Links to Check Out

Download Firefox here.
To configure after initial install, manually open new tab, type about:config , hit enter, and change the following settings: (Normally the browser makes one request to a web page at a time; the first three settings (to enable piplining) will allow it to make several at once, speeding up page loading significantly) network.http.pipelining to "true" network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true" network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 30 browser.display.use_system_colors to "true" Right-click anywhere, select New -> Integer, add "nglayout.initialpaint.delay", and set value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
Firefox Add-Ons

Help with MIDI's:

CSS

Hint #1: Multiple font faces and sizes
Hint #2: Multiple font faces and sizes
Hint #3: Multiple font faces and sizes

Ruby

Main Ruby Site
Win32 Ruby Installer
FTP for Ruby Win32 zip

Oracle Information

Taking Up Collections
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE option for Dynamic SQL and PL/SQL
How to Generate a List of Dates

Java

Sun Java Home Page
NetBeans IDE
Java JMeter
JCraft
MD5 for Java (JavaDocs)
logging-log4j (1.2.14)
Root site for Commons Logging (1.1), CLI (1.1), Codec (1.3), dbutils (1.1), net (1.4.1), vfs (1.0)
Apache Commons-Logging (1.1) (D/L)
Jakarta Commons HTTPClient (3.1)
Jakarta ORO (jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar) Perl5 compatible regular expressions
JavaMail API
JUnit Unit Testing (4.3.1)
SourceForge Jsch (0.1.33) pure Java implementation of SSH2 (port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc.)
Oracle JDBC Drivers (ojdbc14.jar, ojdbc14dms.jar, ojdbc14dms_g.jar, ojdbc14_g.jar, ons.jar, orai18n.jar, demo.tar, javadoc.zip)
apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz
jdk-6-doc.zip
struts-2.0.11-all.zip

MySQL Java Connector

POI - Java access to Microsoft Office-format files
Java-To-Exe #1
Java-To-Exe #2

MySQL and C++

mysql++
Using Visual C++ 6.0 to connect to MySQL
Easy Way to Build MySQL Client Programs Using Visual C++ (MyBooks)
Easy Way to Build MySQL Client Programs Using Visual C++ (MyBooks 2.0 Free Download)
Easy Way to Build MySQL Client Programs Using Visual C++ (MyNotes)

VanDyke's SecureCRT

VanDyke.com
SecureCRT Page

Movie Physics

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

ComingSoon.net: Movie and Video release dates

Dark Horizons Entertainment News & Rumors

Movie Theatrical Release Dates
Movie DVD Release Dates

Music

USAF Heritage of America Band Download patriotic music

Istanpitta

Food & Drink

Epicurious.com (14,000 recipes)
Chaucer's Wine (good mead)

Central Texas Better Business Bureau

Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

Austin Motor Mile (Body Shop)

Zillow Real-Estate guide

Wikipedia's Economic Utility

Oil Price indexed for inflation

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Investopedia

Fraud Control

Credit Card Fraud

Austin Rare Coins and Bullion (7200 N. MoPac)

Capital Coins & Bullion (5448 Burnet Rd. Austin, TX 78756 512-371-5884)

American Gold Exchange, Inc. (based in austin but apparently no brick-n-mortar; 800-613-9323; apparently no bullion bars)

GoldLine.com (the site Glenn Beck advertises on the radio (1-800-556-GOLD)(1-800-556-4653))

Goldprice.org's lsiting of Austin Rare Coins (Print-out)

GoldPrice.org

GoldPrices.com

Gold-Eagle.com

Authorized Dealers - Texas

Reviews of American Gold Exchange (7600 Burnet Rd Ste 350)

MerchantCircle - Gold Dealers in Austin TX

Internet Yellow Pages - Gold Silver & Platinum Buyers Austin Texas

Gold and Silver Forum (there is no goldismoney.info root site; it redirects into the forums)
(Note: The Precious Metals subforum seems fine; some other subforums seem full of crackpottery.)

Reviews of Bullion Direct in Austin, TX

Bullion Direct (headquartered in Austin, TX, prob. in the Wells Fargo building at Woodward & Ben White)

Texas Coins (From San Antonio; leery of this one)

TaxFreeGold.co.uk

Check/Verify this out: Gold bullion is a capital asset, thus gains are taxed using the capital gains rates. Gold coins may qualify as a collectible, but you need to do some fact checking. Some recently minted coinage is being ruled a capital asset in lieu of a collectible.

WhatIsMyIPAddress - Proxies