Useful Links

Various sites have found to be of some practical use over the past few years, so I thought I'd share them with you. Yes...these are useful to the right people :)

TVicPort
This was used during my final year project. It's a Windows 95/98/NT driver that allows a programmer to access hardware ports directly - useful for writing specialist apps for custom or unsupported/old hardware.

Sunsite Northern Europe
First port of call when looking for software. If you've found something on a software archive, try looking in the Mirrors/ tree to see if the archive has a UK mirror (this is a *VERY* good site for UK people).

FCC ID Searches
Got an strange board, but it's got an FCC ID? Find out what it might be using this search tool.

TeraTerm
I've used TeraTerm for a while now, and it's probably the simplest and best Windows Telnet programs I've used. It has a few quirks, but overall, it's the best I've used - and I've used a lot. Doesn't support ANSI colour fully, which may or may not be a problem for you. But if you're just connecting to a remote machine to do admin, its hard to beat :-) And, as an added bonus :) it also supports serial port connections (ie, hook yer machine up to a Sun/DEC/terminal server with a null modem cable and yer away).

PuTTY
Another windows telnet client, that also understands SSH. Generally, the whole thing is quite good, with xterm compatiblity to boot. Damn fine, and could probably beat Teraterm, above :) Unlike teraterm though, it does not have support for serial connections :-( If it did, it'd beat teraterm wouldn't even get a lookin.

Internet organisations - the following organsations are the people behind underlying systems that make up the internet, from the definition of protocols and best practice, to assigning country code domains and distributing IP addresses. Anything to do with the infrastructure, these people will be behind.

IAB - The Internet Architecture Board
IANA - The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
InterNIC - The Internet Network Information Center
IRTF - The Internet Research Task Force
ISOC - The Internet Society
RFC Editor - Home of the RFC standards, best practices and informational documents

Regional Addressing Authorities - the IANA are responsible for dishing out the IP address space to a number of smaller regional authorities. These authorities are then responsible for distributing the address space to individuals and organsisations within their jurisdiction.

APNIC - Asia Pacific Network Information Center - Asia/Pacific region
ARIN - American Registry for Internet Numbers - North American and Sub-Sahara Africa
LAPNIC - The Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry
RIPE - Réseaux IP Européeans - Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and African countries north of the Equator

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