Some pages, notes and links about computers/programs.
| batching | — | Automate the running of batches of many jobs on multiple processors and computers. |
| bibauto | — | Bibilography automation: Bibtex, own styles, own many-file database, label format, collaboration. |
| comp_serv | — | Old pages about `Computation Servers' that I ran; perhaps some useful ideas or links. |
| http_upload | — | A simple Perl CGI script for allowing file-uploads on a webpage. |
| join_map | — | Joining lots of part-images into one, with particular interest for making big maps from aerial photos. |
| jottings | — | Plain-text notes on various computer matters, retained as reminders. |
| konqueror_squid | — | Konqueror's stalling on download turns out to depend on use of a proxy. |
| kprinter | — | Description of a KDE (Qt) bug with `print to postscript' or `print to PDF'. |
| labimgcomp | — | About compression of large numbers of images (written for colleagues). |
| latex2msword | — | How to write papers in a tolerable format even when forced to submit in a ludicrous one. |
| latexhbox | — | A little study of the effect of textwidth and typeface on overfull hboxes. |
| links | — | Links to computer-related sites. |
| matlab | — | A list of gripes against the program `matlab', especially about the unix versions of the 2001--2006 era. . Started sometime in 2003, with input from colleagues. Largely unchanged for. a couple of years up to 2008. . . |
| multi_boot | — | Notes on solving problems of installing several different systems for multi-boot in Grub. |
| notes | — | Plain-text notes on various computer matters, retained as reminders. |
| ocr | — | OCR (optical character recognition: image to text) with Tesseract. |
| oddhints | — | A page to list quick problems with whatever solution I think I found, if I didn't find it really easily on the web. |
| portsage | — | The wonders of `ports' (FreeBSD) and `portage' (Gentoo): big software collections. |
| raidsh | — | RAID in software (OS) and hardware (a controller); comments and comparison. |
| spreadsheets | — | The inappropriateness of `spreadsheets' for most technical (or other?) applications. |
| tagging_jpegs | — | Use Konqueror actions to add tags to selected groups of JPEG images. |
| video_compression | — | Really high quality video at modest filesizes is possible, with multiple video/audio/subtitle tracks in one file: it's worth using. |
| wordproc2latex | — | Conversion of word-processor files into Latex: OpenOffice is better than alternatives. |
Page started: 2008-08-18
Last change: 2011-08-22