HOWTO - index

Guess what? We've all had to go through some discovery process to solve a problem or two. If the work is significant enough (or not intuitively obvious) why not write it up so others can benefit from your work. This is exactly what I've done here. These "how to"s represent some of the steps I've had to go through to accomplish some task I needed to do. Of course, I make no guarantees as to the correctness of the steps (things change) or the information. I may make some assumptions about your knowledge level and if what I write may seem unintelligible to you then maybe you should check out a book or learn more about the topic from either other webpages. Please don't email me to help you out!

However, I do appreciate any feed-back that will help to clarify, correct, or improve the contents of these "how to"s. If you have some information that should be included in these pages then send me email.

HOWTO

Mixing Fortran and C

Helpful Tips on using the macro language m4

Using Netlib to get math & numerical software

Handy guide on emailing to/from some of the popular online services from/to an Internet address

Adding a new user to your UN*X (or Linux) machine

Setting up anonymous ftp on your machine

Burning a CD

Registering your home machine in the US domain (e.g. owen.sj.ca.us) The details apply directly to the San Jose area ... but similar procedures exist elsewhere

Compiling and installing a new Linux Kernel

Installing Ubuntu on a Sony Vaio laptop

Brief guide on how to use CVS

Short overview of SQL92 syntax (also with Oracle and some common extensions)

A basic computing tutorial (using JavaScript)

Pointer to other Linux related HOWTO's (may be very slow)
(Mirror site)

R.K.'s method of authoring Web pages

Special Topics

• Sudoku Madness
• Cray Users Group talks
  36th semi-annual CUG 1995 Presentation: "Monitoring Object Library Usage and Changes"
  38th semi-annual CUG 1996 Presentation: "So Optimization Breaks Your Code ..."
  41st annual CUG 1999 Presentation: ... Handling Migrated Files ...
• bchop - a tool for isolating which compilation unit is adversely affected by compiler options such as optimization.
• robj - a utility for incorporating run-time logging into Cray PVP object libraries.
• A brief tutorial on floating-point representations used for numercial calculations
• A discussion on the Fortran 90 model in a slides format

Articles

R.K. Owen has written some articles for publication in various places. Go to the index for a list of them.

Tutorial Slides

R.K. Owen has also written some tutorial slides used for talks & seminars he has given. Go to the index for a list of them.