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| Sports Links - I am not a Sport's Nut, but I enjoy a good game. | |
| The Ticket | The Ticket is a local sports radio station that is more than just sports. It's also entertainment. I don't mind listening to a little sports talk, but mainly I just want to be entertained. |
| The Cowboys | The Dallas Cowboys Home Page |
| FC Dallas | FC Dallas Home Page - The more I am involved with Soccer, the more I enjoy it and wish it were available when I was a kid. |
| The Stars | The Dallas Stars Home Page |
| The Rangers | The Texas Rangers Home Page - I just don't care anymore. Why is this link here? I really don't know. |
| News and Information Links - Growing up, we watched NBC nightly news and the local news every night because that was all there was to watch. How times have changed! | |
| News | |
| The Drudge Report | The Drudge Report. I look at it everyday. |
| Fox News | Fox News. Fair and Balanced? You be the judge. |
| Fact Check - Check Political Facts | Have you ever heard a politician make some sort of claims in a speech and wonder about their accuracy? This site answers those questions. They analyze claims by folks on both sides of the aisle. |
| The American Thinker | American Thinker is a daily internet publication devoted to the thoughtful exploration of issues of importance to Americans. |
| Non-Traditional News and Information | |
| Rush Limbaugh | Lovable little fuzz ball. |
| Pajamas Media | More opinions than news. Information and opinions than you won't find on traditional news sites. |
| Little Green Footballs | Videos and news you won't find on 'normal' sites. |
| World Net Daily | News Stories with a Definite Slant. The stories may be based on actual news, but the embedded commentary is probably not fair-and-balanced. |
| News Busters - Exposing Liberal Bias | Just what the title says. This site looks at the news, how it is presented and what is not presented. |
| Young Americans by Pat Dollard | A documentary (and opintions) by a man filming marines in Iraq. Eye opening. |
| Hot Air | Conservative Internet Broadcast Network. |
| The Politico | A political blog, somewhat liberal-leaning and not always correct (redundant?) |
| The Onion | Ok, it's really not accurate news but it fun to read. |
| Hacker News Network | News concnerning the latest security threats. Worth the watch at least once. |
| Information | |
| WikiPedia | The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This is a great site for general information. Although, since anyone can edit it (changes are tracked), it might not be as reliable as a purchased encyclopedia. But it'll do in a pinch. |
| Citizendium - A Replacement for Wikipedia | The feature of Wikipedia that makes it popular is one of major faults, anyone can edit an article. This can cause some articles to be biased or totaly inaccurate. This site tries to address that problem. |
| Annual Credit Report | It's free once a year, may as well take advantage of it. |
| ASCII Chart | Who doesn't need an ASCII chart. Here's another one also. |
| Cable and Connector Pinouts | How many times have you wondered, "Hmmm, I wonder what the pinouts on a serial DB9 are?" Well, here is the answer to all your calbe and connector questions. Okay, it's kind of geeky. But useful all the same. |
| Popular Mechanics | I really enjoy Popular Mechanics but don't take the time to read it. Their web site also has a podcast show that looks promising. |
| World Wind - More than a Desktop Globe | A NASA sponsored project to create a detailed image of Earth. |
| Flight Aware - Live Flight Information | Have you ever wondered where a particular flight was? This site will map the flight for you. Really cool. |
| Make Magazine | Have you ever wondered how to make something. This magazine addresses those questions. |
| Finance | |
| Roper Stock Tracker | View how well Roper (owns TransCore) is doing in the NYSE. |
| What are You Worth? (Salary.com) | Via salary.com |
| What are You Worth? (Payscale.com) | Via payscale.com |
| Things that Entertain Me - Some of these are rated PG-13 (or worse according to Cheryl), but they still make me laugh. | |
| Games | |
| Falling Sand Game | Whatever you do, don't start playing this. |
| PokerStars | I started playing Texas Hold'em a year or so ago and a local restaurant. I got hooked but can't seem to find the time to play on a regualar basis. PokerStars allows me to play and get my fix. I only play with "Play" money and usually only in "Sit-n-Go" tournaments. My screenname is JustPaul. |
