www.soundtraining.net
www.3com.com/technology/tech_net/white_papers
www.blackbox.com (This company sells networking gear, but they have outstanding how-to articles at their site.)
www.cnet.com
www.corning.com (excellent info on fiber)
www.flukenetworks.com (check out the knowledge base)
www.howstuffworks.com
www.ibiblio.org/pioneers
www.warriorsofthe.net
www.webopedia.com
www.whatis.com
http://wi-fiplanet.webopedia.com
www.wikipedia.com
www.zdnet.com
www.debian.org
www.distrowatch.com (this site has links to all the major Linux distros)
www.freebsd.org
www.gentoo.org
www.knoppix.net
www.microsoft.com
www.openbsd.org
www.redhat.com
www.slackware.com
www.sun.com
www.suse.com
www.turbolinux.com
www.ubuntu.com
www.sans.org
www.cert.org
www.grc.com
www.microsoft.com/security
www.networksecuritytoolkit.org
www.nsa.gov
www.Ntbugtraq.com
www.snopes.com (great site for tracking down urban legends)
www.spywareinfo.com
www.us-cert.gov
Industry Associations and Users Groups
These users group sites are often slightly out-of-date due to the volunteer nature of the groups. The meetings, however, are often very helpful with lectures and demonstrations by sys admins, vendors, and trainers. If the site is out-of-date, send an email to the group asking about their next meeting.
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Bellevue Linux Users Group
Greater Seattle Linux Users Group
Puget Sound Network Users Group
Seattle Unix Group
Silicon Valley Cisco Users Group
Tacoma Linux Users Group
West Sound Technology Professionals Association
If your users group is not listed and you like to see it listed here, please send an email and we'll be happy to include it. It is not necessary for it to be a Seattle-area users group to be included.
Networking and Performance Tools
www.bootdisk.com
www.executive.com
www.microsoft.com/technet/downloads/winsrv
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads (Make sure to get the Power Toys for XP)
www.solarwinds.net
www.sysinternals.com
www.vmware.com (use the discount code VMRC-DONCRA658 to get a 5% discount on the purchase of VMWare)
www.labmice.net
Windows File Information
http://support.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.com/technet
www.outlook-tips.net
http://support.novell.com
www.simplythebest.net
www.tomshardware.com
www.tomsnetworking.com
www.windowsitpro.com
www.arin.net
www.cisco.com
www.iana.org
www.iab.org
www.icann.org
www.ietf.org
www.ipnsig.org
www.ipv6.org
www.isoc.org
www.rfc-editor.org
www.senderbase.org
www.zoneedit.com
Warning: You are strongly encouraged to test all software downloaded from the Internet in an isolated test environment for bugs, viruses, and other malicious code prior to installation on production systems.
www.download.com
www.openoffice.org (OpenOffice is a free office productivity suite including word processing, presentation, spread sheet, and database applications. It's a very powerful suite of applications that is gaining more and more popularity each day.)
www.shareware.com
www.tucows.com
www.winplanet.com
