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Register a temporary wireless guest account at Stanford using wirelessguest.stanford.edu
- View Windows events using eventvwr at the command prompt.
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Find information on a Stanford network computer using the Stanford What utility.
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Plot worldwide statistics with World Mapper.
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View a live map of the Stanford Marguerite shuttle bus service at Stanford.
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A good tool to search for research papers and books is Google Scholar. For older journal articles, a great resource is JSTOR.
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Find California state park maps at Virtual Park Maps
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Go hiking in the bay area by finding info at Bay Area Hiker
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Convert any picture loaded into Adobe Photoshop to format for LaTex documents:
- Open the image in Photoshop.
- Select File -> Save as. For format, use "Photoshop EPS".
- Choose Preview = None, Encoding = ASCII85, check "PostScript Color Management" and uncheck the other boxes. Click OK.
- Learn about Dr Who episodes using the Dr Who Guide.
- Learn about coffee, roasting it and brewing it at I Need Coffee.
- Fine tune an LCD monitor with a VGA input using this grid pattern.
- Avoid a bicycle citation in California and bike safely by reading the Cal DMV's rules.
- Use Stanford's color scheme for web page design.
- Compute circular statistics using the von Mises distribution (also here). It is the circular analog to the normal distribution.
- Tranlate text with Google's tranlating service.
- Connect to a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) server using Filezilla. It's fast and free.
- Use LaTeX symbols.
- Save a Matlab figure as a PDF with correct cropping using save2pdf. Or use the locally stored version of save2pdf.
- Find the distance and elevation profile for a route with Map My Run.
- Find courses at Stanford with the Stanford Courses tool.
- Find computer clusters on campus to log into on the UNIX Computing Resources page.
- Learn about installing Fedora using this guide.
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