• This is broken - a page for consumer stuff that doesn't work. This is the post about the badly designed jack in HP laptops.
• On tweakers.net , a thread (in Dutch) on the faults of the HP Scanjet 4670.
• The Notebook Hinge Crack blog - more dirt on badly designed HP laptops, especially the hinge problem. This blog seems to have gone (confirmation: "This domain name expired on Sep 16 2011 09:08PM."), the only proof it ever existed is this WayBack Machine snapshot. Here is a new one: HP notebook hinge crack in in Jacksonville, Fl and a site on how to fix the hinge: Indestructible repair for the broken HP DV-9000 laptop hinge & case.
• eeeuser.com - real tips & tricks on the Asus EEE PC, found in the wiki and forum. The main page announces the releases of new models. Update 2013: it seems to be undergoing a major overhaul, with much information gone and waiting to be rewritten in wiki format.
• Repair4Laptop: How to Repair a TouchPad, TrackPoint or External Notebook Mouse - click on "Acer Travelmate 800", right at the top, to see the board that needs to be replaced when the touchpad mouse buttons start to act funny. Oh, and ignore any ads about "impotence reducers" showing up on the page.

• The NCH software site where I found the great sound editor/converter, Wavepad.
• TUGzip is the best utility I've found to uncompress all the different kinds of Morrowind mod archives. It's also skinnable. However, as of 2008 it's no longer maintained.
• 7zip is an archiver for zip files and various Unix archive types, and a near-universal unarchiver for Windows, lacking only ACE support. It comes in 64-bit and 32-bit versions.
• PeaZip is a new player in the archives field, decompressing more than 150 formats (according to its homepage; I didn't count) including ACE if you download the plugin. It works on any Windows version from XP to 8, 32-bit and 64-bit, and can also securely delete files, but has a special way of creating/updating archives which must be adhered to, or unexpected file deletion may result.
• Visual BCD Editor - Windows 7/Vista is a freeware tool to examine and optionally edit the BCD.
• Multibooters, Vista Dual and Multibooting - Cloning Vista: information on how to dual-boot and multiboot Vista, which is not as easy as it was with the older Windowses, primarily because of something called the BCD.
• An Examination of the NTFS Volume Boot Record: precisely what it says, and linking to other in-depth examinations of the file systems under various Windows versions.
• How To Install Windows 7 To USB External Hard Drive [Must Read]
• How To Install Windows 7 On USB Flash_Hard Drive [Easy Way]
• [Tutorial] Boot Windows 7 from USB hard disk by karyonix
• USB HDD boot and Windows 7 SP1
• BSOD- Inserting USB Drives: scroll down to the post by user Super Sarge quoting "The Windows 7 SP1 USB Driver Bug (what it is and how to fix it)".
• 6.1.7601 USB Driver Update Fix: "This simple utility fixes a Windows 7 and 2008 R2 SP1 update bug originally reported by 'Enigma256'."
• Official Windows 7 SP1 ISO Image Downloads: links to legally downloadable Windows 7 ISOs in several versions/languages.
• Microsoft Community: I cannot get my Windows 7 to open it says incorrect password: the unrecognized password problem under Windows 7.
• AnandTech forums: Can't login to Windows 7 after running Windows Updates. Password incorrect???: the unrecognized password problem under Windows 7, with more solutions and the hint that it may be caused by an update and/or incorrect shutdown.
• SELinux Project: GlobalConfigurationFiles: everything I ever didn't want to know about SELinux.
• Dan Walsh's Blog: The joy of SELinux relabelling.: fixing SELinux through autorelabel, and when not to do this.
• Relabeling Your Filesystem with SELinux
• Server Fault: How can I do an SELINUX filesystem relabel without rebooting first?
• Deep Silver Accessory: KERNEL PANIC - NOT SYNCING ATTEMPTED TO KILL INIT FIXED: how SELinux file permissions can cause kernel panics, on CentOS.
• Recursive Search Engine for Linux and Unix Man Pages by Neo: acl: online database of man pages, showing the search result for "acl".
• OpenSUSE Forums: Kernel panic on Aspire E1-522 laptop: the kernel panic caused by using OpenSUSE 13.1 with certain CPUs, solved by updating to 13.1.16 or later.
• Ext2Read: will read files off ext2, ext3 and ext4 partitions under Windows up to W7, but must be run in WinXP compatibility mode.
• Ext2Fsd: mounts ext2, ext3 and ext4 partitions read-only in Windows, after which they can be accessed by Windows Explorer until next reboot.
• University of Huddersfield Repository: NTFS Permissions Browser: a utility to view ACLs from the built-in Windows Console started by running MMC.EXE. I'm not sure I ever got it to work.
• NTFS Permissions Reporter: has a free (older) and paid version. The free version ran rather slowly on my computer, precisely because of the file permission problems I wanted it to help me investigate.
• SRW Iron: a version of Chromium (itself a version of Google Chrome) which doesn't track the user's surfing behaviour. The site is originally in German and has incidental popups.
• Grow-openSUSE-12-3 wallpaper: where to find the original design of the default wallpaper for openSUSE 13.1 that went missing from openSUSE 13.2.
• Recuva is a free file undeletion program with a paid "pro" version, that I bought bundled with CCleaner from the same makers.
• Recover My Files 5 is a shareware file recovery program that does in-depth scanning for lost files.
• Remo Recover 4.0 is very similar to Recover My Files but, after no longer being sold by Software Shelf, is only found under misleading names at sites like these.
• GSA File Rescue 1.07 is nagware that doesn't recover deleted files, but rather attempts to recover files from corrupt media.

