Free software

Free software is not only open source and free to use, distribute and modify, it's usually better than commercial software. It's also the best counter exemple for the simplistic utility models for human behaviour. These are some of the pieces of free software I use and enjoy:

• GNU/Linux in any of its incarnations. And gcc-glibc, the mother of all software. (doc) A good C guide.
• Apache 2.0 (the manual)/ php/ mysql.
• Emacs (!!!), TeX, ghostscript, xpdf and all the rest...
• Xfig and co., gnuplot, xv.
• Xlisp-Stat, R, and gcc for scientific computing and graphics.
• grip, xmms, for mp3 handling.

Are you a Unix newcomer? a Lisper?

Try the Unix on-line Help.

També tinc una petita guia sobre les ordres bàsiques de Unix escrita en català. Mira-te-la i pren-la si t'agrada.

And if you're a lisper, you will need access to Steele's book Common Lisp, The Language"

HTML, Postscript, what else?

We have a copy of the Beginner's guide to HTML and a copy of the full WWW Handbook, take a look on it
The complete HTML 4.01 specification is a useful tool.

T_TH is an very good translator from T_EX or latex to HTML, free for non-commercial uses. Here we keep a copy of the manual.

Now I prefer htlatex(TeX4ht)

And the A first guide to Postcript a guide written by [email protected]

The best academic web site I know

It's Luc's Devroye home page.

Other web pages I like...

Catalan poetry, Antoni Clapès

My computers used to contribute to BOINC projects

Seti@home

Climate prediction

Predictor@home

folding@home

And some anchor points to...

The Departament d'Economia of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Barcelona is a pleasing place to live in. I like biking through BCN, here are some friends.