They closed the diploma? alas. I was mixing up the two, because when I was there (9 years ago), the diploma is the same course as a separate part II offered to non-CS students.

Apart for making part II harder for undergrads, as all those BA-wielding mathematicians boost the expectation for what the students are capable of!

There is, presumably, a separate Part II for people who have taken CS Part Ia and Ib, naturally.

Lucky you! Is Martin Richards (of BCPL fame) still teaching the C class (forgot what the official title is, it's the one where he talks about BCPL, C (mostly its warts and under-specified standard) and related languages.

Forgot to mention that. I was an international student so I took that for granted anyway -- and since American students are fee-paying in their own country (though less if they go to a state university in their own state), presumably they are more prepared for that.

Another possibility, actually, is the Netherlands. Tanenbaum (of the OS fame) is in Vrije University, which charges tuition of only 3000 euro per annum, last time I checked.

... and adopted by the Arab states hook, line and sinker as it suited their needs just neatly. I believe a documentary, claiming the fake as "factual", airs on Egyptian state TV every year.

... Edinburgh, Imperial College, or perhaps Manchester (they have one of the earliest electronic computer, still in working order). There's also Canada -- Waterloo has a renowned engineering program.

Not sure if Cambridge does exchange programs, but if you're abroad for a year instead of a semester, their Part II CS tripos is quite gruelling; it's basically a complete undergrad education done in one year, usually taken by people who already have a degree in related fields (e.g. math or physics).

In the UK, my rule of thumb is: if they teach a functional language then they are decent. Edinburgh is where Standard ML was written (and Phil Wadler is in the faculty) -- oh, and is really good for Artificial Intelligence research too, so naturally, they're quite heavily into Prolog too. Cambridge also uses ML; York uses Scheme and Haskell. Warwick -- ML, I guess.

There's also the location to consider. Imperial is in London -- good place to be, but accomodation might be tough. Edinburgh is in, well, Edinburgh -- lovely place, a bit cold in winter, but not as bad as the northern parts of the US. York is on the east coast line, so it's less than three hours from either London or Edinburgh by fast train. Warwick, despite the name, is not in the quaint mediaeval town of Warwick, but in nearby Coventry (they obviously thought naming it the University of Coventry would not be good for business). Not far from London and Birmingham, though.

With Leopard, that's arguable, at least until 10.5.4. It's the first OS X release that does not provide for a painless upgrade experience; if you try to upgrade from Tiger, you will end up with repeated chkdsk-induced boot failures until you reformat the hard drive clean.

HFS+ needs to die. Now.

Perhaps they would then start prosecuting spammers more seriously, if spamming is perceived to be a DDOS against a government-run service.

Parent poster happens to be from the UK -- check his website.