| Free FPSs on WikiPedia | I really enjoy FPSs. Who didn't play Doom? I used to really enjoy Descent. I really enjoy play head-to-head or in a team environment. This is a list of Free FPSs on WikiPedia. |
| Descent on WikiPedia | I really enjoy FPSs. Who didn't play Doom? I used to really enjoy Descent. I really enjoy play head-to-head or in a team environment. This is a list of Free FPSs on WikiPedia. |
| RoboCode | Java-based Robot Battles. Create your own robots and battle against others. A great introduction to OO programming. |
| Videos | |
| The Scene | I started watching at the beginning of Version 1 and it hooked me. Version 2 is a bit lame...perhaps it'll get better. |
| Star Wreck | If you think Star Trek is a bit over-acted, you'll really like this. I can't wait for Iron Sky to be finished. |
| Lighting a Candle | This is not the traditional method of lighting a candle, althought it does involve a flame. This is potty humor, you have been warned...but it is still funny. |
| Bill Dance Outdoors Outtakes | Ever seen the Bill Dance Outdoor show. Probably didn't see many of these clips. |
| Blame Society Files on YouTube.com | Take a look at the "Chad Vader" series. |
| Theme from Halo Performed Live | I just like the them from Halo. |
| Music | |
| Jack FM | The best radio station I have ever heard. |
| Hunting and Camping Related | |
| Texas Parks and Wildlife | A great resource for someone looking for something to do outdoors in Texas. Texas has many parks and hunting sites not to mention many public hunting grounds. |
| Ballistic Products | Reloading supplies. |
| Old Yucca Town | A resource for repairing coleman lanterns and stoves. Do you have an old stove or lantern that just doesn't work right. This site has instructions for getting that old equipment in working order. I used the instructions and found them easy to follow. |
| Politics-Related | |
| North Korea At Night | Wow! Isn't Communism great! Take a look at this picture to see North Korea at night. See this story for a full description of the picture. |
| Fun with Cats | |
| Kitten War | I am not a big fan of cats (see the flying cat video above)...don't tell my wife this site made the list. |
| Flying Cat | What's better than a flying cat? I am not too fond of cats. I don't know why. Probably something with my childhood. I laugh everytime I see this. |
| Cat Meets Wall | Ok, so that's really not the title of the video. But, it could be. |
| More Funny Cats | See the title of the previous video. |
| Other Stuff | |
| Estes Rockets | I didn't launch Estes Rockets until after college, but I really enjoy it. I am not an expert builder, but i have made some nice models. |
| xkcd - A Webcomic | A Webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language. I know, its geeky, but I like it and 'get' it. |
| Making a Spud Gun | Just like the one I made. Simple but effect for hours of entertainment. |
| Parkinson's Law | A law that states that work expands to fill the available time. Also related to Painting the Bike Shed. |
| The Army's New 416 Rifle | It hits as hard as the 50 cal but flies a lot father. |
| Gordon Keith | A local radio personality on The Ticket's (see above) morning drive. He covers many different topics. Most are safe for work. Some are not. |
| Computer/Network Links - I don't look at these sites very often, but I do subscribe to a e-mail newsletters. The Open Source and Linux-related sites are especially important to me. | |
| General Information | |
| Slashdot | Slashdot. Just like it says, "News for Nerds". |
| O'Reilly | The O'Reilly Network. A wealthy of information on everything related to networks, computers and programming. |
| Data Retention Lifespans | Have you ever wondered how long those backup takes, cds and dvds will last? This acticle addresses those questions. |
| Quick Reference Cards | Quick reference links for many languages and utilities. Take a look, you might find something that you have been looking for and didn't even know it. |
| Security-Related | |
| Secunia Online Software Inspector (OSI) | This is a great online scanner. It will tell you what plugins you are using and if there are out of date. This is a must-run tool. |
| Gibson Research | Gibson Research. A great site concern system security. Check its newsgroups everyday. |
| Zone Labs | The makers of ZoneAlert, a software firewall that is free to the home user and inexpensive otherwise. Do not connect to the internet (dial-up or high speed) with it! |
