Tims Links

Photos
Holiday
TimboT the robot car

Linux links
Generic Unix
First Person Shooter links
Starcraft links
IRC links
Music links
Humour links
Security links
News links
Hardware links
Handy Programs links
Search Engines links
Other links of interest
Monash links of interest
Network links of interest
Good ftp sites
Internet Utilities
Car sites
Friend's sites

Linux links

Link Reason for site
http://slashdot.net Linux news and other cool stuff
http://linuxtoday.com Latest Linux news of the day.
http://freshmeat.net Latest Linux packages are announced here when released.
http://www.rpmfind.net/ Good archive if you're looking for rpms.
http://www.linuxworld.com Linux news
http://www.linux.org The main Linux archive site
http://www.linuxhq.com This site tells you what the different Linux kernels are capable of.
http://www.redhat.com This is the homesite of Redhat, the most popular Linux distribution.
http://www.alsa-project.org/ The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture for other sound cards.
http://counter.li.org/ The site of the linux counter. Take a stand - Get counted.
http://www.luv.asn.au The home of the Linux Users of Victoria (Australia)
http://lwn.net/ The Linux Weekly news released every Thursday.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/ The Linux gazette. This publication is released once a month.
http://www.linuxfocus.org/ The Linux Focus magazine, released in many languages.
http://www.linux.org.uk The UK Linux site. Alan Cox is always worth a read.
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~reynolds/quickcam/ Linux Quick cam and video links
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ Linux on a LapTop homesite
http://www.zope.org/ Zope's an open source cross platform Linux progggy that works a little like cold fusion.
http://www.dejanews.com/usenet Dejanews is a site that stores news articles, and enables you to search them on-line.
http://www.everythinglinux.com.au These guys sell stuff within Oz, for faster delivery (and cheaper phone calls.)

Generic Unix Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ An admin package for sharing the admin load.
http://www.ugu.com/ Unix Guru Universe. One of the largest Unix archives around.
http://www.icecast.org/ Icecast can be used to stream mp3 across the net...
http://www.shoutcast.com/ Shoutcast can also be used to stream mp3 across the net...
http://www.networkcomputing.com/unixworld/ Unixworld. Info on all Unixes. Tutorials on www and Unix stuff.

First Person Shooter Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.shafted.com.au Shafted is a new LAN competition for those who enjoy lanning.
http://www.counter-strike.net/ Counterstrike is a Halflife mod that's seen a lot of play recently
http://www.counter-strike.org/ Yet another Counterstrike site.
http://planetquake.com/linux/ Linux Quake info and homesite
http://www.bluesnews.com Bluenews has up to date news on quake and most other first person shoot 'em ups.
http://www.voodooextreme.com/ Graphics gaming news.
http://www.idsoftware.com ID software, the makers of Quake and Quake 2

Starcraft Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.blizzard.com The Makers of Starcraft.
http://www.starcraft.org One of the best Starcraft sites around.

IRC Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.mirc.com The home of mIrc the most popular Windows client.
http://www.mirc.org Another mIrc site.
http://www.bitchx.com Official homepage of BitchX, a multiplatform irc client
http://www.bitchx.org Another page dedicated to BitchX
http://www.oz.org Australian irc network

Music Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.cmp.com.au Australian Christian Music store that imports new and second hand stuff.
http://pub12.ezboard.com/bamericancheese KingsX discussion forums.
http://www.leo-nine.com The Aussie band Battered Fish's homepage.
http://www.blackstump.org.au/ The Christian music festival's homesite.

Humour Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.dilbert.com Dilberts homesite. You can even purchase Dilbert goods here.
http://www.jokes.com A site with lots of "normal" humor on it.
http://www.jokewallpaper.com/ A site with lots of amusing computer jokes/cartoons.
http://www.userfriendly.org/ A site with lots of amusing computer cartoons.
http://www.cruel.com/ Cruel humour.
http://www.boogerboard.com/ Site that sell funny wall plaques

Security Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.infosyssec.net/ Security Portal.
http://mail-abuse.org/ An anti-spam security site.
telnet://mail-abuse.org Telnet to this site, and it checks your host's ability to relay.

News Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.wrmea.com/jews_for_justice/ Homesite of The Jews For Justice. Good background for Isreal war stuff.
http://www.theage.com.au Popular Australian Newspaper.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ More Alternative News.
http://news.google.com.au Searches News Stories.
http://english.aljazeera.net/English/ Independant Arab News.
http://www.haaretz.com/ Isreali News.
http://traprockpeace.org/ Great peace site, with lots of in depth references..
http://news.bbc.co.uk Popular UK news source.
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm Alternative news source.
http://www.counterpunch.com/ Another Alternative news source.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/ Very alternative left news source.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/columnist/0,21997,25717,00.html Very alternative right news commentator Andrew Bolt.
http://www.news.com Computer News site.
http://www.comtrader.com.au/ The Australian Computer Trader. Lots of Hardware for sale.
http://www.tradingpost.com.au/ The Australian trading post.
http://www.news.com.au/ Australian News Network.

Hardware Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.tomshardware.com Toms Hardware for up to date Intel Hardware info.
http://www.hardwarecentral.com Another site similiar to Toms.
http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/apple.html A Hardware specialist raves about why Macintosh sucks
http://www.anandtech.com Up to date hardware reviews and information. A very good site.
http://www.dsb.com.au/ Data System Brokers. These guys sell lots of second hand stuff. Web's up to date.
http://www.pcrecyclers.net/ These guys are REALLY big secondhand computer re-sellers. Breaside VIC
http://www.sharkyextreme.com This site is into Hardware for gamers.
http://www.aceshardware.com/ Aces hardware. Multi-platform comparisons
http://www.computermarket.com.au/ Sell lots of different hardware.. some hard to find stuff.

Other Handy Program Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.greatcircle.com This site has all the Majordomo software information.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html This site has Putty software information.
http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/ This is a handy eMail to html archiving program.
http://www.apache.org This is the homesite of the most popular Web Server on the Net today.
http://www.apacheweek.com/ This site has Articles on different Apache issues.
http://www.sendmail.org This is the most popular mail transport agents available today.
http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html The FAQ for WU-ftpd which is used as the default ftp server on Redhat and many other distros.
http://www.washington.edu/imap/ This site has info on UW's imap server
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ This is a little proggy for cleaning up M$ html code.

Search Engine Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.facebook.com Searches for Long Lost friends.
http://www.webwombat.com.au Searches Australian Web sites only.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/MelbourneMorning.html Melbourne TV Guide.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/MelbourneAfternoon.html Melbourne TV Guide.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/TV/static/MelbourneNight.html Melbourne TV Guide.
http://www.villagecinemas.com.au/ Searches Village movie times only.
http://www.astor-theatre.com/ Astor movie times only.
http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Moofie Database.
http://www.google.com/ Google's a pretty good engine.
http://www.wikipedia.org/ Encyclopedia with a good search engine.
http://www.horseland.com.au/ Horse land for horse stuff.
http://www.street-directory.com.au Search for Australian streets.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ An index of FAQ's from Newsgroups.
http://www.whitepages.com.au Searches for Australian phone numbers. 
http://www.yellowpages.com.au Searches for Australian phone numbers. 
http://www.yahoo.com.au Yahoo Down under
http://www.altavista.com/ AltaVista search engine.
http://www.excite.com Excite search engine.

Other sites of interest.

Link Reason for site
http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html Info on CGI programming.
http://www.victrip.com.au/ Met travel timetables.
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~parkerp/meltrip.htm Alternative Met travel timetables.
http://www.mobileworld.org Mobile world has lots of info on mobile phones.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/ Boycott Microsoft site
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q119/4/97.ASP Microsoft NT 4.0's 4GB boot partition problem
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10207.html Linux cains NT on SAP
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990313.whplace.htm Linux clustering give cheap Supercomputing
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/7181.html Linux cains NT in German test checking Mindcraft results
http://www.hinterlands.f9.co.uk/linuxmyths.html Microsoft published a page bagging Linux. This is a rebuttal
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html This is a how to get your Windows license money back if you didn't want to buy it.
http://www.devshed.com/ A good site with lots of web programming resources.
http://www.un.org What's happening at the UN?
http://www.hacres.com/ Revolutionary vegen but it worked for him
http://www.beyondveg.com/ Web site looking at the HalfTruthes surrounding vegens.

