The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students

produced by John English

6th edition (August 2001)
Copyright © John English 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Sponsored by VNU Business Media Europe and ROCC


"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

About BURKS · Licensing information · Credits · Document index


Welcome to BURKS!

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... Let me know what you think of this; is it unfair discrimination against people with old machines or a welcome change?

Click on the links below to find out more about BURKS:

About BURKS: background information, how to find information and so on
Using your own browser with BURKS. This also lets you use a simple search engine for searching the CD.
Installing software: 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.
The questionnaire: please fill this in to let me know if I'm doing anything wrong!
Sponsors needed! If you're interested in being associated with this product in future years, please read this!
BURKS Online: look here for errata, ordering information and other news.

Contents: 

[See also the main index of documents on this CD]
  • About your PC: documentation and tutorials on hardware, operating systems, programming and other computing topics.
  • Programming: information about programming in general, as well as compilers, reference manuals, tutorials, FAQs and other useful material for over 20 different programming languages.
  • The Internet: information and software for browsing the net, for using your machine as a server, for authoring your own documents, etc.
  • The Free Online Dictionary of Computing: a dictionary of computing-related terms with over 13,000 entries.
  • Software: a collection of freeware and shareware for all sorts of purposes!
  • Linux: a free Unix-compatible operating system for PCs (the Mandrake 8.0 distribution) with full documentation.
  • External sites: a personal selection of links to interesting sites around the world.
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