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OpenCourseWare Consortium
~ webcast.Berkeley.edu/courses
~ MIT's OpenCourseWare
~ eBookSpyder
~ Syntax across languages
~ GuidetoOnlineSchools.com Free Online Classes
~ Ross Anderson's Security Engineering
book now free online. "If you're even thinking of doing any security engineering, you need to read this book" --Bruce Schneier
TrID - File Identifier utility identifies file types from their binary signatures. (Win32 and Linux/x86)
Intel Microcode Update Utility for Linux patches CPU bugs ~ Intel microcode reliability update for Windows.
Secunia Software Inspector and Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector; stand-alone for Windows; scans more programs) scans for insecure versions and missing security updates.
FAQ: Alternate Data Streams in NTFS and LADS (List Alternate Data Streams) utility.
~ Alternate Data Streams in the \Queue Directory (C:\NTFS_0ec25fe701c4120a00000001.EML:PROPERTIES-LIVE)
~ ADS Spy view or delete Alternate Data Streams (ADS) on Windows 2000/XP
TestDriven.NET Visual Studio add-in (homepage has links to NCover, NCoverExplorer, Reflector, TypeMock, dotTrace, NUnit, MbUnit, ZaneBug, MSBee & Team System; TestDrive even works in Microsoft's free Visual Studio Express Edition via Properties window.)
Anti-Spyware / Malware / Adware : Orbitech Hazard Shield
~ Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
~ SUPERAntiSpyware FREE Edition
~ Tenebril's SpyCatcher Express ~ Spybot Search & Destroy (alternate link) ~ LavasoftUSA's Ad-aware
(alternate link#1) (alternate link#2).
Webroot Spy Sweeper ~
PC Tools' Spyware Doctor (pay to remove detected malware) ~
Spyware
Terminator ~ ZeroSpyware
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (free) ~ SynergeticSoft Spyware and Adware Removal (5 day trial; $30).
PestPatrol (free PestScan) ~ Anonymyzer's
Spyware Killer (featured at ZoneLabs) ~
McAfee AntiSpyware (free 5-day version after registration).
HijackThis (HJT) continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. Sumbit
reports to the auto webform at hjt.networktechs.com
or forums for analysis.
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware and CWShredder (formerly maintained by
Merijn.org of HiJackThis fame; maintained by InterMute starting
October 19, 2004 and then Trend Micro acquired Intermute).
Andrew Aronoff's Silent
Runners to list executibles in all ASEP's (auto-start entry
points) and his CoolWebSearch (CWS) Removal Procedure.
DiamondCS
Autostart Viewer ~ Sysinternals
Autoruns ~ Windows
Startup Inspector and Startup Application knowledge Base ~
WhatsRunning.net
~ Pacs-Portal
Startup Applications ~ Sysinfo.org
Search CLSID (BHO) or
Pacman list. ~ Uniblue Systems WinTasks
Process Library and Process Scanner.
A huge list of
rogue/suspect "spyware removal" programs to avoid.
Benjamin Edelman's New and Notable spyware company news
Anti-Virus : AV-Test.org test A/V, anti-spyware and personal fireware software.
~ AV Comparatives
~ AntiVirus Performance Statistics
~ Virus Buletin VB100 award
~ ICSA Labs
GFI Email Security Testing Zone sends specified detection tests to your email address.
Virustotal
upload a file to have it scanned by 30+ virus engines. ~ Jotti scans
with 15 virus engines ~ Threat Expert click "Submit Sample"
Clam AntiVirus
(submit samples)
See also ClamAV for Windows from hideout.ath.cx
and ClamAV Antivirus Native Win32 Port used in ClamWin Free Antivirus
~ ClamAV/SOSDG For Windows (includes and runs within Cygwin)
CA's eTrust EZ Antivirus free for 1 year. ~ F-Secure
Anti-Virus
free for 6 months.
Web-based online scanners: Trend Micro's HouseCall
ActiveX web-based
scanner (Java
version) ~
Symantec Security Check ~ McAfee
freescan ~
Panda
ActiveScan
Not free: GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP
~ Trend Micro Internet Gateway Products and Email/Groupware Products
~ Symantec
~ McAfee (NAI, Network Associates)
~ NOD32 Antivirus System "the world leader of the Virus Bulletin 100% Awards having won more awards (23) than any competing product."
~ BitDefender (BitDefender for ISA 2004 "worked flawlessly"-Peter Lawton).
Trend Micro Damage Cleanup Engine/Template
~ Network Associates/McAfee AVERT Stinger
~ Symantec (Norton A/V) Security Response Removal Tools.
Symantec's Norton Removal Tool
Content Filters : mod_dnsbl apache module
~ Websense Web, E-mail and/or Instant Messaging filtering for a firewall (Websense acquired SurfControl October 2007)
~ ContentWatch ContectProtect
~ Secure Computing's SmartFilter
(Oct 2003: merged with N2H2's Bess and Sentian. Jan 2006: merged
with CyberGuard's Webwasher URL Filter) and Webwasher
SCM
Suite (URL filter, A/V, anti-spam, SSL scanner, etc.)
Client-side Proxies : Proxomitron
web filtering proxy server or the open-source "clone" Proximodo
~ Internet JunkBuster Proxy and Guidescope
Website proxies (to bypass local firewall restrictions) : Box of Prox.
DNS Poisoning / Anti-Pharming : NGSEC's
AntiPharming
denies users (even Administrator) to write to the Hosts file or
change DNS settings; monitors DNS replies (TCP and UDP) and
compares results with multiple secure name servers.
Ketil Froyn's DNS
Poisoning via trusting unsecure response DNS cache
poisoining.
Microsoft's Description of the DNS
Server Secure Cache Against Pollution setting and
How to prevent DNS cache pollution.
NGS Gunter Ollman's The
Pharming Guide Understanding & Preventing DNS-Related
Attacks by Phishers (PDF)
KeyLogger Detectors : KL-Detector
or
SnoopFree Privacy
Shield
(both free) or PrivacyKeyboard
($60) offer
strong protection against software and hardware keyloggers; no
spyware database to update and no scanning time necessary.
Anti-trojan Programs : TrojanHunter
highly rated.
~ AVG Anti-Spyware
(formerly ewido security suite)
~ BOClean
~ Online-Armor.
Malware Behavior-based Blocker : Panda
Software TruPrevent.
~ StarForce Safe’n’Sec
~ Prevx1
(free for home use)
or the old Prevx
2.1 freeware.
DiamondCS Process Guard
"the only program available that can actually prevent the installation and infection of all known rootkit stealth trojans." (v3.2)
Rootkits
: Review: Six Rootkit Detectors Protect Your System
(Rename the following executibles with random names before
running them in case the installed rootkits detect default names)
McAfee Rootkit Detective
~ Microsoft Research Strider GhostBuster
Rootkit Detection. (Compares all-file list inside infected Windows
with the list from a clean WinPE CD to detect diffences: hidden
spyware files and the size increases of keylogger data files)
Antirootkit.com's List of Rootkit Detection & Removal Software
~ Sysinternals RootkitRevealer
can also find an installed ROOTKIT
such as YYT_HAC or Hacker Defender or NTIllusion (Phrack 62) which
requires only a non-Administrator, limited user account. ~ Joanna
Rutkowska's invisiblethings.org
scanning utilities ~ F-Secure
BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology. ~ Xfocus Team IceSword
anti-rookit tool. ~ GMER (freeware; Poland;
similar to RootkitRevealer and Sysinternals Process Explorer) ~
DarkSpy
Anti-Rootkit ~ iDEFENSE Labs HookExplorer
~ BitDefender RootkitUncover.
Unix/Linux: chkrootkit
and Rootkit Hunter
FAQ: Alternate Data Streams in NTFS
Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel (Paperback) by Greg Hoglund and Jamie Butler.
Microsoft Windows Security : 1-866-PC-Safety to reach Microsoft's Product Support Services in the U.S. (other
countries) No charge for support calls associated with security updates.
Microsoft Update (replaces Windows Update but
doesn't include Office Update).
IE with Administrator rights and ActiveX still required. ~ How to read the Windowsupdate.log file.
TheHotfixShare.net share hotfixes.
How to install multiple Windows updates or hotfixes with only one reboot.
How to prevent re-prompting "Do
you want to restart now or later?" after installing an
Automatic Update on Windows XP. (Email me if you know how to do
this on Windows 2000.)
Windows
XP installation guide Creating a custom install CD ~ RyanVM's MSFN Files Page single download for XP Post-SP2 updates.
WinUpdatesList
displays the list of all Windows updates and files updated by
hotfixes; list can be copied to clipboard.
Profile and Subscription Center Manage how Microsoft
communicates with you and select from available notifications, newsletters and alerts.
~ Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1
and
Extended Security Update Inventory Tool and
Security Guidance Kit v1.0.
HappyTech.net's Microsoft Security Bulletin Checklists
Javacool Software's Spyware Blaster, Doc Scrubber,
MRU-Blaster, Spyware Guard, Windows Media Player Scripting Fix, etc.
Black Viper's Windows Services to safely set to Manual or Disabled.
Frank's lists of Windows 2000 Services to Disable and Windows XP SP2 Services to Disable.
SpeedyVista.com for Windows Vista services.
~ Smart PC Utilities' Vista Services Optimizer
~ Game XP optimize the performance of Windowx XP for gaming.
WinPatrol highly rated.
MVPs.org
-
Blocking dangerous websites with a Hosts file (linux update script) and hpguru's Hosts file
(also for Mac OS) and Peter Lowe's
YoYo AdServers HOSTS and Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts file.
Auto-update from multiple sources, delete dupes, enable/disble: HostsMan for Windows.
Spyware
Guide sets the Registry killbit for all bad ActiveX
controls.
Eric L. Howes Privacy
and
Security Page IE-SPYAD, AGNIS, etc.
Mobo's Window
clinic
deepFreeze to restore Windows to a preset Windows configuration during each reboot. Good for classroom labs.
Compare with Microsoft's SteadyState for Windows XP
Windows XP Network
Diagnostic Tool ~ Counterexploitation LSPFix Repairs Winsock 2 settings caused by buggy or improperly-removed Layered Service Provider software that result in loss of Internet access. ~
Dial-a-fix (DAF) repairs common Windows issues such as Windows Update, SSL, Microsoft Installer, etc.
sudowin sudo for Windows (SANS whitepaper states this is better than suDown (though it doesn't require .NET Framework), MakeMeAdmin, WinSUDO and SUperior SU.)
AMUST
1-Defender
2.0 free; allows users with administrative rights to run IE,
Outlook, and Messenger with Least Privileged User Account
(LUA).
Thierry Zoller's Secure-it (download from here)
(Also
Sniff-em, Purge-it and Harden-it) Secure/harden Windows. Includes
MSDN's
DropMyRights to run IE and OE without Administrator
privileges.
See also MakeMeAdmin.
Desktop Standard's
PolicyMaker Application Security to specify specific (legacy)
applications that can run with administrator rights while signed in to
Windows with a Limited/Restricted User Account. Try it if the
following doesn't work: Add the User's account to have full control
of the program's installation folder (usually located under Program
Files) and/or to the program's branch in the Registry.
Windows XP: Run secpol.msc as Administrator, browse
to
Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\System
objects, change default owner to Administrators
group.
Install new software only with Adminstrator account and use it with
a User account.
But if the Administrator account is hidden from the logon screen:
Regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\Current
Version\Winlogon\SpecialAcconts\UserList and create (or edit)
a
new DWORD with a Value Name of Administrator and
value data
of 1 (hexadecimal).
To disable the automatic "hidden shares" (for example, c$, d$,
admin$, and IPC$): Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\
and create (or edit) a new DWORD with a Value Name of
AutoShareWks and value data of 0
(hexadecimal) and do
the same for AutoShareServer. (Note: ignore the
LanmanWorkstation branch; it's a network redirector; only the
LanmanServer branch is used for creating/disabling shares.)
How
to use
the RestrictAnonymous registry value in Windows 2000. (Note:
Not necessary for Windows XP SP2; instead consider changing the
Security Option "Network access: Shares that can be accessed
anonymously" by deleting all entries.)
Misc. Win2K/XP Registry hacks
Windows XP :
Turn on "Data Execution Protection" for all programs and services:
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced [Tab] ->
Performance Settings -> Data Execution Protection [Tab] -> Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select -> OK
To enable system wide: place /noexecute=OptOut at the end of
the "multi" OS line within boot.ini (OptOut means DEP is enabled
for all processes, but Administrators can manually create a list of
specific applications which do not have DEP applied) ~ See
Microsoft's
How to Configure Memory Protection in Windows XP SP2.
Doug Knox
Windows XP Security Console
~ Kelly's Korner - Troubleshooting Windows XP
Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP to manage and protect shared/classroom/kiosk computers.
3rd Party Tech Support / Knowledge Bases : Tek-Tips Forums ~ Experts Exchange
~ EventID.net
~ Protonic
free fast technical
support. ~ PC Help
Forum
~ Tech Support Guy
(HelpOnTheNet).
DLL-files.com
find the most common files that may be missing or corrupted on a Windows
computer. (DLL files)
ProcessLibrary.com
Find the latest information about spywares, adwares, trojans,
viruses, system processes and common applications.
Henri Leboeuf's Errors
Messages learn more about an exact message from Windows or
Internet Explorer.
MalekTips "Free Computer and Technology Help ... over 2,400 Tips."
Open Source Support Solutions Search for support providers and request bids.
~ freenode.net Primary Groups (IRC)
Firewall Blocking/Directing / IP Port and Packet Analyzers :
IANA and Wikipedia's List of TCP and UDP port numbers
NNSquad Network Measurement Agent (NNMA) attempts to detect reset (RST) packets that may have been injected into a TCP connection by any entity not located at the connection endpoints.
~ ModSecurity HTTP traffic monitoring and embeddable web application firewall.
OpenBSD's PF (includes ALTQ for bandwidth management; also ported to FreeBSD)
~ Peter N. M. Hansteen's Firewalling with PF The most up to date published versions of the Firewalling with PF manuscript. ~ Monitoring PF firewalls for health and performance
~ PF: Firewall Management free chapters of upcoming cancelled book.
IP Filter and FAQ.
pfSense firewall derived from the m0n0wall using OpenBSD's ported Packet Filter, FreeBSD 6.1 ALTQ
(HFSC)
FreeBSD Handbook
Firewalls PF, IPFILTER, and IPFW (AKA ipfirewall; supports
divert packets).
Linux: IPCop
and Smoothwall
~ Shorewall
high-level tool for
configuring Netfilter.
Firwall Builder
object-oriented GUI and a set of policy compilers for various
firewall platforms; policy/rule editing using drag-and-drop
operations.
dummynet a
flexible tool
originally designed for testing networking protocols, and since
then (mis)used for bandwidth management.
AIRlok A 1U
server with
OpenBSD, security chip, unified GUI to manage features. ~ Armorlogic
Profense OpenBSD firewall layer configured to speed up valid
traffic and filter out invalid URL's, variables, requests, etc., to
your web server.
Firewall
Failover with pfsync and CARP (OpenBSD)
Fortinet's FortiGate
ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewall (Fortinet was founded in 2000
by Ken Xie, founder of NetScreen which later sold to Juniper for
$3.5 billion. Accused of using Linux kernel in FortiOS without
credit; GPL violation upheld with injunction in Germany.)
WatchGuard
hardware
firewalls such as the Firebox X series. (To increase http speed,
open policy manager, press CRTL+ALT+SPACE to open the config file,
and add options.proxies.http.bufsize : 75000 )
ServGate
EdgeForce Unified
Threat Management (UTM) Platforms.
DShield.org
Internet Storm
Center Status, Attacker IP address lookups, etc. "If you use a
firewall, please submit your logs to the DShield database."
(instructions
for auto-reporting)
Sygate
Personal Firewall 5.6.2808 bought and discontinued by
Symantec
November 2005 ~ ZoneAlarm
Security
Suite (uses CA's A/V and antispam from MailFrontier
which was acquired
by SonicWALL in February 2006) and reduced prices on PestPatrol,
SpamNet, etc. (free
after rebates) ~ Panda Platinum
Internet
Security 2006 version highly rated.
PortsLock
firewall
integrates with the Windows user authentication system and handles
user-level permissions to TCP/IP connections (think user-specific
IPsec configuration).
Steve Gibson's ShieldsUP
free online
firewall port penetration test. ~ TestMyFirewall.com
Microsoft's
PortQry version 2.0 and
Port Reporter ~ DiamondCS
Free utilities such as
Port Explorer.
StopListening
for Windows
2000/XP will close all open/listening TCP and UDP ports.
Link Logger
Link Logger is
the premier Windows logging tool for the Linksys, Netgear, and
ZyXEL routers and firewalls. See also thier Scans and Resources
pages.
Fail2Ban
scans log
files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans
IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules
to reject the IP address.
Narus Semantic Traffic Analyzer
used jointly by AT&T and the NSA; also used by ISP's to charge
each other for VoIP calls (runs on Linux; see Wired
News article)
Multiple-port
knocking Netfilter/IPtables only implementation (instead of
Knockd). Compare with CipherDyne's fwknop
(FireWall KNock
OPerator) requires only a single encrypted packet to communicate
desired access through a Netfilter policy and/or complete commands
to execute on the target system. ~
How to safely connect from anywhere to your closed Linux
firewall using knockd.
Port Scanners : Angry IP Scanner
for
Windows. ~ Foundstone's
SuperScan.
Loggers and Log Analyzers :
ABLogFile real time log view for Windows with highlighting and .wav notifications
~ syslog
~ syslog-ng supports TCP. ~ rsyslog support for syslog/tcp, writing to MySQL databases fully configurable log file formats (including high-precision time stamps) and soon RFC 3195 support.
~ Kiwi Syslog Daemon for Windows.
BareTail and BareGrep Linux tail and grep for Windows; refreshes the view of log files as they grow; use regular expressions to search through files.
