Martha Arbayani Zaidan

Hello all, When we are working with a super computer cluster, traditionally we often do not have visualisation access there. If we want to navigate the folders or files, we may see them,  using  for example a "Linux terminal", by using command such as ls , cd and pwd . If we run a program there and it then produces numerous results, sometimes we would like to visualise and analyse the results immediately in our local machine. Of course, we may visualise and analyse quickly the result data by using gnuplot [1] directly in the cluster or by copying it to our local machine by scp or rsync commands. However, I found sometimes it is inconvenient to use gnuplot because we need to know the commands there. Copying the result to our local machine may also take time and effort  Example of gnuplot window, we can perform plotting function directly on Unix environment by gnuplot functions. The above methods may be powerful if we know well the Unix commands for copying or be

Hello all, This article discusses about my own strategy in synchronising my data from the server's staff home directory to my local machine drive. First, let understand what is my motivation to write this article. But of course you may have tons of other reasons why you need to synchronise your disks. Even though Linux offers great capabilities and advantages as mentioned in the previous article , we sometimes cannot really escape from the MS. Windows (Windows) domination. The fact that MS. Windows has dominated operating system (OS) markets since few decades ago leads to abundant users have used and become familiar with this OS. Big companies and some funding agencies often use MS. Offices for their business documentations as well as their publications.  If we work collaboratively with them, either in applying a consortium funding or writing a deliverable to a sponsor company, we may not always be able to avoid writing the reports using MS. Word. Although personally I think

I have been using Ubuntu 16.4 (Linux) recently and I love it. At beginning, my work place offered me various operating systems for my work computer, including Windows 10 and OS-X.  However, I opted to use a Linux-based operating system. There are several main reasons personally why I force myself to use Linux: It is a free operating system.  It is the main operating system used in 99% supercomputer in the world [1]. Currently, I am also using a supercomputer cluster to support my scientific works. As an engineer, I may need to utilise different kinds of computing platform, such as Raspberry Pi . The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends the use of Raspbian , a Debian-based Linux operating system [2]. Many other hardware have been used Linux for their operating systems. For example, Robot Operating System ( ROS ), that is an open source robotics platform on Linux [3]. This comes back to point 1, since it is a free operating system, it has been utilised to develop further other oper

Hello all, I am not a Linux expert (yet), but I will share my experience a bit here about: how I back-up my data safely and efficiently. However, this is only my personal option and opinion, some experts may have a better and efficient method in doing this. From my experience, there are several ways how to backup our data: Using free cloud storage, such as Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive External hard-drive Data server In this article, I will share my experience in backing up my data using Ubuntu (Linux). This article should also be useful for Mac OS users. As I mentioned in my another article , I have been using Linux due to several reasons. However, one of the main issue in using Linux, there is no official version of Google Drive, that is my favourite cloud storage due to 15 GB free space (at starting). Although I could install Dropbox, but it only gives 2 GB free space initially (before inviting other people to use the Dropbox service). As a scientist, who work