All sorts of computer stuff

Beginner Stuff

  • Welcome to the Internet, now lock your door
    Stuff for beginners
    • Antivirus - what is it, what should I get?
    • Firewall - what is a firewall, do I need to install one?
    • Email - Everybody needs email, how do I avoid the dangers?

Hardware

  • The basics of hardware
    What the most obvious parts of a computer are called
    • Monitors and Mice
    • CPUs, Hard Drives and other drives
    • Some guts, like the motherboard and ethernet adapters
    • Linux
      All about Linux
      • What is Linux and other beginner questions
      • More complex stuff
      • Bash and Perl Scripts
    • Java
      Java stuff
      • Java Code examples from Amarillo College

Software

Computer related articles


Links

Favorite external links

  • xkcd.com - Nerd comic that is sometimes amazingly funny
  • google.com - Not an evil company.
  • slashdot.org Where nerds go for news
  • techeblog.com Where geeks go to drool
  • php.net - The center of the easiest way to manage web development
  • blueletterbible.org - an excellent online Bible resource
  • geometricvisions.com/music One man's music I like and he gives away free and without obligation (and he wants links so this is a courtesy as well as a convenience.)
  • shoutcast.com - Internet Radio (Endangered species btw.)
  • goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html - Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
  • dead-links.com - A free online dead link checker
  • meebo.com - internet chat inside a webpage for yahoo, msn, aim, icq, google and potentially other chat networks
  • oddmuse.org - An incredibly simple to use and amazingly flexible perl based wiki. If I weren't using PHP and PMWiki this would be my new favorite wiki.
  • Blog on how to set up GMail as a sendmail smarthost. Nice!