Computer Notes

Here are some of the miscellaneous notes I’ve made while using computers as an academic.

General appeal

The start page I have in my browser (old UK/Gatsby version, unmaintained).
Setting your login shell.
Making presentation slides.
LaTeX notes.
MetaPost is a programming language based on Knuth’s MetaFont for producing beautiful postscript diagrams. TeX can provide typeset text for the diagrams. I’ve noted a couple of things for which I had to search.
Version control is very useful for projects with text source files (LaTeX, C++, Matlab or whatever). At some point I made notes on subversion (svn) and cvs. I now use Bazaar (bzr). I originally swapped for a particular bzr feature, but having recently used svn again with some collaborators, I have found that I really prefer bzr.
Passwordless SSH. Stops you from having to type in your passwords while maintaining reasonable security.
Other SSH things.
Some inconsistencies in Matlab/Octave.
Tiny Octave/Matlab tricks page.
Very small number of R and Octave translation notes.
Getting OpenBUGS to work under linux.
Notes on compiling GTK+ 2.x.