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8 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

8 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

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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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,

8 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

8 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

8 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),

8 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,.

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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.).

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 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.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. What is logged on the maths system. The following data is logged on the maths system. We log the use of all our printers, who printed to which printer, when and how many

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Copying Files Over The Network. Copying Files Over The Network. General Notes. Although this page is written from the perspective of accessing your Maths files from your

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. MAGMA. The Magma Computational Algebra System for Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry. University of Sydney. We currently have a licence to run MAGMA on chromium, coral,

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. eduroam/JANET Roaming Service. Eduroam/JANET Roaming Service. Staff and students of Cambridge university can connect to Eduroam by following these UIS instructions.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Vim. vim is a powerful editor. It has a steep initial learning curve. Many people in Maths use one of emacs or vim. vi is the predecessor of vim. vim can be run in either

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Logging into CMS computers remotely. Web-browser to Linux/Windows. For casual, infrequent or intermittent use, use a web-browser to connect via the hotdesk service.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Synchronising Devices. Synchronising Devices. What is file synchronisation, why do we need it? Imagine you are working on a project. All files and directories related to

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. WIndows 10/11. Wired eduroam for Windows10/11 devices. Before you begin, make sure that the port you are wanting to use with your personal device is connected to the

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Pico. Pico is the editor which comes with pine. It can only be run in text mode. To start pico, open a terminal window and type. pico filename. For help in pico use the

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Learning about Computing/IT. Learning about Computing/IT. Training Courses. There are many computer-related training courses available, mostly run by the University

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Default Desktop for Ubuntu: XUbuntu. Default Desktop for Ubuntu: XUbuntu. The top panel / toolbar. The panel is set to be at the top of the screen. To make changes to the

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Document will not Print. Document will not Print. Problem:. Attempts to print a document result in a mail message stating that the document could not be printed. The

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Troubleshooting email problems. Troubleshooting email problems. Is the problem just with email? Network problems and being over your quota can cause email misbehaviour,

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Kate. Kate has syntax highlighting for languages ranging from C and C++ to HTML to bash scripts and the ability to create and maintain projects. You can open several

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Mailing list membership. Mailing list membership. Types of mailing list. The maths faculty manages many of the lists used within the faculty but people can also create

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Changing shell. Changing Shell. List of shells. By default, Maths users are set up to use the bash shell. Other shells which are available to you are listed in the file

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Computing. Current Students. Prospective Students. Opportunities. Poster printing. Poster Printing. The Maths faculty has two plotters capable of printing up to size A0 on either fabric or photo-paper. An HP Designjet Z5400 printer