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News for nerds. Stuff that matters. Discussion on the latest computer and technical topics. |
| Boingdragon's Counters | BoingDragon's a character from FurryMUCK. Her player has created a rather nice selection of Web page hit counters. |
| The Google search engine. No categorized listings like Yahoo, but their search results are a lot more useful and not nearly as prone to having garbage in them. | |
| PayPal | PayPal is an electronic payment service, letting you pay other people with credit cards or from a bank account. When you receive payment, it goes into your PayPal account. If you register a bank account with them, you can deposit from your PayPal account into the bank account. Free to you, PayPal makes their money from the interest accumulated on the balance in your account. Nice. |
| MapQuest | Probably the canonical on-line map site. Street maps and travel directions to just about anywhere in the US, and a fair fraction of the rest of the world. |
| Mozilla | The next-generation open-source browser, which used to be based on Netscape before they decided to tear it completely apart and do it right this time. Netscape v6 will be based on this, by the way. Finally, a browser with good support for HTML 4.0, style sheets and XML that doesn't come from Microsoft and carry all their baggage with it. |
| MozillaZine | The unofficial newsletter and review site for Mozilla. Invaluable if you want to keep track of which nightly builds are usable and which contain killer bugs. |
| Freshmeat | Summaries and download information about open-source and other programs for the Unix community. |
| Themes.org | Lots of the newest open-source programs, like KDE, Gnome/Enlightenment and XMMS have the ability to load skins, packages that completely alter the appearance of the program. Here's a massive site dedicated to skin packages. |
| O'Reilly & Associates | Publishers of the infamous animal books, the definitive references for true geeks who need information, not marketing-speak. |
| Micro Firmware Inc. | BIOS upgrades for all types of PCs, Award, AMI and Phoenix BIOSes. |
| RFC Index | Massive indexed hypertext collection of the Internet RFCs and similar documents. An invaluable reference for those who need to deal with the official definitions of the protocols. |
| The Jargon File | The canonical reference to computer-related jargon and geek-speak. The hardcopy version is published as The New Hacker's Dictionary. |
| MAPS | The Mail Abuse Protection System, or MAPS. Famous ( or infamous ) for running the Realtime Backhole List, they also run several other projects dedicated to cutting down the amount of spam going across the net and shutting down sites that send spam. |
| WorldWide Web Consortium | The people who set the standards for the Web. If only more Web designers would actually follow them... |
Linux information | |
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The Linux Documentation Project. A good source of information on Linux and the software that runs on it. |
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Linux Kernel Archives US Mirror |
The primary source for Linux kernels and information on them. |
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OpenSound 4Front Technology |
Official source for the OpenSound sound drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and other OSes. No source code, but these are an improved version of the drivers distributed with the Linux kernel. They include support for sound cards that can't be supported in the kernel source due to non-disclosure requirements. |
| Loki Games | Loki has ported Civilization: Call to Power and Railroad Tycoon II to Linux. They're also doing the ports of Heretic II and Heavy Gear II. And Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri! |
| The Linux Counter | Register your Linux box, and see how many other people are running Linux for various purposes. |
| Gnucash | Gnucash is basically a double-entry bookkeeping and ledger program for Linux, similar to Quicken and the like. |
| SANE home page | Scanner Access Now Easy. This is the canonical package used to hook up and use scanners under Linux. |
| Scarse home page | This is a package for doing exact color calibration of scanners under Linux. Nice if you need exact color-matched scans for anything. |
| Fractint home page | FractInt is one of the oldest fractal-generating programs out there. Nice entertainment if you like messing around with them. |
| Unix font howto | How to add various types of fonts to the X11 windows system and various word-processing and other programs. |
| VMWare for Linux | VMWare is a virtual machine environment that, among other things, lets you run a copy of Windows 95/98 under Linux. Only downside: since it virtualizes hardware, it can't pass through to Windows features that aren't supported in Linux. This means stuff like fancy Windows-only accelerated video cards. |