• Puppy Linux
  The main page for the compact, adaptable Puppy Linux and its derivatives.
• Smokey01 - Supporting Puppy Linux
  My reason for listing this site is the list of Puppy derivative ISO files, including versions of Puppeee (no longer updated).
• Salix - Linux for the lazy Slacker
  A lightweight, optionally live-from-USB distro that looks promising for the Asus eee PC, still maintained.
• ZenWalk Linux
  A wonderfully light Slackware derivative, suitable even for old Pentium computers, that doesn't seem to install too well to the Asus eee PC. There was a special version of it called ZenEee or Zeee, but the link to it is dead.
• Webconverger - Opensource Web Kiosk PC Operating System
  Its own description: "Leading Linux-based Web kiosk and Digital Signage software for public spaces. Free 7 day trial." Here is the direct URL for a download link and instructions to get it onto USB.
• MiniNo
  A Linux live CD/USB for older, slower computers, in Spanish, Galician and English.
• KaOS | A lean KDE Distribution
  A highly specialized Arch-based KDE distro for 64bit computers. Its installation ISO (can be burned to DVD or written to USB, and also installed to USB, but the latter didn't work for me) is also its live-medium image. The live medium has a recent version of the Calligra suite, but neither Kate nor Kjots.
• Chakra
  A specialized Arch-based KDE distro, much like KaOS (its instructions for installing to USB are identical) but older.

• Natural alternatives to topical hydrocortisone, for chronic itchers who want an ointment that doesn't eat away their skin.

• www.dejavu.org - a site emulating old browsers, to see what a particular webpage would have looked like in, say, the first ever version of Netscape.
• AnimeCon.nl - the site of J-POP, the organisation hosting the yearly Dutch anime convention of the write-ups on the AniMisc page.

For links on how to make KiSS sets, see KiSS info and tutorials. For Sim links, see the links section of the Sims Support Page. For some plant and garden links, see the pages under Homegrown at the bottom of the Animisc page.

Frequent visitors may have noticed many dead links in my pages. This has three reasons. Firstly, I simply don't check my links very often. Secondly, sites can be temporarily down for many reasons. (I also used to get false "dead links" because my dialup internet connection was bad, but changing to ADSL has solved that.) When I come across a link that seems dead, I'll add a "possibly dead" warning, rather than remove it.

I also don't, generally, ask site owners' permission before linking to their site. It has come to my attention that Japanese site owners, for one, do expect this. My apologies to anyone whose site has been linked to against their wish; if you want a link to your site removed, please mail me. For the moment, I've decided to link to any site that has also been linked to from elsewhere, without asking.

Lastly, for easier maintenance, I point most links on the site to the relevant section in this links list.