A nice piece with lots of tweaks apparently known to a lot of people, but probably only to real geek-types. Most of the suggestions look to be safe, but no guarantees from me.

Looks to be an interesting site. Will want to be careful about the use of some of the more radical tweaks. Good backups and all that.  

If you are running a small workgroup of computers, you may want to use a computer running Windows XP as a Web server. You can do so by installing IIS on Windows XP. It is included with Windows XP but is not

All kinds of DNS testing, mail lookup, ping, traceroute, etc. Also see http://dnsreport.com/.

Blog with reviews on news aggregator (news feed) programs and news syndicators.

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Interesting page discussing ways to classify information. Drupal's taxonomy scheme can be done in a variety of ways, either faceted (multiple vocabularies for varying types of description) or hierarchal (single, highly nested vocabulary). But note the following:

Interesting quote from Drupal page
Technically, there isn't much reason to prefer one or the other. however, you do get different user experience with each choice.

- do you prefer one select menu on the node/add page or many?
- if you require ever node to pick a programming language, then you have to break that out into its own vocabulary. similarly, if a post can be about mutliple programming languages but only 1 ralational DB, then you need different vocabs.