| Lavasoft - AdAware SE | Adware detection and removal tool. |
| Hosts File Hack | Use your browser to stop unwanted sites through your hosts file. Is is extremely effective! |
| AVG Anti-Virus | A free anti-virus system. I use this on the 98 machine because Avira (see below) wouldn't run on the 98 box. |
| Avira Anti-Virus | Another free anti-virus system. I use this on an XP system. wouldn't run on the 98 box. |
| Avast! Anti-Virus | Yet another free anti-virus system. I didn't use this one for some reason. |
| CCleaner | A tool (windows-based) to optimize and clean your system. You'll be surprised what it finds. |
| Metasploit | Exploit yourself. |
| KeePass Password Safe | KeePass Password Safe is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master key or key-disk. |
| KeePassX Cross-Platform Password Manager | Cross-platform version of KeePass Password Safe. |
| SoftPerfect Personal Firewall | I like ZoneAlarm better (more configurable), but this is suitable replacement. Only configured on a port basis, but good enough for home use. It will also run on Win95 and Win98 machines. |
| Investigating a Cracked Linux Box | This is an excellent blog about a cracked Linux box and how the cracking and the perp was tracked down. Describes tools and tactics of both the person who cracked the box and the person investigating the box. |
| Harddrives Cleanup | A very thorough article on how to clean harddrives. Includes instructions for Win95 to XP systems. |
| Tools | |
| TeamSpeak | TeamSpeak is an Internet-based communciation tool. When I traveled to Rotterdam and Signapore in early 2006, Cheryl and I used this to talk everyday. I thought it would kinda nice, but turned out to be extremely useful as we had to discuss some situations that would be really difficult to handle using IM. I had the server on the Linux box and the clients running on a 98 box and my XP laptop. |
| Filezilla | An Open Source FTP client and server. |
| Putty | An Open Source telnet and SSH client. |
| Ethereal | An Open Source network protocol analyzer. If you don't know what it is, you won't need it. |
| Trillan | An instant-messenger tool that supports many types of IM formats at one time. I really like it better than Yahoo or IM, but the firewall at work causes Trillan to disconnect and reconnect repeatedly. |
| Picasa | A great photo editting tools. |
| DeepBurner | All I wanted was a tool to burn ISO images. The CD burner that came with my Dell laptop wouldn't do it. So I found DeepBurner. Oh yes, there is a free version also. |
| CDex | A CD ripping tool. Will also all you to rip input from microphone input. Also freeware. Simple and easy to use...exacly what I was looking for! |
| MPUI | All I wanted was tool to play DVD's on my son's PC. MPUI is a UI front-end for MPlayer. Fits the bill, but very basic and does not work on all DVDs. |
| VLC Meida Player | Another Media player. When I had problems getting MPlayer/MPUI working on my son's XP box, VLC worked like a champ. I would recommend trying VLC first. |
| Viewer 4.3 | All I wanted was a tool to be able to view, rename and move images on our 98 machine. This fits the bill. Small but does exactly what I needed. |
| Folding @ Home | Folding @ Home is a distributed computing environment much like the SETI distributed environment you might have heard about. This environment serves a health-related purposes like Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, and Cancer. If you have a system that is up all the time, why not use space cycles to do something productive. It's running on our home system and my Linux box at work. |
| Gallery | A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery. Gallery is easy to install, configure and use. Gallery photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, and more. Authenticated users and privileged albums make this great for communities. |
| USB-based Portable Applications | Have you ever wanted to take your favorite applications with you when you use public systems (i.e.: Business Centers in Hotels)? This site contains popular applications that you can take with you on your USB drive. |
| Linux-Related | |
| Ubuntu | A complete Linux distribution made for the almost anyone. I have this running at home. |
| Knoppix | A boot-able CD version of linux. This will run on almost any system without have to be installed. Also comes with a bunch of tools so you don't have to be connected to the Internet to test a system. Also can be used to fix a system (Windows or Linux). |
