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Languages

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Tools

• Secure file Transfer
  • [PuTTY] Open source telnet/SSH client. Includes sftp, scp, and key manager.
  • [SSH] [SSH] Free to students. Very nice interface. Can drag and drop files. My preference -- KatieLewis
  • [Mindterm] Free. Very easily downloadable applet. Good for quickly geting to Turing unix style when on someone else's machine.
  • [WinSCP] Free (open source) SCP client. Does the same drag-and-drop thing as the above, but it's really free. -- PhilMiller
    • See also WankWankWank. --RichardGarfinkel
• Converting to PDF
  • [PrimoPDF] Free. Easy to download and use. But, I don't know much about it. --KL
  • [OpenOffice.org] An open source office suite that includes an "export to PDF" function.
  • [PDFCreator] GPL / Open source. Like Adobe Acrobat, acts as a virtual printer so you can use it with any application that can print.
  • [PDF Online] Free online pdf convertor that can handle various files up to 2 MB.
• [Cygwin] Free way to have a Linux-like environment on a PC. Does not run native Linux Apps, but does have X-Windows
• LaTeX
  • [MikTeX] LaTeX for Windows, free
  • [WinEDT] A LaTeX editor for Windows, shareware. Plays well with MikTeX?
• [WinXP PowerToys]

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