISOs of most distros.
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/ - Very fast FTP with ISOs.
http://linux.davecentral.com/
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/
http://www.kernel.org/ - New versions & patches.
ftp.linuxberg.com - Port 21, login anonymous.
http://www.xwinx.org/ - Alternative to VNC.
http://www.tightvnc.com/ - Another VNC alternative (good over modems).
Community Pages & News
http://www.linuxmax.net/
http://www.wg-post.com/index.php?id=today - Linux news.
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html - Newbie guide!
http://thelinuxsite.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fsf.org/ - Fee Software Foundation, the holy grail.
http://www.fsfeurope.org/ - The Europe branch of the FSF who also run the main servers for the free FSF shell accounts.
http://www.linux.org.uk/ - Kernel dev, release notes.
http://www.hardcorelinux.com/
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ - UK magazine.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/
http://www.linuxgazette.com/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/ - Useful forum
http://www.learninglinux.com/
Temperature Monitoring
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/ - Temperature monitor.
Games
http://server.counter-strike.net/ - Counterstrike Server Setup.
http://www.adminmod.org/ - Half Life admin mod.
http://www.psychostats.com/#psinfo - Half Life stats generator.
http://www.tuxgames.com/ - Contains info and petitions for developers.
http://www.tuxracer.com/ - Another game!
http://www.evil3d.net/ - Linux benchamrking and 3d games.
http://www.transgaming.com/ - WINEX Direct X WINE for gaming.
Guides & Documentation
http://www.linux.org/ - contains Linux Doc.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ - Excellent for new users.
http://www.linuxdocs.org/ - Documatation base.
http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/ - A monolithic FAQ.
Gnome
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/ - Get GNOME2 betas.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/ - Filemanager.
http://www.gnomedesktop.com/ - GNOME desktop 'fan' site.
Penguin Galleries (wear with pride!!)
http://lwn.net/Gallery/
http://www.crosswinds.net/~johngalt/tux.htm - Unfortunatly down due to Data loss on Sept 11th. Please Donate your Tux's
http://tunes.org/~do/penguindex.html
KDE
http://www.kde.org/ - popular GUI.
Specific Software
http://www.gimp.org/ - Fantastic graphics software.
http://www.opera.com/ - Excellent browser.
http://www.everybuddy.com/ - ICQ, MSN messaging.
http://www.kvirc.net/ - A highly configurable, graphical IRC client for Unix.
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ - for headless stuff
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - VNC, remote control!
http://cr.yp.to/djb.html - Freely available high quality security software for *nix, VERY useful legal information.
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net - Email client.
http://www.kernel.org/
http://www.insecure.org/ - Security info.
http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/ - Make your own distro on floppy disk
http://www.winehq.com/ - H'emmilate Winblows.
http://www.glexcess.com/ - OpenGL Benchmarking.
http://opensource.creative.com/ - SBlive and Audigy drivers.
http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/projects/rcenter.php - GPL driver for LiveDrive and SBLive IR Remote.
http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ - LCD control code.
Linux/Unix Hosting
http://www.dedicated-servers.co.uk/
http://www.i-dot.net/
http://sunshineinabag.co.uk/ - Themes etc for GNOME
Other Misc links
http://www.rootprompt.org/ - Excellent news and tutorials for your favorite Unix.
http://www.daemonnews.org/ - News and how-tos for *BSD.
http://www.freshports.org/ - Get the latest on the 7000+ ports available for FreeBSD.
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Memory
http://www.crucial.com/ - Quality RAM with a good FAQ to answer alot of questions.
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Misc Tech
http://www.ietf.org/rfc - Request For Comments repositry
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Motherboards
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm - Unofficial KT7/KT7A FAQ.
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kg7kr7/boot_problems.htm - Unofficial KG7 & KR7 Faq.
http://www.x-faqtor.com/ - The unofficial Iwill KK266/KK266-R FAQ.
http://motherboards.org/ - Can help in identifying motherboards, old and new, common and rare.
