I have a plain text unix tip of the day file, which you may find useful. I've also written a few LaTeX packages.
Whilst at Cambridge I kept a list of Cambridge applied maths journals I often wish to consult, with links to online versions and details of where they're to be be found in Cambridge. This is now maintained by Dominic Vella.
I've just started doing the same at my new university. Hence the list of Nottingham applied maths and mathematical medicine journals.
The University Library kindly subscribes to the OED online, so if you're using a computer on the CUDN you can access the the dictionary for free. Just visit http://dictionary.oed.com.
If you're a member of the University, but using a computer outside Cambridge, then you won't be able to access the the site automatically via the university's subscription. To get round this, you can either tunnel your web traffic through a shell account inside Cambridge (which requires a shell account and some technical knowledge), or you can get yourself an Athens account. These give you access to various academic resources (via a user-name and password) including Web of Science (for inverse citation searches), and the OED. Members of Cambridge University should be able to get an Athens account by asking at their departmental library, or failing the, the UL.
If you use Pine to read
your email, there are many settings you can play with to enable
advanced features, and change the behaviour of the client. Here is a
list of some of the things that I've changed from my default setup (on
hermes.cam.ac.uk).
user-domainliteral-signaturesignature-at-bottomenable-aggregate-command-setenable-bounce-cmdenable-full-header-cmdenable-tab-completionpruning-rule=don't rename,
don't delete'.alt-addressesTo make any of these changes, choose 'setup' from the Pine main menu, then hit 'C' for config. To jump to a particular setting, press 'W', then type a suitable search string and hit enter. For more information about these and other settings, Pine has an excellent online help facility. Just press '?' when you've got one of the options highlighted.
If you're having trouble using the new 'all-singing-all-dancing' Newton catalogue for searching for books and journals in Cambridge, then help is at hand. The old (in-house) versions of the catalogues are being maintained as backup, and are still accessible via the web, and can be found at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Catalogues/OPAC/. The old 'union list of serials' can also be accessed from this address, though it hasn't been updated for some time.