Help Pages for the Brown HET Cluster

Brought to you by your local Guru (you can see pictures of him working here, here and here), reachable at zeus at olympus dot het dot brown dot edu.

Especific to our cluster…

• Newbie;
• Email;
• Web;
• SSH;
• Connecting from the outside using a Windows® box;
• Manual Pages;
• Info Pages;
• Doc Central;
• Debian Online Help;
• Debian WWW (Debian on-line documentation); &
• Operating Systems (a [very] short summary =;-).

If you need some extra help...

General (not limited to NewBie) info:

• Brown Linux Users Group (email us or check the list archives);
• NewbieDOC (Documentation BY newbies FOR newbies).
• The Linux Documentation Project.
• The Linux CookBook.
• Kernel.org.
• GNU's not UNIX!
• CygWin (Run your GNU/Linux apps on MS Windows(R)! If you have MS Windows(R), you WILL want this! >;-).
• Getting to know Debian.
• Debian Help.
• Debian Planet.
• Debian and the Rise of Linux.
• Debian Beowulf.
• Debian diskless router [could as well be firewall].
• Create Debian GNU/Linux Packages.
• GNU/Linux Desktop Survival.
• Debian on Sparc 64.
• High-Tech Dictionary Emoticons.
• Debian Project.
• Compiling Kernels The Debian Way.

Security info:

• ISC2.
• @stake.
• Computer Security Resource Center.
• CERT.
• Linux Security.
• Security Focus.
• Linux Administrator's Security Guide.
• Securing Debian HOWTO.

Net news:

• Kuro5hin.
• SlashDot.org.

Programming info:

• Scientific Applications on Linux.
• Programmers Heaven.
• Freshmeat.
• Numerical Analysis.
• Advanced BASH-Scripting Guide.
• The GNU Scientific Library.
• GNU Emacs Manual.
• CERN Program Library.
• HEPpc.
• LAPACK Users' Guide.
• Mersenne Twister Random Number Generator.
• Random Number Generation.
• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions.
• NERSC.
• Netlib.
• Numerical Recipes On-Line.
• Techniques for Scientific C++.
• Numerical Python.
• Scientific Python (SciPy).

Programming Languages:

• Introductory Material on Python.
• Python Tutorial (by Guido van Rossum, the man who wrote it! =;-).
• FORTRAN Manual.

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