General Cultural Resources

Computers

Internet Service Providers

• Earthlink - Excellent ISP
• The List - Comprehensive list of Internst Service Providers (ISPs)

Internet Status

• BandWidth - How fast is your Internet connection?
• BandWidth Test - How fast is your Internet connection (Modem->T1)?
• DNS-DIG - Find out the DNS for any domain.
• InternetTrafficReport - Summary of recent speed status of the global internet.
• Traceroute - The internet route to go to any address from worldwide sites.
• WhoIs - Find out info concerning internet entities.

Computer Benchmarks

• Benchmark gateway - General Information Source onMultiple Benchmarks
• CPU Performance - CPU Information and System Performance Summary page.
• Spec - The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
• Spec - Apple - The Veritest report for the Apple G5

Operating System Information

• Apple Computer
• OS X - Panther - Apple's latest OS X operating system.
• Panther Support - Apple's support for Panther.
• Xlr8yourmac Mac OS Support - An accelerator provider's Mac OS support page.
• Palm Pilot
• PalmGear - "The source for your Palm-powered world"
• Palm Pilot WebRing - Links to over 316 Web sites concerning the Palm Pilot.
• PilotZone - Palm OS Downloads - Tucows site.
• Handango - Palm Pilot and other PDA downloads
• Unix
• Perl
• Linux4Chemistry - Linux apps for chemists, mostly free to academic users.
• Staden Manual
• UNIXhelp for Users

Supercomputer Sites

• Cornell Theory Center - Supercomputer Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
• NCSA - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Urbana, IL.
• PSC - The Pittsburg Supercomputing Center at Pittsburg, PA.
• SDSC - The San Diego Supercomputer Center at San Diego, CA.

Vendors

• Computer Vendors - Comprehensive listing of computer vendors.
• Dell Computer - Comprehensive online quotes and ordering
• PriceWatch - Monitors lowest price online for computer parts.