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Hardware / Software / Year 2000 Anti-Virus / Hackers / Data Recovery & Reviews of my Website
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons" - Popular Mechanics, 1949
"Internet Commerce in the USA (alone) will hit $50 Billion in 1998, reaching $1.4 trillion in 2003". - Union News / Michael Putnam of Forrester Research
"The Internet is a great democratizer; it's about what I think, not about what the
media thinks".
- Josh Quittner
Happy Computer Users (:-) Netscape & Microsoft
1.
International Helpdesk Tools
2. Software
3. Hardware
4. Anti-Virus/Data Recovery/Anti-Hackers
5. Year 2000
6. Tutorials & Training
Help Sites/Newsgroups/Organizations/Lists
7. Tech News (& Misc "Other")
8. MAINFRAME
9.
Tech Tips
10. Critique's of My Web Site
"Their goal is to see a Microsoft product on every desktop (or is it "to only see Microsoft's products" on everyone's desktop?)" - Author Unknown
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1. Time & Date "The World Clock" US East Coast: - 4 GMT. 2. Time at Greenwich2000 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) since: 1884 3. Us Navy Timezone Map 4. Download Geo-Clock 5. Earthtime Browser Plug-in
6. Local Times Around The World
7. Date and Time Gateway
8. International Country
& City Area Codes
9. US (& Canada) Country
& City Area Codes Courtesy of: Steve Moreland, Geac
10.
Origins of Daylight Savings Time
1st Sunday In
April - Set Clock ahead the night before, lose one hour of sleep
Last Sunday in October
- Set Clock backward the night before, enjoy an extra
hour rest
11. Language Translations
Link provided by: Hugo Medeiros, of Geac
12.
Foreign Language Translations
French/Spanish/German/Italian
13.
Dictionaries Plus...
14. Helpful Doc
IBM
Bookmanager & Lots More!
15. AREA CODES
Link provided by: Paul Lukas, of Geac
16. Free On-Line Dictionary Computer Terminology Dictionary
Working With Printers:
1. EBCDIC : Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
IBM's Mainframe Printer
Character Set.
2. ASCII : American Standard Code for Information Exchange
IBM's PC Printer Character Set.
3. ASA : American Standards Association - which was
later renamed;
ANSI : American National
Standards Institute.
*** 1st
character on each line controls line feeds & was named by ANSI as;
ASA
(Mainframe) Carriage Control Character Codes
Blank = New Line
+ = Overwrite
Line
0 = Double Line
Feed
1 = Page Break
EBCDIC
Translation Table
ASCII /
EBCDIC
EBCDIC Term
EBCDIC Charmaps
ASCII Code
Translation
Download ASCII
Translator
ASCII & EBCDIC
ASCII
Pocket
PC Ref Book
(For Sale - Handy Little Manual !)
SOFTWARE Review Booth Free Faxes @ EFAX ??? ZDNET's: "Killer Downloads"
1. Misc Drivers/Bug
Alerts/Help/Updates/Fixes:
Microsoft's Downloads
BugNet:
Windows Central
No
Wonder
Conitech
Support Help
Windows95
Oil Change
Automate Updates: Software,
Drivers, etc
2. Free Email:
Hotmail
*****
Largest (& Best?) / Web Based
Juno
Regular (not Web Based)
3. Desktop Publishing Information (On WebCrawler)
4. Files & Drivers /
Utilities/ Shareware Sites:
Shareware
Junkies
ZDNET's
Hotfiles
Link by: Paul
Winget, Geac
Pass
the Shareware
JUMBO
Find Free
Downloads (Filez)
C/NET's Download.com
Tucow's
Freeware / Shareware
50 Screen Savers (hotfiles)
Stroud's
Utilities Lists
WinFile
Driver
Guide
Open Software Org
- Linux, Netscape & More
The
Freeware Leaders
Mr. Tec
Icon City (4,000
Icons)
5. URL ROBOT (& More!) *** Useful Services for Web Surfers ***
6. NET2PHONE (IDT Corp)
Internet
Phone
7. Free Web Email Software
Eudora Light, by Qualcomm
8. Linux, the Free
Unix!
