Mike's WWW/Network Resources

Information Resources

There are thousands of World Wide Web and ftp servers in the world. This page provides some starting points for exploration, with an emphasis on computer networking. If you have suggestions for additions to this list, please send mail to mikep@rubberchickencult.ca.

On this page: [General] [Weather] [Archives and Search Engines] [Networking Companies] [Computer Goodies] [FTP Sites] [Chemistry]

General WWW/Network Starting Points

• UofT Central Server (with links to other WWW sites)

• U/T Library Catalog

• U/T Campus Map (new!)

• U/T Campus Maps

• Oxford English Dictionary

• Library Spot (encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries)

• AppGate MindTerm (U/T Comp Sci) (SSH access to U/Toronto systems via Java applet for browser; does not work with IE 7)

• SSH access to "gpu" (via Java applet for browser - use the 'new browsers' link)

Weather

• Toronto Current Weather (The Weather Network)

• Toronto Current Weather (Environment Canada)

• Southern Ontario Weather Forecast - Text (Environment Canada)

• Canadian Weather Forecasts (The Weather Network)

• Canadian Weather Forecasts (Environment Canada)

Archives and Search Engines

• UTORmail e-mail address search

• Canada 411 Person/Business phone number and address search

• WhitePages.CA (people/business/reverse phone search)

• YellowPages.CA (people/business/reverse phone search)

• AnyWho (White Pages, Yellow Pages, Phone -> Name Lookups, Maps - US only)

• Reverse Phone Number Lookup

• All About Area Codes (reverse phone lookup, area code lookup, phone number allocation in North America)

• Worldwide Company or Individual Search

• Canada Post Corporation (postage rates and postal code lookup)

• Red Dot Campaign (stop junk mail via Canada Post Consumers Choice Program)

• WhoWhere search

• OKRA net.citizen search

• World E-Mail Directory search

• Internet @ddress Finder (search by name or e-mail address)

• Xrefer (search encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, etc.)

• Google (WWW search)
  
  

• YAHOO (subject-oriented catalogue for the WWW and Internet)
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• Lycos (WWW and Internet catalog and search)
  

• AltaVista Search (WWW search)

• MetaCrawler (WWW search)

• HotBot (WWW search)

• Northern Light (WWW search)

• Cyber411 (WWW search from many other search engines)

• C/net (WWW search)

• MultiCrawl Parallel Search Engine (WWW search)

• KartOO (WWW search)

• Vivisimo (WWW search)

• Direct Search (WWW search)

• Open Directory Project (WWW search)

• Scirus (WWW search - scientific information only)

• Keyword Map of the Internet (WWW search)

• Archie (Archie search of ftp archives)

• FILEZ (search of ftp archives)

• Experts Exchange (ask and/or answer questions on a wide range of topics)

• Cyber411

• Grok It Better (Visual Dictionary / Visual Web Maps)

• WordNet Search (Dictionary with active links)

• Internet Addressbook (User Tools and Reference Resources - telephone, directionaries, etc)

• DejaNews (USENET news archive and search)

• Internet FAQs

• Reference.Com (USENET news and e-mail list archive and search)

• Internet Archive (NO search capability)

• Patent Search

• Central Index of Canadian WWW Servers

• Canadian Resources (includes detailed maps of Canada)

• National Geographic Maps

• TerraServer World Maps (detailed maps of parts of the world from space)

• Canada Online Directory

• How To Find People's E-mail Addresses

• Electronic Newsstand (magazines, newsletters, newspapers, catalogues)

• NewsLink (magazines, broadcasting, newspapers)

• The Career Information Clearinghouse (university / college career options)

Networking Companies

• 3Com
• Ascend Communications
• Banyan
• Bay Networks
• Cayman
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Chase Research
• Chipcom
• Computone
• Digital
• Emulex
• Gandalf Technologies Inc.
• Kalpana
• Lantronix
• Portmaster (Livingston Enterprises)
• Microcomm
• Multitech
• OpenROUTE(Proteon)
• Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator
• Shiva
• SMC Networks (Western Digital)
• TechSmith Corporation
• Telebit
• Tribe Computer Works
• U.S.Robotics
• Xylogics
• Xyplex

Computer Good Stuff

• My Computer Links (general)

• My Security Links
• My Spam Links
• My Networking Links
• My Nameservice (DNS) Info
• My Time Service (NTP) Info
• IPv6
• My WWW Info
• My Unix Info
• My Sun Info
• My SGI Info
• My HP Info
• My Windows 9x/2000/XP Info
• My MS-DOS Info
• My Network and System Management Info
• My UPS Info
• My USENET News Info

• Slashdot.org (News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters)

• IPAddressGuide (IP conversion/lookups, URL deobfuscator, ping/traceroute, geographic locator, HTML checker)

• Rosetta Stone (A sysadmin's Unixersal Translator for commands)

• SPECint / SPECfp ratings (courtesy John DiMarco, U/T Dept. of Computer Science)

• Search Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Comm. Terms

• Nexial Technical Search (Sun, HP, BSDi, Cisco, PortMaster, Ascend, firewalls, FAQs)

• WWW Hypertext Archie sites

• Tek-Tips Forums (Technical support forums and mutual help system for computer professionals. Selling and recruiting forbidden.)

• CIAC Hoaxbusters (Internet hoaxes and chain letters)

• Hoax-Slayer (Internet hoaxes and chain letters)

• NANOG Looking Glass Summary

• MIDS Internet Weather Report

• Traceroute Links (from Yahoo)

• Internet Router Access (telnet access to Cisco router)

• Storage Mountain (formerly "Backup Central")

• 'XV' Online Manual (HTML format)

FTP Sites

• University of Toronto, Computing & Networking Services

• Netscape

• UUNET

• DEC (Gatekeeper)

• COAST (Purdue)

• Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

• Ohio State

• U. North Carolina

• Lawrence Livermore National Labs

• Sys Admin Magazine

• GNU archive

• Windows Frequently Asked Questions (general information about Windows and applications)

• TUCOWS

• WINSITE (good Windows ftp site, was called CICA) (try directory /pub/pc/win3)

• CDROM (good Windows ftp mirror site) (try directory /pub/cica/winsock)

• John A. Junod's Winsock applications (WS_FTP, WS_PING)

• OAK (good Windows ftp site) (try directory /SimTel/msdos)

• Galt Shareware Zone

• SUMEX (good Mac ftp site)

• JUMBO (Freeware/Shareware for Unix, PC (DOS, Windows, W95, OS/2), Mac)

General Chemistry

• My Chemistry Links (general, biological, organic, surface, theoretical, MSDS)