Aude Noughty

Extraordinarily good, 26 Jan 2012

Can you list the books from your childhood that had a long-lasting impact? I can think of two or three. One was "The Eagle of the Ninth". I remember being very impressed when my teacher told me how well researched were the books by Rosemary Sutcliff and how if it happened in her stories you could believe it happened that way in real life (within reason). That made a real impact.
I think "Stones For My Father" has a similar quality to it. Knowing that it is well researched, knowing that all these events happened and that someone surely had similar experiences to the main character, Corie, makes the story so much more important. I think it will be remembered by children who read it… Read more

Outstanding, 4 Dec 2011

Surprised there are no other reviews for this outstanding reference book. Quite invaluable. It is clear, concise while being comprehensive and very authoritative. An excellent reference work.

User guide and cables let it down, but still good, 6 Oct 2011

I bought this modem/router on the basis that there was enough information in Amazon reviews to be able to set it up myself. I was nervous because I know very little about networks.
Sadly the user-guide is very poor. Typical of such systems, it fails to explain what the fields are that you see on a dialogue box. You want PPPoE, or PPPoA? And what about the encapsulation mode? VC/MUX or LLC? Like you, I have no idea what these settings mean. The user guide provides no information about them at all. It says things like "If you have been given specific settings for this to configuration, type in the correct values assigned by your ISP." Eh?

The problem is that if you search the… Read more