Welcome to our Web Site in Paris

Our Canadian web site can be found here.

• How long has this machine been up?
• What is the local time and the status of our ntp service
• My Internet Service provider's page
• Our hosting company
• Another solid hosting company
• My miniblog on RAX.org

Interesting web sites:

• Google - yet another search engine (in IPv6 mode)
• DuckDuckGo - a new search engine that may not track you
• La Presse - the best French daily paper in America
• Reuters - A reliable source of news that's not paywalled!
• Bloomberg - A solid business news site
• The Huffington Post - An Internet news site
• The Register - an irreverent look at the IT industry
• Slashdot - news for nerds
• Ars Technica - another site with good technical info
• Reddit - discussion groups
• Twitter - a source for what's going on
• LinkedIn - great to connect with former colleagues
• Boursorama - the best French language site on investment news
• SixXS - how we got into IPv6
• Wikipedia - don't trust it always, but it *is* quite useful
• Wiktionary - find the word
• Thesaurus - find the RIGHT word
• CNN - for news (not as good as it used to be)
• DPreview - the premier Digital Photography web site
• Yahoo - in the US (or in France, or in Canada)
• Apple - Mac OS X is really quite usable
• Soekris Engineering - most excellent machines for FreeBSD
• KD85 - a place to buy Soekris in Europe
• ZVV - public transport in Zurich or in Paris
• WoW - World of Warcraft. Try it. Also: JudgeHype
• WoT - World of Tanks. Interesting game, free to play. Try it!
• Oanda - super-useful currency converter
• Gartner - the ubiquitous IT research people
• xkcd - a web comic about technology and things
• ACM - the Association for Computing Machinery
• IEEE - the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (and its Computer Society)
• Altavista Advanced Search - used to be as good as grep'ing the Internet
• Tom's Hardware Site - good technical info
• Adobe - home of Photoshop and Premiere
• FAQs - some of the Internet's FAQs
• Amazon - Book, videos, etc. They deliver to Switzerland!
• BBC News - not American news
• Le Monde - not American news, again
• Liberation - further international news
• Spotify - the BEST music streaming site
• YouTube - where video lives
• DynDNS - a formerly good Dynamic DNS company
• NASA - serious science
• eBay - buy, sell, it works!
• Paypal - if you eBay, you may want to consider paying through Paypal
• Acme - great free software site
• NTP - well it's about time
• The 2005 Zurich Marathon, April 3rd 2005

This page last updated on Sat Sep 14 11:03:54 EDT 2019