WebLog Expert
~ Sawmill
Configurable log analyzer recognizes many formats. ~ Analog
"The most popular logfile
analyser in the world" ~ splunk>
easily navigate all data
recorded by your IT systems ~ AWStats
free graphical report
generator of web, streaming, FTP or mail server stats from Apache,
IIS, WebStar, etc. (Written in Perl; GPL licensed) (Wikipedia)
~ Monitoring
systems with munin (graphs) ~ HowToForge's Server
Monitoring With munin And monit ~ Cacti network
graphing using RRDtool's data storage and graphing functionality using MySQL and PHP frontend.
Isoqlog MTA log to HTML usage stats.
Tobi Oetiker's MRTG - Multi Router Traffic Grapher
~ Paessler PRTG Traffic Grapher.
IPS / Intrusion Detection/Prevention/Protection Systems / Host
Integrity Monitoring : Zenoss Core Enterprise IT Monitoring ~ osirus
Host Integrity Monitor.
~ Nagios host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems.
OSSEC HIDS - Open Source HIDS Host-based Intrusion Detection System.
Privateeye take action based on combined abuse thresholds recorded by Snort, HoneyNet, IPS, etc.
Determina
Vulnerability Protection Suite (VPS) ~ eEye's
suite of
vulnerability management solutions such as Retina and Iris
and
Blink
~ Nmap
(Network Mapper)
free security scanner.
Snort and rules
at Bleeding
Edge Threats (formerly Bleeding-Edge Snort) ~ A How-To
Guide for
running snort_inline on FreeBSD. ~ Wireshark
(formerly Ethereal) ~
Nessus (v3
faster but closed
source) ~ Packetyzer
(native Windows GUI based on Ethereal) ~ WinDump and WinPcap
~
tcpdump/libpcap
~ Prelude Hybrid
IDS project ~ Ettercap
Suite for
man in the middle attacks, sniffing, content filtering,
active/passive protocol dissection, etc. ~ p0f passive OS fingerprinting tool.
Winfingerprint
open source
network scanner for Windows.
Hardware: 3Com's TippingPoint
IPS (SC Magazine
"Best Buy of 2004").
Qualys
vulnerability
management process/solutions in addition to intrusion detection
systems. Tools and Trials: FreeMap, FreeScan, SANS 20 and
QualysGuard.
LURHQ Managed
Security
Services.
Security Articles / Vulnerability Websites / Online Magazines
/
WebLogs / Podcasts : O3
Magazine The Open Source Enterprise Data Networking Magazine
~
OSNews ~ ITJungle ~ Infosec Writers
~ WindowSecurity.com
~ SecWiz ~ LabMice TechTarget.
NTBugTraq ~ Secunia ~ Full-Disclosure
~ SANS Internet Storm
Center - Diary
Archive ~ MITRE's CVE
-
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures List and OVAL - Open Vulnerability and
Assessment Language ~ OSVDB Open Source Vulnerability Database.
The NSA Operating
Systems
Guides.
TWiT This Week in
Tech
podcast.
Windows Secrets
Newsletter
- Windows update tips and WinFind search engine. ~ SC Magazine For
IT
Security Professionals.
USENIX
Association, their
;login:
magazine, and the SAGE
Special
Interest Group.
LOPSA The League of
Professional
System Administrators.
UNIX REVIEW
monthly online
mag since 2000. (Unix/Linux)
TechNet's
Server and Domain Isolation Using IPsec and Group Policy.
WindowsITPro's
A Secure Wireless Network Is Possible and Wired 802.1x Security Go wireless to protect your wired network.
~ SecurityFocus: Cracking WEP: Dead Again
~ NetStumbler Verify Wireless LAN setup and coverage, detect rogue access points, WarDriving, etc.
~ inSSIDer network scanner for Windows Vista and windows XP
Aaron Margosis' Weblog The Non-Admin blog - running with least privilege on the desktop.
Wi-Fi / Wireless Access :
Microsoft's
Securing Wireless LANs with PEAP and Passwords and
The Cable Guy - Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 Data Encryption and
Integrity (August 2005) and The
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2)/Wireless Provisioning Services
Information Element (WPS IE) update for Windows XP w/SP2
Brian Livingston's Wi-Finally:
wireless security that actually works.
Core Copetence Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) Resources (Lisa Phifer's Wireless CORner) and Wi-Fi
Security Tools.
Microsoft Exchange Server :
Exchange Server All-In-One Tools Download (ExAllTools.EXE
06.05.7408 9/21/2004) and individual Downloads
for Exchange.
Microsoft Identity Integration (MIIS)
Upgrading Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange 2003 in a Medium-Sized
Organization.
Management Pack Configuration Wizard GUI to configure
Exchange
2000/2003 Management Pack, including test mailboxes, message
tracking and monitoring services. (Ex2K/2K3)
Prevent
SMTP
relaying with Microsoft Exchange Server.
Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool v2.9.0.1 12/8/2005 (Win2K/2K3/XP)
Exchange Server 2003 Outlook Profile Update after moving
mailboxes across Exchange organizations or administrative
groups.
How
to turn off ESMTP verbs in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003
Using Exchange as a Backup MX Server for Another Domain
Slipstick
(all) ~ MSExchange.org
(all) ~ Evan Dodds
Weblog (Ex2K/2K3)
DumpsterAlwaysOn
Recover items that are not transferred to Outlook's Deleted Items
folder. (Ex5.5/2K) ~ Suppress
NDR's. (Ex5.5)
Turn off 8-bit MIME (8BITMIME) in Win2k/2003 Server (required when it
smart hosts to Ex5.5) ~ Changing
the TCP Port Used for SMTP Mail (Ex5.x) ~
Monitor IMS, MTA and x400 queues. (Ex5.5)
The Ed Crowley Server Move Method (Ex5.5)
Exchange IMF (Intelligent Message Filter) uses Microsoft's
SmartScreen
spam filtering. IMF Update v2 is part of Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003 SP2. ~
IMF Archive Manager.
SMTP relay behavior in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Exchange Server.
How
to optimize memory usage in Exchange Server 2003.
Exchange email archiving: GFI MailArchiver
~ CommVault's
QiNetix DataArchiver ~ IBM's DB2 CommonStore ~ C2C Archive
One
~ Symantec
Veritas Enterprise Vault ~ Quest
Archive Manager.
Exchange email non-rewritable/non-erasable archiving:
EMC
Centera ~ HP
StorageWorks RISS (Reference Information Storage System).
SMTP
:
RFC 2821
Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (replaces RFC 821) and RFC 2822
Internet Message
Format (replaces RFC 822) ~ RFC 2544
SMTP Service
Extension for Authentication ~ RFC 2487
SMTP Service
Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS (Transport
Layer Security) ~ Internet Mail Architecture Internet Draft (Dave Crocker).
Anti-Spam :
Why Sender Callout Verification, Sender Verify, Callbacks, SAV is abusive.
Al Iverson's Spam Resource and DNSBL Resource and DNSBL Statistics
~ Spam is that Which We Don't Do
~ Challenge/Response Systems (why C/R is bad) and
Justin Mason's An anti-challenge-response Xmas linkfest
How to get email headers Instructions to open headers for various email clients and services like Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Eudora, Lotus, etc.
SPAM-L
LISTSERV mailing list dedicated to "Spam prevention and Discussion"
by mail admins. ~ SPAM-L
Archives.
Declude's Free tools
IANA's Root-Zone Whois Information - Index by TLD Code ccTLD country codes and
corresponding country names. See also
ISO 3166 Code lists.
The DNSBL
countries.nerd.dk and their 127.0.n.n
country code results can be used to detect which country with a single DNS
TXT lookup to reversedIPaddressOctets.zz.countries.nerd.dk
MAAWG Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (AOL, Cloudmark, Google, Comcast, Earthlink, Yahoo, etc.)
Karmasphere and their VisiBL visual reputation service with input from CBL, PhishTank, SpamCop, SURBL, URIBL, etc.
Spamikaze uses
spamtraps and other data to automatically build a DNSBL (GPL'd).
Vamsoft ORF - Open Relay Filter
($100/per year for upgrades) binds to a Microsoft smtpsvc
(e.g. IIS SMTP 5 or 6 transport level or Windows Server 2008)
allowing filtering such as: A/MX record check, rDNS regex, inclusive/exclusive
white/blacklists for email addresses and IP addresses or keywords, cacheable
DNS blacklists (SpamCop, Spamhaus, NJABL, PSBL, SORBS, etc.), Charset Blacklist, Tarpitting,
maintains a duration-customizable triplet Greylist database (blocks
p&d/spambots/zombies), broken sender FQDN, regex customizable
HELO domain blacklisting (e.g., blacklisting non-bracketed IP
addresses used as HELO/EHLO), SPF1 record lookups--all performed at
either the "Before Arrival" filtering point (before delivery of
message header/body/attachments) and/or the "On Arrival" filtering
point (when the message DATA/body/attachments arrive). It also has
customizable On Arrival-only actions (Drop/pretend protocol
failure, Redirect, Tag) based on regular expressions, lookups of
body website links against SURBL
and URIBL, and external agents such as ClamAV.
SMTP tar pit feature for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
XRecipientList for MS Exchange 2000/2003 event sink.
Mailshell Exchange Plugin routes tagged messages to recipient's custom subfolder; free.
Spam Filter ISP similar to ORF but costs $600 and the Norman A/V plug-in costs $400/yr.
MailScanner open source; see intro and Julian Field's blog
Bruce Gingery's Turnaway mini SMTP daemon to tell unwanted connections to "go away"
Symantec Brightmail Antispam 17 filtering technologies
including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, and
language identification.
SpamGourmet
free accounts
such as sometag.x.user@spamgourmet.com where x is the number of
messages you want to receive (upto 20) and user is your spamgourmet
username.
InBoxer
(Outlook only) ~
Spam Bully ~
SpamFilter
~ SPAMfighter free; over 4 million PC's report on spam
~ Cloudmark Desktop (formerly SafetyBar and SpamNet)
MailWasher Server open-source, multi-platform, individual white/blacklists. (Server version doesn't appear to have the stupid spamming/bounce "feature" of the non-Enterprise Mail Washer.
Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Server
(ASSP) whitelists, Bayesian, and basic anti-virus filtering; Perl; GPL.
Compare with amavisd-new and qpsmtpd.
CMS Praetor spam filter / content security / antivirus (feature list)
OpenBSD's spamd
(man
page)
dspam
open-source
statistical anti-spam filter with Bayesian Noise Reduction,
Markovian discrimination, etc.
SpamBayes
open-source trainable statistical scoring Python app with optional
Outlook plugin.
IronPort's SenderBase
Email Reputation Service (research senders, identify legitimate
sources of email, etc.) ~ TrustedSource.org ~
dnswl.org DNS Whitelist of known legitimate email servers ~
Return Path's Sender
Score Certified (formerly Bonded Sender; IronPort is no
longer in partnership with Return Path as of April 2006)
BoderWare
Security
Network IP address reputation lookup and email notification
service.
Declude
"List of All Known DNS-based Spam Databases"
MailPolice domain lookup blocklist and email filtering services
Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection Technology (RPD) (requires IE5.5+ and uses ActiveX plug-in for Outlook
; used by many such as WatchGuard's SpamScreen)
and Untangle.
SpamCop IP blacklist
database to check incoming mail attempts. Please report daily to them any spam not already blacklisted. ~ How
To Automate Spamcop Submissions ~
WWW::Mechanize::SpamCop ~ OLSpamCop's SpamGrabber free SpamCop
submission toolbar for Outlook. (Compare with SpamSource; other tools listed on SpamCop's FAQ)
Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL)
EmailReg.org used by Barracuda and others; $20/yr; confirm by adding CNAME for a serialized subdomain of your registered domain, pointing to emailreg.org
HostedScripts Anti-Spam Link to this page of random email addresses to send
email harvesting bots to a loop-o-junk.
Vipul's Razor - statistical and signature-based spam confidence test based on
reputation of submitters of spam samples to their network.
DCC Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse.
The SpamBouncer spam
filter that runs under Procmail.
Bayesian filtering: SpamBayes
~ POPFile
~ K9 (active forum)
Bogofilter
advanced Bayesian filgering; uses wordlist stored in BerkelyDB
The Apache SpamAssassin Project open source spam
filter. ~ InstallingOnWindows
~ SpamAssassin for Win32
~ spamc32 derived from WinSpamC
~ SARE (SpamAssassin Rules Emporium)
~ Perceptron
rule-weighting algorithm instead of a GeneticAlgorithm
~ WebRedirectPlugin
for SpamAssassin; fetches web pages linked to in messages and provides their contents in a pseudo-header that can be used in custom header rules.
~ Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Shortcircuit Shortcircuiting a test will force all other pending rules to be skipped if that test is hit. ~ OcrPlugin
~ FuzzyOcr ~ ImageInfo ~
TextOCR for spamassassin 3.1+
EximConfig
configuration and ACL files preferably used in conjunction with
SpamAssassin and the SA-Exim patch
(Exim SpamAssassin at SMTP time).
Backscatterers.org (powered by UCEProtect) and
Backscatterers.com listings ~ SpamLinks.net Preventing
Backscatter See also Bouncing messages do no good, Spam
Filter Server Addons, etc.
PMilter
Pure
Perl implementation of the Milter
protocol used by
Sendmail, including drop-in replacement for the Sendmail::Milter
interface. ~ uses Sendmail::PMilter which uses the SpamAssassin
libraries with merely the 20_uri_tests.cf rules file (relatively
light) to strip the URI's from a message and check them against
multi.surbl.org and black.uribl.com and reject any messages that
contains blacklisted URI's ~ SnertSoft milter-link.
Postfix: policyd-weight
policy daemon
for postfix. Score DNSBLs (RBL/RHSBL), HELO, MAIL FROM, Client IP
Addresses before any queuing is done. ~ Postfix
Monitoring With Mailgraph And pflogsumm (RRDtool
frontend mailgraph
by David Schweikert and pflogsumm
by Jim
Seymour) ~ Jim
Seymour's
suggestions/examples for Postfix anti-UCE configuration (Aka:
Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat Sheet). ~ spam-stats.pl
count and classify discard: and reject: lines in postfix mail
logs.
Greylisting : Greylisting.org
~ Greylisting
Whitepaper by Evan Harris. Compare with NoListing and FakeMX.org (SpamAssassin OtherTricks wiki) ~ Links
to
(Greylisting) Implementations and Information ~ Puremagic's
greylisting/schema/whitelist_ip.txt.
Compare with ORF's
Greylisting
IP
Exceptions.
Greylisting for Postfix: Postgrey
~ SQLgrey
~ Gld ~
Gld howto
Greylisting for
Postfix on Debian and Gentoo ~ gps
- greylist policy service for
postfix.
URI / URL Deobfuscator / Link Extactor :
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL SpamAssassin has
extensive
deobfuscation code. For speed, use an empty rules directory. ~
Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamCopURI
~
HTML::LinkExtractor ~
HTML::SimpleLinkExtor.
Anti-Phishing : PhishRegistry
monitors the Internet
for malicious copies of a website and provides weekly reports. ~
Anti-Phishing Working Group
~ DSL Reports Phish Tracker
~ PhishTank collaborative clearing house about phishing and malware.
Steve Basford's Sane Security phish.ndb and scam.ndb
phishing and scam signatures for ClamAV.
See also Malware Block List
and MSRBL-SPAM.ndb and MSRBL-Images.hdb.
Regular Expressions / Regex : Chris Schmidt's Regex Creator / Evaluator
~ The Regex Coach (Windows, Linux/x86, FreeBSD) experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively.
~ Regular-Expressions.info
~ Txt2regex Regular Expression Wizard using built-in Bash commands.
~ RExT Regular Expressions Tester Firefox extension to test regular expressions.
Sender
Policy Framework (formerly Sender Permitted From) / SPoofs
Forgeries / SPF : SPF
Setup Wizard Create DNS records specifying the permissible
origins/sources of messages which use your email domain name so
others can block spoofs/forgeries. Spammers tend to avoid forging
domains that have published SPF1 records.
(Compare with defunct CSV
- Certified Server Validation.)
Common objection: SPF breaks forwarding. Solutions: SRS: Sender Rewriting Scheme or Return Path Rewriting.
Microsoft's
Sender ID Framework SPF Record Wizard ~ How to Add
an
SPF Record in Win2000 and 2003 Server DNS
Vamsoft's SPF Checker (and SPF Syntax Validator)
~ Kitterman.com's Python Based SPF Record Testing Tools.
libspf2 libraries
for Sendmail,
Postfix, Exim, MS Exchange, etc. to implement SPF checking.
List of Broken
SPF
Records and the major reasons.
Yahoo DomainKeys / DKIM : Yahoo! FAQ Which mail
transfer
agents (MTAs) support DomainKeys?
IP Calculators / Subnet
Calculators / CIDR
conversion : Chris Schmidt's Subnet
Calculator ~ IP
Workshop Pro ~ SolarWinds
Subnet Calculator and TFTP server ~ Network Calculators online
~ Famatech's Advanced
IP Calculator ~ IP CIDR /
VLSM Calculator ~ ijack.net
IP Subnet Calculator ~ jodies.de IP Calculator
~ WildPackets IP Subnet Calculator for Windows.
IPv4 Address Space Management : phpIP Management
~ IPSpace.
IP Address Lookups / Whois / DNSRBL / Relay BlackLists :
jwhois and Jwhois for Windows.
IANA's INTERNET
PROTOCOL V4 ADDRESS SPACE allocation page. ~ RIPE NCC Service
Region
~ world map of
the major
IP Address Registries RIPE NCC, ARIN, APNIC, AfriNIC and
LACNIC.
ARIN American
Registry for
Internet Numbers (IP Addresses) ~ Kloth.net
for DIG and NSLOOKUP allowing
you to specify nameserver. ~ DNS Stuff IP, domain and SPF record lookups, URL deobfuscator, etc. (see: How to Obscure Any URL)
~ MxToolbox includes free blacklist monitoring
~ DNS Report
and email
delivery test tool. ~ drbcheck Dr. Jorgen Mash's DNS Database list checker
~ robtex swiss army knife internet tool (Multi-RBL check, etc.)
