The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students

<I><B>Note:</B> This site was designed for use with Netscape Navigator 3 and uses frames and nested tables. If your browser does not support these features you will have difficulty viewing some pages.</I> <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students</H1> <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>produced by <A HREF="author.htm">John English</A></H2> <P ALIGN=CENTER> <I> 6th edition (August 2001) <BR> Copyright © John English 1996-2001. All rights reserved. </I> <H3 ALIGN=CENTER>Sponsored by <A HREF="vnu/index.htm">VNU Business Media Europe</A> and <A HREF="rocc.htm">ROCC</A> </H3> <HR> <CENTER>  <I> "Any sufficiently advanced technology <BR>is indistinguishable from magic."</I> <BR>-- Arthur C. Clarke <P> <SMALL> <A HREF="readme/about.htm">About BURKS</A> <B>·</B> <A HREF="copyrt.htm">Licensing information</A> <B>·</B> <A HREF="readme/credits.htm">Credits</A> <B>·</B> <A HREF="docs.htm">Document index</A> </SMALL> </CENTER> <HR> <TABLE CELLPADDING=5> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=60%> <H2><B>Welcome to BURKS!</B></H2> <p>The 6th edition of BURKS has now expanded to fill four CDs, but for the first time it is also available on DVD. I'm planning to stop producing CDs next year and produce just a DVD edition, because the number of CDs is starting to get out of hand... <A HREF="mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk">Let me know</A> what you think of this; is it unfair discrimination against people with old machines or a welcome change? <p>Click on the links below to find out more about BURKS:</p> <table cellpadding="5"> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="document.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="readme/about.htm">About BURKS:</a></b> background information, how to find information and so on</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="document.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="readme/switch.htm">Using your own browser</a></b> with BURKS. This also lets you use a simple search engine for searching the CD.</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="document.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="readme/install.htm">Installing software:</a></b> I've tried to make this as simple as possible, but you still have to do some of the work yourself. Read this section to find out more.</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="document.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="readme/question.htm">The questionnaire:</a></b> <i>please</i> fill this in to let me know if I'm doing anything wrong!</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="document.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="readme/sponsors.htm">Sponsors needed!</a></b> If you're interested in being associated with this product in future years, please read this!</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><img src="external.gif"></td> <td><b><a href="http://burks.bton.ac.uk/">BURKS Online:</a></b> look here for <a href="http://burks.bton.ac.uk/errata.htm">errata</a>, <a href="http://burks.bton.ac.uk/ordering.htm">ordering information</a> and other news. </td> </tr> </table> </TD> <TD WIDTH=40%> <TABLE BORDER=1 CELLPADDING=15 BGCOLOR="#FFFFC0"><TR><TD> <TABLE> <TR VALIGN=TOP><TD WIDTH="30%"><TD> <H2>Contents: </H2> </TD><TD> <SMALL><I> [See also the <A HREF="docs.htm"><B>main index of documents</B></A> on this CD] </I></SMALL> </TD></TR> </TABLE> <UL> <LI><A HREF="pcinfo/index.htm"><B>About your PC:</B></A> documentation and tutorials on hardware, operating systems, programming and other computing topics. <LI><A HREF="progging/index.htm"><B>Programming:</B></A> information about programming in general, as well as compilers, reference manuals, tutorials, FAQs and other useful material for over 20 different programming languages. <LI><A HREF="internet/index.htm"><B>The Internet:</B></A> information and software for browsing the net, for using your machine as a server, for authoring your own documents, etc. <LI><A HREF="foldoc/index.htm"><B>The Free Online Dictionary of Computing:</B></A> a dictionary of computing-related terms with over 13,000 entries. <LI><A HREF="software/index.htm"><B>Software:</B></A> a collection of freeware and shareware for all sorts of purposes! <LI><A HREF="linux/index.htm"><B>Linux:</B></A> a <I>free</I> Unix-compatible operating system for PCs (the Mandrake 8.0 distribution) with full documentation. <LI><A HREF="links.htm"><B>External sites:</B></A> a personal selection of links to interesting sites around the world. </UL> </TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE CELLPADDING=5><TR> <TD><IMG SRC="netscape.gif"></TD> <TD><I>Powered by<BR> <B><A HREF="copyrt.htm#software">Netscape Navigator</A></B></I></TD> </TR></TABLE> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P><HR><CENTER> <SMALL><I><B>BURKS version 6 ·</B> <A HREF="copyrt.htm">Copyright © John English 1996-2001. All rights reserved.</A></I></SMALL> </CENTER>