Links . . .

As part of a larger community of computer users we provide the following links to other sites as a service. The sites listed have been found by me or suggested by other club members. While someone has suggested the site, Crossroads Computer Club, has no financial interest in any of them, nor will it be held responsible for what they choose to make available.

We also show up on the Pineville page www.pineville.net

and on the Town Talk GoCenla page

These links were last validated on February 5, 2007.

Recently Mentioned Sites

With the advent of broadband (cable modem ) access in CENLA, the importance of protecting your computer from hacking attacks has increased. Fred Langa , former editor of Byte Magazine, has a great discussion on this. In fact I recommend his site , which is updated twice weekly for many good technical discussions. However, if you are in a hurry, several personal firewalls are: < a href="http://www.zonelabs.com/"> ZoneAlarm , Aladdin's eSafe Protect Desktop ,  and Sybergen Secure Desktop .

Another piece of software mentioned by David Cox in the newsletter and at the meetings has been GetRight . This is a handy piece of software that saves you some wasted time if your downloads are frequently interupted.

A great site for home networking is: http://www.putergeek.com/home_network_2/

Member Suggested Sites

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

Many supposed viruses that people send us email about are fakes. Read about them here.
 
www.MapsOnUs.com
Plot maps of anywhere in the US
 
www.galttech.com/galtdl.shtml
Galt Shareware Zone
 
www.cardmaster.com
Send electronic greeting cards to your friends.  You can also use http://www.bluemountain.com/index.pd 
or  the Hallmark site if you want some really neat animations.
 
www.tucows.com
TUCOWS, "The World's best" collection of internet software
Parade Magazine from my Sunday paper mentioned some spotentially interesting sites.  Jumbo.com has 300,000 programs available for immediate download.
 
I'm a firm beleiver that you can't have too much humor in your life, so, if you aren't too gullible, you might also want to check out The Onion.

  Clip Art

Here are a few sites that you can get clipart from. Here are some links to them.

  • www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm

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    Technical Help

    FAQ: Firewall Forensics (What am I seeing?) 
    A good explanation of what your new firewall is actually doing.

    download.cnet.com
    Another good source for files and programs that have something to do with Windows.

    windrivers.com
    A good source of device drivers for your windows devices.

    www.techtv.com 
    The home page for TechTV that many of you watch on cable.

    Network access, both by legitimate programs and  by  worms and trojans  is all through ports.  There are thousands of these and you just might be able to figure out their magic if you visit http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports00000.htm , http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ip/ports01024.htm , or http://www.stengel.net/tcpports.htm

    Fred Langa of the LangaList, a very good technical list is a big advocate of computer backups on CD ROMS.  However, in the interest of security, he also thinks that you should know how to destroy your old CDs if you don't want others getting their hands on your files.  The following sites might help:
     http://www.roxio.com/en/support/discs/destroydiscs.html   and  http://www.hamjudo.com/notes/cdrom.html

    http://www.belarc.com
    Another suggestion from the LangaList . The tool at this site will tell you just what is on your computer, both software and hardware.

    Other Computer Clubs

    I did a little searching on the web to find these and David Cox provided some more is the August newsletter. If you know of others please contact me .