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18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. GNU Scientific Library. GNU Scientific Library. GNU Scientific Library also known as GSL is installed on the department's Linux computers. Where are the GSL Libraries? On

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. The rm command. The rm command. The rm command is used to delete files. rm -i will ask before deleting each file. Some people will have rm aliased to do this

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Printing options e.g. duplex, n-up printing. Printing options e.g. duplex, n-up printing. This page explains some of the printing options which are available under Linux,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Installing/Requesting New Software. Installing or Requesting New Software. You need to use a piece of software which you can't find on the Maths Linux system. What do you

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Sending files through email. Sending files through email. Warning: Do not attempt to send a file larger than about 10MB through email. It may bounce back or it may cause

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Backups and Archives. Backups and Archives. Backups of machines managed by IT. Linux users: Data kept in your /home directory on departmental machines is backed up every

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Email settings (how to configure email programs). University mail server. For email clients such as Thunderbird to work, they need certain information such as the servers

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Using a. xsession file on Ubuntu. Using a. xsession file on Ubuntu. Introduction. The default graphical desktop in Maths is XUbuntu. Other options including GNOME and KDE

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. How to add a signature to your emails. How to add a signature to your emails. Webmail. Instructions from Microsoft site. Thunderbird. Click on your email address at the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. User Installed and Maintained Software. User Installed and Maintained Software. We have a shared directory in /alt/applic/user-maint/ where people share software they

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Mathematica. Faculty of Mathematics,. Wilberforce Road,. Cambridge CB3 0WA,. United Kingdom. Forthcoming Seminars. News, Announcements and Events. 2024 University of

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. OpenVPN on iOS. iOS. Tested on an iPhone 7 running iOS version 11.4.1 (15G5077A). Known not to work on an iPhone SE. Tap Add, enter your username, tap Add again and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Installing Mathematica on your own computer. Installing Mathematica on your own computer. The Mathematica licence agreement is managed by UIS and funded by a consortium

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. If you have received an email informing you that your Maths account is due to close please do not ignore it even if you think it is an error. Receiving such an email

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. The Maths Computer Officer Team. The Maths IT Team. Please email help@maths.cam.ac.uk for computing/IT assistance or call Ext. 66100. Name. Room. Phone. Email. Can reset

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Collecting, setting, resetting passwords. You will have 2 passwords:. 1. Your Raven password which is linked to your crsid and is used to access various University

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Email filtering. Email filtering. Introduction. Email filtering refers to automatically processing your incoming email rather than simply having it all dumped in your

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Home directory paths. Home directory paths. On a system like ours where the home directories are on a networked file server, there are many valid "paths" or alternative

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Emacs printing. Emacs Printing. Emacs has two Print commands in its File menu. "Print Buffer" will print the current buffer (i.e. the file you are editing) as a plain

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. openVPN on Windows. Installing. To set it up on Windows, download and run the appropriate OpenVPN installer for your version of Windows. You may be asked if you want to

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Validating your web pages. Validating your web pages. Why Validate. We are required by law to have our web pages accessible by all. The university has published

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Pine configuration. Configuring for Exchange Online. Important: In these instructions change spqr9 to your own crsid. In your home directory run the command below. The

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Setting up your own mailing lists. You can set up a Cambridge-based mailing list @lists.cam.ac.uk yourself without help from a Computer Officer. Your list's email address

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. OpenVPN on OSX. Installing. Which version to install depends on which version of MacOS you have. For currently supported versions of OSX we currently recommend the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Wireless laptop connections. Wireless connections. Three wireless networks are accessible at the CMS: eduroam, UniOfCam-IoT and UniOfCam-Guest. They can be set up by

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Packaging and compressing files. Packaging and compressing files. If you have large quantities of data which you don't refer to very often, it is useful to compress it so

18 Jul 2024: New toners are stored in the room BL.20. There are recycling boxes placed around the site e.g.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Macaulay 2. A system for computations in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. We currently have Macaulay2 v1.14 on the Ubuntu machines. Type. M2. to run the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. GAP - Groups, Algorithms and Programming. GAP - Groups, Algorithms and Programming. Gap was created at Lehrstuhl D für Mathematik (LDFM), RWTH Aachen, Germany, and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. The ls command. The ls command. The ls command is used to list files. "ls" on its own lists all files in the current directory except for hidden files. "ls. tex" lists

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Maths Printing Guidelines. Maths Printing Guidelines. Printing is expensive so please help to cut costs and save the environment as follows:. Is your printing really

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. How To Opt Into / Out Of The University Email Directories. How To Opt Into / Out Of The University Email Directories. To opt into or out of the public online email

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Frequently asked questions about the hotdesk service. What causes my connection to break? The hotdesk service acts as a bridge between your home machine and a Maths

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. File Permissions and Sharing Files. File Permissions and Sharing Files. Viewing File Permissions. File permissions provide a way of controlling whether other people can

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Common Windows issues. Hung sessions, missing files or drives. You get the login prompt and your password works, but when you log in your session looks wrong, or hangs,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. The Part III Room. The Part III Room. Located in the lower levels of Pavilion B, devoid of direct sunlight and patrolled by a black cat, the Part III room is an area for

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Running long jobs on Maths workstations. If you have a large number of jobs to do at desktop scale (i.e. not requiring the use of a high-performance compute facility),

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Mathematical software. Pages in this menu describe the mathematical software packages available on the Maths Linux machines. Faculty of Mathematics,. Wilberforce Road,.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Useful software to install on laptops. The pages in this menu point to useful software to install on Windows and Mac laptops and describe how to install Ubuntu Linux on

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Worked Example of Installing Software In user-maint. Worked Example of Installing Software In user-maint. Introduction. This is a walkthrough of how to install software

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. PARI-GP - a software package for computer-aided number theory. PARI-GP - a software package for computer-aided number theory. PARI-GP is a software package for

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Windows Users. Windows. The Maths Windows 10 system. General Windows tips. See Also. (Links which are not Windows-specific but may be of interest to Windows users.).

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. How To Take A Screenshot under Linux. How to take a screenshot using Linux. PrintScreen, xfce4-screenshooter. Use the shortcut key PrintScreen to capture the whole

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Writing simple shell scripts. Writing simple shell scripts. Introduction. At the most basic level, a shell script is just a sequence of shell commands typed into a file

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Unable to start firefox on Linux ("firefox is already running" type of error message). If firefox closes unexpectedly it may leave it's lock file behind preventing you

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Customizing the bash shell and its startup files. Customizing the bash shell and its startup files. Default Bash Shell Startup Files. In your home directory you will find

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. How to print from a Maths Managed Desktop. How to print from a Maths Managed Desktop. List of Printers. Obviously it is most convenient to use the printer closest to

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Compilers on Maths Linux. CAUTION! This page may be out of date! The default C, C++ and Fortran compilers on Ubuntu 16.04 are version 5.4.0 of the GNU cc/gcc, c++/g++ and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Using Python. Python. Installing packages with pip (not recommended). It is not advisable to install packages directly with pip commands like pip install --user. It can

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Web page policy. Web page Policy. Definitions for maths in this document. Profile page: Formal webpage under /people onand www.statslab. There are templates to edit this.