Link
by: Ed Brendel, Geac
***
Misc Linux Links:
Linuxberg , Cheapbytes
, Linuxmall , ZDNet: Linux
9. Apache: the Free
Web Server
Link by: Ed
Brendel, Geac
10. MagicFax from Clarity
Fax Cheaper using the Web
11. FaxLauncher from FaxSav
12. (Free) Diskeeper Lite
Disk Defrag Utility for
WinNT Users
13. Zip/Unzip/Compress Files:
PKWARE (Pkzip)
Winzip
14. Links to 2,500 Vendor Homepages
15. (PGP) Pretty Good Privacy
Network Associates
16. (WRQ) AtGuard
17. Web Traffic Statistics &
Information:
Andover
News
Internet
Weather
BROWSER PLUG-IN's
Browser Watch: Plug-in Plaza
Windows
Magazine's: Browser Tuneup
NETSCAPE
Index
Plug-Ins
Downloads
Netscape Store
Tech Support
Support
Net Center Help & Resources
Smart Update (Also Tunes
IE)
Netscape Champion's Team FAQ
*** This is a Excellent Site ***
Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs)
Troubleshooting
Report a Bug
MICROSOFT Woody's Windows & Office Watch Microsoft New England User Groups
Frank Condron's "World O' Windows"
IE
Security Patches
IE
Download
Microsoft Explorer Updates
Microsoft Support / Knowledge Base
Windows Faq
Website Building Tools
Tools & Samples
*** Planning to add multiple links, when time
permits! - Mark
Windows NT (new category) NT FAQ's
Frank
Condron's WinNT Page
Gary Melendez: NT Tips & Info
NT
Software Compatibility (Newsgroup)
NT
Sites
More NT Sites
HARDWARE Review Booth Windows Compatibility
"I think there is a world
market for maybe five computers"
- Thomas
Waston of IBM, 1943
"There is no reason anyone
would want a computer in their home"
-
Ken Olson, Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
1. Tom's Hardware
Guide ***** Link Provided by
- Bill Mandareno, of Geac
2. Computer Shopper
Hardware/Software/Vendors/Tech Articles
3. Cable Modems
4. Dan Kegel's
ISDN/ADSL/Fast Ethernet & More: Tech Information
5. USB
& Firewire
Universal Serial Bus
& 1394 IEEE "Firewire"
* And: USB Org
6. A few Good Computer Vendors:
Onsale
As of 01/20/1999, Selling
Computers: WHOLESALE ?
Dell
High Volume, Quality
Computer Vendor
Compaq
Another Computer Sales Giant
Computer City
Trade Shows+
Jump To: Buy/Sell &
"New England Trade Show Schedules" Page
Netbuyer
Link supplied by: Douglas
Loomer, Geac
7.
DishNetwork Satellite Disks
8.
Gadget Guru: Product Database
9. Arnarnd's Hardware Reviews
10. PC Magazine Reviews
11.
CNET
Hardware Reviews & More
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Dr. Stephen Hawking, 1994: "A computer virus should
be considered a form of
life, but I think it
says something about human nature, that the only form of life we
have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life
in our own image".
1.
McAfee's AntiVirus Software
2. (IBM) How to Identify Your
Computer Virus
3. Free AntiVirus
Evaluation Software
Multiple Vendors
4.
Large AntiVirus Database
5. Dr. Solomon's Virus Encyclopedia
6. Indiana University - Virus
Knowledge Base
7. Last Computer Virus Site:
A Computer Virus Calendar
8.
OnTrack: Data Recovery Services
Hard
Drive Failures, Etc...
9. US Dept of Energy: Digital
Demons & Hoaxes
10. PC-cillin HouseCall
Free Scan & Disinfect
Hacker: An individual who has a perverse compulsion to find ways to
ruin otherwise
perfectly good
software (with apparent intent of impressing others who strive to do
the same). Building
something which serves a purpose is more deserving of one's
time - and far more
worthy of admiration - than vandalism on someone else's
vision...
