• Computers and so on...
  • Soft
  • Hardware
  • Recovery Tools
  • Specs, Docs, etc.
  • Articles
  • Dao
• Search Engines
• Friends
• Partners
• Unsorted

Computers and so on...

Soft

• Must know.
  https://prism-break.org
  List of open-source alternatives to popular proprietary services.
  And local copy for emergency case.
• http://www.ntkernel.com/utilities/devfilter.shtml - Pretty tool for system internal request monitoring. Quite useful for monitoring of commands, sent to some physical device. It is rather helpful in hardware driver writing and debugging.
  Unfortunately, it is not free... ;)
• http://filecopyex.org.ua - Far Plugin, that significantly improves performance of copying procedure, especially when dealing to greate amount of data.
filecopyex.org.ua
• http://www.geocities.com/farscp - Far Plugin, that allows manage remote file system over SSH protocol.
• http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-Windows.shtml
• USB Stack drivers for NT4
• http://www.ntkernel.com/articles/firewall.shtml - Information about firewall-writing under Windows NT platform.
• http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/ - FreeBSD-like firewall utility for Windows platform. If belive developers, it has full feature set and the main - command prompt interface! But there is a problem: it requires IPFILTER driver, that appeared in w2k. So we have no NT4 support :(
• http://www.pyrasis.com/main/FFSFileSystemDriverForWindows/ - UFS/FFS for Windows. Info: UFS/FFS are native filesystems, used by FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD.
• http://os.sysbin.com - You can download from this resource various versions of PC and MS DOS, Linux, OS/2, Windows 16-bit and Windows 32-bit.
• http://leo.yuriev.ru/SerialXP - High-performance Windows 2000/XP/2003 driver for synchronous and asynchronous serial ports and multiport PCI adapters. If believe the author, it supports transfer rates above 115200 and is free from well-known bugs of standard serial.sys by MicroSoft.
• http://bind8nt.meiway.com/download.cfm - BIND8 DNS server for Windiws NT family. It includes a set of useful DNS-relatred client tools. The most useul one is host.exe. This is command line utility for determining host IP-address by domain name. I don't know why MS doesn't include such utility in Windows distribution. Sometimes it is very handful along with nslookup.exe (which is included).
• http://rsdn.ru/Forum/Message.aspx?mid=167206&only=1 - How to create and kill threads in NT Native Mode applications.

Specs, Docs, etc.

• http://www.rsdn.ru/ - Perfect site with programming-related forums and numerous articles (In Russian only)
• http://www.wasm.ru/ - Perfect site for real assembly language wizards. (In Russian only)
• http://www.bugtraq.ru/ - Also interesting site with programming-related forums and articles (In Russian only)
• http://koders.com - Search engine for open source code.
• http://guideme.itgo.com/atozofc - Good docs for programming, e.g. ASM.
• http://stenri.pisem.net - Interesting addon to Numega SoftIce. Fixes some compatibility bugs. Hides SoftIce from ugly paranoic programms (those are actually useful, but falls into panic when see SoftIce, however nobody even tried to debug/hack them). And also adds a set of additional tools, those are available via debugger command prompt.
• http://www.faqs.org - Various documents like RFC/STD/FYI/BCP.
• http://ru.livecode.org - Greate collection of oftenly used code fragments - (In Russian only)
• http://www.ss64.com/index.html - Convinient documentation for command sets of
  • Oracle 8i
  • Windows NT (.bat files)
  • Linux BASH
  • MAC OS X
• http://www.graf-get.hu/download/tricksnt.html - Useful triks on Win tuning via Registry Keys.
• http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html - FAQ about CD-recorders. The FAQ tells about features and bugs of greate number of drives.
• http://win32.mvps.org - interesting Win32 API samples
• http://www.javvin.com - interesting Win32 API samples
• http://www.rsdn.ru/article/mfc/maze.xml - MFC internals (In Russian only)
• http://www.bog.pp.ru/map_full.html - interesting collection of technical articles (In Russian only)
• http://subscribe.ru/archive/comp.soft.prog.osdev/ - articles dedicated to OS development issues (In Russian only)
• http://www.codeproject.com/system/VmDetect.asp - detecting VMWare and VirtualPC environment
• http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html - communication between virtual VMWare machine (GUEST) and its HOST machine (backdoor interface)