http://www.atrend.com.tw/ - A-Trend
http://www.abit.com.tw/ - Abit
http://www.amptron.com/ - Amptron
http://www.aopen.com/ - AOpen
http://www.asus.com/ - Asus
http://www.azza.com.tw/ - Azza
http://www.bcmcom.com/ - BCM
http://www.biostar-usa.com/ - Biostar
http://www.chaintech.com.tw/ - Chaintech
http://www.dfi.com/ - DFI
http://www.ecsusa.com/ - ECS
http://www.epox.com/ - Epox
http://www.fica.com/ - FIC
http://www.gainward.com/ - Gainward
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ - Gigabyte
http://www.intel.com/ - Intel
http://www.iwillusa.com/ - IWill
http://www.jetway.com.tw/ - Jetway
http://www.matsonic.com/ - Matsonic
http://www.msi.com.tw/ - MSI
http://www.pcchips.com/ - PCChips
http://www.procomp.com.tw/ - ProComp
http://www.shuttleonline.com/ - Shuttle
http://www.soyo.com.tw/ - Soyo
htto://www.soltech.com.tw - Soltech
http://www.supermicro.com/ - Supermicro
http://www.transcendusa.com/ -Transcend
http://www.tyan.com/ - Tyan
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Networks and Internet Connections
http://www.homenethelp.com/ - Home networking guides and tutorials.
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/isp_maps.html - Atlas of ISP and internet backbone connections.
http://www.ethergear.com/ - Guides from the basic to the advanced.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/ - Another Good networking site.
Traffic Reports
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/
General isp news/reviews
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/
http://www.adslguide.org/
http://www.cable-modems.co.uk/
http://www.net4nowt.com/
http://www.world-of-adsl.com/
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,,t293,00.html
http://www.world-of-adsl.com/ - An excellent site for up to date UK ADSL information including latest ADSL enabled exchanges.
Bandwidth tests
http://www.vantage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ - For NTL and Blueyonder ISP's.
http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/
http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/common/speed.asp
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/band-test/
http://www.dslreports.com/stest/
Every thing and more for getting the most out of your internet connection.
http://www.speedguide.net/index.shtml
http://www.optimizing.net/
ICS
http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/ics/
http://www.windrivers.com/network/index.htm
IP, Connectivity, Domain tracing
http://visualroute1.datametrics.co.uk/
http://www.geektools.com/ - Whois utility
Bypass your annoying work firewall
http://www.htthost.com/
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News Sites and review sites
http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - Probably the best pc related news site.
http://www.bluesnews.com/ - Game related news.
http://www.shugashack.com/ - Game related news.
http://www.gamespot.com/ - Commercial game related news.
http://www.slashdot.org/ - A very good news site (V *nix slanted).
http://www.overclockers.com/ - Review and news site.
http://www.tomshardware.com/ - Another excellent hardware site.
http://www.anandtech.com/ - A well-respected hardware review/pricing site.
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Newsgroups
http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/usenet.htm - Usenet information.
http://www.easynews.com/ - Pay newsgroup service - very reliable, and web based interface.
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Overclocking
http://www.overclockers.com/ - THE overclocking place!
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.ph...=guide&dId=376 - AMD Overclocking guide
http://sx64.opsys.net/ - Freak who put a 1.2ghz P3 in his Commodore :-O
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Perl
http://www.perl.com/
http://www.perl.org/
http://www.perlarchive.com/
http://www.cpan.org/
http://perldoc.com/ - Online Perl documentation.
http://www.activestate.com/ - Perl for windows & a few tutorials on other such languages as well.
http://www.perlmonks.org/ - One of best sites to get quick, good advice on hacking Perl.
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Photoshop
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/ - Has a bunch of PS and Flash and some 3D tutorials.
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/ - Different PS tutorials.
http://www.planetphotoshop.com/ - Lots of PS tutorials (not gamespy related).
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/ - Again, more PS tutorials.
http://www.psworkshop.net/ - Cool, different tutorials. Cuts, in flesh, realistic water... Also has a forum.
http://www.psworkshop.net/ - Fairly in-depth tutorials. Reflections, rings on planets, grass... Also has a forum.
http://www.eyesondesign.net/ - Photoshop tutorials.
http://www.stridingstudio.com/ - Simple, fast tutorials. Wireframes, glow, realistic clounds...
http://www.wwwebmasters.net/ - Various tutorials - Flash(192), Illustrator(34) and PhotoShop(503).
http://www.russellbrown.com/tips/photoshop.html - Russell Brown's Tutorials: A bunch of different quicktime video tutorials for you people that don't like to read.
http://www.teamphotoshop.com/ - Tutorials, forums, etc
http://www.monkeh.net/ - Photoshop tutorials.
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PHP
http://www.php.net/ - A full manual and examples.
http://hotscripts.com/PHP/ - Many scripts ready to run.
http://www.phpbeginner.com/
http://www.php4scripts.f2s.com/
http://www.*******.com/ - A complete website template/engine using php/mysql.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/ - A Great site covering tutorials and explanations of PHP.
http://www.sitepointforums.com/ - Excellent and active forum covering many (if not all) aspects of web design.
http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/Phpmole-IDE/ - PHP IDE.
http://www.zend.com/ - Various PHP.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/installphp.shtml - Windows PHP install tutorial (old (PHP 3) but some of it is still relevant)
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Programming (general)
http://www.maxcode.com/
http://codeproject.com/
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Python
http://www.python.org/
http://www.mindview.net/ - Bruce Eckel's site. Download free, electronic versions of Thinking in Python.
