'How Computers Boot Up', and 'Easy Net Monitor'

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How Computers Boot Up

Booting is an involved, complicated, even 'hacky', multi-stage affair -- hard to understand, but once you learn the basics it can be fun stuff. Here's an outline of the process to help you figure out what's going on 'under the hood'.

http://duartes.org

EasyNetMonitor

EasyNetMonitor is easy free network monitoring software -- The smallest free tool for monitoring computers in your local network and any Internet hosts. Just start EasyNetMonitor, open a popup-menu in the tray, and get the information about your computer's network state.

http://www.nicekit.com