- Mark G. Davis
11. A few of the most popular web hoaxes
Year 2000 Sites Microsoft'sYear 2000
Fixes Year2000
Industry News
Washington
Y2K
Links (*) Very slow at times - - but tons of good links !!!
U.S. Government Y2K Helpline: (888)
USA- 4 -Y2K
Year 2000 Quote -
"There's a glut of lawyers in this country... now they finally have a
purpose!!!"
1. CIO Site
2. British Computer
Society
3. Year 2000.com
- Misc Legal Issues
4. Year 2000.com
- Misc Planning
Considerations
5. Y2K FAQ
- Many links
6. Microsoft's Y2k Articles
7. IBM
8. ITAA.ORG
9. Right Time
10. Tyler
11.
Phoenix
12. Yourdon Y2k Issues
13. Discovery.org
14. Five Step Process
Global Millennium Foundation
15. Y2K.Gov
PRESIDENT's
COUNCIL on Y2K
Y2K
Will Cost More than the VietNam War
If counting only dollar costs,
VietNam cost the US: $500 Billion.
The Bank bailout's cost the US $500+ Billion.
According to Gartner,
Y2K "could" cost
the World as much as $3
Trillion dollars (between
lawsuits, programming changes, and productivity
losses). No one has
a real number, because no one knows for certain how
much computer
code, and how many appliances are going to fail -
because of date logic!
The current "worst case
scenario" is; - a major
World Wide Recession (unless
you happen to be expecting a
return of Spaceship Aliens, or Armageddon
beginning on: 01/01/2000).
TUTORIALS & TRAINING ( NEWSGROUPS / ORGANIZATIONS / LISTS)
Ziff Davis: Online Computer Classes
1. Computing Newsgroups /W3.org
2. Newsgroup Search Tool /
Dejanews
3. Usenet
NewsGroups Index / Tile.Net
4.
Computing FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions - Univ Texas
5. Chicago Sun Times Don
Crabb: Q&A on Computers
6. Beginner's Guide: HTML
**Type: "html" on Search
Page!
7.
World Wide Web FAQ / Boutell
8. ACM
Org of Computer Users/Topical Lectures
9. ACPUG
Association of PC User Groups
10. Dir Access
Providers & BBS's / VNI.NET
11. Ernie's Mailing Lists
Interest Groups/Etc...
12.
ZDNET's Computer Tips
13.
Interest Groups
List of Lists / Catalog.com
14.
ListServer's / Neosoft
15. Liszt Mailing List Dir.
16. Listserv Another Tile.Net list
Additional Items Follow these Tips:
Tip #1: To join most mailing lists, there exists a
standard 3 Part format:
Subscribe Listserv (or
Listpro or Major-Domo) Your-Email-Id
Tip #2: To cancel from most mailing lists, there is a
similar 3 part format"
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Listserv (or...) Your-Email-Id
Tip #3: If unable to cancel from a mailing list, and
information within that list does not
provide a means for you to request
a cancel - visit my "Anti-Spam" site links...
17. Good Tech Site (with One of My Favorite Tech
Commentators: John C. Dvorak)!
18. Microsoft's
List of 1,500+ "Microsoft Product Support - PC User Groups"
19. WMSA.ORG / Western Mass
Software Organization
20.
Phonebook: Software & Hardware Manufacturers
21.