Monash Links

Link Reason for site
http://www.monash.edu.au Main Monash site.
http://www.mrs.monash.edu.au The site for computer set-up at the Halls of Residence. (Run by me)
http://www.monash.edu.au/halls/ The site with info on living in the Halls of Residence.
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au Popular server where students can publish web pages.
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/services/mms/support/newaccount.html How you create new Photo db accounts etc.
http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/procserv/suppliers/IT/ A list of Monash suppliers.
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au Non Work related server.
http://www.education.monash.edu.au Education Faculty's main web server. (Was Run by me too.)
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/services/voicemail/ Monash Uni's voicemail info page.
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/twp/mpa_exemption_list.html Monash Uni's Proxy exemption list.
http://archives.real-time.com/rte-ascend/ Ascend Real time help archive.
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/downtime/mostrecent/index.html Monash Uni's Downtime list.
https://calendar1.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/nscal/login.cgi Monash online Calendar.
http://http://www.its.monash.edu.au/staff/systems/novell/technical/ndps/ Monash Novell Printer Installation form.
http://mail1.monash.edu.au/ The heart of the mms system.
http://mail1.monash.edu.au:8000/ The Web client for reading eMail.
http://mail1.monash.edu.au:21000/ Configuring the mail client (Vacation message etc)
https://mdsadmin.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/admin/menu MDS admin tools menu
https://mdsadmin.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/admin/mdstool MDS admin tools menu
https://mdsadmin.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/modifymdsdetails The address for users to change their MDS details will be

Networks sites.

Link Reason for site
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/downtime/noticeform Downtime fillout form.
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/staff/security/staff-only/technical/portfiltering.html Port Filtering List.
http://networks-wiki.its.monash.edu.au/bin/view/Main/NetworksWiki Network Wiki.
https://webnet.its.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/subnet/view Networks Subnet management system.
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~prowler/ Kheerans homepage with some ATM info..
http://www.enterasys.com/download/download.cgi?lib=ss2 Cabletron smartswitch download page.
http://www.enterasys.com/support/techtips/tk0020-9.html tftp info for smartswitches.
http://www.cabletron.com/support/mibs MIB database info for smartswitches.
http://www.sss-mag.com/ss.html Spread Spectrum info.
http://intranet.monash.edu.au/its/is/networks/sitelist.html Kim's site with all the network links..
http://www-networks.its.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/nph-tr1.cgi Traceroute from another source often helps pinpoint a problem.
http://www.vrn.edu.au/techover.htm VRN overview.
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/security/twp/monash_only/block.srt Monash Security blocks..
http://mrtg.its.monash.edu.au Lots of router stats for Monash..
https://webnet.its.monash.edu.au Webnet was written to monitor the Monash Network.
http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~johnm/ John Manns homepage with some networks info..
http://cm.its.monash.edu.au:7777/ Change Management page
http://alarms.its.monash.edu.au/ Networks alarm page
http://cacti.its.monash.edu.au/cacti/weathermap/weathermap.html Monash Networks Weathermap page
http://yoyo.adelaide.aarnet.edu.au/weathermap.html Aarnet Networks Weathermap page
http://www.aarnet.edu.au/cgi-bin/traffic.cgi Aarnet Network billing tool
http://servicedesk.its.monash.edu.au/sdo Other Web front end for heat
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/networks/lists/commnet Commnet archive page
http://www.its.monash.edu.au/networks/ New Networks page

Cool ftp sites.

Link Reason for site
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/ Monash University's ftp site.
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/ Monash's Redhat archive.
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ Aarnet is a large Australian mirror. (Lots of Quake and linux stuff.)

Other Utilities of interest.

Program Program's Function
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/products/messaging/webnotes.htm Telstras webnotes site.
http://gmail.com Googles Email site.

Car links.

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/phpBB2/ Best 4x4 forum I've seen.
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/ Another good 4x4 forum.
http://www.triumphroverspares.com.au Interesting Rover spare parts dealer in SA.
http://www.marks4wd.com/ Marks sells some good kits and has interesting engine stats.
http://www.turboclub.com/ Some turbo car site I found.
http://justkdx.dirtrider.net/ Lots of KDX info.
http://www.rangerovers.net A good Range Rover site Bernard sent me.
http://www.rangie.com/home.php A good Range Rover Knowledgebase site Bernard sent me.
http://www.dakar4x4.co.uk/mainmenu.htm Range Rover kit cars.
http://www.amv.com.au This is where I bought my Rangey...
http://members.boardhost.com/blumx/ Rangey info board page...
http://www.lrocv.com.au Land Rover Owners Of Victoria homepage.

Friends sites.

http://www.myspace.com/sansalvadormusic Nat's bands homepage
http://www.healthykneads.com.au/ I went to high school with deve.. Now we both work at Monash
http://users.monash.edu.au/~robertj/ Robert Jamieson's homepage, just personal stuff about da man..
http://users.monash.edu.au/~andrewm/topstories.shtm Andrew McDonalds homepage, just work stuff and links..

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