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Ruby
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ - Home of the Ruby programming language.
http://www.rubycentral.com/ - Great site for All Things Ruby. Don't miss the free online book Programming Ruby.
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RAM
http://hardcoreware.net/reviews/othe...formance/1.htm - Is more worth it? An interesting article can be found here.
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Search Engines
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.google.com/ - The favourite for many people.
http://www.lycos.com/
http://www.searchengineworld.com/
http://northernwebs.com/set/
http://www.mamma.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.netcraft.co.uk/
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Security
http://www.securityfocus.org/ - One of the finest sites on current security threats.
http://housecall.antivirus.com/start_corp.asp - Free online virus scan.
http://www.sans.org
http://www.cert.org
http://www.antionline.com/index.php
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Servers
http://swexpert.com/ - Server magazine (no longer published)
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Shockwave
See Web Design
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Soundcards
http://alive.singnet.com.sg/tech/ - SoundBlaster Live unnofficial resource site.
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Spyware
http://www.lavavsoftusa.com/ - Supplier of AdAware, the spyware removal prog.
http://www.lavasoft.de/ - As above.
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Unix
See Linux
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Video Cards
http://www.geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi - Geforce FAQ.
http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/biosguide/ - Kyro Bios’s and Guide.
http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/faq/index.shtml - Kyro FAQ.
http://www.paraknowya.com/specials/faq/index.shtml - Kryo and PowerVR FAQ.
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/ - Linux drivers.
http://www.3dcafe.com/
http://www.flay.com/
http://www.brycetech.com/
http://www.huntfor.com/3d/tutorials.htm
http://www.3dfx.com/ - 3DFX
http://www.abit-usa.com/ - Abit
http://www.asus.com.tw/ - Asus
http://www.ati.com/ - Ati
http://www.creative.com/ - Creative Labs
http://www.diamondmm.com/ - Diamond
http://www.elsa.com/ - Elsa
http://www.firegl.com/ - FireGL
http://www.gainward.com/ - Gainward
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/ - Gigabyte
http://www.guillemot.com/ - Guillemot
http://www.hercules.com/ - Hercules
http://www.ivmm.com/ - Innovision
http://www.leadtek.com/ - Leadtek
http://www.matrox.com/ - Matrox
http://www.msi.com.tw/ - MSI
http://www.real3d.com/ - Real3d
http://www.s3.com/ - S3
http://www.tridentmicro.com/ - Trident
http://www.visiontek.com - Visiontek
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Visual Basic
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ Visual Basic. Good resource for .NET technology.
http://members.xoom.com/vba51/ - Directx for Visual Basic
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Wallpaper
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.hebus.com/
http://www.customize.org/
http://www.deskmod.com/
http://www.desktopwallpapers.net/
http://www.heavy-rotation.net/
http://www.looroll.com/
http://www.webshots.com/ - A massive collection of wallpapers that changes frequently.
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Web Design
Shockwave/Flash
http://www.flashaddict.com/
http://www.flashkit.com/
http://www.macromedia.com/
http://www.were-here.com/
http://flash5actionscript.com/
http://www.theflashbible.com/
http://www.ultrashock.com/
http://www.flashplanet.com/
http://www.wwwebmasters.net/ - Various tutorials - Flash(192), Illustrator(34) and PhotoShop(503).
Graphical Manipulation
http://www.myjanee.com/
http://www.gfxmania.com/
http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html - tutorial on Photoshop.
http://www.jasc.com/ - Paint Shop Pro.
Databases
http://www.mysql.org/ - Popular database.
http://www7.us.postgresql.org/ - Better but less popular database.
http://www.oracle.com/ - The daddy
http://www.sap.org/
DHTML
http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo/ - DHTML Resources, quite extensive.
http://www.dhtmlcentral.com - DHTML site around by Thomas Brattli.
HTML, CSS
http://www.htmlhelp.com/
http://www.devshed.com/
http://www.evrsoft.com/ - Superb freeware web editing suite - 1stpage 2000.
http://www.davesite.com - Very good html tutorial.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/colors.html - RGB colour chart.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/ - Great HTML/ASP tidying program.
http://www.w3.org - WWW Consortium home page, World Wide Web Consortium Related (XML/XSL etc).
http://www.w3schools.com/ - WWWc Teaching Page.
http://www.tupps.com/flash/faq/xml.html
http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm
http://www.xml.org/xml/resources_focus_rdbms.shtml
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagindex/a.htm - HTML listings on alphabetical order, including browser support and oddities.
