Online Documentation

This page aims to be a collection of useful links to Online documentation and other handy things. If you have any links that ought to be added please email Uli.

Microsoft development (un)related links
Web related and other links
Databases
UNIX
Performance Links
Simulation and queueing networks
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Networks

Microsoft development (un)related links

MSDN website with all sorts of exciting MS stuff
MS white papers for Windows NT
NT Magazine
NT FAQ
Merant Driver documentation
GNUwin32 UNIX like environment for NT, inlcuding C/C++ compilers and BASH shell
Emacs for NT
MIKTEX a TeX/LaTeX implementation for NT.
Ghostview an open source Postscript viewer
GNU's not UNIX
PERL
Perl Documentation
GNUPLOT and more GNUPLOT tutorials
GRACE a graphing, plotting and analysing tool for data. The successor of xvgr.
MuPAD - Home Page
Numerical Computing Resources
Java Analysis Studio
Java Numerics
COLT Open Source Libraries for High Performance Scientific and Technical Computing in Java
Postscript utilities

Databases

ORACLE TECHNET use username uharder and password 6sejSx4F to login to ORACLE's developer's site. It contains downloads of full products and doumentation for almost any version of Oracle's fantastic database.
Oracle Underground FAQ
Oracle Magazine
Jonathan Lewis's Oracle page
Sybase support site and Sybase mailing lists
Symfoware from Fujitsu
SQL server Microsoft's masterpiece. An archive with FAQs
DB2 IBM's attempt
INGRES who's using this anyway?
MySQL a GPL database running on UNIX and NT
Database Research sponsored by Microsoft
TPC website with documentation on the famous benchmarks.

UNIX

UNIX FAQ
SAMBA UNIX file server software to serve Windows clients
UNIX World Magazine
LINUX has useful documentation at the LPD web server
Linux Timer
SUN's marvellous and now free OS has extensive online Solaris documentation. There are also FAQs for Solaris on INTEL and Solaris in general. Also, there is the e-groups mailing list archive for Solaris x86
IBM's versions: AIX, RS 6000, S 390
COMPAQ's many faces: DIGITAL UNIX, DEC, Tandem
HP's HP-UX HP Sysadmin Mailing List Archive archive for Ported software and a complete list of available ports
BULL's documentation
UNISYS's documentation, they're the ones causing gif trouble!
SCO's Tarantella
Sites that don't believe in online documentation or at least hide them well ICL, NEC, Olivetti

Performance links

These links are mainly concerned with the performance of computers.

ACM with subsection for ACM sigmetrics and ACM performance
CMG
Dr. Bernie
Landmark's performance doctor
Traffic Forum concerned with traffic of any kind
Performance Dynamics
RAID advisory website

Simulation and queueing networks

OOPM simulation object oriented simulation software
An online introduction to queueing networks
Two links to successful road traffic simulations written in JAVA: http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~helbing/RoadApplet/ and http://vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de/~treiber/MicroApplet/index.html .
Jane Hillston's page with links to PEPA
Java Simulation
Petri Nets
The United Kingdom Simulation Society
JCASIM Java Cellular Automaton

Parallel and Distributed Computing

http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0004014 the Cluster Computing White Paper by Mark Baker (University of Portsmouth, UK), et. al
LOKI
Dutch Stuff about modelling parallel and distributed systems
Documentation - Beowulf
An even bigger LINUX cluster Avalon

Networks

Riverstone specific and general documentation: including stuff about MPLS, BGP, OSPF etc.
SysOrb 2.0.1 Network Monitoring System
Methods for Performance-Analysis of Internet Access Points
JCAP libpcap for JAVA
Windump
CAIDA: Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
NTOP, my favourite network monitor
A list of network monitors
Netramet
Big Brother
Traffic Engineering at the ICS-FORTH Telecommunications and Networks Division
Extreme Networks supplier of local switches and routers
JANET
IRCache Web cache project
UCD-SNMP an SNMP implementation that works on LINUX
Distributed Management Task Force
RFC Search interface
IETF the INternet Engineering Task Force
The Open Group
The Simple Web
SNMPLink website with useful links to SNMP resources
JAVA SNMP interface
SQUID
Internet Traffic Archive
Ethernet web site
Pei Cao webiste with lots of information on web caches
SCOTTY
MTRG
Open NMS
A page dedicated to self-similarity of network traffic
Nick Duffields site with network research papers
TCPDUMP website
Network Time Protocol
Packet Factory
PAM conference
Using PCAP
Measuring computer timing accuracy
Monitoring with tcpdump