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Assembler

win32asmcommunity, a great messageboard for those who wish to learn programming assembler on the win32 platform, moderated by yours truly.
masmforum, a win32ASM MASM oriented forum lead by hutch-- [movsd]
MASM32, a superb win32ASM assembler package with plenty of extra code and examples based on MASM by hutch--.
HLA, a cross-platform, win32 and linux [linux.com] specifically designed for teaching assembler by Randall Hyde, author of educational works such as "The art of assembly language".
FASM, a cross-platform, win32 and linux [linux.com] by privalov. Very nice, do check it out.
Mad Wizard, great tutorial on sockets programming and a nice collection of win32ASM snippets by Thomas.

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Miscellaneous

0x1337, site by bazik, a good friend of mine and a SPARC nut and developer [gentoo]
Ars Technica, this is the best tech bookmark you'll ever have. Superbly run by Caesar and his team, it'll keep you informed with, not hyped on, everything geeky.
f0dder, various info about reverse engineering, assembly and some win32 programming essays by f0dder.
SSH online, a JAVA [SUN] applet implementation of the SSH protocol, for those times that you don't have access to your normal SSH client.

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Music

Trance Kingdom, single Trance stream.
Digitally Imported, a nice site with many streams ranging from several trance over techno to classical enjoyable music (great when coding).
Black Metal Radio, good music but needs a Flash MacroMedia interface, which is good if you don't have a proper stream player.
Deadfall, nice site, OK music but a little too much bad rock for my taste at times.
Roth Metal, great site, good metal, possibility to request songs.
Metal Express, ok stream.

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PHP

PHP.net, official site for PHP, contains searchable documentation, code and various other info.
ADOdb, a great database abstraction layer for PHP.
PHP Freaks, a good site with plenty of tutorials, sample code and a good forum to ask questions. (IRC channel: #phpfreaks @irc.freenode.net)
Turck MMCache, a free open source PHP accelerator, optimizer, encoder and dynamic content cache for PHP. It increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.
Evolt, free source-code repository.
Securing PHP, article [SecurityFocus] describing the steps necessary to make your PHP installation more secure, requires knowledge of the UNIX platform.
PHP Magazine, a real 'dead trees' magazine focusing on PHP, based in Germany with a good availability in Europe and the United States of America.

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Python

Python.org, official site of this great, easy to use language. If you've never heard of python, try it out and don't be initially put off by the 'forced indentation', it comes naturally to good programmers anyway.
PIL or Python Imaging Library, a great multi-platform module, similar to GD with PHP that allows many types of manipulations on a wide variety of image formats.
Daily Python, new and informative Python links every day.
ADOdb, just like it's PHP brother, from the same author comes ADOdb for Python, a multi-platform database abstraction layer.
wxPython, a nice cross-platform GUI for Python derived from it's c++ parent [wxWindows].
Dive Into Python, home to the best Python tutorial I have seen so far. A must read.
ActiveState Python Corner, a gathering of various searchable source-code/documentation/modules browseable by section.

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Security

Insecure, a great resource by Fyodor, the author of nmap.
Offline NT password Editor, for when you forget your password . Also available is a nice essay in PDF [Adobe]format.
SecurityFocus, a great resource of articles, exploits and resources about everything concerning security in the IT world.
Packet Storm, another great security related site.
OUAH, *nix security hacking, various tools and articles by several authors

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Web-Design

w3schools, very good introductory tutorials on various subjects such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc.
W3C, the consortium that defines the web-standards. Home to various validators to check your scripts for standard conformity.
Zeldman, home to a great mind on CSS and web standards in general.
alistapart, online magazine about webstandards and CSS. Filled with great articles, links and example code.
Bobby, values your site on its ability to accomodate people with various disabilities.
tools, various handy validating tools: robots.txt, size checker, etc.
Colour picker, a handy tool in case you don't have anything similar installed on your computer, requires a working JAVA [SUN] environment.
Open Source Web-Design, freely available and usable designs and colourschemes.
CSS Vault, another collection of freely available CSS designs.
P3Ptoolbox, explains what P3P is, why you should use it and how you can apply it to your site. If you ever wondered why certain browsers (*cough* IE *cough*) didn't accept certain cookies without seemingly complaining, this is why.
CSS Zen Garden, beautiful and inpiring example of what webstandards such as XHTML and CSS can accomplish.
The Web Standards Project, encourages and writes about the current state of standards of the WWW.
Entity References, 2 lists of HTML entity references.

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