Misc
http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://www.webmonkey.com/
http://www.freshmeat.net/
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~stewa/IMHO/ - Webmail program.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/guides/vision.htm - Visually impaired resource guide.
http://www.stattrack.com/ - Free web tracking.
http://www.bravenet.com/ - Free webmaster tools.
http://www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk/ - Webhosting and design.
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Web Hosting
http://www.34sp.com/
http://www.lohost.com/
http://www.fasthosts.com/
http://www.pair.com/
http://www.easily.com/
http://www.hostrocket.com/
http://www.alivewww.com/
http://www.brinkster.com/
http://www.spaceports.com/
http://www.geocities.com/
http://www.topcities.com/
http://www.freeservers.com/
http://www.e-clipsedesigns.co.uk/
http://www.exa-bytes.com/
http://www.ipaska.com/
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Windows
http://www.microsoft.com/ - No explanation needed...I hope
http://www.annoyances.org/ - Tips, tricks and tweaks.
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/ - Tips and tweaks specifically for Win XP.
http://www.regedit.com/ - Good site.
http://www.bootdisk.com/ - Self explanatory name me thinks.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ - Lots of useful utilities, such as saving BSOD's, reading NTFS from FAT.
http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm - LOADS of hints and tips for windows NT/2000.
http://www.pcpitstop.com/xpready/ - Before you buy XP, try this readiness test to see if your hardware is up to scratch and if you have any software that may not work with XP.
http://www.xteq.com/index.html - Tweak the appearence and functionality of Windows.
http://www.annoyances.org/ - Get rid of those windows annoyances.
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml - Adds a startup control panel.
http://www.iarsn.com/index.html#/download.html - Better task manager utility to see really how much your computer puts in to running each background task.
http://www.ntfaq.com/ - For all your nt/2k/xp questions a very good site covers a lot of issues.
http://www.winguides.com/ - For windows registry, scripting, security and driver info / tweaks.
http://extsearch.com/ - Work out that silly file extension with this.
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CPU speeds. Slot and Socket types
Socket
Socket 0, 168 pins - [486DX]
Socket 1, 169 pins - [486SX, 487SX, 486DX]
Socket 2, 238 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2]
Socket 3, 237 pins - [486SX, 486DX, 486DX2, 486DX4, AMD 5x86]
Socket 4, 273 pins - [Pentium (60/66MHz), Pentium OverDrive]
Socket 5, 320 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, AMD K5]
Socket 6, 235 pins - [486DX4]
Socket 7/Super Socket 7, 321 pins - [Pentium, Pentium OverDrive, Pentium MMX, AMD K5, AMD K6, AMD K6-2, AMD K6-III, Cyrix 6x86, IDT Winchip, IDT Winchip-2]
Socket 8, 387 pins - [Pentium Pro, Pentium II OverDrive]
Socket 370 PPGA, 370 pins, Celeron (PPGA), Cyrix "Mojave", Cyrix "Samuel", Cyrix "Ezra"]
Socket 370 FC-PGA, 370 pins, Celeron (FC-PGA), Pentium III (FC-PGA), Cyrix III]
Socket 370 FC-PGA2, 370 pins, [Celeron "Tualatin", Celeron "Copermine"]
Socket A, 462 pins - [AMD Duron, AMD Athlon "Thunderbird", AMD Athlon XP "Palamino", AMD Athlon XP "Thoroughbred", AMD Athlon XP "Barton"]
Socket 423, 423 pins - [Pentium 4]
Socket 478, 478 pins - [Pentium 4]
Socket 479, 479 pins - [Pentium 5]
Socket 603, 603 pins - [Xeon MP, Xeon DP]
Socket 754, 754 pins - [AMD Opteron "ClawHammer"]
Socket 940, 940 pins - [AMD "SledgeHammer"] - guess?
SLOT
Slot 1, 242 pins - [Pentium II (SECC & SECC2), Celeron (SEPP), Pentium III]
Slot 2, 330 pins - [Pentium II Xeon, Pentium III Xeon]
Slot A, 242 pins - [AMD Athlon, AMD "Thunderbird", AMD "Mustang"]
Athlon XP/MP true speeds
AMD Athlon XP 1600 (1400 MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1700 (1470 MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1800 (1530 MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 1900 (1600 MHz)
AMD Athlon XP 2000 (1667 MHz)
AMD Athlon MP 1500 (1333 MHz)
AMD Athlon MP 1800 (1530 MHz)