Stuff for the Digerati!

Check out this book
regarding one person's prediction
 of the future of Internet bandwidth:
[I found it very interesting] 

Some pictures capturing the assembly of my latest computer (~9/2008).

H.O.S.E.D. = Hardware or Software Error Detected

• 10 Qualities of a Great IT Shop
  (by 40-year IT veteran Paul M. Ingevaldson, article at InfoWorld, definitely provides "food for thought")

• Suggested Course "Action Item" List

• ASCII Table

• Industry Certifications Page

• Certification Test Preparation Software programs

• "Conscious Competence" Learning Matrix

• Goodies (a subset), formerly known as "Cool & Free Software "Toys" & Download links for Tech Geeks Page

• Diagrams  & Presentations

• ErrorWear (T-shirts with the Blue Screen of Death [and more])

• How to make LAN cables

• A link to an IANA page which points to the two-character ISO 3166 Country Decoding Table (color-coded, and all)

• Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Demo

• IPTools.com  (A lookup and troubleshooting reference for any external DNS & Mail (& other) related troubleshooting issues.) Also try:

  • www.Demon.net/external

  • www.MyDNSTools.info

  • DNSStuff.com 

• Determine the vendor of your network adapter by MAC Address, Method A or Method B

• Magazine resources

• Meeting by Wire (a website devoted to NetMeeting and Windows Messenger online Meetings)

• MS 2604 Security Clinic References

• Multimedia related links (DVD and movie making)

• Myth of the Nines (a high availability reference from Wikipedia)

• Networking Technologies  (examples of actual VPN, Firewall, Wireless, Biometric, etc. products)

• Other Interesting Computing Sites and Resources

• Packet Analysis site by Laura Chappell

• IIS Permissions Demonstration

• Cool/Useful PDA Software

• Using and Configuring SAMBA (from SAMBA.org)

• Sample Web-based Network Documentation

  • ...that I created for Riverview Church, whose network I administer.

  • For ideas on network diagrams see also www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com

• RAID Tutorial, excellent tutorial found at www.RAIDArray.com

• George's "Rules for Assigning Permissions"

• Screen Shots from Windows & BackOffice products
                          (Use these as prank bitmap backgrounds or as learning references)

• Scripting Tools Page

• Security, Hacking, & Anti-Virus page

• Microsoft Curriculum Server Names and Locations for Windows 2000 & 2004  Courses

• Server Planning & Deployment Worksheet 

• Interesting Article on Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by Naomi Karten

• SSL pages, required SSL and optional

• My "Study Notes" Page

• Subnetting & IP Planning Downloads & Resources Page

• System Build/Rebuild Inventory/Spec Sheet

• Tech Book Resources Page

• Tech Reference & Troubleshooting Page

• Tips and Tricks Page

• Network product Vendors:  (Thanks, Howard Griffith for some vendor contributions)

  • Buy.com

  • CDW.com

  • FatWallet.com

  • Monoprice.com

  • NewEgg.com

  • Pricewatch.com

  • SlickDeals.net

  • Techbargains.com

  • www.Woot.com

• WAN Circuit Speeds Reference Page

• Web Development Resources & Tools

My overzealous colleague, Mark Grimes, has put together a tremendously valuable site. Check it out!