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http://www.thechipmerchant.com/support
Good info on computer memory in SUPPORT section, including a detailed glossary of terms. (English)

http://arxiv.org
Free access to preprints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics. (English)

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
OpenCourseware: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) course materials are available for free to anybody, "spanning MIT's entire curriculum": Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management, Science, etc. Engineering includes Computer Science. (English)

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/cogeter/20-05-05-internet.htm
Paul Frank says: "Here's a list of official French Internet terms, courtesy of the Journal Officiel."

http://www.aidenet.com/informa0.htm
French computer glossary and also a French-English internet "mini-dictionary".

http://maja.dit.upm.es/~aalvarez/pitfalls/
Tony Crawford found this site on "Basic Computer Spanglish Pitfalls".

http://www.ac-creteil.fr/russe/slove.htm
Alexandra Scott found this three-language glossary useful (French, English, Russian).

http://www.cafi.org/lexiques/
François Lavallée found these French IT resources: Lexique sur l'informatique et les domaines connexes and Lexique du chiffrement et de la sécurité informatique.

http://www.hirzel.org/book
Online version of the Microsoft Press Computer-Fachlexikon mit Fachwörterbuch (deutsch-englisch/englisch-deutsch).

http://www.pc-faq.de/woerterbuch
German-English computer glossary.

http://www.mbonline.com.br/dicionario/dicionario.htm
Dicionário de informática e computação. From Sue Horn's url collection.

http://www.riff.org/glossaire
Michelle Asselin suggests this online French resource, "glossaire de termes informatiques".

http://www.hansenmedia.com/dict.htm
Dictionary of Digital Media. Searchable and browsable.

http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Jacques Clau suggests this On-Line Dictionary of Computing, "with links to OneLook and Google for the searched terms, and a list of nearby terms".

http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
Elliott Urdang says: "Here's an interesting statistics site".

http://www.linux-france.org/prj/jargonf/general/bgfrm.html
Michelle Asselin found this French jargon glossary.

http://users.erols.com/ziring/dopl.html
Michael Molin found this Dictionary of Programming Languages.

http://www.europa.eu.int/en/comm/eurostat/research/isi/
Michael Molin found this multilingual ISI Glossary of Statistical Terms.

http://www.linux-france.org/prj/jargonf/index.html
Claire Parker found this computer glossary, "in French, but the English definitions are given too".

http://www.ipsa-exe.it/fr_interior.htm
Luca Fantini recommends this Italian glossary for Information Technology.

http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Silke Clerkin suggests this Information Technology glossary.

http://www.siber.org/sib/
Paul Makinen says "Vadim Maslov's Sovinformbureau site has a wonderful summary of Russification procedures for various operating systems (Unix, MS Windows, MS DOS, Macintosh), and a test page to test the Russification with when you're done."

http://www.directron.com/
Michael Molin points out this source of many specialized computer hardware glossaries. Just click on an item on the left (computer memory, motherboards, hard drives, video & graphics, etc.) and look for the glossary link on the page.

http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html
Margaret Doney found this page of links to free online editions of computer and Internet books.

http://www.sapstuff.com/sap/sapglossary.shtml
Catriona Lischka passes along this Glossary of English SAP terms. The glossary says SAP = Systems, Application and Products in data processing.

http://www.gw2k.com/support/custserv/glossary/a.html
Denzel Dyers points us to this site. “This is a Gateway 2000 entry, with a glossary of computer terms. I don’t consider it really extensive, but it is quick and easy to use.”—DD
 
http://www.leo.org/archiv/macintosh/
Here is a nice page of links which include German mac info.

http://www.leo.org/archiv/macintosh/macfaq/
The German macintosh faq.

Also see Macworld/Macwelt in the “Rosetta Stones” section.

http://www.conrad.de
Iain Mackenzie points out the German “Conrad catalog, which contains lots of useful information about electronic equipment.”

http://christine.unibw-hamburg.de/Book/default.htm
Charles Heidenberg pointed out this site for German computer terms.

http://www.hscsyr.edu/~telemed/pacs.htm
PACS for the Uninitiated: A Primer by Phillip Berman, M.D. "If you can run a CT console or angio table, but can't manage to run a PC, this book is for you." Fun online introduction to networked computer mysteries for teleradiologists (or anybody else!). The author has the right attitude (although not the right spell checker....)

http://www.indexa.fr/cgi-bin/acronymes.pl
Suz Falcone points out this searchable site with thousands of computer-related acronyms (in English).

http://www.computerbookexpress.com
Looking for books on computers and technology? Check out this searchable site.

http://www.macworld.com
Looking for Macintosh terminology in various languages? Check out MacWorld's various editions (look for the Macworld International links on the home page). Last time I looked, they had MacWelt (German) and MacWorld Spain, Italy, Russia, Sweden, China, and UK editions (the main mag is US English). Searchable -- hit the Magazine link for the search page.

http://webopedia.internet.com/
Erika Pavelka says this site claims to be "the only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology."

http://msip.lce.org/erporto/libros/glosario/glosario.htm
Catherine Guilliaumet found this Spanish teleprocessing glossary.