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Newsgroups
Newsgroups are probably the most under utilised resource of the Internet. Also known as Usenet. Designed to be accessed through a newsreader, also available through the web. Google has a huge searchable archive - just use the groups tab on www.google.com

There are two ways to use newsgroups:
Lurk and just read.

Or be more proactive and post your own question

The Google groups main page.
http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

The listing of all newsgroups under Google
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=*&hl=en

An example news group. This one is the Ethernet news group (comp.dcom.lans.ethernet)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.dcom.lans.ethernet

Help on using Google newsgroups.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/help.html

Interesting (for some anyhow) history of news groups.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

FAQs
FAQs are Frequently Asked Questions.

Internet FAQ archives.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/

UNIX
The Linux documentation project.
http://www.tldp.org/

Free on line books from IBM.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

Lists all major UNIX flavours. Click on the link for your UNIX system and it will take you through to masses of information for your flavour of UNIX.
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu.flavors

Contains detailed table comparing shell features.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/shell-differences/index.html

The title of UNIX guru universe sums up this website.
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu

vi FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/part1/

Security
Computer Emergency Response Team.
http://www.cert.org/

802.11i security standard (and other 802.11 standards).
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html

Microsoft security homepage.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx

Microsoft
We know it's obvious but it's not a bad place to start.
www.microsoft.com

The Knowledge base. Also FAQs. All products (including apps)
http://support.microsoft.com/

Microsofts FTP site.
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/

Windows server 2003 technical resources including product documentation. Menu at side leads to downloads etc.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/default.mspx

Windows XP resources again including the documentation and resource kit. Menu at side leads to downloads etc..
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/default.asp

Just Windows 2000 technical resources, including resource kits online, complete documentation. Menu at side leads to downloads etc..
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/default.asp

NT server resources
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/default.asp

NT workstation resources including resource kit.
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/technicalresources/default.asp

BackOffice resources.
http://www.microsoft.com/backofficeserver/techinfo/default.asp

Programming
The main Java page
http://java.sun.com/

Just Java
http://www.javaworld.com/

Stroustrups homepage
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html

Home of the C standard group
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/

C and C++ resources
http://www.accu.org/resources/public/terse/cpp.htm

UML resources
http://www.omg.org/uml/

Networking
Lots of standards for free including 802.3.
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/

The index of free downloadable standards.
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/portfolio.html

Search the Ethernet OUIs, download the complete list, or even register your own (costs)
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

Ethertype numbers
http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/index.html

The IANA list of Ether types.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ethernet-numbers

The Frame Relay Forum.
http://www.frforum.com/

The ATM forum.
http://www.atmforum.com/

All about ADSL. Also provides a facility to check exchanges and trigger levels.
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/

The wi fi alliance home page.
http://www.wi-fi.org/OpenSection/index.asp

Everything you ever wanted to know about IP addressing. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader for this one.
http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf

RFC index.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/

Up to date port number list.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers

A large TCP/IP resources list.
http://www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html

A nice OSPF design guide.
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/104/1.html

Programmers perspective of networking.
http://www.sockets.com/

IPv6 news and more.
http://www.ipv6forum.com/

IPv6 specifications and more.
http://www.ipv6.org/

SNMP
Excellent website with lots of information about SNMP
http://www.simpleweb.org

Another excellent SNMP website.
http://www.snmplink.org/

The SNMP FAQ
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.protocols.snmp.html

Network management parameters
http://www.iana.org/assignments/smi-numbers

Telecommunications
The International Telecommunication Union home page.
http://www.itu.int/

Supplier Information Notes for BTs networks and services.
http://www.sinet.bt.com/

The GSM association home page. Not just GSM but all GSM technologies including GPRS.
http://www.gsmworld.com/

UMTS information.
http://www.umts-forum.org/

LINX
For technical content regarding the LINX courses please see the networking sections.

The London Internet Exchange home page.
http://www.linx.net

The European Internet Exchange Association
http://www.euro-ix.net/

The whois database is particularly useful.
http://www.ripe.net

Foundry Networks
The Foundry documentation
http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/index.html

Knowledge Portal (Login required)
https://kp.foundrynet.com/Portal/login.asp

A list for people who use Foundry in a service provider environment.
http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/foundry-nsp/

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