~ OpenRBL DNSBL, Whois, Route ~ rwhois
~ rwhoisd.
The Team Cymru Bogon Reference Page ~ The Spamhaus DROP "Don't Route Or Peer" List.
open-whois.org
list of domains which are privately (or anonymously) registered, e.g. through
services such as Domains By Proxy, or Moniker Privacy Protection.
The Day Old Bread List DNSRBL contains domains registered within the last five days (shouldn't send email yet).
CMS BL-Monitor
"Free
Visual Tool to Monitor DNS Blacklist Server Effectiveness and
Responsiveness"
BW Whois
command-line; lots of
features. Example usage: BWwhois --shift 1 --stripdisclaimer
203.57.241.101 (See also Deobfuscation and Analysis tool by Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz)
Network
Solutions Enhanced WHOIS Directory Covers multiple WHOIS
databases; search by domain name, nic handle, IP Address. Use
VeriSign
Whois
Search for .com, .net, .edu., .cc., .tv., and .jobs ~ PIR
(Public Interest Registry) .ORG
WHOIS Search for .org ~ InterNIC Whois
for .aero,
.arpa, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .info, .int, .mobi, .museum, .name,
.pro, and .travel.
Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration : WebHost Magazine
Buyer's
Guide ~ HostReview
~ FindMyHosting.com
~ 1&1
(cheapest) ~
LunarPages
RedHat
Enterprise Linux 3 on Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers (dual Xeon 3.2Ghz
and 4GB RAM) and fast customer service. ~ Pair Networks web
hosting on FreeBSD with
Telnet/SSH access. ~ BraveNet.com
free webhosting (50MB
storage, 1.5GB monthly bandwidth and easy website builders). ~
Aplus.Net
(makers of PDF2Web).
Pool.com "Our
Deleting Domains
service allows you to backorder domains for free! We will monitor
expiring and deleting domains every day and will attempt to secure
the domains you want as soon as they become available." If the
domain is currently with Network Solutions, then also use SnapNames.
Instant Domain Search and DomainsBot to quickly find available domain names, slight variations, synonyms, etc.
Sedo huge domain market place.
DNS
/ Domain Name
Servers / BIND / Dynamic DNS : Comparison of DNS server software
~ Unbound validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver (C; BSD)
~ Traditional DNS Howto
~ RFC 1912 - Common DNS Operational and Configuration Errors ~
DNS for Rocket Scientists online book used as basis for Apress' Pro DNS and BIND. ~ DNSSec.net
~ ISC BIND
~ BIND9.net ~ Secure
BIND Template ~ Two-in-one
DNS server with BIND9 how to configure BIND9 DNS server to
serve an internal network and an external network at the same time
with different set of information using View. ~ DNS server
setup on
GNU/Linux NS theory and onfiguration guidelines on GNU/Linux
and OpenBSD using BIND and NSD.
MyDNS free DNS
server for
UNIX; serves records from MySQL (HOWTO article: Running A
MySQL-Based
DNS Server: MyDNS) or PostgreSQL ~ PowerDNS
also
serves records from MySQL or PostgreSQL; used by Register.com,
Schlund.de (1&1) and Tucows. See PowerDNS Express
web based DNS
management. ~ NicTool
GPL'd web-based DNS managment. See also IPplan.
DNS.net (DNS RD) DNS
Resources
Directory (and their comparison
page of
Unix-based DNS).
Granite Canyon -
The Public
DNS ~ ZoneEdit
~
NeuStar
Ultra Services (formerly UltraDNS.com)
~ OpenDNS ~ EveryDNS ~ EasyDNS ~ DynDNS ~ No-IP.com ~ TZO ~ DynIP ~ dnsExit.com ~ ODS Open Domain Server.
Microsoft's How
to prevent DNS cache pollution for NT4, Win2K and Win2K3
Server.
DNS
Resolver Queried
IP Check Registry Hack to ensure Windows clients accept DNS
query results only from the IP address of the queried DNS
server.
D. J. Bernstein's djbdns
DNS cache, server (see tinydns)
and client used by Lycos, citysearch.com, pobox.com, 1.85 million
.com's, directNIC, MyDomain/NamesDirect, Interland, Dotster,
Easyspace, Namezero, and Netfirms. Like qmail, author offers
unclaimed $500 security hole reward since at least 2001.
rbldnsd
small and fast DNS daemon especially made to serve DNSBL zones
inspired by Dan J. Bernstein's rbldns program found
in the
djbdns
package. Windows port: Wrbldnsd - Rbldnsd for Windows.
Roller Networks secondary DNS, backup MX, SMTP redirection, SMTP filtering, etc. ($25 donation for advanced services such as Greylisting)
Windows Server Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management monitors processor, memory, disk health, availability, and key performance metrics (2000/XP client version)
~ Windows
2000 Resource Kit tools (Daniel Petri)
Windows 2003 Server
Resource Kit Tools ~
Administration Tools Pack ~
Tools for Troubleshooting ~
Windows Server 2003 Security Guide
Network Scanner : GFI LANguard Network
Security
Scanner ~ NetScanTools
Pro
~ SoftPerfect
Network Scanner.
HTTP proxy/traffic examiner/viewer/sniffer :
HttpWatch
~ Fiddler PowerToy for IE.
IIS Web Server utilities :
Serving the Web : Nine Tips to Enhance IIS Security : Securing your
IIS 6.0 installation
Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V1.5
ServerMask
Web Server Anonymization and Obfuscation (IIS 4/5/6)
Microsoft's TechNet default resource page for
Internet Information Services 6 (Win2K3 Server) See tools for
Securing IIS, Migration from v5, Resource Kit, Server Performance
Advisor, etc.
Securing IIS 5 and 5.1 (Win2K Server) ~
Securing IIS 6
IISShield (alternate
link) free application layer firewall for IIS better than
IIS Lockdown 2.1 and its built-in URLscan 2.0
UrlScan v3.1 for IIS 5.1 (XP), 6 (2003) and 7 (2008)
FastCGI Extension for IIS6
Hackerbasher Diverts attacks to a dead end and records traffic in a single log.
Microsoft's
SYN flooding attack protection feature (Win2k Registy hack)
Configuring
FTP in Isolation Mode (Win2K3 IIS6)
Microsoft's Script Encoder and GreyMagic
Online Script Decoder
N-Stalker's N-Stealth
IIS
and Apache website vulnerability scanner; free download.
eEye's
SecureIIS
FTP Client / FTP Server : WinSCP freeware SFTP and
SCP client for
Windows ~ FileZilla
FTP and
SFTP and Server version. ~ SmartFTP
~ FTP
Commander ~
CoreFTP ~ Pure-FTPd ~ ProFTPD
Highly configurable
GPL-licensed FTP server (not compiled for MS Windows, but runs in
Cygwin). ~ vsftpd "Probably
the most secure and fastest FTP server for UNIX-like systems." (used by
ftp.redhat.com, ftp.openbsd.org and ftp.suse.com) ~ wget for
Windows (stable; page links to newer version here).
File Download Manager / Website Copier : Free
Download
Manager Resume incomplete downloads and download pieces
simultaneously to increase throughput. ~ HTTrack website
copier for offline viewing and archiving (WinHTTrack for Windows and WebHTTrack for
Linux/Unix/BSD).
SEO / Search Engine Optimization / SEM / Search Engine Marketing : SEOmoz Beginner's
Guide to Search Engine Optimization and their Search
Engine Ranking Factors.
High Rankings Advisor articles.
Website Utilities :
reCAPTCHA service that helps to detect bots and digitize books and newspapers
.htaccess Editor online
~ WebGUI website platform; easy CMS (Perl; GPL'd)
~ myIPneighbors lists domains at an IP address
mon.itor.us Free web site monitoring ~ WebSitePulse remote monitoring service for web apps and round-trip email tests. Compare with Pingdom.
Gigaloader (formerly Megaloader) Server stress tester.
HTMLTrim highly customizable HTML/XHTML/XML pretty-printer and fixer for Windows that uses HTML Tidy.
CSS contents and browser compatibility chart.
CSS Optimizer ~ Clean CSS
~ Flumpcakes
~ Icey CSS Compressor
Browsershots submit a webpage to see what it looks like in dozens of browsers.
~ See also Adobe BrowserLab.
HTML
Validators (CSE 3310, Netmechanic, Link Scan, Bobby (now
directs to Watchfire's WebXACT),
W3C, Dr. HTML,
weblint, MOMspider and Webxref) ~ HiSoftware accessibility monitor site test ~ WAVE Accessibility Tool ~ UITest.com
~ OCAWA
Accessibility audit of one page ~ Accessibility Valet Demonstrator.
Dead links / check links / link validators: Xenu's Link
Sleuth (Windows) ~ Dead-Links.com
or W3C Link
Checker.
WebXACT
free online
service to test web pages for quality, accessibility, and privacy
issues.
Nuetool's StripFile
can remove
comments and unnecessary data from GIF, JPEG and PNG image files
and HTML.
FavIcon from Pics online creator ~
IconEdit32
create Favorite (Bookmark) icons that can include all valid
combinations of size and color depths. ~ Compare with IconEdit Pro.
Gary Keith's browscap.ini
(browser capabilities databases) "to create pages that are free
from browser-specific design limitations, more consistent across
all browsers, or highly specialized based on the visitor's
capabilities."
Paros a proxy
(written in Java) for web application security assessment. Data
between client and server can be intercepted and modified.
Page Snooper retrieves and displays the HTML source code of a web site.
PageLock prevent viewing source or copying images.
ScanAlert Hacker site seal received after their security certification results in more customers.
Spam Proof eMail Address Generator creates a picture of your email address; specify font style and color.
~ The Hivelogic Enkoder keeps the email address clickable
~ Syronex Anti-Spam Tool javascript encoding with optional challenge
~ John Haller's Obfuscate Mailto 1.01 email address not clickable but remains visible if JavaScript disabled.
dmoz Mozilla's open
directory
project. Submit your site's URL and if listed after human vetting,
many search engines will start crawling and indexing your site.
Google Analytics
(formerly Urchin Web Analytics)
"shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and
how you can enhance the visitor experience."
Foundstone's
SiteDigger Searches Google's cache of a website to look for
vulnerabilities, errors, configuration issues, proprietary
information, etc.
Web Design / Content Management Systems / CMS : Drupal ~ Serendipity PHP Weblog/Blog software (BSD licensed) ~ TinyMCE Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control (LGPL) ~ SOLMETRA SPAW Editor web based in-browser WYSIWYG editor control.
10 CSS Tips from a Professional CSS Architect
CSS Cheat Sheet
Free open source web design templates: OpenWebDesign.org
~ OpenSourceTemplates.org
~ OpenDesigns.org
~ OSWD.org
~ FreeLayouts.com
thePeoplesToolbox sorted by user votes ~ Web Design
from Scratch ~ Web Design Library
"Designer's One-Stop Resource"
CMS Watch / The CMS
Report a
comprehensive overview of Web Content Management products and best
practices.
CMS Matrix
easiliy compare
CMS tools.
Seth Gottlieb's "epic whitepaper" on
Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions.
Open
Source Content Management Systems (CMS) in Java
TYPO3 "free Open
Source content
management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in
intranets."
Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Dreamweaver
and/or
Contribute.
~ webEdition CMS
for
PHP, MySQL, XML, XHTML, etc. ~ GlobalSCAPE's PureCMS.
~ "Joomla! is
one of the most powerful
Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet."
Plone open source
intranet/extranet/portal server, document publishing system,
groupware tool; over 50 language translations; built using Zope.
Revision Control software (comparison) / SCM (souce content/control managment) / CVS / Concurrent
Versions System / Version Control System / Subversion
/ SVN
: Subversion
aka SVN;
command line interface. ~ Version
Control with Subversion online book ~ TortoiseSVN
SVN interface
integrates with Windows Explorer and comon file dialogs ~ eSvn QT GUI for
Subversion ~
RapidSVN
GUI for
Subversion written in C++ using the wxWidgets framework ~ WebSVN PHP based
web interface of
Subversion repositories ~ KDESvn
subversion
client for KDE ~ SyntEvo SmartCVS and SamrtSVN ~ Syncro SVN Client cross platform; full/productive SVN interface.
~ more at Tigris.org.
Git - Fast Version Control
System
(used for the Linux kernel).
~ FileHamster for Windows.
MediaWiki.org
Enterprise Content Managment / Records Management / Document
Management : Interwoven
~ Hummingbird.
Web Browsers : Run IE6 or IE7 on Windows 2000/XP for testing: Virtual PC 2004 SP1
and Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (IE6 and IE7)
~ free Virtual PC 2007 for Windows.
~ How to get IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.0 and IE 7.0 (release) running concurrently on Linux..
See also User Agent String Utility version 2 for IE7 to pretend/emulate IE6.
Mozilla's Firefox
(FAQ)
(latest
Patches for various versions, Release Candidates, and Betas
or
the
latest nightly builds).
Silent install Firefox by adding -ms after the .exe
FrontMotion Mozilla Firefox MSI and optional Administrative Template/lockdown support.
MozBackup creates
backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla
Suite and Netscape profiles. Backup and restore bookmarks, mail,
contacts, history, extensions, cache etc.
See the patching record timeline of publicly available "in the
wild" vulnerabilities with IE compared to 0 exploit days with
Firefox and Opera:
A Year Of Bugs by Scanit NV.
Firefox Extensions: Update Scanner Monitors web pages for updates. Useful for websites that don't provide Atom or RSS feeds.
~ NoScript asks permission to run JavaScript and Java; remembers selections
~ Tiny Menu
~ CustomizeGoogle
~ FireFTP
~ Encrypt This!
~ Zotero cite sources / research citations
~ Google Browser Sync
~ Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer
~ It's All Text! specify an editor for an edit box such as Gmail's compose.
~ IE Tab Embedding
Internet Explorer in tabs. ~ Advanced Dork right-click access to advanced Google operators
~ FormFox mouse over the final Submit button to reveal the destination and if it is
https/secure/encrypted ~ Skype
Web Toolbar converts telephone #'s to click-and-call #'s ~
Adblock
Filterset.G Updater - Firefox Extension ~
ODFReader - Firefox Extension ~ VideoDownloader
Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion,
embedded movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc. ~
Mozilla Archive Format - Firefox Extension allows complete web
pages to be saved in a single archive file. Uses RDF to save page
meta-data. It also allows pages to be saved in a seperate MHTML
compatible format for interoperability with IE systems. ~ Web Developer Firefox enstion adds a menu and a toolbar with
various web developer tools. (Author's
website) ~ Firebug web development ~ RefControl
~ LiveHTTPHeaders
~ EditCSS
John Haller's Portable
Firefox, Thunderbird,
OpenOffice, AbiWord, GAIM, etc. Run these apps from
portable media (CD, USB thumbdrive, iPod, etc.)
Tab
Mix or Tabbrowser
Extensions or Tabbrowser
Preferences. Tab
Preview for Firefox 1.5 shows a small preview of tab/page
contents while the mouse hovers over a tab.
XULPlanet
XML User
Interface Language. Not to be confused with the FOX Toolkit
(Free Objects for X)
a C++ based class library for building cross-platform GUI's.
Prevent Javascript from hiding Firefox's XUL tool/menu/status bars
to making spoofing obvious: Slashdot.org post
1 and post
2
To enable Windows automatic authentication like IE does,
eliminating the need to click on login confirmation buttons, enter
about:config in the address bar and add http://sitename.com to
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris (and possibly
network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris and
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris for some sites).
Netcraft
Find out what
software websites are running, which have the longest uptimes, etc.
Free download: anti-fraud and anti-phishing Netcraft Toolbar
(IE and
Firefox) Better than Corestreet's Spoofstick
and the Earthlink
Toolbar featuring ScamBlocker.
scanit browser
security
test (IE or Firefox; temporarily disable pop-up blocking for
the site)
Opera
web browser.
Small, fast, standards compliant (e.g., passes Acid2 Browser
Test).
Free version no longer contains ads. Less than 4MB in size, yet
hightly configurable GUI, saves Bookmark (Favorites) sessions,
email client, etc. ~ Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera ~ Opera W3-Dev Menu.
Evolt.org IE
6 standalone (run IE6 concurrent with IE7)
NewsReaders / RSS Readers / Podcasting : XanaNews for Windows. ~ NewsGator / FeedDemon's FeedStation
(more secure than others because in addition to stripping out
ActiveX, VB and OnLoad events like most reader/feeders, it
restricts downloads to default media file-type extensions yet can
be manually modified to include new safe extensions.) ~ Omea Reader
~ RSSOwl
open-source; multi-platform ~
Bloglines
personal, shareable
online RSS blog page (part of Ask
Jeeves) ~ BlogBridge
free,
open source (Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux) ~ NewsGator Online
(web based)
Web Proxy / Web Cache : memcached (used by Digg, Slashdot, and Facebook) ~ Microsoft's ISA Server 2004 (Internet Security and Acceleration Server)
~ Google's Web Accerator for broadband connections (Cable, DSL, T1, etc.)
PHProxy to bypass firewall and other proxy restrictions
Cotse.net Email, Anti-spam, Web hosting, Web proxies, etc.
Squid (Unix/Linux) and
squidGuard combined
filter, redirector and access controller plugin for Squid ~
Squid for Windows ~ Proxify.
Text Editors / HTML Editors / WordPad and Notepad replacements : ~ NOTEPAD++ based on SciTE
~ Geany
~ UltraEdit
~ Notepad2
~ EtherPad share a link with others to edit the same document using color-coded highlighting for each person.
~ FCKeditor lightweight HTML text editor for webpages with Word-like features
~ ListXP opens files that WordPad thinks is in use/locked.
~ TextPipe Pro
~ HTML-Kit with over 440 free plugins.
~ Acme SAC from Rob Pike / Plan 9 / Inferno.
~ EditPad Lite and Pro (Windows, Linux)
~ metapad small, fast, free.
