Some useful
stuff for CS833 students (on how to setup MySQL and apache; these
pages were put up in 2001 and are probably way out of date by now;
however I will leave them on this page since every now and then I'm
still told that they are useful).
If you are not convinced yet that
is the *only* editor, then maybe you haven't seen the
tips yet.
Also see my .vimrc file and copy it to get started
(thanks to Saied Tahaghoghi).
A very good
article
on how PhD theses are examined.
Don't embarras yourself and do some
weird queries on Google.
unix and other tools:
Need to convert jpg to ps?
Or ps to gif?
Want to use an alternative to Power Point while preparing presentations?
Use PPower4!
Having trouble with footnotes in floating tables with Latex?
Check out the system of
commands
that you need to insert into your tex file before the
\begin{document} flag. Also have a look at my
example
of how to use it.
Sample discussion amongst PhD students:
(25th of October 2002)
Ranjan: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Procrastinating."
Ranjan: "At least you are doing something."