| GnomeHack home page | Port of the NetHack game to the Gnome/GTK toolkit for Linux. |
| NetHack home page | NetHack, derived from the ancient Rogue game on Unix. |
| Official NetHack home page | The official home page for the NetHack game. |
| Unofficial LILO home page | The LILO boot loader for Linux. If you're running Linux, you probably need this. |
| Video for Linux | Home page of the Video4Linux project, video capture cards, Webcams, radio/TV tuner cards and the like. |
| LiVid | Linux Video, a project devoted to things like playing DVDs under Linux. |
| The Linux Joystick Driver | Joysticks and similar input devices are supported under Linux. Here's the official source for drivers and information on them. |
| Linux Input Drivers | The joystick project evolved into a more complete system with the most recent revisions of the Linux kernel. Here's where it's going now. Not to worry, joysticks aren't going to disappear from it any time soon, quite the contrary in fact. |
Linux vendors | |
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| RedHat | RedHat |
| Debian | Debian |
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SuSE Linux SuSE Consulting |
SuSE Linux |
| Caldera | Caldera |
Cryptography and security | |
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distributed.net's Bovine Project is a highly-distributed parallel-computing approach to cracking RC5 and DES encryption keys as part of the contests that RSA Data Security Inc. runs on a regular basis. Download their clients using the button and put the idle time on your computer to use. |
| Zedz Consultants | The Zedz ( formerly Replay ) archives are about the largest source of cryptographic software I've found, including things like PGP and the Secure Shell server and client software. They're located outside the United States because of the stupidity of the US Government. |
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Fortify -logo removed due to Unisys- |
Fortify is a tool to add full-strength 128-bit
encryption to the standard export-grade Netscape browsers. As of mid-May 2000, Netscape is making 128-bit browsers generally available. Fortify is, therefore, less neccesary and they have ceased releasing updates. Their last version covered up through the 4.72 browsers. |
| Crypto++ Library | Wei Dai's Crypto++ library, a C++ class library implementing a large number of encryption and related algorithms. |
| Secure Shell FAQ | Information on the Secure Shell replacement for telnet, rsh, rcp and the like. |
Cartoons and on-line comics | |
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He's a rabbit, and sysop of the Herbivore forum. She's a wolf and staff predator at HerdThinners Inc., a company where everyone can sense fear and the retirement plan involves being reclassified as prey. There is an alternate link to this site as well. |
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The daily trials and tribulations of the staff at Columbia Internet. Anyone working with computers will probably enjoy this one. |
| Dilbert | Dilbert, the comic strip. Everyone knows what this is. |
| Sinfest | A very, very odd comic. Very funny, and definitely not politcally correct. |
| West Corner of the Park | Cartoons inspired by the antics on FurryMuck. |
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The lives of a bunch of anthropomorphic students at university. |
| Freighter Tails | The adventures of Mzzkiti aboard the USS Farsicle. This used to be Haul Trek, until the creators decided to shift it into their own universe and away from pure Star Trek parody. |
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The life, loves, and career of aspiring supermodel and ferocious predator, Tiffany Tiger. If the main link doesn't work, try this alternate link. |
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Eric Schwartz's Sabrina Online comic strip, and the author's home page. |
| Ozy and Millie | A very nice comic about a couple of kids. Ozy's adopted, which explains why he's a fox or something and his Dad's a dragon. |
| Sabrina at Algonquin | Max Blackrabbit's comic based on the Sabrina On-line strip. |
| A Doemain of Our Own | Susan Parkin's comic strip, starring her character SusanDeer from FurryMUCK. Nice slice-of-life, even if it stars an anthropomorphic deer and gets a bit surreal at times. |
| Misty | The antics of a bunch of anthropomorphic college students. Comes out irregularly due to the creator's hectic life. As of mid-September 2000 it's back, after being absent since July of 1999. And then it's gone again, due to TWU having to shut down the majority of it's site hosting. And back, at KeenSpace. |
| Roomies | The antics of Flinthoof and his friends. |
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Satin and Silk Campus Safari Rebound and Mako Shivae! |
Satin and Silk are two anthropomorphic, alien skunks who get marooned on Earth. The usual chaos ensues. Campus Safari follows the misadventures of some of their friends who got caught up in the same mistake that landed Satin and Silk on Earth. |