~ EditPad Pro, PowerGREP, RegexBuddy
~ EditPlus
~ JOE Joe's Own Editor (like Wordstar)
~ gedit the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment.
~ Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor) text editor for the KDE Desktop Environment.
~ jedit programmer's text editor (Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS, Windows)
~ JED Editor
~ Leo general data management environment, outlinging editor, project manager, etc. (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
~ Crimson Editor with line numbers, syntax highlighting, etc. ~ PSPad ~ Intype for Windows (similar to TextMate for Mac).
~ Codetch Gecko based (like Firefox) code editor.
~ VIM and gVIM improved versions of the vi text editor distributed with most Unix systems.
Wikipedia Vim. Cream for Gvim
(see shortcuts).
Emacs.
Wikipedia Emacs ~
CEDET Collection of Emacs Development Environment Tools.
~ ECB Emacs Code Browser.
~ The Woodnotes Guide to Emacs for Writers
(Also by Randal Wood: Easing the Pain of Coding Avalon Documents with jedit)
~ WhizzyTeX minor mode for Emacs or XEmacs, a bash shell-script daemon and some LaTeX macros.
~ Graph-TeX for drawing graphs.
~ MiKTex for Windows
~ LyX Document Processor
~ GNU TeXmacs
~ pdfTeX
~ TeXShop Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later
~ XeTeX Mac OS X 10.3 or later
~ CSV2LaTeX converter
~ LaTeX2HTML
~ AUCTeX extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
~ Configuring Unicode support in Emacs
~ Zile small Emacs clone.
~ XEmacs Emacs with GUI support.
HTMLAsText Batch convert HTML to text by removing tags and formatting output according to preferences.
Convert XLS Convert Excel to/from to many file types including CSV, XML, HTM, TXT, SLK, WKS, DBF, Lotus and others. GUI and command line batch conversion.
Nvu web editing environment based
on the Mozilla platform and its Gecko layout engine. Binaries for
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. (KompoZer Nvu's unoffical bug-fix release).
TSW WebCoder
for Windows (v5 free).
Evrsoft
First Page
2006 for HTML, XHTML, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, Javascript, CSS,
SSI and Perl.
Hex editor: XVI32 or Hxd
Freeware Hex Editor for Windows (self-contained executible; no
installation Registry entries)
XML Marker
edit XML files in color coded and expandable tree views.
Diff / Merge / Compare : WinMerge
~ KDiff3
compare with Meld
~ Guiffy
~ vimdiff (diff gvimdiff diff-mode)
~ ColorDiff
Microsoft Office : Office Update
Microsoft LookOut version 1.30 free Outlook addin from Microsoft to quickly search e-mail, contacts, calendar and filesystem (Google for lookout130.exe)
Express ClickYes Automatically clicks Yes to the Outlook dialog box indicating another program is trying to access your email address to send a message.
Outlook Thread Compressor for Outlook 2000 and higher. (Microsoft's
Outlook Code Samples page contains a link to
threadcompressor.exe which expands the individual Visual
Basic project files).
Word Viewer 2003 (view Word 97 through 2003, Microsoft Works
or
WordPerfect docs) ~
Excel Viewer 2003 (view Excel 97 through 2003 spreadsheets) ~
PowerPoint
Viewer 2003 (view PowerPoint 97 through 2003
presentations) ~
Visio 2002 Viewer (view Visio 5, 2000, or 2002
drawings/diagrams) ~
Visio 2003 Viewer (view Visio 5 through 2003
drawings/diagrams;
requires Win2K, WinXP or 2K3 Server).
Microsoft Excel Excess Formatting Cleaner Add-in
ASAP Utilities
300+
Excel utilities ~ ExTools
~ MrExcel.com
index of
the articles and tips you will find at the "Big Three" Excel sites
(200+ articles from MrExcel, 185 articles from Chip Pearson, 75+
articles from John Walkenbach) ~ My
Excel Pages --
David McRitchie.
Office
2000 Resource Kit.
TechHit's EZDetach,
MessageSave,
AutoRead, etc. Add-ons and Custom Rule Actions for Outlook. ~
Personal Message Store (PST) Export Utility PMSEU exports Internet messages out
of Outlook and preserves their headers
~ Pocketknife Peek to safely see an Outlook message header and HTML.
Tweaking / Tuning / Optimizing Microsoft Windows : JScreenFix fix stuck pixels and remove burn-in.
ClearType
for WinXP Turn it on and tune it in. (Tuner requires
IE/ActiveX)
LCD Calibration screens The LCD Resolution Trick. Black and white pixel
matrix to display full-screen on an LCD monitor before pressing its
calibration button to result in crisper text.
PowerToys for WinXP ~
Tweak UI 1.33 ~ Compare with Creative Element Power Tools
and
Fresh Devices' Fresh
UI.
PC Wizard ~
TuneUp
Utilities ~ iolo's System Mechanic.
WinXP SP2 Support Tools ~
Win2K3 Server SP1 32-bit Support Tools
DirectX 9.0c End-User Runtime for multimedia and games.
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service speeds up a slow Log Off or
Shut Down (Win2K, Win2K3 and WinXP.)
Fax Servers : GFI
FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP ~ FaxBACK NET SatisFAXtion
~ Captaris
RightFAX
~ FaxCore
(uses .NET) ~ HylaFAX
"The world's
most advanced open source fax server" ~ Esker Fax for Unix/Linux/Exchange/Notes.
Windows Registry Backup / System State Backup / Monitor
Installation Changes : System State backup using Windows
Backup in Windows 2000: Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools |
Backup | Backup tab | checkmark System State. For Windows XP,
install ValueAdd/Msft/Ntbackup/Ntbackup.msi from the Windows XP
installation CD.
Epsilon Squared's InstallWatch
and InstallRite.
~ 2BrightSparks' InstallSpy
and
FingerPrint to monitor changes to file sytem and registry.
ERUNT
The
Emergency Recovery Utility NT and NTREGOPT Registry Optimization
for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.
How to
Use the Backup Utility to Back Up Files and Folders in Windows XP Home
Edition
How To
Use Backup to Back Up Files and Folders on Your Computer in Windows XP
How to back up, edit, and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
Disk Clone / Drive Image / Drive and File Backups :
Mozy Remote Backup
~ DropBoks
~ Omnidrive
~ box.net
~ Freedrive
~ JustUpIt
~ Ewedrive
~ Data Deposit Box
DriveImage XML freeware for Windows XP/2003/Vista/WinPE CD.
Acronis True Image (v11 best price; v8 free)
~ PC Inspector cone maxx by CONVAR (Windows; free)
~ Clonezilla GPL; uni and multicasting.
~ BootIt Next Generation partitioning, imaging multi-booting; supports NTFS and 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Servers
~ EASEUS Partition Master
~ Partition Logic free hard disk partitioning for Windows.
~ g4l hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool.
~ g4u (free)
~ HDClone (free Boot CD)
~ r-tools Drive Image
~ Symantec Symantec Norton Save & Restore (improves and adds features to Ghost 10.0; previous Ghost version was merged/replaced with code from PowerQuest Drive Image)
~ Symantec GoBack (formerly Roxio's GoBack). ~ Symantec Backup Exec 10 (formerly Veritas Backup Exec 9)
NovaStor NovaBACKUP inexpensive; encyption option.
~ Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup (formerly Cheyenne Backup).
~ CleverSafe GPL'd;
stores across 11 grid nodes, 5 of which may go bad before data
loss. ~ BackupPC
GPL'd; On WinXX
the standard smb protocol is used to extract backup data
(Linux/POSIX/BSD/Solaris) ~ Amanda
and Zmanda ~ EMC Insignia
Retrospect formerly Dantz Retrospect; PC Magazine Editor's
Choice ~ SimpleTech
StorageSync (Standard Edition is free). ~ 2BrightSparks'
SyncBack
freeware. ~ Genie
Backup Manager ~ Bacula ~ Novosoft Handy Backup ~ BackupAssist ~ StoreGrid
~ Cobian Backup ~ SiteVAULT website backup.
Fast disk based file server backups : Dirvish (used at
OSU's OSL) ~
duplicity
(tar-format;
GnuPG encrypted) ~ rsnapshot
(Perl; uses rsync and hard links)
Hardware Monitor / Benchmarking / Diagnostics / Check Disk /
CHKDSK / S.M.A.R.T. :
Memtest86 A stand-alone Memory Diagnostic.
Compare with memtest86+
~ Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic.
CPU-Z freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
SIW - System Information for Windows
SiSoftware Sandra benchmarker. (eg., is the CPU really a 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 as claimed?)
Microsoft's
Performance Monitor Wizard.
EVEREST
Home Edition hardware diagnostics and memory benchmarking.
Compare with AIDA32.
Alex van Kaam's Motherboard Monitor
Heat/Temperature, Voltage and Fan RPM monitor for Windows.
Conky system monitor for Linux.
See also htop interactive process viewer
and Iotop (python).
HDD Health uses Self
Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) ~ Speedfan
monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures, SMART, etc. ~ SimpleTech
PassMark
DiskCheckup Drive monitoring (Windows; free; non-resident) ~
Active SMART
Hard
drive diagnostic and failure prediction using SMART. (Windows; $25;
memory resident).
Foundstone's free tools.
Alex van Kaam's
Motherboard Monitor.
Lm-sensors
Linux
system hardware monitoring.
Boot CD / System Rescue CD : Bootdisk.com utilities
~ bootdisk.info /
bootcd.info ~
Bart's Preinstalled
Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD ~ SystemRescueCd ~ Trinity Rescue Kit
password
resets, edit registry, NTFS read/undelete/write(limited), 2
antivirus scanners, etc. (Mandrake / Mandriva) ~ Knoppix Live CD (Debian
GNU/Linux) ~
Frenzy
(FreeBSD) ~ Ultimate
Boot CD Consolidate
as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD ~
Windows Ultimate Boot
CD.
USB boot: Tom's Hardware
Windows In Your Pocket ~ WeetHet
- Boot from USB Flash drive ~
Linux bootable USB key HOWTO ~ Boot
KNOPPIX from an USB Memory Stick.
Disk Recovery / Drive Recovery / Data Recovery / Undelete :
Brian Kato's Restoration small; requires no installation
~ Recuva (from makers of CCleaner)
~ CDCheck ~ Roadkil's
Unstoppable Copier ~ IsoBuster
CD and DVD data recovery ~ TestDisk and PhotoRec GPL'd
~ PC INSPECTOR Free File Recovery, Smart Recovery (reconstruct lost data on memory media), e-maxx, clone maxx (free disk cloning), task manager and fs guard. Not free: Print HTML (ActiveX avoids print dialog boxes) and WatchIT (2-second drive restore PCI or USB device).
Smart Data Recovery supports FAT and NTFS.
Runtime Software GetDataBack
dd_rescue copy data from one file or block device to another. (Linux; GPL)
and GNU ddrescue.
Steve Gibson's SpinRite 6.0 supports NTFS and moves the drive's read head to approach and discern data
in troubled spots from different angles and velocities.
Excel Rebuilder AKA Excel Workbook Rebuilder (from vbUsers.com) ~
cimaware Office/Access/Excel/WordFix ~ OfficeRecovery
(AKA Recoveronix) product list including FreeUndelete, Exchange Server, Money, etc.
VirtualLab
Data
Recovery Software and iDriveRepair (BinaryBiz) ~ R-Studio
Data Recovery
Software (rtt; r-tools technology)
O&O
DiskRecovery V3.0 ~ Ontrack Data Recovery
(big-name, but expensive) ~ DriveSavers.
Wipe Free Disk Space : Jetico's BCWipe
invoke either the US
DoD 5200.28-STD standard or the Peter Gutmann wiping scheme to
truly delete deleted files. (Windows, Linux and Unix)(The very
popular Heidi Eraser
hasn't been
updated for awhile.) ~ DBAN:
Darik's Boot and Nuke boot-up disk (Linux) for PC's to
securely
wipe everything from a hard disk (prevents data recovery). ~ Try
File Shredder or
Tolvanen's Eraser
or AnalogX's SuperShredder
or UltraShredder for single files.
Zip / Unzip File Compression / Exraction : 7-Zip free (GNU LGPL)
~ PeaZip open source
~ Universal Extractor
~ ZipGenius
~ IZarc free and easy
~ PowerArchiver
~ bxAutoZip for Outlook and Outlook Express; automatically compresses attachments.
~ WinZip
~ Universal Extractor
Batch Scripting Languages : ScriptLogic
Desktop/Server
Managment and KiXtart.
~
Windows
Script 5.6 for Win2K and WinXP and
Windows Server 2003.
Windows (program/package/application) Installers
dXLoader .net
app which synchronizes/updates/installs files or programs over the network/Internet according to configurable schedule.
UPX the
Ultimate Packer
for eXecutables (Windows and Linux).
Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Single-image download and execution with
no setup program.
Microsoft's Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset builds Windows installation
packages (eg., MSI and MSM) from XML source code. ~ How to use the Orca database editor to edit Windows Installer files (such as removing the unnecessary VersionNT > 500 restiction from Windows Defender so it installs on Windows 2000)
Microsoft's Windows Installer Redistributable
4.5 (for Windows XP SP2, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 (See 3.1 v2 for Win2K SP3)(Note v2 was released 5/12/2005) (version included in WinXP SP2 is 3.0) or
2.0
for Win95, Win98 and ME or
2.0 for WinNT SP6a or Win2K
Microsoft's Windows
Installer CleanUp Utility
Macrovision's FLEXnet
InstallShield and InstallAnywhere,
DemoShield,
etc. ~ Altiris's
Wise Package Studio, Wise
for Windows
Installer, and Wise Installation System ~ Ethalone's Ghost Installer
~
Clickteam Install
Creator
Free:
Inno Setup (official
site) ~
Advanced
Installer ~ NSIS
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.
Book: Definitive
Guide to Windows Installer
Microsoft .NET : Foundstone's free
.NET Security Toolkit (Validator.NET, .NETMon and SecureUML
template tools).
Windows Application Programming : Borland's Delphi 2005
"all of the Windows languages and SDKs you need in one environment for modern
Windows rapid application development (RAD)" C#, .NET Framework and Win32 support for GUI, Web, database, modeling and ALM. ~ MinGW
import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build native Windows applications; now with added extentions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality.
Testing Tools : SoftwareTestingWiki
Developers : Dev Shed publications, forums, programming content.
Bug Tracking : Comparison of issue tracking systems
~ JIRA Issue tracking and project management
~ Flyspray The Bug Killer.
Relational Databases : Wikipedia's
Comparison of relational database management systems.
Column-oriented DBMS for read-mostly databases such as data warehouses and library catalogues.
Microsoft Access: Allen Browne's Tips and Converting from Access 97.
Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Express Edition. See Comparing
SQL Server Express with MSDE (its predecessor). ~
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced
Services (5/31/2006) ~ SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition.
IBM DB2 Express-C (and here)
MySQL (FTP source site)
(book: The
Definitive Guide
to MySQL 5, Third Edition (Definitive Guide) ~
Using Excel to analyze MySQL data.
InnoDB
transactions,
row level locking, hot backup, and foreign keys for MySQL (acquired
by Oracle October 2005). ~ Alpha
Five V6 easily build web
accessible database applications. "leapfrogs over its competitors"
PC Mag, March 2005. See also their Data-2-the-Web for MySQL
to
easily use MySQL. ~ Ingres
open source
(GPL) database; over 20 years of business use (CA sold to Garnett &
Helfrich
Capital November 2005)
PostgreSQL
(pgsql)
highly scalable SQL compliant and open-source object-relational
database management system. ~ SQLite
a small C library that
implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL
database engine. ~ Sleepycat Software's Berkeley
DB "the leading
open-source development database in the world with over 200 million
deployments." (not a relational database) ~ Mini SQL (mSQL)
"a light
weight relational database management system capable of providing
rapid access to your data with very little overhead." ~ Slony
Slony-I is a "master to multiple slaves" replication system with
cascading and failover. ~ EnterpriseDB
based on PostgreSQL;
runs many Oracle apps unchanged.
PG Lightning
Admin
GUI Administration program designed for use with Postgresql 7.4 and
up.
DbVisualizer
The
Universal Database Tool.
IBM's Informix
and
Cloudscape
(open-sourced as Derby; compare with H2) ~ Sybase.
PEAR DB Database Abstraction Layer.
HTTPD / Web Servers / Microsoft IIS replacements : lighttpd BSD
licensed ~ And-HTTPD
static webserver/file
linker; $2000 security guarantee; LGPL licensed ~ LiteSpeed Web Server
Standard is
free. See benchmarks
~
Zeus Web Server
"dominated web server benchmarks over the last 10 years"-wikipedia
~ Sun
Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server, before
that iPlanet Web Server, and before that Netscape Enterprise
Server) Supports JavaServer Pages (JSP), Java Servlets, Microsoft
Active Server Pages (ASP), PHP, ColdFusion and CGI. ~ Cherokee HTTP Server (Wikipedia)
~ See Apache links below.
Apache and MySQL and PHP Installation Kits / AMP / WAMP
(Windows) / LAMP (Linux) :
Apache Software Foundation's
HTTP Server Project
(HTTP
Daemon) open-source web server for Linux, Unix and Windows hosting
more than 68% of the web sites. ~ Apache Server Resources
(e.g.,
Using
.htaccess Files with Apache).
Pete Freitag's 20
ways to Secure your Apache Configuration (Google
cache)
HTML embeded scripting languages: PHP
Syntax borrowed from C, Java and
Perl. Write dynamically generated pages quickly.
Databases: MySQL
the most
popular open-source database and the fastest growing database
available on more than twenty different platforms including Linux,
Mac OS X, UNIX and Windows.
Installation kits: WAMP5
Setup package
for (W)indows (A)pache (M)ySQL (P)HP including phpMyAdmin
(Alternate link)
and
SQLitemanager.
SourceLabs AMP
stack "Integrated, Tested and Certified Apache, MySQL and
PHP"
HotScripts
Installation Kits including PHP Read kit summaries, ratings,
reviews, or select other categories such as ASP, Python, XML,
etc.
