Newton Lab
• 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
- 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)
- How to present your work
- StarOffice (alternative to Microsoft Word), and
antiword and word for displaying (not editing) a Word document - manual pages for other software
- 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
Campus email system
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)
