SFD: Solutions by Design: some useful links

PC sales/support:

Hamiltone: Brighton (Hove, actually) PC components & systems supplier. Main SFD source over last few years.
Future Micros, Preston Road, Brighton: suppliers of PC components & systems to order.
Motherboards: Aopen, Asus, Gigabyte, Tyan
Graphics cards: 3Dfx, ATI, Cirrus Logic, Matrox, S3
Hard disks: Quantum, Seagate
Sound cards: Creative Labs UK, Yamaha XG UK
Network cards, modems: 3Com UK
Printers: Canon, Epson UK, Hewlett Packard
Misc: Iomega

ISPs: Freeserve, Hotmail, LineOne, Nildram, Primex, Talk21, Virgin, Vodafone Interactive
OpenBSD: probably the most secure operating system available.
Apache: the classic Unix web server.
MiniVend: e-commerce/shopfront application; well-supported, and free!
PuTTY: secure alternative to Telnet.
Xing Technology: the source for MP3 encoders etc.
Pkware: home of PKZIP et al. Indispensable, especially on the 'net.
NCSA: beginner's guide to HTML.
W3 HTML home page: full HTML specs etc.

fivetrees: music promotion, domain hosting & online sales company founded by Gerard O'Farrell & Steve Fairhead. The host of this site.
Atlantic Quality Design, Inc.: you need an electronics consultancy, but we're in the UK, you're in the US, and you worry about the distance factor. (You needn't, but still.) Hank Wallace is another embedded systems specialist (and another guitarist - my kinda guy) based in Virginia, USA. Maybe he can help. Or, you might just want to read Hank's excellent "Secrets of Software Development". Or buy a T-shirt!
KK Systems: manufacturer of single-board computers, RS-485 converters, et al.
Cambridge Microprocessor Systems Ltd: single-board computers.
Alexandr Novy: author of the SPLOT plotter simulator, Alexandr is based in the Czech Republic. If you deal with HPGL files, check out this link. (Also check out our own HPGLEXP package.)
Paramount Compliance Services Ltd: world product compliance & European CE marking Specialists.