Wednesday December 01, 2004 at 16:14
Subject: Useful web lookup sites
Keywords:
Information, Web
Posted by: Kevin Fenzi
Here's a few sites that have handy tools to look up various useful things.
No such list would be complete without google,
but everyone should already be using google pretty regularly. I wanted to mention
some sites that let you look up things that people may not know about:
The dnsreport.com site is super useful for tracking
down DNS issues. How well do your domains do? A dnsreport for a domain is especially
nice for sending to people who may not know DNS setup all that well, because it lists
the problem and what causes it.
A good site to check and see if your mail server has somehow gotten listed on
one of the RBLs (Realtime Blackhole List) for email blocking is: http://openrbl.org/. This one site will check for your name/IP in a bunch of lists and
show you links to those lists if you need to try and get removed from them.
Despite how good a job http://froogle.google.com
does for searching for specific items and getting a good price, I like to scan
http://www.techbargains.com/ for good
tech deals. They often have some deal on something you didn't even know existed.
If you are looking for fedora rpms, http://fedoratracker.org/ can be a pretty nice search engine.
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Sean Reifschneider Subject: These are a few of my favorite websites. |
Good idea for an entry. Here are a few of my favorite sites:
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As Kevin says, Google. I've been using Google since 1995, it just rocks. However, don't forget that they have a Linux-oriented sub-site at http://google.com/linux
The Python Package Index and the Vaults of Parnassus are good place to go to look for Python things. The Vaults could be better about listing fresh things, but it's a start.
Freshmeat doesn't have the best search algorithms. For example, searching for a package by it's exact name often results in that package being burried under a bunch of other packages. Sourceforge has the same problem. However, they do have a very good classification system and track projects by how popular they are and how recently updated.
rpm.pbone.net is probably my favorite place to search for RPM packages. They have a pretty comprehensive collection of package information from many sources. It's very much like what FileWatcher used to be before it went off-line, but dedicated to RPM packages.