Working in the Information economy means spending a lot of time seeking, sifting, chewing, swallowing, saving, spitting out, sharing, comparing, or ignoring information. And after all that, you're supposed to find time to work and play golf!

That's why OPL (Other People's Links) can be real handy tools. Here are the resources which have helped me over the last year in my progression toward intelligence.

General ISP Links

  • If you decide you might want to get into the biz, there is one place to visit immediately and imperatively. I shouldn't even mention it, cause you're going to click and we'll never see you again. Oh well.

    You must visit David Dennis' FAQ on Starting and Remaining an ISP.

  • Adrian Bates' FAQ from Down Under is a great source of technical pointers.

Routers and other sordid animals

Having the black box is not enough. You have to know what to do with it.

Modems are definitely sordid animals. Here's where we look for help:

DNS, TCP/IP, and related Subjects

Webmaster Tools

Search Engines: Commerce Tools: Server Statistics Tools Scripts, etc

Books

O'Reilly and Associates have the best depth of selection of Internet books. At the present time, we have the following titles of theirs on our reference shelf:
  • Managing Internet Sevices
    by Liu, Peek, Jones, Buus, and Nye.
  • TCP/IP Network Administration
    by Craig Hunt
  • Sendmail
    by B. Costales
  • DNS & Bind
    by Cricket Liu

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