News Sites: BBC News news.bbc.co.uk World's bestest news site is made by the BBC. The BBC's main site can be found at www.beeb.com. Slashdot slashdot.org The original and best site to catch up on the latest nerdy news :-) Linux Today www.linuxtoday.com Great Linux news - more Linux software oriented than slashdot. LXer Linux News lxer.com More Linux news - with more of a business perspective this time. The Register www.theregister.com The register - the best technical news site me thinks. Computer Hardware/Software/Games: sensical.net www.sensical.net The best web hosting and email hosting company in the world! With great low value websites and super customer service! Simply www.simply.co.uk An amazing UK PC mail-order company with online catalogue browsing and ordering. Dabs Direct www.dabs.co.uk Another mail-order company, just in case you wanted to compare prices! Insight (formerly Choice Peripherals) www.insight.com/uk Guess wot ... another computer company .. well it's always best to shop around. Tom's Hardware www.tomshardware.com Great hardware reviews from people that actually know what they are talking about. Duke of URL www.thedukeofurl.org Quality Linux-related software and hardware reviews. QXL www.qxl.co.uk A good auction site with reasonably comprehensive computing hardware catagories. Easy to pick up a hardware bargin. eBay UK is another good auction site. More Linux Links: LDP www.linuxdoc.org The home of the Linux Documentation Project, good info and links here. RedHat www.redhat.com The easiest Linux distribution. Sunsite Linux Mirror (Ibiblio) www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux The Sunsite Linux archives, lots of files here. And a good search thingy. UK mirror: sunsite.org.uk/pub/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux. New file list (UK): sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/Mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/NEW.html. LinuxOS www.linuxos.org Homepage for the efnet channel #linuxos. But also some great links to relevant info. AFUL www.aful.org The best French Linux site I've found. Mozilla www.mozilla.org Nuf said. 'tis cool. Motor Links: Have a look at my Volvo page. Have a look at my Formula One page. Finding Things: Google www.google.com Basically, the best web search engine on the net. This title used to belong to Infoseek before they turned into Go. And Google doesn't just win because they aren't powered by Microsoft! FTP Search www.filesearching.com A reasonable FTP search engine. Not as good as the original, http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no, which got taken over by Lycos and moved to http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/?form=medium and was never the same afterwards. Freshmeat www.freshmeat.net Linux files directory. ZDNet hotfiles.zdnet.com Quite a comprehensive files archive for MS Windows related stuff. Part of the ZD Network which comprises a relatively good site for both files and computing-related news. CNET download.cnet.com Another reasonable windows files archive which also has good news and search abilities. Friends' Pages: (in no particular order) (warning this part has not been updated in donkey's and half the links are likely to be broken!) Robert Redshaw Robert's a friend from secondary school who also attended Bristol University with me, although he graduated in Economics. He currently works for Andersen as an accountant in Jersey. His pages used to house what he may have liked to believe was the Ultimate Starwars Guide. Although, recently, they seem to have been taken over my his parents!! Alan Ingham Alan is a pal from my uni halls, his pages house The Ingham federation! Paul Anthony Paul was the only other person in the entire of Bristol University doing my course and even accompanied me to Toulouse for a year. After graduating with a 1st he chose to work for Syzygy, an IT consultancy in London. He's into badminton, loud music and beer. Paul Denning The second Paul also graduated from Bristol University with a 1st in Computer Science. He currently works for Sony, programming computer games in London. He has a bit of an obsession with Compuer Games (Classic & PC & Playstation & Everything else). His pages used to worship the amazing game of Street-fighter, as well as his favourite band Kula-shaker. However, he claims to have updated them since then -- although I am not convinced they have really changed! Mark Gowans Mark's graduated from Imperial College, London with a degree in Comp-Sci. He currently works for Goldman Sachs in London as an IT person. There's a lot at Mark's site including Mark's Morris-Minor-Museum. And Finally ... Dilbert www.dilbert.com I absolutely love the Dilbert cartoons, he starts my every day! Seti@Home setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu The Seti (Search for Extra-terestrial Life) project is a nice spare clock-cycle using waste of time. However, it is strangly appealing ..... Real Programmers real.programmers.html A hilarious file on the facets of REAL programmers. Bastard Operator from Hell bofh.shtml Scripts from the forever-living Bastard Operator! Digital Blasphemy www.digitalblasphemy.com Great high-resolution wallpaper. Basingstoke not Boringstoke! www.bstoke.com Excellent satire in the selfless act of promoting the beutiful town of Basingstoke where I live. BITS www.bits.bris.ac.uk My ex web-space provider and a generally top organisation. sensical.net www.sensical.net My current webspace provider. The best uk web and email hosting company in the world! With great low value php and mysql websites with all the functionality and great customer service too! E&OE. © 2005 The Auther, Ian Barry, . All rights reserved. This document was last modified on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2006 15:58:47 BST. Lost? Go to the top of this page. Go to the start. Check the site map. This page is hosted with a great-value UK web hosting company. Check out www.sensical.net.