Links

My all-time favourites

These are the sites that I visit on a near-daily basis...

Handleiding HTML - A very good HTML/CSS reference
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - The best movie guide on the net
AMG All Music Guide - The best music guide on the net
Muzzy - musicfrom.nl - A good Dutch site about (Dutch) music
freshmeat - A very large software database
W3C HTML Validator - Check your pages for errors
Kink FM WMA stream
The Linux Kernel Archives
An extensive overview of Dutch music charts

My favourite server software products:

Debian Linux - The distribution I use nowadays
The Slackware Linux Project - The distribution I used to use
Apache HTTPD Project - The Number One HTTP Server On The Internet
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor - My favorite language for webapps
Exim Internet Mailer - Great Sendmail replacement
MySQL - An open source database
Mailman - the GNU Mailing List Manager

PHP Extensions and libraries

Sablotron - XML / XSL toolkit
(FTP) IMAP C-client for IMAP support in PHP
GD Graphics Library for dynamic image creation
zlib - Compression library
Msession - Session daemon and PHP extension

Helper applications, extensions and patches (server stuff)

amavisd-new - Virus scanning interface for MTAs like Exim
SpamAssassin - An excellent anti-spam filter
Clam Antivirus - A free (GPL) virus scanner for Unix and Linux
Qpopper-MySQL patch - A patch to make Qpopper talk to MySQL
exiscan-acl - A patch that allows email content scanning within Exim 4
mod_auth_mysql - An Apache module for authentication against a MySQL database

Web apps (PHP/CGI)

Mr.Mail - My own homemade PHP webmail application. Work in progress
ViewCVS - Viewing CVS Repositories through a browser

My favourite (free!) Windows software:

PuTTY - A Free Win32 Telnet/SSH Client
Trillian - A versatile IM client. Does ICQ, AIM, IRC, MSN and Yahoo
CDex - A cool CD ripper and mp3 creator
IrfanView - A freeware graphics viewer
Vim - The best text editor around is also available for Windows
Mozilla Firebird - Next generation browser from mozilla.org
FilZip - A free ZIP program

Cool add-ons for Windows software

TIP OE-QuoteFix - A neat little program that improves the behaviour of Outlook Express in many ways!
Mozilla Firebird: Extensions - Large plugin collection for this great browser

Multimedia stuff

MPlayer - A movie player/encoder for Linux
Project Mayo - Home of OpenDivX ;-)
The LAME project - Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder
SMPMAN - Lame MP3 Win32 binaries & useful sound tools
SDL - Simple Direct Media Layer - A cross-platform multimedia library
A list of AVI codecs by FOURCC

Xbox

TIP Xbox-Scene - Your starting point for Xbox modding and other Xbox news
XBINS - Xbox homebrew release news
Xbox-Linux - Linux on Xbox
Xbox Media Player - XBMP, a versatile media player
Xbox Media Center - XBMC, the successor of XMBP
Box-Mods - A small site with some interesting downloads
Gamespot - Game database, much like IMDb and AMG

Friends' pages (in no particular order)

Leon
Manfred
Renée
Janne
Simon
Kai
Piet
Bram
Edwin
Robert
Johan
Arnold
Edoardo & Corona
Ramon "Dr. Big"

Misc

Fotoalbum Bert W.