| The Changing Workplace | Oren the Otter works at the Transformation Simplification Agency. When you have problems with changing into different species, they solve them. Or create them. Or whatever. Suffice it to say, life is never normal here. |
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Dela the Hooda |
A sentient, anthropomorphic vixen gets stranded on Earth. In a small town in Canada, no less. How do you think INS is going to respond to a real illegal alien? |
| The Belfry furry comics index | Foxen's collection of links to furry comic strips. |
| The Polymer City Chronicles | Very nice, slightly odd comic about a bunch of game-obsessed freelance ... well not quite superheros, but at least one wants to think he is. |
Authors, writers, artists, creators and their creations | |
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| Brenda DiAntonis, artist. Her prints are available from Mailbox Books. | |
| The FOXX Den | Home page of Chris Yost, author of Sabrina: The Story, inspired by the Sabrina On-line comic strip by Eric Schwartz. |
| Max BlackRabbit | Creator of the rather... interesting character of Zig-Zag, inker of the Extinctioners comic book, and creator of the Sabrina at Algonquin comic strip based on the Sabrina On-line strips. |
| Rave's Toony World | Rave's got a good, toonish art style. There's certainly a good amount of "yiffy" material here, but nothing very explicit as far as I can see. |
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Silverblue, gothfurry and artist. Her character on FurryMUCK is a vampiric rabbit. |
| Zig-Zag: The Story | James Bruner took the Zig-Zag character, created by Max BlackRabbit and appearing in Sabrina On-line and Sabrina: The Story, and started writing some stories about her. |
| Watts Martin | Watts Martin's stories about Revar Desmera are very good. He's got a lot of others here as well. He also has an old home page here. He occasionally shows up on FurryMUCK as Mika. |
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The adventures of the crew of the merchant starship Blue Horizon. |
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The anthropomorphic art of Steve Carter. More than a few of his images are of the cast of Blue Horizon. |
| Auryanne | Also known as Shenandoah on FurryMUCK. A good furry artist. |
| Michelle Light | A very nice artist. This page is her "what's new" page, at the top is a menu of the other pages on her site. |
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Yerf anthropomorphic image archive. |
| Orlando Furry Archive | Orlando anthropomorphic image archive. |
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Vixen Controlled Library FTP: Sweden USA HTTP: Sweden USA |
The Vixen Controlled Library of anthropomorphic art and fiction. Formerly Brian Antoine's Velan Central Library. |
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The FurNation anthropomorphic archives and Web-hosting site. This link is to a list of artists' pages, you can navigate to the other portions of the site via a menu at the bottom. |
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The Tigress.com furry hosting service |
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The Furry Web Directory, a decent-sized collection of resources and pointers to various people and things in furry fandom. |
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Miavir's Index of Anthro Stories |
Miavir runs a huge index of anthropomorphic stories. If it was written, it's probably in here somewhere. He also maintains an excellent resource page. |
| 404 Error | The name's an in-joke. The site is personal pages for a number of the denizens of FurryMUCK. Some of them, including Alecain and Mikhael, are very good at 3D modelling. |
Furry MUCKs | |
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| FurryMUCK | The oldest and largest anthropomorphic/furry MUCK in existence. There are routinely between 200 and 400 people on-line at any given time, and there are something like 30,000 rooms. It varies from an almost purely social setting in the West Corner of the Park, to almost pure role-playing as in FurrySpace. It's also the home of everyone's favorite codebat, Revar, maintainer of the TinyMUCK Fuzzball software powering most MUCKs. |
| FurryMUCK Maps | Reasonably current maps of FurryMUCK. Most of these were made in the first half of 1999. Even if a little out of date, they're a very useful guide and a good place for newcomers to get oriented and see the general layout of the central areas of the MUCK. They don't cover FurrySpace, however. |
| Sociopolitical Ramifications | A newer MUCK than FurryMUCK, and smaller. There are usually only about a hundred-odd ( sometimes very odd ) people on-line at any given time. The programs on it are more modern than FurryMUCK, and support a few things that FM doesn't allow. |