Virtual Computer Library
22. Web Review: What's hype, what's trend - opinions!
23. (Free) Western Mass Web Guide
List of Western Massachusetts Web Sites
24. Programmer's Heaven
25. John C. Dvorak.Net
26. John C. Dvorak.Org
27. SupportHelp (Resources by Company Name)
28. E.Support
29. PC Help Online
30. Mass Electronic Commerce Association
31. PCMAG:
Internet User Technology Reviews
32. Electronic Privacy Information Center
33. Online Training: Ziff Davis University
34. Online Training: Learnit Online
35. Online Training: Digital Think
36. ZD Net
Anchordesk
- A Favorite Site of: Mr. Paul Winget, Geac
37. IDG (International Data
Group) - Analysis
38. IDC (International Data Corporation - Analysis
39. Service News
40. Mass Telecommunications Council
41. Software
Support Professionals Org (SSPA)
42. Computer Currents - Misc Links
43. Computer Organization of New England (CONE)
44. Glossary of Computer Terms (ZDNET)
TECH NEWS & "OTHER" TECH Daily Tech News
1. TECH HELL (Tech Humor)
2. Junk Email (SPAM)
Defense
3. Anti-Spam Page
4. Whois/InternicWeb
Servers Information
Link provided by: Paul
Winget
5. Supposidly has Funny "Tech Stories"
(Haven't visited yet)
6. Networking Glossary
7. NSCA - National Computer Security
Association
8.
Fraud.Org
Legal resources against SPAMMING
9. Misc ComputerWorld Selected
Links
10. Massachusetts Technology
Collaborative
I've had feedback from many people on this site, but had not been
recording any
of those comments.
Decided it might be fun to create this section...!
1. "Nice site... but do you
know if anyone actually ever visits it?"
- Gary Archambault, Geac Mainframe Support.
2. "Mark, a great page - it's
a tech junkies paradise! I really enjoyed it, and
have it bookmarked at the top of my list"
- Ed Brendel, Geac Network Support
3. "Amazed at how many
changes you made since I last visited... Looks great!"
- Maurice Lindsay, Friend
4. "Finally got there! A great
site, good buddy! I've decided I should build one now..."
- Chris Willich, Traveler's
Network Support
5. "I've enjoyed visiting
links on your site. I want ask - just how many hours does it take
to develop & maintain something like this?"
- Bill Cotter, Geac
6. "Hi cousin! We loved the
lovely vacation spot of Bondi's Island - you really have to
be a native to truly appreciate Bondi's on a hot & humid
day..... - Nice piece of work!".
- Bob ("Yardbird") & Ingrid, Cousins!
7. "...Quite a large site
with very impressive set of links".
- Mitch Reis, Traveler's Insurance Co.
8. "What a wide variety of
links...... - - great. Thanks for including ours among them".
- Bob & Rita Bartholomew.
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/ Documentation & More
2.
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/ Compilers / Different Platforms
3. Computer Language COBOL (Newsgroups)
4. Mainframe Resources
/ Link provided by Sandy Cramm / Geac
Useful
Links for Mainframe Programmers
5. IBMLink Announcements & Info
/ Link provided by Sandy Cramm / Geac
6. IBM
MQSERIES Technologies
/ Link provided by Sandy Cramm / Geac
7. IBM Books Catalog: Mainframe
- and - PC
8. More Mainframe Links
IBM
COBOL Books
COBOL
Center
Kasten COBOL Page
COBOL Corner
COBOL - "The Language that was
supposed to be Dead" !!!
System 390
Pages
MainFrame Resources
CICS / DB2 / Languages / OS390 & More !!!
Mark's
MVS Utilities
Big Iron
*** Also has Computer Humor (Like: "Stupid JCL
Tricks")
Dave's MVS Page
*** REXX and More
TSO Times
MVS Help
*** Of Possible Interest: Euro Currency Converter
COBOL Org
Virtual Computer Library
IBM Seminars
IBM Redbooks
Yelavich's CICS URL's
IBM Hursley CICS
IBM Hursley Lab (Main)
Other IBM Hursley
Offerings
Welcome additional URL's
for; CICS / JCL / DB2 /
VSAM /
Abends / Dumps / COBOL / OTHER - - Tutorials,
Books, Helps, Newsgroups -
- any good web sites for mainframe support
staffs !!!
The following URL's may
I've not had opportunity to visit, or check content. Am plugging
in here - will check
out, eventually! (Mark)
UNIX
- A Beginners Page
UNIX - Manual
VMS Operating System Resources
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Mark G. Davis