Krane's Computing Page

This page has a few techniques for working with UNIX and anything else I found useful but might forget if I didn't have it here. If you are using this page as a resource and have difficulty, just ask me about it! Our friends in high places like to change things around from time to time...make things easier or better...resulting in the obsolesence of my information.

Writing Code at DØ

My Coding Cookbook is extremely concise but should be enough to get you started.

UNIX hints

Checkout my UNIX Cookbook. I get more all the time, but most of them are dirty tricks ways out of tricky UNIX traps. You might also check DØ's UNIX homepage or Heidi's Unix Hints.

How to use the Challenge Batch Queues.

For info on backing up UNIX or VAX disk drives or to vault tapes at FCC, look at my Resource Management page. (This thing also hangs off my Physics Page.)

Fun Stuff

I was running VMWare for Windows NT (with a virtual Linux machine) until Fermilab banned it.
This allowed me to run "virtual machines" on my desktop PC. I had a Linux system and an NT system running simultaneously. Yes, simultaneously, not dual boot. These OS's are both good at different things, after all, and I didn't want to reboot to use a particular product. I detected only a slight performance loss in certain situations.
The reason for the ban? They were worried that "I would turn off my virtual machine". Of course, there is a power button on every PC ever made, so a person running an actual Linux machine could "turn it off" also, but that isn't a worry for them.
I own a Palm V and I love it.
I have converted a file from Particle Data Group to .pbd format for use with MobileDB: it is a table of Particle Masses and Widths. I also converted a couple of chi-square plots. The Particle Data Group (well, Tom Trippe of PDG anyway) liked it so much, they made me a consultant! Get these resources here: Palm Products from PDG.
I you are looking to buy a Palm, you can read my opinions about the various available models (as of December 99).
If you just bought your Palm, you might be interested in what's on John's Palm V.

Older stuff

Fix that irritating delete key!!! (Thanks T. Rockwell)
Why does that thing delete to the right? Who would design such a feature?

Spawn subprocesses on the VAX systems. (Thanks R. Genik)
You can use this to run GhostView in the background (as opposed to using up your window) or to run Bookreader from FNALD0 to wherever you are.

More VAX hints (like setting your mail forwarding so you don't have to log into a VAX ever again...)

A few commands for the old Run I VMS Online system.

Moving data files from VMS FATMEN to the Challenge tape robots

If you are unlucky enough to own
a Macintosh computer
I have a suggestion...BURN IT!!!

(Oh, you don't like fire? How about WATER?!)

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