| O'Reilly for Linux | The Linux O'Reilly Network. Their weekly newsletter is a must! |
| Linuxworld | Linux World. Linux related information. |
| Basics of Booting and Speeding Startup | Explains the Linux boot process and how to speed it up. |
| Linux Radio by Timesys | You might find it interesting...maybe. |
| Lite-Weight Web Server | Apache is great, but it is a beast. This article discusses a lite-weight web server that is gaining in popularity. |
| Time-Related | |
| Saving Endangered Time Servers | The Interent time servers are under siege by the general public. This document talks about a method to help save them by distributing the load. If you manage any systems, take a look. |
| NTP Site | The NTP main web site. |
| Setting Time using Different Ports | During an integration trip, I needed to set the time on a Linux box, but the customer site only supplied time using Port 13 (Daytime). A quick search of the Internet produced this web page. I hope it helps someone else. |
| New DST on Linux Systems | How to reset the DST on Linux systems. It happened once...it'll probably happen again. |
| Software Development | |
| TextPad | A Windows-based text editor. I have been using this editor since 1997. All I wanted was an editor that had more features than notepad. It has served me well. |
| Tortoise CVS | A Windows tool to access a CVS Repository. |
| Google Gadgets | Google provides gadgets you can use for web-based development. Pretty snazy tools that can spice-up your site. The slideshow on the main page is a Google gadget. |
| Widget Box | Another repository of widgets for webpage development. |
| SQLite | A lite-weight but very flexible Database. I have used this Database in the past and have been very happy with it. |
| Linux Documentation | Excellent source for manual pages. |
| C++ Standard Library Reference | Who doesn't use this everyday? Just in case you left your's at home, you can use mine. |
| Explanation of Dates | Explanation of Dates (Leap Years and such) along with a C-Function for calculating dates. |
| Open Source Software (OSS) Explained | Developing Open Source Software (OSS). What it means, how to do it and how it can fit into corporate culture. This is a presentation at Google by a man who knows what he is talking about. Definitely worth watching. |
| GCC Parameters | GCC has a bazillion parameters. This document explains a few. |
| Web Cheat Sheets | 30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals |
| 12 Sites for Free Photos | 12 Sites to get images for your development |
| Stack Overflow | A website devoted to answering development-related questions. |
| Download Resources | |
| Sourceforge | Sourceforge. A free repository for Open Source projects. |
| Tucows | Tu Cows. A great source for all kinds of downloads. Mostly windows. |
| Friends | |
| www.kypris.com | Kypris. This is the web site of a former co-worker, Dan Nichols. This site is incredibily large for a site that gets almost no outside assistance. It has everything from Xena to Baseball to Dan's High School Alumni Page to Dan's Dream Girls and even a girlfriend application page. Dan spends a lot of time maintaining the page. Its SNAZY! Tell him I told you so!. |
| www.apalu.com | Apalu. This is a corporate web site of a close friend and the the CTO of this company, Steve Fox. Steve and I met at E-Systems back in 1990. Since then Steve has had many positions in the IT field and started his own business. He worked on it for 14 months before finally having some success. Unfortunately, the business had some challenges as many did following the dot com boom. Kudos to Steve and his family for having vision! |
| Other Links - Other sites that really don't fit into one of the other categories. | |
| My Journal | This is my journal. Most everything is marked as private, but there might be one or two entries that are public. Live Journal is a nice site and provides a great service. |
| 12-Sided Calendar | Dad used to get these from book companies when he taught. I finally found a site that has a 12-sided calendar template. Also has a template for A4-sized paper. |
| Recovering a Master Lock Combination | It's not the quickest method, but it is effective. I have used it several times before. You can consider a Master Lock a puzzle waiting to be solved. |
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