BigApache
for Windows is a
free Enterprise Ready Server. It is suitable for the professional
use or for the program development of Html / PHP / Mysql / Perl /
Apache::ASP /Python / or Java projects (JBoss with Tomcat)."
PHP
:
php.net (official
website) ~
PHP
5 Power
Programming book.
Zend Platform, PHP
Framework,
Collaboration Project, etc. "the only robust PHP production
environment that ensures your applications run smoothly at all
times"
CakePHP rapid
development
framework using ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front
Controller and MVC.
phpLens "PHP
application
server that runs on PHP4 and PHP5; quickly create database-driven
web applications; present data as html tables with facilities to
create, edit, paginate, search and delete records."
PECL PHP
Extensions and its
sister, PEAR,
PHP Extension and
Application Repository.
IBM developerWorks
Going dynamic with PHP and
Recommended PHP reading list.
The PHP Resource
Index
~ PHPBuilder.com
~
PHP Freaks.com
~ ADOdb Database
Abstraction Library
for PHP (and Python).
eAccelerator
free
open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content
cache.
Configuring
Tomcat5 and Apache2 with Virtual Hosts using mod_jk
BlueDragon runtime server-side products deploying CFML
(ColdFusion
Markup Language).
Smith Project freeware cross-platform ColdFusion engine written entirely in Java.
Program Source Code Search Engines : Google Code Search
~ Krugle ~ Koders ~ Codease ~ codefetch ~ All The Code.
Source code documentation generator / Reverse Engineering : Doxygen
~ e-trace tree view of function calls
~ The Source-Navigator IDE
~ Understand for C++ reverse engineering, documentation and metrics tool for C and C++
~ IDA Pro Disassembler and Debugger
~ Process Stalker and IDA Pro plug-ins
~ SABRE BinDiff identifies identical and similar functions in different binaries.
Find errors in source code : Coverity ~ AutoTest
General Programming teaching/lecture/classroom clips
: MIT's
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Video Lectures and online textbook
~ Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
~ Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
~ Learn Lisp From MIT—for Free! (MIT's OpenCourseWare)
~ COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach.
All-purpose Programming and Scripting Languages :
ActiveState's free ActivePerl,
ActivePython, and ActiveTCL and Komodo
IDE.
Python (wikipedia)
~ Dabo Desktop
Application Framework written in Python atop the wxPython GUI
toolkit ~ Python
Learning
Foundation
categorized tutorials, book reviews, podcasts, etc. ~ Dive Into Python
free book and
good links. ~ Magnus Lie Hetland's Instant
Python
crash-course from author of several Python books ~ TurboGears
Python-based framework
for Rapid Web Development. IBM developerWorks
Python Web frameworks, Part 2: Web development with TurboGears and
Python. Compare with Django
(larger base and
high-profile programmers). ~ Jython
(Python in Java). ~ IronPython
written in
C#; for .NET and Mono. ~ A
First Look at IronPython: Where Python meets .NET
Perl is "the most
popular web
programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and
rapid development cycle." (Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac) ~ CPAN (Comprehensive
Perl Archive
Network) (over 500 3rd-party modules) ~ Catalyst MVC
framework for web development. ~ The nms Project
(Not Matt's
Scripts).
Ruby
object-orientated
interpreted scripting language. ~ Ruby-Doc
Ruby documentation project
community ~ Mongrel Ruby web server ~ RubyCentral
"a growing web resource for everything to do with the Ruby
language." ~ IBM's
Ruby off the Rails and
Crossing borders: Exploring Active Record (the persistence
engine behind Ruby on Rails) by a former Java-only dev. ~ Rolling
with Ruby on Rails ~ Using
Ruby on
Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X. See also Rolling with Ruby on
Rails
and What
Is Ruby on Rails also by Curt Hibbs, and RubyOnRails.org.
An introduction to Ruby on Rails for DB2 developers.
book Ruby
for Rails : Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers. Mongrel a
fast HTTP library and
server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications
of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI. It is
framework agnostic and already supports Ruby On Rails, Og+Nitro,
and Camping frameworks.
Check out #rubyonrails on irc.freenode.net
GCC the GNU
Compiler Collection,
includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and
Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,
libgcj,...).
IBM's
C and
C++ Compilers support AIX, Linux, Mac OS X, z/OS, z/VM and
iSeries.
Image Editing Language : ImageMagick
free (BSD-licensed)
software to create, edit and compose bitmap images in many formats
via CommandLine or programming interfaces for Perl, C, C++, Python,
PHP, Ruby, Tcl/Tk or Java. (download
page) ~
GraphicsMagick
(branched from ImageMagick 5.5.2; MIT-style Licensed) ~ Examples
of ImageMagick Usage (Version 6) ~ Python
Imaging Library Handbook (2003 Edition)
Application Server / Middleware / IDE :
The non-profit Eclipse Foundation's Eclipse Platform
IDE written in Java
under the common public license (royalty free source code and world
wide redistribution rights) supporting a
multi-language/platform/vendor environment. ~ EasyEclipse
Distributions prepackaged releases of Eclipse for Windows,
Mac
OS X and Linux.
SWIG
(Simplified
Wrapper and Interface Generator) connects C/C++ with Tcl, Perl,
Python, Ruby, Guile, PHP, Java, C# etc.
Jakarta Tapestry
~ IBM developerWorks
In tune with Tapestry, Part 1
JetBrains IntelliJ
IDEA Java IDE with factoring, J2EE support, Ant, JUnit and
version controls integration.
Code::Blocks
The Open
Source, Cross-platform, Free C/C++ IDE (built with wxWidgets).
Gambas
kind of a
Visual Basic for Linux.
The (SchemeWay)
project to develop commercial quality Eclipse plugins for the
Scheme
programming
language.
Jetty
Java
HTTP Server and Servlet Container (small, fast, high load
performance)
Apache Geronimo
J2EE
server/container project. (WebSphere
Application Server Community Edition is based on this.)
JOnAS Java
Open
Application Server provides support of J2EE 1.4
Morfik Web
applications
unplugged; allows developers to use a visual design environment and
a high-level language of choice to create applications comprising
only of HTML and Javascript. Create web applications that run on
the desktop after being unplugged from the web.
Mono Project
open-source
project led by Novell for running and developing modern
applications (eg., iFolder)
on more than just
the Windows platform, and can run existing programs targeting the
.NET or Java frameworks. (based on the ECMA/ISO Standards; supports
ASP.NET)
~ DotGNU
Portable.NET suite of free software tools to build and
execute
.NET applications, including a C# compiler, assembler,
disassembler, and runtime engine. (GNU/Linux, Windows, Solaris,
NetBSD, FreeBSD, and MacOS X) ~ Mainsoft's Grasshopper
converts compiled
ASP.NET project into Java byte code. ~ IKVM.NET JIT-compiles
Java byte code to
run on Mono.
ZeroC Home of
Ice (the Internet
Communications Engine) a modern alternative to object middleware
such as CORBA
or
COM/DCOM/COM+, with support for C++, Java, Python, PHP, C#, and
Visual Basic.
Trolltech's
Qt a comprehensive C++ application development framework,
which
includes a class-library and tools for cross-platform development
and internationalization.
BEA WebLogic Platform winner of numerous Reader's Choice
Awards
by Java Developer's Journal and Web Services Journal. See also
BEA
JRocket high performance JVM for x86 and BEA's M7 Workshop
Studio (formerly NitroX) product of Mansour
Safai.
Apache Jakarta Tomcat
(formerly BEA
Weblogic's) is the servlet container used in the official Reference
Implementation for Sun's Java
Servlet
and JavaServer
Pages.
IBM's WebSphere
Application Server, Commerce, Studio, etc. (Linux)
Sun Java's
(formerly Javasoft)
NetBeans.org
development products such as NetBeans
IDE and
NetBeans
Platform (NetBeans open-sourced by Sun in mid-2000).
JBoss JBoss
Enterprise
Middleware System (JEMS) J2EE compliant, open-source Application
Server, Eclipse IDE, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate.org, etc.
Oracle's JDeveloper
Java IDE.
Sybase's EAServer
open application server with support for J2EE, PowerBuilder, C/C++
and CORBA components.
Zope open-source
application
server used by hundreds of companies and thousands of developers
(written in Python).
Apple's WebObjects
RAD environment with web services, data access and page generation
capabilities.
Java
: Sequoia
(formerly known as the Clustered JDBC project) provides high
availability and performance scalability for databases.
IBM developerWorks
Facelets fits JSF like a glove and
SWT, Swing or AWT: Which is right for you?.
GNU
Classpath
essential libraries for supporting the Java programming language
GPL
licensed with exception.
Winstone
Servlet
Container provides servlet functionality without the bloat
that
full J2EE compliance.
JavaScript
:
Yahoo! Developer
Network
(Design Pattern Library, JavaScript Developer Center, PHP Developer
Center, Python Developer Center, User Interface Library, etc.
MochiKit
suite of JavaScript
libraries. ~ Dojo
Open Source
JavaScript toolkit.
AJAX
(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) / XMLHttpRequest
Google Web
Tookit
GWT - Build AJAX apps in the Java language; Java classes front-end
converted to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. ~ IBM
developerWorks
Ajax for Java developers: Exploring the Google Web Toolkit.
AJAX
and
SAJAX without ActiveX.
AJAX: Is your application secure enough?
Google
AJAXSLT
implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript.
java.net DWR (Direct
Web
Remoting) easy Ajax for Java.
ZK - Ajax
but no
JavaScript event-driven, XUL-based, Ajax-embedded, all Java
framework to enable Web apps the rich user experiences.
Echo2
new
Ajax-based rendering engine; removes the developer from having to
think in terms of "page-based" applications; instead uses
conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for UI
evelopment. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript not required.
Applications may be hosted using any Java servlet container.
IBM developerWorks
Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax ~ Mastering
Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and
Ajax ~
Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in
Ajax.
Generalized
AJAX
Response Handling for XML Content
JSON JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. (Slashdot post)
JSON-RPC a remote
procedure call
protocol similar to XML-RPC yet simpler.
JSON-RPC-Java
allows JavaScript DHTML web applications to call remote methods in
a Java Application Server (remote scripting) without the need for
page reloading.
JSONRPC
Perl Module that implements JSON-RPC with most ideas were borrowed
from
XMLRPC::Lite and provides CGI server functionality.
Apple's article The
XMLHttpRequest Object.
Mozilla Developer Center: AJAX - Devmo.
IBM developerWorks
Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications
IBM developerWorks
Rich Ajax slide shows with DHTML and XML (Ken Burns Effect)
O'Reilly ONLamp Ajax
on
Rails.
ZK
open-source Ajax Web
framework that enables rich UI for Web applications with no
JavaScript and little programming.
OpenLaszlo
compiles XML
and JavaScript into Flash and soon DHTML. Used by Pandora (available only to US unless you use a proxy). ~ What is OpenLaszlo, and what's it good for?
Eiffel
: object-oriented programming language. EiffelStudio
released
under the GPL (April 5, 2006).
REXX
: IBM's
interpreted programming language (included with OS/2) ~ A
Quick Rexx Tutorial ~ IBM developerWorks
Script for DB2 Universal Database using REXX: Learn REXX fast
and
Quick DB2 UDB scripting.
Securing Mac OS X :
A Corsair White Paper: Securing Mac OS X ~ Research Systems
Unix Group's radmind
tripwire ~ NSA Security
Configuration Guides.
Virtual
Machine Manager / VM / Virtualization / OS Emulation / Hypervisor /
Virtual Private Server :
EasyMVX! create complete virtual machines for VMware Player.
Microsoft
Virtual PC 2004 ~ Microsoft's
Virtual PC for MAC ~ Thursby's DAVE
for Mac allows
file and print sharing to Windows networks via TCP/IP.
Versora Win4Lin
run Windows 2000/XP applications and OS on Linux. ~ CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office
runs popular office productivity software such as Microsoft Office, Photoshop and Lotus Notes in Linux. ~ Wine An open-source implementation of
the Windows API on top of X and Unix (a compatibility layer for running Windows programs; see 3rd party applications based on Wine)
~ Frank's Corner info for running Windows apps on Linux using Wine. ~ PlayOnLinux Python-scripted front end for wine.
Cedega (formerly WineX) a
fork of Wine while under BSD license; tuned to run games on Linux
and Mac.
VirtualBox x86 virtualization; cross-platform; GPL'd.
FreeBSD
Jail ~ sysjail
userland
virtualisation supporting systrace
library; for OpenBSD and NetBSD.
Linux-VServer Project.
Compare with OpenVZ
for Linux.
Linux Virtual
Server built on cluster of real servers.
Virtuozzo
for Windows & Linux Server Virtualization.
Serenity Virtual
Station
(SVISTA)
Parallels Desktop
for
Windows/Mac/Linux.
VMware Supports
the most host
and virtual OS's on one PC (2/2006: VMware GSX Server know called
VMware Server and is free) ~ VMware Player
free
software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on
a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created
by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports
Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk
formats. ~ VManager
freely
create new virtual machines and modify existing vm's. ~ If you
create a "pre-allocated" virtual disk (as opposed to dynamically
growing), you'll end up with a text file "something.vmdk" that
provides disk geometry and points at a raw bit dump
"something-flat.vmdk". VMware (Workstation 5.0, anyway) can use an
existing dd dump if you create a .vmdk file that refers to it.
Here's
how. ~ Browser
Appliance
Virtual Machine free Firefox and Linux (Ubuntu) virtual
machine
for use with the free VMWare Player for safe/sandboxed Internet
browsing.
UML
The
User-mode Linux Kernel. (Wikipedia)
Xen
virtual machine monitor; fast, secure, open-source virtualization
that allows multiple OS instances to run on a single physical
client or server. Supports modified guest OS and unmodified guests
using hardware virtualization support on the latest Intel VT
enabled processors. Offers near native performance for guest OS and
live relocation of guests between servers. (Wikepedia)
QEMU
open source
processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using
dynamic translation. (Wikipedia)
See also the QEMU
Accelerator
Module and KQEMU
-
KDE GUI For QEMU.
Bochs IA-32
Emulator
Project open-source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++
that
runs on most popular platforms. Includes emulation of the Intel x86
CPU, common I/O devices and custom BIOS. Can be compiled to emulate
a 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro or AMD64 CPU including optional
MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! instructions. Can run most Operating
Systems inside the emulation including Linux, Win95, DOS and
NT4.
Cygwin A
Linux-like
environment for Windows consisiting of a DLL providing Linux API
emulation and a collection of command line tools. ~ UnixKit for
Windows A
compilation of free Unix utilities for Windows (unlike Cygwin, does not
require
installation). ~ GNU
utilities for Win32 Uses Microsoft C-runtime msvcrt.dll
instead
of emulation such as Cygwin.
ReactOS
open-source ground-up Windows XP compatible OS incorportating some
reverse engineering by Wine.
Mac-on-Linux
is a
linux/ppc program which makes it possible to run Mac OS in parallel
with Linux.
IBM's
SoulPad a portable storage device (such as USB 2.0 disk)
loaded
with an auto-configuring host OS (simliar to a Linux "Live" CD)
that launches a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMWare Workstation) which
restores an ecrypted session of a guest OS (Windows, Linux) and its
apps (Word, Firefox).
A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE) a simple HOWTO chart for over a dozen operating systems (not Windows).
SMB / CIFS / SAMBA : Samba
Open Source/Free Software suite providing file and print services
to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients such as Windows. ~ jCIFS The Java CIFS
Client Library. ~
Implementing CIFS
The Common
Internet FileSystem - covers Micsrosoft SMB/CIFS, NBT, NBNS/WINS,
Network Neighborhood, Samba, etc.
Plan
9 :
Grave Robbers from Outer Space: Using 9P2000 Under Linux use
of
the Plan 9 distributed resource protocol 9P under the Linux 2.6
operating system. ~ Plan
9 Resource Sharing for
Linux ~ Plan
9 from User
Space (aka plan9port) is a port of many Plan 9 programs from
their native Plan 9 environment to Unix-like operating systems.
Linux
:
Kernel.org
Linux Documentation Project
~
Linux
From Scratch ~ Linux
Newbie Administration Guide ~ Rute User's
Tutorial and
Exposition.
IBM developerWorks'
Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB ~ Dual
Booting Linux
and Windows NT/2000/XP (lilo) ~ SYSLINUX, PXELINUX, and
ISOLINUX
lightweight bootloaders ~ LinuxPrinting.org
HOW-TO's and
recommendations for Linux/Unix/BSD/Solaris/OSX.
LinuxCOmmand.org
Learning the shell, writting scripts, etc.
LinuxLinks
sorted by
category.
Man (command manual) pages: Unix
Man ~ Red
Hat 9
Man.
Package managers : autopackage ~ klik
BSD and Linux Admnistration : Webmin
using any browser
that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager
module), setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing, etc.
(written in Perl 5) ~ Puppet
vs. Cfengine "Cfengine is currently the most widely deployed
configuration management tool. In many ways, Puppet can be thought of
as a next-generation version of cfengine..."
IEs 4
Linux
Internet Explorer for Linux (using Wine)
Linux-NTFS
Project
: access NTFS; includes Ntfsresize.
See
[announcement] ntfs-3g: open source read-write driver
(2006-07-14). Compare with Paragon NTFS for Linux
and their Mount Everything.
Linux Debugging : Valgrind
debug and
profile linux programs, detect many memory management and threading
bugs. ~ DUMA
(Detect Unintended Memory Access) stops your program on the exact
instruction that overruns (or underruns) a malloc() memory buffer.
DUMA is a fork of Bruce Perens' Electric Fence library.
Linux Security enhancing / hardening kits and notes
:
LinuxSecurity.com
SecuriTeam.com
Slashdot posts recommendations 9/28/2005.
NSA's SELinux
Security-Enhaned Linux (incoporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux
and Fedora Core) limits/sandboxes the impact of breaches.
