Collection of techniques, how to, and troubleshooting for personal computers: Linux, macOS, Windows 10
Mike’s Biostatistics Book, my open textbook I use to support my biostatistics course at Chaminade University, was adopted (September 2024) by the folks at LibreTexts and is now available as part of their open educational resource library in the Applied… Read moreMike’s Biostatistics Book now at LibreTexts
Notes activating Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and installing Ubuntu (ver 20.04 LTS) on my Windows 10 Home (21H1) PC. Modified from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-wsl2-windows-10 Note also includes instructions to install Homebrew Enable WSL Open PowerShell as Administrator Run at command… Read moreInstall WSL and Ubunto distro on Windows 10
I’ve been teaching a biostatistics class since 2003, first at UH-Hilo, and at Chaminade University since 2010. I’ve tried a number of textbooks, but in the last couple of years have elected to go with my own notes. I’m now… Read moreMy Biostatistics book, now online
Google Data Studio report of “Aloha” as part of trademark. Data collected from TESS, United States Patent and Trademark Office. As of June 2020, only 27% of the 539 live trademarks that incorporate “aloha” as part of the trademark… Read moreOnly 27% of trademark with Aloha located Hawaii
Example, use command line program get-filehash in Windows 10, or the terminal and command md5 in macOS, or call a function from the opensslR program to compare hashsum of R download file, e.g., R-3.6.1-win.exe, against fingerprint. Windows 10 Open PowerShell… Read moreCheck file hash file
On macOS to open the terminal, press and hold keys Control + Option + Shift + T On Windows 10 to open the command terminal, Windows key + X, then either C or A
Computers come today with lots of pre-installed software, some of which you will use and depend on, others you rarely if ever use. Overtime, and after repeated visits to web sites, after unexplained crashes, etc., it may be time to… Read moreUninstalling applications on Macs
I teach a number of courses at Chaminade University that depend on software. Mostly, the software is open source, and universally, students have never heard of these titles. I support my courses with materials posted to and managed by Moodle;… Read moreI am uncomfortable downloading and installing files from the Internet.
We use mostly open source software, including R, R Commander, and R Studio plus a suite of sequence manipulation and phylogeny software for these courses (e.g., R package ape, CLUSTAL, MEGA, PHYLIP, R package Rphylip, R package seqinr, TreeGraph, UGENE)…. Read moreMy computer is running really slow after I installed R (or UGENE, or …)
Mac operating systems have a split personality — they are referenced by version number (10.4, 10.5, 10.6, etc) and by names (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, respectively) (Wikipedia ref). As of 1 August 2019, current version of the macOS is 10.14.6… Read moreI have a MacBook and I have no idea what version of macos I have.
