Eric Saunders and Dave Acreman run a series of talks on an array of things you will find useful during your PhD and beyond. The full list of tutorial summaries from Eric and Dave can be found here

This is a list of some basic and some more involved how to sheets. If you know how to use some specific software or anything not mentioned here, then impart your knowledge.

• Introduction to the (tsch) shell

• Command line summary

• Example .cshrc file

• Mac Tips

• Choosing and using programming languages (PDF)

• Compilers

• Version control using SVN and CVS

• Editors

• Everything important about Nedit

• Typesetting - LateX and BibTeX

• How to create quick, everyday plots and paper quality plots

• Image Display

• Data Reduction

• Make a Poster^?

• Make a three-colour image

• Other How Tos