Novell
AppArmor Powered by Immunix
RSBAC Rule Set
Based Acess Control.
PaX / grsecurity
attempts
to block/prevent breaches. Incorporated into grsecurity, Adamantix
(formerly known as
Trusted Debian), and Hardened
Gentoo.
Bastille
Hardening Program for Red Hat, Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandriva,
Debian, Gentoo, HP-UX, Mac OS X.
LinuxExposed
Basic Hardening Linux article.
Securing Debian Manual by Javier
Fernández-Sanguino
Peña.
Openwall Linux (OWL)
OpenBSD-style security-enhanced Linux server operating system (no X
server) by Alexander Peslyak, A.K.A. Solar Designer, the maker of
John the Ripper
password cracker.
Trustix Secure Linux
security-enhanced and stability-augmented Linux distribution for
servers.
Argus Systems Group PitBull
LX and PitBull Foundation Suite.
Trusted Computer
Solutions.
David
A.
Wheeler’s Personal Home Page (Secure Programming
for
Linux and Unix HOWTO -- Creating Secure Software; Flawfinder source
code scanner; Securing Microsoft Windows; etc.)
Emery Berger
homepage with a focus on memory management.
Small Linux distros :
CrunchBang Ubuntu based using lightweight Openbox and popular codecs
~ SliTaz (30MB)
~ Damn Small Linux (50MB)
~ Puppy Linux (60MB)
~ Finnix LiveCD for system administrators; based on Debian test
~ VectorLinux based on Slackware.
~ dmoz list of tiny Linux distros.
Math specific distro : The Quantian Distribution
Penetration Testing / Pen-test Linux distros : Knoppix STD Security Tools Distribution.
~ PHLAK Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit; derivative of Morphix.
~ BackTrack combines Whax and Auditor distros; based on Slax.
Incident Response and Forensics : Helix Live CD
combines Whax and Auditor distros; based on Slax. (EnCase Forensic court-validated for forensic investigation.)
Source based Linux distros : Gentoo Source-based Linux with Python-based (now C based?) package manager called Portage in the
tradition of BSD ports.
Debian GNU/Linux APT (DEB) package management Linux distros
: Debian (weekly
CD builds and weekly
DVD builds) ~ Debian
Backports - recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and
unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will
run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable
Debian distribution. ~ Debian
Administration
System Administration Tips and Resources.
book: The Debian
System
Concepts and Techniques
Knoppix and Knoppix
LiveCD ~
Kanotix
bleeding edge Debian/Knoppix ~ Xandros
Linux
distro from Corel group with WinXP-like user interface, a file
manager that rivals SAMBA and Windows Explorer, and simple-click
Debian package management. ~ Hacking
Xandros Desktop Home 4.0 using http://www.debian-multimedia.org
repository.
Linspire
(formerly Lindows)
and freespire
Even the CNR
(click and run) Service is free (Aug 2006) See
How is CNR different from apt-get? ~ MEPIS and SimplyMEPIS
~ Ubuntu
Debian with Gnome desktop
and 6-month support lifecycles. ~ Ubuntu Unleashed free online book ~ Enable Smooth fonts on Ubuntu Linux ~ The
Perfect Setup - Ubuntu 6.10 Server (Edgy Eft) (Apache 2.0,
MySQL 5.0, Postfix, BIND9, proftpd, Courier-IMAP and Webalizer) ~
Ubuntu Live CD: Gnoppix.
KDE
Ubuntu: Kubuntu
~ EasyUbuntu
script installs
totem-xine, w32codecs, libdvdcss, RealPlayer, Flash, Java, Skype,
nVidia and ATi drivers, etc. Compare with Linux Mint and Medibuntu and Automatix
and
BUMPS. (Automatix
home page) See wiki.ubuntu's CommonCustomizations page.
nUbuntu
(security based) and Fluxbuntu are use Fluxbox. ~ grml
Debian-based Live-CD for sysadmins / texttool-users.
Red Hat Package Management (RPM) Linux distros : Novell's SUSE Linux
(SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) / Novell Linux Desktop and SUSE
Linux Comparitive Features and Benefits)(alternate link) and
OpenSUSE's SUPER
(Suse Performance Enhanced Release) ~ See also Sun's Java
Desktop System (based on SUSE). Novell Linux
Desktop.
Fedora implements SELinux, execshield with NX (NoExecute), PIE (Position Independant Executables), XEN (virtualization), GFS (Global File System), and Fedora Directory Server.
~ RPM Fusion combines freshrpms, Livna, and Dribble package repositories.
Omega Desktop Fedora spin (includes code from Livna)
PCLinuxOS Texstar's active fork of Mandrake/Mandriva 9.2; uses APT and the Synaptic GUI.
CentOS and White Box Enterprise Linux and
Scientific Linux - free versions of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
Projects Red Hat started/maintains/supports/hosts/etc: sourceware.org projects
~ Fedora Wiki Project Red Hat contributions to Free and Open Source software.
PacMan package management Linux distros : Arch Linux based
on Crux Linux, uses BSD-style init scripts, has fresh PacMan packages
~ Frugalware
based on Slackware
with XGL & Compwiz for GNOME and XFCE, BSD init scipts, better multi-lingual support,
and a heavily patched version of Arch's PacMan.
OpenSolaris kernel distros : Nexenta OS -
GNU/Debian/Ubuntu packages/userland and the OpenSolaris
kernel. ~ BeleniX
OpenSolaris Live CD ~ Blastwave
Software
DVD (1165 software packages for Sparc and x86). ~ Sunfreeware.com
~ Solaris
Express Fully functional high quality snapshots of Solaris with monthly release schedules. (SPARC and x64/x86 platforms) ~
How to install Sun Solaris 10 inside VMware Workstation 5.5
WxWidgets
: (not
under GPL; formerly "wxWindows") wxWidgets
~ wxDesigner
dialog editor and RAD
tool.
wyoGuide
tutorial
for developing well-designed cross-platform applications.
Lightweight Window Manager for Unix/Linux: FluxBox
(with LintherBrushed
theme) ~ IceWM
(with Windows
Classic or IceQua
themes) ~
JWM
Joe's Window Manager written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum.
(Themes
and
forum) ~ dwm dynamic window manager (<2000 SLOC in C) ~ GDM
the GNOME Display Manager (with Soft
Flower or
Soft
Flower
Widescreen themes) ~ KDM
KDE
Display Manager (with Mac
OSX
Imitation: GNU/Linux theme). ~ EDE - Equinox
Desktop
Environment.
GTK+ / GTK2 / GIMP Toolkit / GNOME / Xfce : GTK+ ~ GIMP Toolkit
and
GNOME
and Xfce
~ IBM's
GTK+ fundamentals, Part 1: Why use GTK+? ~ gtkmm official C++
interface for GTK+ ~
Xubuntu
derivative of Ubuntu based on Xfce.
Qt / KDE : Trolltech's Qt ~ Qt (toolkit)
and
KDE.
Linux apps for K Desktop Environment / KDE : Konqueror Web
Browser and File
Manager. ~ Krusader
twin
panel (commander style) file manager. ~ KOffice free,
integrated office suite
for KDE. ~ Wireless
Assistant for connecting to wireless networks. ~ Kile an
integrated LaTeX editor
environment. ~ KDevelop-Project
IDE (Integrated
Development Environment) for KDE. ~ Cervisia
GUI frontend for the version control system CVS. ~ bksys
framework
based on scons for detecting the environment, compiling
applications and installing them. It replaces the whole GNU
autotool chain (automake, autoconf, aclocal, autoheader, libtool)
and only depends on Python. ~ Quanta
Plus a highly stable and
feature rich web development environment (cf. Nvu). ~ klik provides an easy way to download
and use software for most major distributions. ~ Baghira a
Mac OSX theme for QT/KDE. ~ digiKam
digital photo management. ~ Kaffeine
full
featured Media Player. ~ KMPlayer
Video player plugin for Konqueror and basic MPlayer/Xine/ffmpeg/ffserver/VDR frontend for
KDE. ~ amaroK
music player. ~
MythTV PVR
(Personal Video Recorder). ~ K3b
CD/DVD Kreator.
~ Configuring
KDE Slashdot post. ~ KDE-Look.org
eyecandy for yor KDE
desktop. See SuperKaramba and Kroller themes. ~ KDE Edutainment Project
educational
software. (See also Tux Paint,
Tux Typing
and GCompris.)
~ KStars
Desktop Planetarium. ~
BibleTime
Bible study
software.
Linux Firewall/VPN/Intrusion Protection/Antivirus/Spam
Filter/Content Filter : Astaro Security Linux.
Compare with eSoft InstaGate and Untangle.
BSD
/ Berkeley
Software Distribution / Unix : OpenBSD
(BSDanywhere LiveCD)
The most secure network/Internet operating system (W^X write xor execute,
randomized library base addresses, Propolice, privilege seperation,
systrace
(official
website) for fine-grained control over syscalls for any
application, and
more.)
and contains the best software packet filter/firewall. See Theo's
Exploit
Mitigation Techniques presentation. ~ YaifO
Yet another installer for OpenBSD; installs OpenBSD remotely via secure shell
(no need of keyboard or serial console)(doesn't work if PC has
multiple bootable operating systems) ~ PF and pftop
curses-based utility for real-time display of active states and
rule statistics for pf ~ OpenBSD's
network stack (SecurityFocus interviews 3 devs about ICMP protection)
~ Firefox and OpenBSD
~ OliveBSD
OpenBSD
live CD. ~ OpenBSD
Support
- User document project ~ WGBLinks.net's OpenBSD 101 ~ OpenBSDsupport
list of docs ~ IBM developerWorks
Take a closer look at OpenBSD ~ OpenBSD Ports
weblisting ~ pkg_search
copy
and search through the packages listing locally and searches
locally.
FreeBSD
fast server OS.
See
Choosing the FreeBSD Version That Is Right For You. ~ FreshPorts.org
ports for FreeBSD ~ Demonology.net's FreeBSD
Update Binary Security Updates for FreeBSD ~ The
Complete FreeBSD book online and revised.
FreeBSD's Security officer Colin Percival's FreeBSD
Update
automatically builds, distributes, fetches and applies binary
security updates. ~ Portsnap
securely
download a compressed snapshot of the FreeBSD ports tree and then
extracts. ~ Binary
Security
Updates for FreeBSD from maker of Portsnap. ~ portaudit
checks if installed ports are listed in a security vulnerabilities
database. ~ FreeBSD
VuXML Vulnerabilities and eXposures Markup Language -
Documenting security issues in FreeBSD and the FreeBSD Ports
Collection. ~
portversion checks version against ports database. similar to
pkg_version(1), but is optimized for portupgrade(1) and runs much
faster than pkg_version(1)
DTrace for
FreeBSD ~ DTrace Tools
~ Top Ten DTrace (D) Scripts
FreeNAS The Free NAS Server
(Network-Attached Storage) supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS,
RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5)
with a Full WEB configuration interface. 16MB in size; based on
m0n0wall. (Compare FreeNAS with Openfiler and CryptoBox.)
OpenBSD encrypted NAS HOWTO with software RAID.
PC-BSD built on
FreeBSD, adds
graphical installer with KDE prebuilt. (Unofficial Installing
and
Configuring PC-BSD). Compare with DesktopBSD also
based on FreeBSD
and KDE with a graphical installer. ~ TrustedBSD
trusted operating
system extensions to FreeBSD.
Firefly BSD
commercial
version of DragonFly
BSD
which is based on FreeBSD-4 series and has improved TCP/IP
networking and employs light weight kernel threading (LWKT). ~ GoBSD.com community
network
dedicated to DragonFlyBSD.
PureBSD
OpenBSD and FreeBSD
resources.
NetBSD
runs on the most
hardware platforms.
BSDForums.org
TCP/IP
Internet Protocol Suite : The TCP/IP Guide.
Secure
Socket
Layer / SSL / Secure Webserver : Investigations
about SSL ~ The SSL
Protocol
Version 3.0 Internet Draft. ~ OpenSSL
open source SSL v2/v3 and TLS
v1 toolkit. ~ OpenSSL
Documentation ~ See also mod_SSL
the Apache interface module to
OpenSSL. ~ Apache-SSL
secure webserver
based on Apache and SSLeay/OpenSSL ~ Stunnel Universal
SSL Wrapper.
Certificate Authority / CA :
See RapidSSL (GeoTrust)
(or cheaper reseller
or its 2+ year promo codes which make it easy to guess the 1 year code)
for single-root (unchained) SSL seals less expensive than Thawte or Comodo and especially Verisign or Network Solutions.
Secure Shell / SSH
: OpenSSH
free/open source secure shell (produced by the OpenBSD team to avoid licensing issues). ~ Not
necessarily better than commercial version tectia SSH (from SSH Communications Security), as pointed out by
this Slashdot post.
DenyHOSTS
a script
to discovering a repeated attack host and update /etc/hosts.deny to
prevent future break-in attempts. Compare with tb-sshdfilter
which
tries to improve upon DenyHOSTS such as using stdout instead of
syslog.
Ostiary
Simple, Secure Remote Script Execution.
OpenSSH
Public Key Authentication Public Key Setup | Configure
ssh-agent Process | Agent Forwarding.
SSH
tricks ~
Using
ssh-agent
with ssh and An
Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding ~
Kerberos 5 authentication without password
VPN
:
FreeS/WAN
implementation of IPSEC & IKE for Linux. Compare with Openswan and strongSwan. ~
Creating secure wireless access points with OpenBSD and
OpenVPN
OpenVPN (OpenBSD
HOWTO). ~ Implementing
IPsec on OpenBSD (3.8; good IPsec intro) ~ Zero to
IPSec in 4
minutes (OpenBSD 3.8
ipsecctl) ~ ISAKMPD using X509 certificates Allow mobile users (dynamic IP addresses) to join a VPN. Sample configs for OpenBSD and MS Windows 2000 are provided.
~ Dmitry Dvoinikov's Nest IP VPN tunnel for BSD Unix.
See also Global Internet Freedom Consortium partners' popluar anti-censorship client software packages
and Dmitry Dvoinikov's HTTHost / HTTPort to bypass proxy
restrictions by sending all through HTTP. ~ nat-traverse uses UDP to traverse NAT gateways
~ MobiKEY USB key; remote desktop access; no client install; good security; expensive
~ LogMeIn Hamachi a zero-configuration virtual private networking application with an open security architecture and NAT-to-NAT traversal capabilities. (Windows 2000/XP and Linux)
~ Hamachi VPN Solution (Running Hamachi as a Windows service) ~ tinc VPN daemon, zlib or LZO compression, OpenSSL encryption, add nodes via configuration files, bridge segments, supports IPv6.
Remote Desktop Access : ~ TeamViewer
~ 3am Labs' free LogMeIn avoid
firewall port forwarding issues (formerly "Remotely Anywhere")
~ Gbridge VPN, RDP/VNC via google account
~ MyIVO (Instant Virtual Office; free)
~ QnextMyPC (free)
~ CrossLoop (free; data transfer too)
~ Fog Creek Copilot ~
Citrix Online's $20/month GoToMyPC.
See also WebEx PCNOW (formerly MyWebExPC) (non-Pro version is free).
GNU Screen
"fullscreen console multiplexer which permits a user to multiplex
one terminal into multiple terminals. Thus screen allows the user
to perform several additional tasks over a normal terminal."
(Screen: Tips & Tricks)
See also: Ratpoison a
simple Window Manager modeled after GNU Screen.
TightVNC or UltraVNC
Virtual
Network Computing (alternate site also
at
SourceForge.net) Faster screen updates than WinVNC/RealVNC and
TridiaVNC due to video driver hook between framebuffer and VNC
server. ~ PuTTY
free Telnet/SSH Client. (portaPuTTY
doesn't use
the Registry) ~ Tunneling
VNC over
SSH ~ Tunnelling
VNC over
SSH with PuTTY ~ PuTTYcyg
a
patched version of PuTTY used as a local Cygwin terminal instead of
the Windows console, xterm, or rxvt.
Fastest display protocol: NX
technology:
NoMachine NX
and FreeNX
(freshmeat
link)
(Compare with VNC
and
Citrix ICA and Microsoft
RDP.)
2X TerminalServer for Linux
install ThinClientOS on thin or fat (PC) clients and connect via
RDP, ICA, VNC or NX to virtual desktops on the TerminalServer
running OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. Compare with the
free LTSP (Linux
Terminal Server
Project).
ThinStation based on Netstation.
File Synchronization :
syncplicity Everyday sync, backup, and sharing as simple as can be.
DeltaCopy "Windows Friendly" wrapper around the Rsync program.
iFolder Enterprise Server works similar to Windows Offline Folders; GPL'd; requires Mono.
~ Unison File Synchronizer GPL'd; Windows, Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.
~ Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync.
Darknets / Dark Web / Virtual Network / Private Network sharing / Friend-to-Friend / F2F : Grouper freely
share files with upto 30 invited users. (From the makers of the Spinner radio channels program now called Radio@Netscape). ~ The Free Network Project
~ WASTE.
File Systems : OpenAFS distributed filesystem for file sharing, providing location
independence, scalability and transparent migration capabilities for data.
~ Reiser4 (V3 is default for SuSE, Lindows, FTOSX, Libranet, Gentoo, Xandros and Yoper)
~ OpenSolaris ZFS
~ Red Hat's GFS (Global File System) for a cluster of computers.
Linux FUSE Filesystem in Userspace. Mount/implement a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program.
LDAP / Directory Server / AD / Active Directory alternatives
: Novell's eDirectory
(good
alternative to Active Directory) and Novell
Identity Manager (formerly DirXML). See also Novell
OES
(Open Enterprise Server) and Novell
ZENworks
Suite to manage group policies and this Slashdot
post.
OpenLDAP open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Red Hat Directory Server (Netscape DS, AOL Directory Server) (used at
DoD). ~ LDAP made easy with SLES: SUSE
LINUX Enterprise Server An Introduction to LDAP.
Red Hat's Fedora Directory Server (rewrote encumbered parts and open sourced
Netscape Directory Server 4.0).
Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition (formerly
Netscape DS / iPlanet DS; now heavily developed by Sun)
SLAMD Distributed Load Generation Engine Java app for stress testing and performance analysis
for LDAP, HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, or databases via JDBC.
Apache
Directory Server embeddable LDAP server written in Java
"designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and
views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich
constructs"
phpLDAPadmin.
Mail Server / MTA / Mail Daemon / Exchange replacements /
Exchange alternatives :
Email/mailbox format converter: Transend
Migrator (formerly UniAccess by ComAxis) converts Outlook, Louts Notes, cc:Mail, MHS, CompuServe 2.0, Calypso Mail, DaVinci Mail,
ExpressIT, GroupWise, Notework, etc., and can convert address books, calendars, and tasks.
The Open-Source Outlook Connector Project
Email retrieval: Getmail recommended over Fetchmail.
Email transfer from MUA to MTA: msmtp.
Appliances: Mirapoint's RazorGate
(secures Exchange, Notes, and GroupWise)
and Message Server (99.999 reliability; integrates A/V and anti-spam; hardened FreeBSD)
hMailServer for Windows; free.
Ipswitch Collaboration Suite (ICS) provides e-mail and real-time
collaboration, calendar and contact list sharing.
Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacement Platform (OSER)
Zarafa Outlook sharing and Webaccess Exchange Replacement
Sun Java Enterprise System & Sun Java System Suites such
as the
Sun Java Communication Suite ($50 per employee per year).
Sun
Enterprise Messaging Migration Service "mobilizes Sun
intellectual capital to provide a smooth, expert transition from
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to advanced Sun Java System communication
and collaboration products." ~ Java
Enterprise System
2005Q4 Deployment Examples and Technical Notes Collection
>> Escaping
Vendor Lock-in: Life After Microsoft Exchange.
Novell
Linux Small Business Suite Support for up to 100 users and 3
servers.
Novell GroupWise
Migration Utility 2.0.1 for Microsoft Exchange.
Novell GroupWise
Import Utility 2.0 for Microsoft Outlook.
Hula Project
open source
calendar and mail server project led by Novell and uses parts of
their NetMail.
The next
version of Netmail is codenamed Maui (stable releases beginning the
end of 2006) and will be based on Hula (frequently updated) and
integrated with opensourced iFolder.
NetWin SurgeMail
Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open Source Project (Acquired by Yahoo 9/2007).
Scalix Server (formerly HP Openmail) drop-in replacement for
Exchange with LDAP replacing AD. Enterprise Edition included with Xandros Server.
InfoWorld's
Scalix and Zimbra By Mike Heck March 23, 2006.
Citadel Outlook IMAP support; connector (MAPI?) in beta.
Merak
GroupWare Server for Windows or Linux; full Outlook
integration.
ExchangeIt!
Gordano Messaging Suite GMS Mail (formerly NTMail) offers optional full Microsoft Outlook integration (like Scalix and Sun Java Communication Suite)
@Mail Webmail Client /
Webmail
Server for Linux, Unix and Windows. Exchange replacement.
Used
by Hostway, PlusNet, Los Alamos National Laboratory, US Space and
Naval Warfare Systems Command, etc.
The Horde Project webmail
program
IMP (PHP IMAP/POP3), contact manager Turba, calendar manager
Kronolith.
phpGroupWare
(formerly
webdistro) open source groupware server with Calendar, Addressbook,
Projects Manager, Todo List, Notes, Newsgroup and Headlines Reader,
Filemanager, etc.
OpenGroupware.org
open
source groupware server (formerly LSOffice and SKYRiX 3).
eGroupware.org
web-based groupware suite (Kolab Server and Kolab clients such as
Kontact) developed on a custom set of PHP-based APIs. Currently
available modules include: email, addressbook, calendar, infolog
(notes, to-do's, phone calls), content management, forum,
bookmarks, wiki.
The Kolab Groupware Project
Kolab-XML storage format is fully open and avoids MAPI/TNEF
allowing for seamless support of mixed clients environments
(Outlook/KDE/Web).
SUSE
LINUX
Openexchange Server 4.1 and the newer OpenXchange / Open
Xchange /
Open-Xchange 5 (not bound to SUSE Linux).
Bynari Insight
Server packages Postfix, LDAP, Cyrus IMAP, web GUI admin, and
webmail server. Also Insight
Connector (and
Insight Address Book) for Bynari Insight Server, Cyrus-IMAP,
or
Courier-IMAP.
qmail
"Second most popular
MTA" used by NetSol, Verio, PayPal, Pair Networks, and MessageLabs.
See the programmer
Dan Bernstein's $500
qmail security hole guarantee unclaimed since March 1997.
Qmail has some
issues fixed by qmail.org's netqmail. ~ qpsmtpd - a
flexible smtpd
daemon written in Perl; originally written as a drop-in qmail-smtpd
replacement, but now it also includes a smtp forward and a postfix
"backend". See also: newbie
manual, HOWTO,
The future of
qmail
and QMTP
and MXPS.
CommuniGate
runs
on over 30 platforms. "most scalable" "email and calendaring, to
instant messaging, VoIP, Conferencing Server and IP PBX"
Courier-IMAP
"a
GPLed qmail"-Russ Nelson. Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP server
that uses Maildir (a fast and efficient directory-based mail
storage format used by Qmail and as an alternative by Exim and
Postfix which avoids locking issues when accessed by multiple
apps.) (Slashdot
fan)
Postfix
- like
Sendmail, but
easier to
administer. ~ Postfix
Add-on Software ~ Filtering
spam with Postfix: Effective ways to reduce unwelcome mail
(HELO restrictions) ~ Tummy.com vPostMaster
Postfix package.
Exim GPL'd;
developed by
University of Cambridge; extremely configurable yet easy to read
configs. Similar to Smail
3.
(Exim not as secure as qmail and Postfix: Slashdot
post).
GNU
Mailutils
Binc IMAP
(C++; short;
maildir rather than mbox support)
Carnegie Mellon's Cyrus
IMAP Server.
Dovecot secure
IMAP server
"offering 1000€ for the first person to demonstrate a remotely
exploitable security hole in Dovecot." (22 Jan 2006) (Slashdot
proselytizer)
Perdition:
Mail
Retrieval Proxy a smart POP/IMAP proxy that connects users to
the "right" POP/IMAP server. See also their High
Capacity Email
paper regarding clustered server farms.
eMailman's
Linux/Unix mail server links.
MUA / Webmail : SquirrelMail
standards-based
webmail package written in PHP4 with pure PHP support for the IMAP
and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (no
JavaScript required).
Sylpheed
and
Sylpheed-Claws
(see
Wikipedia)
Novell
Evolution groupware (e-mail, calendaring, tasks and contact
management).
CRM / Customer Relationship Management / Contact Management
: SugarCRM inexpensive; open source (Slashdot post). Compare with vtiger
~ CiviCRM for advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups
~ freeCRM.com online
~ Highrise
~ Salesforce.com
~ OrangeCRM HR Information Systems (HRIS)
~ NetSuite CRM and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning - financials, order and inventory management)
~ OpenBravo Web based ERP for SMEs ~ Compiere ERP & CRM. ~ SQL-Ledger ERP (Perl) and fork: LedgerSMB.
Maximizer (review)
~ Avidian's Prophet
for Outlook. (review).
ACT! ~
GoldMine. E-commerce : osCommerce popular PHP 4.1+ open-source (GPL) online shopping cart project.
Help Desk Issue Tracking: OneOrZero
~ RT : Request Tracker (Perl)
~ the Trac Project (Subversion)
~ roundup (Python)
Bulletin Board / Forum / News Server / Newsgroups / NNTP :
phpBB open-source bulletin board package based on PHP and either MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or
Access/ODBC. ~ Apache Java Enterprise Mail Server (a.k.a. Apache James) pure Java SMTP
and POP3 Mail server and NNTP News server. ~ SmartNewz NNTP
News Server can run as service (circa $31).
Open Source Software Index / Open-Source Repositories :
ubuntu's List Of Open-source Programs (LOOP) for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
~ SourceForge.net largest repository of open-source code and applications. freshmeat largest
index of Unix and
cross-platform software, themes and Palm OS software. ~ MrTAXI
(PalmOS;
see QuickBits, FastCPU,
JackFlash, JackSprat). ~ jSyncManager
Java Palm sync solution for your PalmOS. (Slashdot post by project manager)
Exams / Tests / Quizes / Q&A : MCSE BrainDumps
~ BrainDumps.com ~ Vellosoft PEST
~ TechExams.net
Linux and Unix Certifications : The O'Reilly School of Technology online certifications ~ Sun
Certified System Administrator for the Solaris OS ~ BSDcertification.org
the BSD
Certification Group ~ Linux Professional Institute LPI Certification ~ Ubuntu Certified Professional ~ IBM
developerWorks
Linux
Professional Institute (LPI) exam prep ~ CompTIA's Linux+
~ Red Hat's
RHCT,
RHCE
and RHCA ~ Novell
Training Services
Certifications.
Security Certifications : SANS Institute's GIAC
(Global Information
Assurance Certification) ~ CompTIA's Server+
~
Cybertrust
certified (formerly TruSecure Certification) ~ ICS2's CISSP
and
SSCP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional and
Systems Security Certified Practitioner) ~ EC-Council
Certifications such as Security5 (International Council of
E-Commerce Consultants) ~ SCP's SCP's
SCNP
and SCNA (Security Certified Network Professional and
Security
Certified Network Architect) ~
ISACA's CISA and CISM (Certified Information Systems Auditor
andCertified Information Systems Manager) ~ COMSEC's C2SP
(COMSEC
Certified Specialist Program)
Forensics Certifications
Encryption / Cryptography / PGP / GPG : FireGPG Firefox extension to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of a text; works with Gmail.
University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering: CSE P 590TU: Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
(Winter 2006)
For Email: S/MIME
and OpenPGP summary comparison. ~ wikipedia S/MIME
~ wikipedia
Pretty Good
Privacy
(PGP) and GNU
Privacy Guard.
Enigmail
Encrypt/sign mail when sending, decrypt/authenticate received mail.
Supports GnuPG
and the OpenPGP
Alliance.
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)
a
complete and free replacement for PGP. ~ AxCrypt
AES-128 File
Encryption and Compression for Windows. Compare with the very tiny
dsCrypt.
~ TrueCrypt
Free open-source disk
encryption software for Windows XP/2K/2K3 and Linux.
WinPT
Windows
Privacy Tools is a collection of multilingual applications for easy
digital encryption and signing of content. GnuPG-based, compatible
with OpenPGP compliant software and free for commercial and
personal use under the GPL.
Iron
Key encrypts file as a self-extracting executable; no
software
needed to decrypt.
Cypherix's
Cryptainer and Secure IT encrypted virtual drive containers
and
encrypt attachments without the need for the recipient to have
Cryptainer.
D. J. Bernstein's Cryptography
online intro. (maker
of qmail and djbdns)
Salsa20 encryption
function (also called Snuffle 2005) by Daniel J. Bernstein.
Allegedly easier to implement than AES and the encryption key is
not vulnerable or guessable via cache timing attacks.
Applied
Cryptography Second Edition by Bruce Schneier (look for 5th
printing).
RC6: RSA
Security ~ The Code
Project ~
Jetico's BestCrypt
data
encryption supports RC6 for Windows platforms.
Password Crackers :
L0phtCrack 6 (from original devs before LC was bought by @stake and LC5 was bought and dropped by Symantec)
To increase password security for Windows networks with no 9x clients:
Microsoft's How to prevent Windows from storing a LAN manager hash of your password in Active Directory and local SAM databases.
Default Password List for routers/switches
~ Router Passwords
ChromePass for Google Chrome Web Browser ~ Mail PassView (email clients) ~
Mac OS X Password Recovery ~ Dialupass
(DUN/RAS/VPN) ~ MessenPass
(instant
messenger apps) ~ Network
Password Recovery (Win98/ME/XP; not Win2K) ~ Protected
Storage
PassView (Outlook, IE, MSN Explorer)
Offline NT Password and Registry Editor Reset the password of any user on NT/2K/XP.
~ Unlocking Windows NT/2000/2003 Domain Controllers
~ How to reset the Domain Admin Password under Windows 2003 Server
Austrumi
Linux bootable ISO image small enough for a Business Card size CD
(50MB). Simply enter "boot: nt_pass" (no quotes) to change any
Windows password.
Passware - Office
Key, MS
Money, Password Unmasker, etc. ~ John the Ripper
password
cracker for many OS's. See SecurityFocus
interview with author, Solar Designer. ~ Last Bit software
password recovery and
security ~ Password
Crackers, Inc.
Symantec
Pulls Plug on L0phtCrack March 2006 ~ SecWatch.org
Download Archives -> Password Crackers (LC5 and more)
~ LCP 5.04 ~ ELCOMSOFT.COM's
Proactive Password Auditor (formerly Proactive
Windows Security Explorer) faster than LC5 and Password Recovery
Software
Rainbowcrack.com
rainbow table precomputation. ~ Ophcrack
the time-memory-trade-off-cracker for Windows using rainbow tables.
(check for latest at SourceForge
link)
~ BackTrack Linux security live distro
~ GData An Online MD5
Hash Database containing over 12M entries; over 7 languages, 35
topics, and common mutations to words that include numbers and
capitalizatiion.
echo -n "trustno1" | md5sum [5fcfd41e547a12215b173ff47fdd3739]
3rd Party Firmware and Drivers : Firmware to make DVD players region free (ignore Region Codes and DRM)
Rockbox for MP3 players such as the iPod supports more codecs and many other features.
Linksys WRT54G GL and GS
and Netgear WGR614L and ASUS WL-500gV2
~ DD-WRT wireless firmware enhancements.
OmegaDrivers.net unlock features and increase performance of ATi and NVIDIA video cards.
Grid Computing : IBM developerWorks
Grid in action: Introduction to GridShell.
Best Enterprise Hardware : NetApp Storage ~
Foundry Networks ServerIron Application and Web Switches.
Hardware RAID Controllers : look for SATA2 or SATA
II
(Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hotplugging), S.M.A.R.T., battery
backed cache, etc. ~ wikipedia on RAID ~ Get
the
pros and cons of SATA II (SATA-IO) ~ 3ware ~ Adaptec ~ Promise ~ HighPoint Technologies
VoIP / PSTN / PBX phone systems : TestYourVoIP.com
will make a
call from wherever you are to one of our U.S. or international test
locations and report the results for free. (Java)
ENUM / tElephone NUmber Mapping and e164.org free public ENUM service.
Asterisk The
Open Source
Linux PBX. ~ AsteriskNOW ~ astGUIclient
suite of
software for Asterisk systems primarily using Zap/IAX/SIP
trunks/phones. ~ Trixbox
(AKA
Asterisk@Home)
"enables the home user to quickly set up an Asterisk PBX. A web GUI
makes configuration and operation easy." ~ Asterisk Tutorials
including
TrixBox and FreePBX. ~ Asterisk
Logger ~
AsterWin
IE
~ voip-info.org
Asterisk summary and links.
Yate - Yet Another
Telephony
Engine ~ Xorcom
Rapid
Debian distro with pre-configured Asterisk. ~ FreePBX
standardized implementation
of Asterisk that includes a web-based configuration interface. ~
OpenPBX "a
better Asterisk.
We forked Asterisk due to issues with the Asterisk management."
GNU
Telephony meta project that supports the GNU Bayonne
telephony
application server.
FreeSWITCH
open source
telephony application written in C; can also be used to interface
with other open source PBX systems such as OpenPBX, Bayonne, YATE
or Asterisk.
Fonality
PBXtra Call Center
for $1000 to $2000. (Fonality acquired Trixbox
AKA Asterisk@Home early October
2006)
DVD (disc media, software, movies) : DVD Price Search
(movies)
DVD
Frequently
Asked Questions (and Answers) (revision of the official
Internet DVD FAQ for the rec.video.dvd Usenet newsgroups).
Why DVD+R(W)
is
superior to DVD-R(W).
Note: DVD+R discs should have bitsetting (booktyping)
option set before burning to maximumize compatibility especially
with pre-2002 drives.
dvdisaster project burn on supported CD/DVD with ECC (error correcting codes).
DVD
Media
Guides -> Blank Media and Quality FAQ. (Rima.com has best deal
on first-class
Taiyo Yuden brand.)
Windows software to play encrypted movie DVD's: CyberLink's
PowerDVD
or interVideo's WinDVD.
DVD
Shrink free software for Windows to make copies of DVD's.
VideoHelp.com
DVD
player hacks to play all region codes and
Region free tools such as the free DVD Region Killer.
DVD Region+CSS Free,
DVDFab,
DVDIdle Pro (Formerly called DVD Region-Free) (DVD Idle loads
the DVD data to a cache and feeds this to your player software to
avoid DVD spinning wear throughout the movie playing.) See their
free DVDFab
Decrypter
removes all protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS)
while copying.
CD / DVD Burning Software: Nero
~ Roxio ~ DeepBurner
~ UltraISO
~ DVD-R Tools for CD-R(W) and DVD-R(W) devices ~ DVD Flick burn media files to DVD player format
~ K9Copy rip DVDs on Linux.
free: CDBurnerXP
and InfraRecorder
and BurnAware Free.
Virtual CD / DVD: SlySoft Virtual
CloneDrive (Windows)
The Pioneer Region
Free DVD
firmware page.
To play encrypted DVD's on Linux/Unix, install the
libdvdcss2 library.
Audio/Video Codecs and Drivers : Fluendo Webshop purchase multimedia codecs and plugins for Linux/Solaris
~ Free-Codecs Latest audio/video
codecs and tools.
illiminable Ogg
Directshow Filters (Windows).
Media Convert ~ SUPER
(Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) converts a
wide range of audio and video files. (W98, WinMe, W2k, WinXP)
4Front Technologies Open Sound System a set of device drivers that provide a uniform API
across all the major UNIX architectures.
