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This wiki covers a range of topics, from very basic information on using Linux systems to assorted technical tweaks and hacks used by the department sysadmins. To keep from getting lost in the mass of information, we'll try and break the pages down into categories.
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Linux
Tutorials
If you've just got an account on a Linux system and wondering what that means.
- Orientation, getting started.
- Bash, the standard Linux "shell". This is how you talk to your computer.
- Equivalent Windows Applications, to ease the transition from Microsoft.
- Find, searches for files on your system.
- Password
- ssh, securely log in to remote computers.
- scp, securely copy files between computers.
- Useful Terminal Commands
- Wget, downloading files from the internet.
There are a number of common *editors* for editing text files: Nano, Emacs, and Vi,
Tweaks
If you're comfortable moving around in you Linux account, but looking for some nifty tricks.
- Beep
- Chinese
- E-mail, jumping off point for our email-related articles.
- GnuPG, encrypt your documents (and email) for security and privacy.
- Install, how to install many open-source software packages.
- Itunes
- Local IP aliases (hostnames), save keystrokes and mental overhead.
- Lsof, list open files (aka, "why can't I unmount /home/?")
- Maintaining consistent dotfiles across several hosts
- Remote desktop, run your whole desktop from afar.
- Rsync, a better scp. Synchronize directories efficiently.
- Scheduled Commands, tell your computer to do something, e.g. every Sunday night.
- Screen, a detachable, windowed terminal for the console.
- Shell script, automate repeated commands in mini-programs.
- Sshfs, mount remote file systems over ssh.
- Tips and Tricks on Newton
- Unicode, fancy fonts
- w3m, a text-based browser. Fast!
- Window, take screenshots of your desktop.
- Wireless, configure your Linux box for Drexel's wireless network.
- Xsel, handy utility for interacting with X's cut and paste buffer from a terminal.
Hardware
Getting computers to interact with the real world.
System administration
For the truly dedicated.
- System administration
- Backup
- Boot loader
- Basin
- Debian/Ubuntu Sysadmin
- Debian Sysadmin
- Ubuntu
- Upgrade
- Ubuntu Raid
- Fedora Sysadmin
- Gentoo Sysadmin
- Suse Sysadmin
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- OpenBSD e-mail
- Dmesg, listening to your kernel.
- Trace, listening to the kernel/process interface.
- MySQL, ubiquitous open source database software.
- NFSroot, setting up diskless clients.
- Samba, connecting to Windows networks.
- Spam and how we deal with it.
- Split, dice a big file into chunks.
And a not-so-current todo list: Standing Problems
Programming
Getting your computer to follow orders.
If you're doing anything even slightly serious, we highly recommend you track your code using some form of version control
General purpose
- Python, an excellent, high-level scripting language. Get it written fast.
- C, the standard compiled language. Make it run fast.
- Cpp, an object-oriented extension to C.
- Perl, an older high level scripting language.
Specialized
Stream editors
For massaging text when even a scripting language is overkill.
Miscellaneous
- Make, automatically build software from source.
- SCons, a Python successor to Make.
- Segmentation fault, if you're coding in C, this will happen to you ;).
- Literate programming, writing self-documenting programs.
- MPI, library for writing parallel programs for clusters.
- Numerical Recipes, compiling libraries from the popular book.
Publishing
To present your findings, you will need to make documents with figures. These tools will help you do that.
Documents
- LaTeX, the standard for technical documents with lots of math.
- BibTex, a citation database system for LaTeX.
- Posters, discusses how to create posters (e.g. for conferences) in LaTeX.
- LaTeX packages, a list of useful extensions to basic LaTeX.
- Latex2html, publish those LaTeX documents online in a non-PDF format.
Graphics
- Asymptote, create graphics using a C++-like syntax.
- Gnuplot, easy and powerful 2D+ plotting.
- Matplotlib (aka Pylab), a Matlab-like Python graphics package.
- Metapost, create graphics for LaTeX. Use Asymptote or Pgf instead.
Web sites
Everything related to setting up your own websites that our users think is interesting ;).
- Web page, getting your own department web page.
- AWStats, Apache log analyzer.
- Aterr, PHP/MySQL based forum software.
- Forum
- Forums
- Flash, slick, interactive graphics.
- HTML, writing something your browser can understand.
- Javascript, making a user's browser do things.
Miscellaneous
- Chemical inventory, online tracking for the chemicals you keep in your lab.
- CAD, technical drawings on a computer.
- Manual data processing, graphical plot to number conversion.
- Philadelphia information
- Visit, information for visitors to the Department.
- Physics resources
Wiki maintenance
- Here, unfortunately named page explaining how to create wiki pages.
- Wiki Install
- Wiki Math
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