• Getting started
  • For people in a hurry:
    If you really want to save time, read the full Getting started page several times. Otherwise read the pages below:
    • Using ssh, and Accessing the servers with ssh (LSCE, IPSL, computing centers)
    • Configuring and using PuTTY/Pageant on Windows (recommended ssh application on Windows)
    • Installing and configuring an X server
    • Text editors
    • Copying files between servers/computers (e.g. with WinSCP on Windows computers)
• LSCE-related public transport
• Using the RIE Algorithmes web site and the Phone application (adding money to your restaurant account, …)

• BIOS, diagnostics and other start-up notes

• Recovering from a Major Hardware or Windows 10 Crash
  Trying to recover from a Black Screen (possibly a hardware crash)
  a Windows BSOD (Blue Screen of Death)
  and other frightening computer stuff

• Misc Win10 notes
• Upgrading a HP computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (for a computer bought with a Win10 license downgraded to Win7)
• Re-installing Windows 10 after a major crash
• Migrating to a new computer
• Configuring Windows 10 (useful Windows 10 settings to work more efficiently)
• Adding extra applications
  • Configuring and using PuTTY/Pageant on Windows (recommended ssh application on Windows)
    • More details about ssh, and Accessing the servers with ssh (LSCE, IPSL, computing centers)
  • Installing and configuring an X server
  • sharebox (LSCE cloud) + owncloud for dummies
    This will also work for Linux and Mac users
• Keeping your Win10 machine clean and up-to-date
• Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Ubuntu

• sharebox (LSCE cloud) + owncloud for dummies
  Win 10, Linux, Mac

• Installing Python: install a new Python only on your own desktop/laptop. Use a pre-installed Python Distribution on the Linux servers. Ask Jean-Yves if you don't know which distribution to use
  1. Correctly installing miniconda3
  2. Using minconda3 to install what you need: ask Jean-Yves

• Working with Python
• JYP's recommended steps for learning python
  • Working with matplotlib (JYP version)
    • Matplotlib cheatsheets (pdf version)
    • JYP's map room
• Grids, projections, ...
• Useful Python stuff (unsorted tips and tricks)

• Installed versions of UV-CDAT (versions >= 2.8.0)
• Misc. notes

• Older versions (versions <= 2.1.0) Very old stuff, that most probably nobody will need
  • Extra packages installed in UV-CDAT
  • Installation, unsorted bits and pieces

• JYP steps for installing Miniconda3
• Useful conda commands

• Thunderbird (TB)
• Firefox (FF)

• Thunderbird and Firefox on Linux

• BIOS, diagnostics and other start-up notes
• mSATA Low level administration
• Fix Windows Update issues (Windows 8.1Windows 10Windows 7)

• Using a PC keyboard on a Macintosh

• Google (and smartphones) notes

• Creating a full image of a disk

We keep this information here, just in case. And some recent pages may still have links to older sections…

VB host: the machine and operating system where the VB program is running.

VB guest: the operating system running inside VB.

• Installing VirtualBox
• Using VirtualBox
• Using the Linux guest
• Updating VirtualBox

• Installing Windows 7 (basic standard LSCE installation)
• Configuring Windows 7 (useful Windows 7 settings to work more efficiently)
• Adding extra applications
• Keeping your Windows 7 computer clean and up-to-date
• Migrating to a new computer
• Miscellaneous notes

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