• Unix workstation lab info, policies

• Lab policies
• limits on disk usage;   /scratch space
• which workstation to use
• X Window sharing (xhost, xauth)
• Unix basics
• Basic commands in 4 software packages: Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, IDL

• available software

• listing of workstation software
  • mathematical/numerical software
  • graphics software
    graphics formats
  • Mathematica vs. Matlab vs. Maple vs. IDL
  • consulting help for using scientific software
• local workstation scripts (shell, Perl)
• basic Unix commands
• manual pages for several Unix commands
• software search for the ITS computer labs

• printing, documentation, dissertations

• printers
  • how to print stuff
  • Printing PostScript documents
  • A4 (metric) paper is available in the cabinet near the Newton Lab door

   

• documentation software
  
  
  • How to present your work

     

  • LaTeX online documentation
    • 4-page collection of LaTeX math symbols (PDF)
    • comprehensive list of symbols, 82p. PDF (10/2002 source)
    thesis class     -- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), new in fall 2004
    •  
    • BibTeX and bibliography styles
    • prosper presentation class (for PDF slide show)

     

  • StarOffice (alternative to Microsoft Word), and
        antiword and word for displaying (not editing) a Word document

     

  • manual pages for other software

   

• your dissertation
  • Grad School Thesis specifications
  • LaTeX Thesis class
  • LaTeX Thesis Class documents

   

• PDF and PostScript
  • creating PDF (or PostScript) files with Type 1 fonts (esp. for FastLane)
  • Converting your document to PDF
  • Printing PostScript documents

• security

• passwords
• using SSH instead of telnet or rlogin
• using SCP instead of ftp
• trouble with hostkeys or authentication, warning messages

• email

Campus email system

• webmail, buffmail
• Using Email
• Your mailhome
• CU Mailing Lists

Departmental information

• spamtrack, APPM's spam filter (only for mailhome=babbage)
• What to do about junk email

More about email

• chain letters (US Postal Service)
• be wary of suspicious information spread by email; check Google to see if it is identified somewhere as a hoax, or check web pages like these: HoaxBusters, Internet Hoaxes and Email Rumors

• web pages

• working with web pages guide

  
  

  on amath.colorado.edu
• Online Course Schedule Generator

   

• password-protected pages
• web page statistics,   error log
• document archive, http://amath.colorado.edu/pub/ -- NOT ftp!!

   

• Putting math formulae on web pages:
      HTML character codes (e.g., γ ≤ πr² ≤ Γ )
      PNG images for mathematical symbols (e.g., r² )

   

• graphics formats, files types/suffixes (PNG vs JPG vs GIF)