Preliminaries

As you are proper computer scientists, you need to know some Unix.

Read http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/.

Burn an Ubuntu Disk. You can turn your laptop into a dual boot machine Watch this!. or simply run Linux from the Ubuntu disk without changing your hard disk.

If you have a mac use bootcamp.

If you are too scared to do any of the above then you can log on to igor and do everything there!

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