© 1996-2005
Phil Ottewell
Interesting Web Links
Here are a few of my favourite URLs, ranging from the indispensable AltaVista and Google search engines to the frivolous Web Voyeur. If you haven't ever tried the BBC web site for news, I strongly encourage you to do so. It is very clear, fast, easy to navigate and works with just about any browser, plus the news coverage is second to none.
Search Engines
- Amazon.com BooksEarth's Biggest Bookstore.
- AltaVista Excellent search engine.
- Google Another excellent search engine.
- Google Usenet news groups search (was Deja News).
- Booksearch BIG Link Find rare and out of print books.
- The British Library Find just about any English language book.
- CDMO Home Page Song search engine.
- Excite Search engine
- All The Web - FTP search
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Dictonary.com
- Internet Movie Database Search Who was in that film? Don't let it bug you, look it up on the IMDB
- MOVIEWEB: Movie Preview Page
- Prentice Hall Book Search
- British Rail Timetables On-line
- Yahoo!
News
- BBC News Online Best news site on the web IMHO
- CNN Cable News Network
- Electronic Telegraph
- KING5 Television News
- KIRO 7 Eyewitness News
- Lawyers Weekly: Home Page
- King County Journal
- Online Mirror
- Reuters: Home Page
- The PA NewsCentre
- Welcome to ITN Online
- Welcome to Times Newspapers Ltd. Internet Space
- Welcome to washingtonpost.com
Finding People
- Yahoo! People Search Phone number lookup for North America. Took over Four11.
- The Ultimate White Pages Comprehensive people finder for North America.
- Directory Enquiries Phone number lookup for the United Kingdom.
- Internet Address Finder
- Royal Mail Get a post code for a U.K. address, or vice versa.
- Friends Reunited Find old school friends in the UK
- My Old Mate Find old school friends and relatives in the UK
Friend's Homepages
- Alin Constantin's Homepage Some excellent Windows utilities, including the famous "WinCheat" tool, which is similar to Spy++.
- Martyn Lovell's Homepage
- JafSoft John Adam Fotheringham's Homepage, featuring the famous ASC2HTML software.
Finding Places
- Old Maps of the UK Find out what your town looked like in the 1800s.
- Information about and maps of your town in the UK This excellent site lets you compare house prices, find 24 hour petrol stations, get aerial photpgraps of your street and lots more.
Consumer
- UK Office of Fair Trading Consumer alerts and "scam" warnings for the UK.
- US Consumer Product Safety Commision Sign up to there mailing list for product recalls and safety information.
Recommended Services
- County Packaging Services Solve your packaging machinery needs. Based in Derbyshire, nationwide UK service.
- Thomas Industries Industrial Systems Specialists Serving the Pacific Northwest. Specialists in engineered spray booths, automated systems, spray systems and industrial systems.
Science and Technology
- University of Manchester High Energy Particle Physics
- Bletchley Park Inventors of Colossus, the World's First Electronic Computer
- CERN High Energy Particle Physics
- UK Air Accident Investigation Branch Great reading before you go on vacation
- FlightView Find and track an airline flight in real time
- flightTRACKER Display an airline flight position in real time
- Particle Physics Department at RAL High Energy Physic
- SETI@Home Help find evidence of extra terrestrial intelligence
UK Weather
Computer Graphics
- POVRAY Ray Tracing Program
- The Graphics File Format Page
- The XAnim Home Page Great freeware program for displaying various animation, audio and video formats on VMS and Unix.
- GIFMerge
OpenVMS
- VMS links from Phil's VMS web page
- Phil's VMS Tutorial
- Phil's Free VMS Software
- Usenet newsgroup comp.os.vms, courtesy of Google Groups
- DECUS VMS FAQ
- Compaq OpenVMS FAQs
- OpenVMS beginner's FAQ
- OpenVMS Freeware
- HP OpenVMS - What's new
- The OpenVMS Hobbyist Free OpenVMS Hobbyist License
- Island Computers Hobbyist VMS Alphas from $599 with one year warrantee Let the Yezerski Roper VMS, Macintosh and Windows experts solve your computer problems.
- Acorn Software VMS documentation CDROM's
- Applied Information Systems - Xess Spreadsheet for OpenVMS
- Neil Rieck's OpenVMS Pages
- C-Kermit The CKermit Terminal emulator, supports DECnet, LAT, TCPCIP and serial lines. Avaliable for VMS, Unix and Windows.
- PuTTy Excellent terminal emulator supporting Secure Shell Client, lets you log on to VMS machines running the free OpenSSL based secure shell server without sending your password in plain text over the internet. Works on Windows XP.