| Tapestries | Tapestries is another smaller MUCK. Warning: this is a purely adult MUCK, if you are under 18 you will not be allowed to get a character. |
| Tapestries Maps | Maps to the Tapestries MUCK, useful for orienting yourself. |
| FurrySpace MUCK | FurrySpace started out as one of the larger role-playing areas on FurryMUCK itself. It eventually grew and evolved to the point where it needed it's own MUCK to do some of what Slipstream wanted. It's relatively new, having been opened in mid-1999, but growing. |
| MUCK Information Kiosk | A technical manual on the FuzzBall 5.64 MUCK software that runs systems like FurryMUCK. A very good reference for people who need or want to know what's behind their characters and rooms, what flags do what, how MUF and MPI work and what the wizzes and admins do behind the scenes to keep things running. Also includes information on downloadable MUF programs and other things related to running a MUCK. |
| MU* Resources | A large collection of information about MUCKs, MUDs, MUSHes, client programs and other things. |
| TinyMUCK FuzzBall | Various bits of information on the TinyMUCK FuzzBall software used to run the majority of furry MUCKS. Some of this may be rather old, but is often still applicable. |
Other furry stuff | |
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| Rabbit Valley | Formerly Mailbox Books, mail-order furry comics. On-line ordering. |
| Rabco | Another Rabco Disaster, furry comics distributor. On-line ordering. |
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Further Confusion, a San Francisco-based Furry convention. Scheduled for the end of January. |
| Confurence | Confurence, a furry con help in early April in Los Angeles. |
| Anthrocon | Originally Confurence East and then Albany Anthrocon, this furry con is now being held in Valley Forge in July. |
| ConiFur NorthWest | This furry con is located in Seattle. |
| Furry Resource Page | A good collection of furry resources, hosted at fur.com. |
| Fur Central Annex | Captain Packrat's site, containing a fair amount of information about furry, furries and furry artists. |
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Internet Furry Proximity Locater Alternate link |
Database of furry fans, giving things like location, ICQ/AIM numbers, home pages and suchlike. Nice for finding out who's in your neck of the woods. Requires that you regsiter before you can look people up. Only fair, if you want to know where they are you should be willing to tell them where you are. |
Fan fiction | |
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| Anime Archives | The largest anime fan-fiction FTP site around, with stories broken down by series. |
| Eyrie | Eyrie Productions, creators of the Undocumented Features universe, Neon Exodus Evangelion and others. |
| Anime Detective | What happens when you take a hard-boiled cop and put him on the Japanese version of the ToonTown beat? He goes through a lot of Mylanta, for one thing. |
| Aikan Muyo | Aikan Muyo: No Need for Sadness and Joy. A Tenchi Muyo fanfic. |
| Greg Sandborn | Home of the Nabiki: New Horizons Ranma 1/2 fanfic. |
Miscellaneous fun stuff | |
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| Lia Graf, artist, comic book creator. Her current prints are available for sale. There's also an archive of her earlier works at Captain Packrat's site. She's now doing the online comic Twilight Agency, which may appear as a trade paperback if we're lucky. | |
| The Evil Overlord List | Every story needs an Evil Overlord. Where would Star Wars be without Darth Vader and the Emperor, for example? Where would Flash Gordon be without Ming the Merciless? The Skylark crew without DuQuesne? But, every Evil Overlord seems to make the same mistakes, time and time again. No more! Here's a list of things Evil Overlords should and should not do. Fun reading. Maybe even practical? |
| John's Sci-Fi pages | John VanSickle's home for lists related to the Evil Overlord list, among other things. He covers the Hero, the True Love, the Sidekick, the Overlord's evil minions, the Overlord's Beautiful Daughter ( every Evil Overlord has to have a sexy, scantily-dressed daughter as evil as he is, but she doesn't have to be stupid ). |
| eBay | On-line auction site. |
| FurBid | On-line auction site, specific to anthropomorphic art. |
| NWS San Diego | The National Weather Service site for San Diego, California. If you want other places, there is a master page that lists all the NWS regions. You can click on a region and get a map and list of all the NWS forecast office Web sites in that region. |
| CJ Cherryh | Home page of CJ Cherryh, science fiction and fantasy author, creator of the Union/Alliance universe, the Chanur novels and others. Guest of Honor at Further Confusion 2000. |
| Quantum Muse | An on-line science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Very good. |
| San Diego Union Tribune | San Diego newspaper site. |
Todd Knarr <tknarr@silverglass.org>
