Computing

Computers are machines capable of performing any calculation you imagine.

It is important to take ownership of these machines, to learn how to control them, rather than rely on others, or we are forced to accept the restrictions of the programs currently available.

Operating systems

The operating system is the system that gets between you and the processor.

Using Unix

If you are using unix for the first time I wrote a small introduction to using unix command line. Also introductions to Linux and free-open source software. Other people have provided an explaination of Mac OS X.

Software

I also wrote a short tutorial for using gnuplot which is a flexible plotting software for producing all sorts of graphs from data or functions.

Programming

No information about this here :)

Miscellany

Sometimes I add useful sites to a list of computing links.