This page was originally set up as a guide to students of Connect's Software Re-Training course who might like to install Linux on their home boxes in order to do at home most of what they can do on Connect's machines (and more). Hopefully it can grow from there. Hopefully I can scrape together a few sheckels and stick this stuff on my own server so I can run cgi scripts and Zope and give it a bit of interactivity. As they say, "release early, release often": you, dear reader, are looking at what is very much a pre-beta release.

DISCLAIMER: this page has nothing to do with Connect or the University of Liverpool other than that the author was, for a short time, a student there (and might, one day, like to return). Everything here is written in good faith and for nowt. But, if, by following the recommendations contained in these pages, something terrible happens to your computer, I will not be responsible for either that or any subsequent consequences. You read and follow any advice or links on or from these pages entirely at your own risk. If your computer explodes, causing your cat to jump in the microwave and cook itself, your live-in-lover to walk out taking the Ferrari, and your house to fall down, it's your fault, not mine. (I'm very sorry about the cat, though......)

SOURCES: this site borrows from everywhere and anywhere. If I've used something of yours and should not have, just let me know and I'll remove it. If I've pinched your graphic and you'd like credit for it, please let me know. And if there is anything you'd like to see added or if a link does not work please contact me.

This site was created using open source and free software: the graphics, the animations and the text (Star Office -- which should be Open Source by the time you read this, Bluefish, Gimp, and Gvim were the main tools used). Little Igloo FTP (which is Open Source but shareware, although a free alpha version exists) was used for administering the site. Everything was done on a home built PC based around a FIC 503+ motherboard, with a Cyrix 333 chip and 64Mb of RAM running SuSE Linux 6.4. There you go then, chuck in a nice little IBM monitor picked up from a fair for £20 and you have a complete web creation kit for well under the cost of a Photoshop licence.

While these page are checked in Internet Explorer 5* when I can bear to start up Windows, and in Mozilla, they are best viewed through Netscape 4* in XVGA resolution.