- CENA VMS Motif Programs
- DEC STorage Solutions - Welcome to AcerSoft
- DEC: VRT19 Specifications and Compatibility
- DECUS UK
- DECW and VMS CENA SOFTWARE ARCHIVE Best collection of graphical, Motif based software on the web for VMS
- DECUServe VMS Conference 2721.3
- DIGITAL Fortran
- Compaq's "Ask the OpenVMS Wizards a question"
- HP OpenVMS Service Packs/Software Patches Home Page
- ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/
- Griffin Technology Monitor Database
- Home page of Arne Vajhøj - VMS Utilities and Information
- How did I do this? - UCX Pseudo-devices
- Hunter Goatley's Home Pages
- Matt Madison's MadGoat Software Home of the famous MX SMTP Server and other quality VMS software
- Application Developer's Package for C/C++
- Kings College London VMS Software ArchiveDirectory (ftp2.kcl.ac.uk)
- Mike's Home Page - VMS FAQ
- MPJZ's hyper VMS SW-list
- My other VAX is a VAXbar
- Mozilla Get the Mozilla Browser for OpenVMS
- OpenLink UDBC (Universal Database Connectivity ) Driver
- OpenVMS/Windows NT Affinity
- VMS SAMBA Home Page
- SAMBA Web Pages
- Shanon On Deck - "Shanon Knows DEC" Online
- Tachyon VMS Page
- The WWW MicroVAX/VAXstation FAQ
- VMS Freeware from the WKU FILESERV
- VMS page
- VMS® Tuning - Rules of Thumb
- Writing CDs for VMS
- Year 2000 Position Statement This is quite amusing
Windows NT, 2000 and XP
- Blat A Free Windows Mail utility for sending mail from the DOS command line.
- Internet Explorer Get the Internet Explorer Browser
- Mozilla Get the Mozilla Browser
- Free X server for Windows and Mac
- AlphaNT Source Lots of Alpha NT information, and other useful Alpha facts.
- Kermit Terminal Emulator for for Windows
- Locutus Codeware Robomagic freeware, lots of nice utilities
- SHAREWARE.COM The way to find shareware on the Internet.
- SLIP and PPP Redial and Web server restart under NT
- The Tardis Home Page NTP (Network Time Protocol) client for Windows. Keeps your system clock "spot on".
- Van Dyke Technologies, Inc. Security.
- Welcome to PC Pro OnLine
- Windows Annoyances ... and how to fix them.
- Sysinternals Freeware Excellent utilities such as Process Monitor let you see who is locking a file or DLL, and Regmon which lets you see real-time registry activity
- Gibson Research Great utilities to let you check the security of your system. Home of "Shields Up", and some excellent articles on internet security.
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Microsoft Sites
- Microsoft Technet Subscribe to the Security Bulletins and be sure to have the latest patches on your machine.
- Microsoft Technical Support Search the Knowledge Base and MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network).
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT
- Microsoft Word Home Page
- Visual C++ Home Page
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Don't forget to check the Public domain software for Windows NT and VMS at the POttSoft Web Site.
Other Computer Related Sites
- Doctor HTML - Check your Web page syntax and links !
- CENA Mirror for X Windows/Motif Software
- The Common Gateway Interface Specification
- Wouter Scholten's BBC B, emulators and classic video games page
- Freeware Central Open Source Software.
- Ken Lee's Motif Home Page
- The Free3d Home Page
- RISKS: Computer-Related Incidents and Accidents
- Red Hat Software
TV and Film Related Sites
- BBC News Also has the days broadcast television news as video
- BBC America television listings
- Welcome to the BBC The world's best television
- IMDb - Interactive Movie Database
- Kids in the Hall
- Goldfinger
- WWW Star Trek HomePage: Pictures Section
- The most popular women in VISUAL history
- Friends TV Series: The Character Links
- The Phoebe Phan Club Home Page
- The Definitive Jennifer Aniston Collection
- Channel 4 on the Web
- The Simpsons Site
- Welcome to Teletext on the Web!
- Welcome to Teletext's co.uk magazine
- TV Guide Online US TV Guide
Space Exploration
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
- PGP Public Key Server
- PGP International Page
- BAL's PGP Public Key Server
- PGP - UK WWW Public Key Server
Law Enforcement
In My Region
Silly
- The Onion An excellent weekly satirical magazine.
- Dilbert See the last month of Dilbert cartoons. Not for in-duh-viduals!
- LotWin Lottery Line Builder Home
- Olé Olestra!
- Our Cruel Heritage
- The Web Voyeur -- Live Images
- Welcome to Uri Geller's Internet Challenge
- What Really Happened at Roswell
- Welcome to the Useless Information Home Page