Archive for April, 2007

Tutorial: SSH

James Bunton on Apr 17th 2007

SSH is a program used to connect to remote machines securely. One of its main uses to you will be to login to the School of IT computers from home to access files. You can set up private/public keypairs to allow logins without a password. It also is able to forward TCP tunnels between remote machines for port forwarding. All data is transmitted securely through the encrypted connection.

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Tutorial: Vim

James Bunton on Apr 5th 2007

Vim is a highly configurable, advanced text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It features syntax highlighting, tabs, splits, find as you type, regexps, integration with compilers and much much more. Available for any OS you can think of, even in GUI form if you wish.

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