- -4pc - -4pc Berserk User’s Guide Eric Nodwell Scott Webster Copyright © 2002-2004 Eric NodwellScott Webster This document can be freely redistributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................... 3 What is the Berserk computer system? ........................................................ 3 Introduction to Command Line Linux ......................................................... 3 Guidelines - Getting Along With Other Users .................................................. 4 Use the cluster Luke! ....................................................................... 4 Berserk Features ................................................................................. 4 Printing .................................................................................... 4 Setting default print options ............................................................ 4 Setting print options from the command line .............................................. 6 Using xpp or kprinter instead of lpr ...................................................... 6 Printing to espresso (colour laser printer) ................................................. 7 Setting the Default Printer .............................................................. 7 How to cancel a print job ............................................................... 8 How to print to a Berserk printer from Physics ............................................ 8 Windows Networking: Accessing Berserk from a lab Windows computer ......................... 8 FTP: Sending and receiving large data files .................................................... 9 Outgoing FTP ......................................................................... 9 Incoming FTP ......................................................................... 9 Floppies and CDs ........................................................................... 9 How do a use the floppy/cdrom drive? ................................................... 9 Burning CDs .......................................................................... 9 The Trash: Restoring accidently deleted files .................................................. 11 Sound .................................................................................... 12 Configuring Sound ................................................................... 12 Playing Audio CDs ................................................................... 13 Scanning Images .......................................................................... 13 Software on Berserk ............................................................................. 13 Text Editors ............................................................................... 13 Kate ................................................................................ 13 jpico and nano ....................................................................... 13 Emacs and XEmacs ................................................................... 13 Vi, Vim and Elvis .................................................................... 14 LaTeX .................................................................................... 14 1 Berserk User’s Guide - -4pc - -4pc Kile ................................................................................. 14 TeXmacs ............................................................................ 14 Word Processing and Office Software ........................................................ 14 OpenOffice (StarOffice) ............................................................... 14 KOffice ............................................................................. 15 WordNet ............................................................................ 15 Reference Managers ....................................................................... 15 Pybliographer ........................................................................ 15 Image Manipulation and CAD .............................................................. 15 QCad ............................................................................... 15 The GIMP ........................................................................... 15 Inkscape ............................................................................ 16 Sodipodi ............................................................................ 16 gThumb ............................................................................. 16 Mathematics and Number Crunching (and some Plotting) ...................................... 16 Matlab .............................................................................. 16 Maple ............................................................................... 17 Mathematica ......................................................................... 17 Igor Pro ............................................................................. 18 Octave .............................................................................. 18 Numerical Python, Scientific Python, SciPi and MayaVI .................................. 18 FDTD ............................................................................... 18 FElt ................................................................................. 19 Plotting and Scientific Graphics ............................................................. 19 Grace ............................................................................... 19 Gri ................................................................................. 19 GnuPlot ............................................................................. 19 Mathematical and Scientific Utilities ......................................................... 20 Units ................................................................................ 20 GPeriodic ........................................................................... 20 g3data .............................................................................. 20 Qalculate ............................................................................ 20 Programming .............................................................................. 20 Anjuta and KDevelop ................................................................. 20 Python .............................................................................. 20 Lahey Fortran ........................................................................ 20 GCC Compiler (versions 2.95 and 3.2) .................................................. 21 Intel C/C++ and Fortran Compilers ..................................................... 21 ATLAS, LAPACK and BLAS linear algebra libraries ..................................... 21 GNU Scientific Library ............................................................... 22 netCDF ............................................................................. 22 noweb - Literate Programming ......................................................... 22 Bluefish ............................................................................. 22 Quanta .............................................................................. 23 Viewers and Players ........................................................................ 23 XMMS .............................................................................. 23 RealPlayer ........................................................................... 23 Handy Little Utilities ....................................................................... 23 wget ................................................................................ 23 ImageMagick ........................................................................ 24 KSnapshot ........................................................................... 24 ps2eps, ps2pdf and pstoedit ............................................................ 24 Tips ........................................................................................... 24 2 Berserk User’s Guide - -4pc - -4pc LaTeX Tips ............................................................................... 24 Getting Started with LaTeX ........................................................... 24 Using Emacs to edit LaTeX files. ...................................................... 24 Generating HTML from LaTeX ........................................................ 25 Generating accents in LaTeX .......................................................... 25 Drawing circuit diagrams with LaTeX .................................................. 25 Changing the print margins or paper size ................................................ 25 Counting the number of words in a LaTeX file ........................................... 26 Emacs Tips ............................................................................... 26 Changing the font size in Emacs ....................................................... 26 Inserting special characters such as a degree sign ........................................ 26 Removing the Toolbar and Scrollbar