Hardware

• http://www.fcenter.ru/ - Perfect site with good articles, e.g. about PC hardware testing. (In Russian only)
• http://www.rpc1.org - CD/DVD firmware forum.
• http://www.rom.by/ - PC BIOS'es (In Russian only)
• http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/113 - perfect document describing difference between DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW technologies.
• http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_null_modem.html - How to create COM/RS-232 null-modem cable.
• http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html - How To Build A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna for 802.11(b or g) Wireless Networks or other 2.4GHz Applications.
• http://people.overclockers.ru/xs2000/record5 - How to make flexible Serial-ATA (SATA) cable (In Russian only).

Recovery Tools

• HDD diagnostic and recovery tools:
  • MHDD
  • Victoria
  • PC3000
• Filesystem data recovery tools:
  • Ontrack Easy Recovery
  • RStudio
  • Final Data

Articles

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com - Site of the man, who guided development of MS Excel some time ago. There are many intelligible articles about programming, User Interface design and so on.
• http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo - (In Russian only)
• http://www.ozones.com - (In Russian only)

Dao

• http://www.karasik.eu.org/dao.html - (In Russian only) Dao of programming. Imho it worth reading.
• http://www.wasm.ru/article.php?article=onebyte - (In Russian only) 1 byte story. Imho it worth reading. Greate thing....
• http://www.gagin.org/index.php?art=72 & http://www.gagin.org/index.php?art=74 - (In Russian only) Rather driving life concepts. And very, very similar to my own.

Search Engines

• http://www.google.com - Just a perfect thing.
• http://www.panimages.org - Cross-lingual image search engine.
• http://baidu.com - Perfect China search engine. Yes, it is in China. Yes, it can't be switched to English interface. But! It can find things, those Google never do. It finds proprietary docs and other "private" things, those our good China friends have stollen copied somewhere and published to everyone.
• http://ya.ru - Still one good search server. Finds russian pages first. Absolutely clear interface ;) (There is only input form there ;)
• http://web.archive.org - Real time machine. You can get to the past and see the site looked before. You can also find there files and pages, those had been removed.
• http://www.filesearch.ru/ - Perfect file searcher for FTP resources.
• http://meta.ua - Ukrainian search server.
• http://astalavista.box.sk - Software crack search engine.
• http://koders.com - Search engine for open source code.
• http://local.net.ua - Site about LAN/WAN in Ukraine. Includes Internet provider search engine.

Friends

• http://mindon.net/
• http://driver.net.ua/ - Special thanks for hosting.
• http://www.tmse.h11.ru/ - Mike's site.
• http://www.kiev-go.org/ - Site of Kiev Go-club, designed by Anton, hosted at http://mindon.net/ .
• http://bearwindows.zcm.com.au - KtP's site.
• http://vybory.info - Special thanks for hosting.
• http://www.hopka.org.ua
• http://filecopyex.org.ua
• http://ethno.org.ua

Partners

• http://netassist.kiev.ua - also my internet provider
• http://rusanovka.net.ua - friendly Home-LAN
• http://alfa-inet.net - my own Home-LAN
• http://netassist.ua - our head ISP
• http://secondary.net.ua - nice free secondary DNS server
• http://ruweb.net - my pretty domain registrator

Unsorted

• http://www.gorchev.lib.ru - (In Russian only) no comments
• http://mageguild.by.ru/crea_laugh.htm - mage
• http://elib.garnet.ru - A lot of books. For free.
• http://trd.speccy.cz/ - ZX Spectrum nostalgy
• http://www.procable.com.ua/dealers - Ukrainian cable dealers catalogue. (In Russian only)
• http://kapro.com.ua/Shop.asp - And here you can read about technical characteristics of various cable types (In Russian only)
  Note: uses Java Script, doesn't work under Mozilla 1.7.