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I provide an unofficial Debian apt repository for HEP related packages which includes the CLHEP libraries and KtJet, users of testing,unstable or sarge on i386 can add the following lines to their /etc/apt/sources.list (replace testing with stable or unstable if you prefer to use those distributions):

deb http://www-zeus.desy.de/~ferrando/debian/ testing hep
deb-src http://www-zeus.desy.de/~ferrando/debian/ testing hep
		

then packages can be installed, the usual debian way, with e.g.

apt-get update
apt-get install clhep2 clhep2-dev ktjet ktjet-dev

apt-get update
apt-get source -b clhep2 

The presently available packages are listed here .
The presently available Source packages are listed here .

The following debian distributions have packages: sarge, etch, sid

CLHEP packages are distributed with the permission of the CLHEP authors - licensing issues for official debian distribution remain unresolved

Latest CLHEP versions available for i386: 2.0.3.1 (clhep2), 1.9.3.1 (clhep)
Latest KtJet version available for i386: 1.0.8

Kevin McCarty provided amd64 builds of the clhep packages, so I believe the sources line above should work for users of that architecture, the packages are listed here (testing/unstable).
Many thanks to Kevin for making these available and for his advice on improving the packages.

Frederic Lehobey and Carlo Segre built versions of clhep2 for the powerpc architecture, so the apt sources line should also work for that architecture. See the packages available here (testing/unstable). Thanks to Frederic and Carlo for providing their builds.
Carlo Segre provided builds for the mips and sparc architectures. Packages are available for sid (mips,sparc) and sarge (mips,sparc).

The root package currently provided is called root-cern and has cernlib enabled (dependencies are presently not handled correctly). There is no plan to provide paw , since it's already part of the Debian distribution. I will no longer update my root package because there are better ones available at http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/. ROOT is now in the official debian experimental distribution!(package is called root-system) - expect it in unstable/Sid soon.

So you want to use ORANGE, but you want ROOT output rather than HBOOK? You might find this Orange-root interface interesting.
If you use root then the general ZEUS C/C⁺⁺ analysis library I am building might also interest you.
I maintain an updated version of Oliver Gutsche's standalone version of zevis. If you want to use it check this page

Documentation of Electromagnetic shower shape variables implemented in phantom and orange by me.

I am a Central Tracking Detector coordinator for ZEUS:
CTD page
I have done some minor work with the ZEUS Global Tracking Trigger:
I put the GTT tracks and vertex in ZEVIS - the ZEUS event display.
Billy Dunne and I tested and provided a vector meson finding algorithm for the GTT.
I also provide readout support for the ZEUS MVD laser alignment system.

I was Monte Carlo Coordinator for ZEUS 2003-2005:
FUNNEL web page
AMADEUS web page (AMADEUS is maintained by Yuri Golubkov).
ZEUS Monte Carlo Forum
ZEUS Monte Carlo Grid Computing Project: Presentations/News Items Cern Courier Article Monitoring Page
ACAT05 proceedings: Monte Carlo Mass Production for the ZEUS experiment on the Grid ps.gz

I am a Physics Coordinator of the ZEUS High Q² group
I am also member of the Heavy Flavour group:

EPS03 talk: Single Top Production Via Flavour Changing Neutral Currents ps.gz pdf
EPS03 proceedings: Single Top Production Via Flavour Changing Neutral Currents ps.gz pdf
ACAT05 proceedings: Monte Carlo Mass Production for the ZEUS experiment on the Grid ps.gz
EPS05 talk: Isolated leptons in events with missing transverse momentum and the search for single top production ps.gz pdf
62^nd DESY PRC: ZEUS Status Report pdf
Rencontres de Moriond 2007 (EW): Exclusive Searches at HERA pdf

EPS03: Search for W production using the hadronic decay channel in ep collisions at HERA ps.gz pdf
ICHEP04: Search for W production using the electronic decay channel in e+p collisions at HERA-I ps.gz pdf
LP05:Charm production in DIS using HERA II data ps.gz pdf
LP05:Search for high-p_T isolated leptons in e⁺p collisions at HERA I and HERA II ps.gz pdf
ICHEP06:Search for high-p_T isolated leptons with ZEUS at HERA pdf
ICHEP06: Measurement of charm production in DIS at HERA II ps.gz

• "Monte Carlo mass production for the ZEUS experiment on the Grid" - H. Stadie et al. Nucl.Instr.and Meth.A559 (2006) 43
  
• "Isolated Leptons in Events with Large Missing Transverse Momentum and the Search for Single Top Production at HERA " - J. Ferrando. Brief review: Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol.21, No. 25 (2006) 1901-1916
  
• "The Design and Performance of the ZEUS Global Tracking Trigger" - P. Allfrey et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A (2007)
  
• "The Optical Alignment System of the ZEUS MicroVertex Detector" - K. Korcsak-Gorzo et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A (2007)
  

ZEUS-05-13:The MVD Laser Alignment System Guide - J.Ferrando & C. Youngman.pdf .ps.gz
ZEUS-05-20: 2005 Funnel Operator's Guide .pdf .ps.gz
ZEUS-05-21: 2005 Guide to Funnel: The ZEUS Monte Carlo Production Facility .pdf .ps.gz
ZEUS-05-25: A note on high Pt leptons at HERA: presented to the closed session of the 60th DESY PRC (November 2005) - J. Ferrando, A. Tapper, M. Wing, Y. Yamazaki, R. Yoshida pdf
ZEUS-07-001 The Design and Performance of the ZEUS Global Tracking Trigger - P. Allfrey et al pdf

I give/have given Postgraduate lecture courses for the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance on experimental aspects of QCD:
Lecture Page

I am system administrator for the ZEUS UK groups here in DESY. More details of the systems are available for ZEUS members only:
Introduction to the ZEUS UK computer systems at DESY.

I have some experience of running GNU/Linux on laptops. My current laptop is a Dell Latitude D610.

Some interesting computing + software related articles worth reading, mainly from GNU:
Why software should not have owners
Selling Free Software
Why Schools should Use Exclusively Free Software
Software patents and literary patents - Illustrating the difference between copyright and patent's often lumped together as "Intellectual Property".
Reasons not to use GIF image format on web pages see also Burn All Gifs
Opposing Digital Rights Mismanagement
Can You trust your computer?

Chris Bumby
Stewart Boogert
Matthew Forrest
Katherine Korcsak-Gorzo
John Loizides
Richard Massey
Timothy Namsoo
Hartmut Stadie
Alex Tapper
Michal Wlasenko

I made a kde 3.x splash screen for ZEUS members: kdezeussplash.tar.gz
To use it simply download it to your home directory and untar it. Then log out and log back into kde to see the screen.

There's also a proper ZEUS KDE splash theme which can be installed using the kde control center for users of kde3.2 onwards: ZeusSplash.tar.bz2