A review of the new Amiga hardware and software: The Micro-AmigaOne and Amiga OS4 Developer Prerelease via [MeFi]
My first computer was an Amiga 500, and what a fantastic machine it was — although snail-like in terms of raw number of MHz by today’s standards, it felt quick and responsive, and while many people remember [...]
A collection of links relevant to Cambridge Computer Scientists:
On line Dictionary of Computer Terms
ucam.cl.students - The Computer Lab student newsgroup
comp.risks — A very interesting, low-traffic newsgroup with anecdotes from around the world about software engineering and security practice. Recommended reading for Software Engineering and Security courses, as well as general interest.
Learn Useful Stuff
LaTeX Tips
WDG HTML [...]
While teaching somebody how to use LaTeX recently I noticed that my webpage of useful LaTeX tips and links was no longer accessible.
Hypertext help with LaTeX – handy reference guide.
Text processing with LaTeX — lots of good tutorials, covering the basics to advanced features.
Using imported graphics in LaTeX — essential guide to making graphics appear [...]
Downloads overtake single sales (from BBC News).
This is hardly surprising since, as far as I know, sales of singles have been in free-fall for a while. The quality of music that seems to make up the vast majority of the singles chart suggests that the majority of sales are to 12–14 [...]
Google have added an Amazon-style “wishlist” to their excellent Froogle service, called Froogle Shopping List.
It doesn’t seem to be available for Froogle UK though.
Over the Christmas vacation this blog was spammed repeatedly, particularly annoying since I was on a dial-up connection that made downloading all the comment notification emails annoying if nothing else! It seems this is quite a common problem and as usual Google provided an excellent resource for tackling the problem. Read on for a [...]
… would buses run less frequently during peak times. From University Estate Management:
The published service frequency will change from 15 minutes to 20 minutes during peak hours (07.00-09.00 and from 16.00). The published off-peak service frequency will remain 15 minutes.
After a lovely two week break at home with my parents, including a fun trip round the country visiting friends over the New Year weekend, I arrived back in Cambridge today. Not much seems to have changed — I have only been away for two weeks(!), and it still seems quite peaceful and student-free so [...]