Howto

Scripting

Local Resources for Scripting.

NX

NX allows you to connect to a Linux server and access your graphical desktop from any computer connected to the internet.

Cygwin

Installation and Usage of Cygwin.

Screen

How to use screen to execute command line operations remotely and reconnect to them later.

Installation

Installation of Support Distributions.

GNUpg

GNU Privacy Guard. It is a program dedicated to the encryption, decryption, and digital signing of files and emails.

Erlang

A general-purpose concurrent programming language.

Linux Links

Links to linux books, sites which we have found useful.

Thunderbird

A guide to setting up the Mozilla Thunderbird email client with the Tufts University email and directory servers. "Thunderbird can manage multiple e-mail, newsgroup and RSS accounts and supports multiple identities within accounts. Features like quick search, saved search folders ("virtual folders"), advanced message filtering, message grouping, and labels can help manage and find messages. Thunderbird also incorporates a Bayesian spam filter."

IDL

IDL (Interactive Data Language) is often used for data analysis and data visualization, in particular image processing.

Knotes

Knotes is a useful way to save notes, thoughts on the desktop and revisit them later. Particularly useful for the casual linux user to remember where they left off, or the application specific user to note the current state of their project.

BOINC

Information about the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) grid computing software

CUDA

Nvidia's Computed Unified Device Architecture, a way to write programs that do calculations on a graphics card instead of a normal processor

Hadoop

A distributed filesystem and parallel computing framework

VMware

Guides for VMware

Amazon Web Services

The Amazon Web Services, a cloud computing service

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