Audio / CD :
MusicGiants download
songs in Windows Media Audio Lossless (1100 kbps; around $1.29
each; EMI, Warner, Sony/BMG, Universal)
Pandora a customized streaming station; a music discovery service designed to help you find enjoyable music.
Compare with Jango, Last.fm, Songza, finetune, Grooveshark, Slacker, and Deezer.
How to disable the autoplay / autorun feature of CD drives in
order to prevent malware and DRM (Digital Rights Management)
software from installing. Or install the
Tweak UI 1.33 (Windows)
Exact Audio Copy
for reading audio CD's better than normal Windows programs; less
susceptible to distortion from scratches and various DRM copy
protection schemes. (Windows)
Adobe Soundbooth
VioLet Composer music composer for Win32
Rosegarden closest native equivalent to Cubase for Linux (and CakeWalk.com's Sonar)
Audacity multitrack audio editor and recorder for BSD, Linux, MacOS and Windows.
~ WavePad Sound Editor for Windows or Mac
~ KRISTAL Audio Engine (Windows)
~ Wavosaur (Windows)
~ Ardour (Linux)
~ Snd sound editor for Linux.
AllOfMP3 Listen to samples or purchase 192 Kbps MP3's. (10 to 20 cents each) (FAQ)
ID3-TagIT batch edit ID3 TAGs in MP3 files.
CDex for ripping and converting audio tracks.
Ogg Vorbis VorbisHardware support
and flac free lossless audio codec support.
freedb2.org Album / Tracks / DiscID database.
Remove DRM / Dubious Restriction Methods :
doubleTwist desktop enables you to easily share media with friends and sync with popular devices.
~ FairUse4WM circumvent PlaysForSure DRM for both Windows Vista and Zune software versions.
~ hymn (Hear Your Music aNywhere) (formerly called PlayFair) and their newer Jhymn removes Apple's FairPlay DRM from iPod/iTunes pre-version 6.
Also see QTFairUse6, myFairTunes7, and Requiem.
See Privatunes to remove personal information from iTunes Plus tracks.
iTunesSync allows any MP3 player to sync with iTunes.
Video :
Videos and Webcam Streams (Flickr
of video) : YouTube
~ Yahoo! Video
~ Revver
~ Vobbo
~ vimeo.
Capture Streams : KeepVid
~ GetASFStream
~ get_iplayer
~ get-flash-videos
Real
Alternative Play RealMedia files without having to
install
the huge/unsecure RealPlayer/RealOne Player.
QuickTime
Alternative Play QuickTime movies without having to
install
the official QuickTime Player.
MSU Lossless Video Codec
Avidemux free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding
Microsoft's Windows Media High Definition Video (WMVHD)
Video
Resolution - An Overview Where the eye meets the screen...
(About.com 2-28-2005)
Free and open-source MPlayer
for Windows and Linux. See also FFmpeg.
VideoLAN
"Free software and
open-source video streaming solution for every OS" including
VLC media
player
VideoLAN Client; multimedia player for various audio and video
formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg,...) as well as
DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols;
Windows/Unix/Linux/MacOSX.
SnapStream
Beyond PC highly-rated personal video recorder software for
Windows.
WinMorph
image morphing and warping software.
MainConcept's MainActor
for
Windows and Linux.
LiVES
Linux Video
Editing System.
Diva Video
editing software
for the (Linux) Gnome Desktop.
PiTiVi
edit
audio/video projects based on the GStreamer framework.
Cinelerra "Movie studio in a Linux Box" Capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with
sample-level accuracy.
Linux DV Digital Video for Linux.
Elisa Media Center open source media center and personal video recorder for GNU/Linux and
Unix (runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework)
MythTV PVR for Linux. See also
MySetTopBox.TV
and their KnoppMyth distro or MythTV on Fedora or MythDora.
Webcam / Videocam Monitoring :
PY Software Active WebCam and PYSoft Broadcaster
record and broadcast from multiple cameras and detect motion.
Flowcharting / Org Charts : LucidChart online colaborative (free)
~ Network Notepad network diagrams (free)
~ SmartDraw (highly rated)
~ Novagraph Chartist (featureful, inexpensive)
~ Pacestar EDGE Diagrammer and WizFlow Flowcharter (easy, inexpensive)
~ Human Concepts' OrgPlus (popular)
~ OrgChart Professional
~ Dia (*nix and Windows; inspired by Visio)
~ Microsoft Visio.
Online: Gliffy.com and Flowchart.com
Picture / Photo Manager / Image Viewer / Image Editor :
Photoshop Express free online.
~ Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of
Adobe's
Understanding Digital Raw Capture (PDF)
HDR: High dynamic range photography
~ qtpfsgui combines various exposure shots to create an HDR image
VectorMagic upload an image to vectorize (smooths rough/blocky images).
imgSeek photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search; draw an image and it displays the photos with similar characteristics.
scanR pictures/images sent to doc@scanR[dot]com are converted into readable PDF files and faxes.
Fotosearch / Photosearch search 700,000+ images from 50+ stock photography, illustration and
video footage publishers. ~ EveryStockPhoto indexing 283,000+ free photos. ~ Yotophoto
search engine for free-to-use photos and images (over 250,000) ~ StockVault.
Wikimedia Commons free photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.
Microsoft Photo Story 3 (WinXP)
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer (WinXP)
~ RawTherapee raw image editor.
Resizr online image resizer
~ Image Resizer and other Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
~ Image Resizer Powertoy Clone for Windows supports more versions
~ Real World's Picture Resizer
~ VSO Image Resizer.
Riya uses face recognition to automatically tag photos.
StudioLine Photo Basic
XnView and Nconvert
view/convert 400 graphic formats (Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS)
(Alternate
link).
Omniformat free document conversion utility between 75 file formats including HTML, DOC,
XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX
and MPEG. Requires free PDF995.
Optional Optical Character Recognition Module to convert scanned images to text.
IrfanView image viewer, batch editor, html thumbnail page creator, etc.
(See also thumbalizr)
PhotoPlus
- Image and Photo Editing Software.
FastStone Image Viewer converter and editor.
Adobe
InDesign and Photoshop
~ Photoshop
Tips
& Tricks
QuarkXPress
GIMP Image Manipulation Program. Separate CYMK support for The GIMP.
(To resemble Photoshop's UI: gimpShop
and Photoshop-ish
Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2 ) ~ UFRaw read
and manipulate RAW images; can plug into Gimp.
CinePaint 8
to 32-bit per
channel color core; used by Sony Pictures Imageworks; formerly Film
Gimp. (Linux)
Krita
painting and image editing application for KOffice.
Autodesk
Maya (Windows/Linux/OS X; Autdesk acquired Alias January
2006)
PageStream
desktop
publishing/page layout program for Windows, Linux, Mac)
Scribus Open Source Desktop
Publishing (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) (basically an InDesign or QuarkXpress substitute)
Pixel image editor
(basically a Photoshop substitute) for Windows, Linux, MacOSX, BeOS/Zeta, MorphOS, QNX, eComStation, SkyOS
and DOS.
Xara Xtreme
vector
graphics program for drawing, illustration, photos, etc. (Linux and
Mac)
JPEGCrop to crop
without losing
quality/changing compression.
Metrix plug-in for Adobe Photoshop to color scheme match a set of photos.
PictureCloud upload pictures taken around an object for conversion into HTML and Flash Player video.
Photo stitching: Google SketchUp
~ Microsoft Image Composite Editor
~ AutoStitch
Capable of seamlessly stitching together separate pictures of a
panorama. ~ Autopano
automatically stitches images into a single image as large as
300,000 x 300,000 pixels using 300 pictures (Mac or PC). ~ RealViz
Stitcher, ImageModeler, VTour, MatchMover, MMTrack, ReTimer,
StoryViz, Movimento.
3D Photo stitching: Microsoft Image Composite Editor
and Photosynth (Photosynth lab) (old demo video).
3D Terrains: VTP - Virtual
Terrain
Project VTP Enviro interactive runtime environment. ~ OpenSceneGraph
open source high peformance 3D graphics toolkit; C++ and OpenGL. Windows, OSX,
Linux, IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD. ~ Terragen
scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS; free for non-commercial use.
Corel's
Paint Shop Pro (formerly owned by JASC Software) (Much cheaper than QuarkXPress,
cheaper than Adobe
Fireworks and Adobe
Photoshop CS2 though about the same as Photoshop
Elements.)
Gallery 2 open source web based photo album organizer. (PHP 4)
GQview image browser.
Command line image viewers: feh ~ QIV
Quick Image View.
CAD / Computer Aided Drafting / Graphics Editors / Graphs / 3D modeling :
White_dune VRML97 tool
~ Bryce 5.5 free 3D modeling for Windows or Mac
~ Ivan Johansen's Graph for Windows; GPL'd. ~ Google's SketchUp
~
Autodesk's AutoCAD (see Open Design Alliance statement on the use of its technology by Autodesk) ~
IntelliCAD ~ CADopia ~ PythonCAD ~ CYCAS ~ QCad
(2D) ~ ARCAD
~ ICAADS
~
solidThinking
FORMA,
DESIGN, VANTAGE ~ SolidWorks ~ PTC Pro/ENGINEER ~
~ KeyCreator (formerly CADKEY) ~ UGS NX Design CAD ~ Mastercam
~ Bentley's OpenDGN
~
Open CASCADE
Technology ~
VariCAD ~
GiveMePower GmbH PowerCAD,
FelixCAD and CeCAD ~ BricsCad ~ IBM's CATIA.
Blender 3D
modeling, animation,
rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback (open
source).
Autodesk 3ds Max
~ MAXON CINEMA 4D
~ SOFTIMAGE|XSI - The Character Production Software
~ Inkscape SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Editor (basically an Illustrator substitute).
Art of Illusion 3D modeling and rendering studio (Java)
~ K-3D ~ Moonlight|3D.
Math / Mathematics : SAGE: Open Source Mathematics Software
~ The R Project for Statistical Computing (wikipedia) and S-PLUS ~ fooplot.com online graphing
~ SpeQ ~ free, small, extensive math program for Windows
~ Maxima and wxMaxima
~ Scilab
~ GNU Octave
~ Euler
~ SciPy and http://numpy.scipy.org/">NumPy
~ Newt
~ GeoGebra
~ FreeMat
~ GAP - Groups, Algorithms, Programming a System for Computational Discrete Algebra.
~ Maplesoft's Maple
~ Mathcad ~ MATLAB
~ Mathematica and MathWorld mathematics resource site.
~ SYSTAT SigmaPlot.
~ gnuplot
~ Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms ~ Elementary
Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals ~ A
Problem Course in Mathematical Logic.
Torrent / Bittorrent :
Comparison of BitTorrent software
~ Fenopy Fake Finder fake torrents and trackers.
Tribler find .torrent files hosted among peers instead of a centralized site
btjunkie the largest bittorent search engine ~ The Pirate Bay ~ mininova
LimeWire
~ uTorrent many features; small size
~ Torrent Swapper open source
~ Transmission
~ Grokster
~ Morpheus
~ eMule
~ BitTorrent
~ Deluge light-weight, cross-platform
~ Azureus open-source Java BitTorrent client that blacklists IP addresses of those who poison downloads, send corrupt blocks, or offer fakes.
See also SafePeer and PeerGuardian, Bluetack B.I.S.S. and Protowall, and TrustyFiles blocklist.
~ AnalogX BitPump
~ BitComet (Windows)
~ DC++ open source client for the Direct Connect network.
Ted the Torrent Episode Downloader finds TV episodes. (Requires Java Runtime Environment and a bittorent client like Azureus, µTorrent or Bitcomet)
PC/laptop/notebook recovery/monitoring software : Gadget Theft for iPods, Flash Drives, Digital Cameras, etc.
Adeona free and open source
~ LaptopLock free for now
~ Absolute ComputracePlus or LoJack for Laptops (LoJack formerly "Laptop Retriever") to
have a stolen computer "phone home" to a Monitoring Center and work with local authorities. Computrace Personal Edition available from
IBM
and
Toshiba. ~ Orbicle Undercover (Mac OS X)
~ CyberAngel Security Software ~ zTrace
Gold. Remotely lock/wipe a PDA/phone: bluefish
Central (Palm/Treo) ~ sCPsOFT's remotePROTECT and PDAKill.
Miscellaneous :
WhoCrashed Windows crash dump analyzer.
ShellExView Shell Extensions Manager; disable right-click options.
AnyDVD (HD) Removes the BD+ protection from Blu-ray discs.
~ DVD43 decrypts DVDs on the fly for Windows
~ HandBrake rips DVDs
~ MEncoder command-line; based on mplayer.
Removal tool to fix .NET Framework install failures
Openbravo POS (point-of-sale) in Java.
DarkSquall.com linux/unix command line tools for Windows.
Video Cards: increase speed and unlock features with RivaTuner or ATITool for ATi video cards.
OCS Inventory NG (Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation)
~ Spiceworks free IT Management Software.
Microsoft Windows Environment Variables
How to fix: NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart
WinIPs small executible tasktray icon to select network IP configurations.
Prio - Process Priority Saver for Windows.
turboexplorer.com all new free Turbo C++, Turbo Delphi, Turbo Delphi for .NET and Turbo C#.
~ Free Pascal.
OpenVMS and PointSecure
the leading provider of security and auditing solutions for OpenVMS systems.
Highly recommended by HP, our solutions have been declared virtually unhackable at Defcon's Capture the Flag (2001)
Bruce
Perens' Open Source Series.
OpenCyc and ConceptNet
: commonsense concepts and relations, natural-language-processing toolkit, reasoning engine.
JA-SIG CAS
(Central Authentication Service) an authentication system originally
created by Yale University to provide a trusted way for an
application to authenticate a user.
The Windows XP Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting
Viewing Word
files at the command line with Antiword, Catdoc,
and wvWare.
Synergy contol various computer operating systems with a single mouse and keyboard
and shared clipboard.
NetLimiter
2
Monitor per-process in/outgoing Internet traffic monitoring
tool for Windows 2000 and later.
The
Definitive BIOS Optimization Guide
Microsoft Windows
Sysinternals (Systernals acquired by Microsoft
7/2006) Process Monitor ~ Similar to Process Explorer: Igor Nys' Process Viewer for Windows
~ Dependency Walker free; builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules.
DesktopStandard's
PolicyMaker highly-rated extension to AD/Group Policy. (See
also their Free Tools and GPOVault).
XXCOPY xtra features than xcopy (eXtended Xcopy).
TeraCopy faster, pause & resume, error recovery, interactive file list, shell inegration
FART Find And Replace Text command line utility (grep like) for Windows.
Uninstall Microsoft (Java) Virtual Machine.
Bulk file renaming utilities for Windows (batch file rename) listed at NoNags,
such as Advanced Renamer
and Lupas Rename
and Flexible Renamer
and Rename Master.
GoodLink server
software
provides the look and feel of Outlook for both Palm and Windows
PDA's with over-the-air installation (no desktop software
needed).
GFI Network Server Monitor
scan the network for failed services and optionally restart them
(freeware if monitors less than 4 servers).
HOW-TO
- Ethernet Cables Crimp your own.
Programmer's
Paradise a wide variety of technical and general business
application software (nicely categorized).
SlickRun
free
floating command line utility for Windows. Assign command aliases
or words to launch programs, websites, etc. Compare with Launchy.
SpectorSoft's Spector Pro
computer monitoring software for Windows that doesn't require
Administrator privileges to run; records keystrokes and takes
screen snapshots of any User's activity.
Blat Win32
command line utility that
sends eMail using the SMTP or NNTP protocols.
DriverGuide.com Your guide to finding device drivers.
Data conversion online.
Yahoo! del.icio.us social
bookmarks manager - categorize favorite sites with keywords and
share your collection. See also TopTaggers
(formerly CollaborativeRank)
to search the links of Del.icio.us users whose links were
subsequently bookmarked by others and rewarded a higher search
result ranking.
DisplayMate
Demo sample screen shots for Windows to test monitor/display
quality.
Michael
Johnson's
Software Delete files dated on or before N days
ago (compare with DelDate), Master
Copy improvement over XCOPY, etc.
MARC - The Mailing list ARChives 13+ million emails across almost 1500 mailing lists.
Famatech
Network
Utilities Free Advanced IP Scanner, IP Calculator, Port
Scanner and LAN Scanner.
Mohawke's Best of the Best Free and Open Source Software Collection from Dark Artistry
Fyodor's Insecure.org
- Top 75 Security Tools (2006)
Astalavista.com
Information Security Portal Utilities, papers, Top 50 Security Tools
list,
etc.
Dave Navarro's CMD Tools.
WhoLockMe Explorer Extension shows what program has a lock on a particular file (NT/2K/XP).
Unlocker by Nitch Collomb
Gibin Software House - MoveOnBoot, DirMonitor, Mount, etc.
GNUWin
II
Selection Free GNU programs for Windows.
Metasploit Framework
Remotely
install VNC server or inject DLL's into memory via thread of remote
OS exploit without saving to disk.
LaBrea "Sticky" Honeypot and IDS Use spare IP addresses to efficiently waste the connection resources of worms.
Chess : FICS
Free
Internet Chess Server (150,000+ registered users) ~ Pawn (Windows) ~ Arasan (Windows
and Linux) ~
NagaSkaki
(Windows) ~ Flash
Chess online; requires Adobe Flash player.
Flight Simulators : FlightGear
Open-source,
multi-platform. ~ X-Plane
and
Space Combat. ~ ORBITER
~ Microsoft Flight
Simulator 2004 ~ FlightSim.com.
Around Portland, Oregon : Portland.CraigsList.org
Computer Services ~ Oregon
Computer
Consultants Association ~ Portland Area
.NET Users
Group (PADNUG) ~ PDXLUG
Portland Linux User Group ~ Portland
Linux/Unix Group ~ The
Portland Group PGI
High-Performance Compilers.
NW
Netcom Cabling Installation Services ~ Fry's Electronics ~
FREE GEEK
Community Technology
Center and Thrift Store (Recycling).
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