Physics Computing Services

On-Line Documentation and Help Contents

• General Info
• Connecting to the Physics Network
• Email - Mailing lists, Email Clients and Setup
• Anonymous FTP Service
• Remote Access
• Security
• Printing
• Physics Web Server
• Info for Instructors
• Platform Specific Information (i.e. Linux/Mac/Windows)
• Compilers
• PCS Computer Applications
• PCS On-Line Information

GENERAL INFO

• Physics Department Computer Policies & Account Request
• Info for all new users at Physics
• Info for new Grad Students at Physics
• Info for CPOS Users
• Software Depot - UCSB's central source for software & licensing

CONNECTING TO THE PHYSICS NETWORK

• Internet Address Request Form
• How do I find the Ethernet Address on a network card?
• Enabling DHCP for Laptops using Linux
• Enabling DHCP for Laptops using Windows
• Using the Isolated Network at UCSB Physics
• Using the Guest Network at UCSB Physics
  • Using the Guest Wireless Network at UCSB Physics
• Physics Wireless Network
• Using the Physics VPN (Virtual Private Network)
  

EMAIL - Mailing lists, Email Clients and Setup

• General Mail Info
• How to send email from off-campus networks (SMTP Relay)
• How to setup a vacation message or mail forwarding
• Changing your email password
• Spam Scoring and Filtering
• Webmail Access


• Mailing Lists
• Mailing List Administration
• How to subscribe to the Physics Colloquia Announcement mail list


• Outlook
• Configuring Outlook 2003 for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL
• Configuring Outlook 2007 for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL


• Outlook Express
• Configuring Outlook Express 6.0 for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL
  
• Eudora
• Configuring Eudora 6.1 Win for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL
  
• Thunderbird
• Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL
  
• Apple Mail (Mac OS X)
• Configuring Apple Mail for IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL
  
• Pine (a multi-featured Unix mail utility) Linux, Unix
• Recommended Pine Configuration
• Pine On-line Manual (from U Washington)
• U.W. Pine Information Center

ANONYMOUS FTP

• Using Anonymous FTP to share files with colleagues

REMOTE ACCESS

• Home Network Security - From CERT
• Using a Cable Modem at Home
• SSH2 FAQ for secure remote access to PCS UNIX hosts
• Using the Physics VPN (Virtual Private Network)

SECURITY

• File Access Permissions
• Using SSH2 at UCSB Physics
• Other SSH links
• Download WinSCP

PRINTING

• How do I print multiple logical pages per physical page?
• How to set up printing in PPS.
• How to set up printing in QNX
• For more paper in the Grad User Room, send a message to printers@physics.ucsb.edu

PHYSICS WEB SERVER

• Adding Seminars to the Events database
• Setting up personal home pages
• Transferring files to the Physics web server
• Uploading Files to a group directory on the Physics web server
• Changing your webserver password

INFO FOR INSTRUCTORS

• Support for web-based instruction (Class-list uploads, Schedule of Classes, etc.)
• How do I use the Scanning System to Grade In-House Bubble Exams?
• Tips for Head TAs

PLATFORM SPECIFIC INFORMATION

• Linux

• Introduction
• Using Nice and Renice for long-running, CPU intensive jobs.
• Changing fonts in emacs.
  

• QNX

Dual-booting with QNX and other boot issues
Setting up printing on QNX systems

APPLICATIONS

• Acroread Adobe Acrobat .pdf Reader Linux
• ReadMe (text)
• See Also: xpdf
• See Also: pdftops command


• Burning CD-R or DVD-/+R
  • Solaris CD Burning
  • Linux CD Burning
  • Linux DVD Burning
  
  
• Electronic Scheduling & Calendaring Web, Linux, Windows & Mac clients
• CorporateTime



• Text Editors
  • Pico (a nice, quick'n dirty editor)
  • Emacs Basics
  • Emacs Quick Ref. Card
  • Changing fonts in emacs.
  • VI And How!


• Ghostview 1.5 (Postscript viewer) Linux, Digital Unix
• Printing with psnup (text)
• Please see note below if you use dxwm (DEC window manager) or ncdwm (NCD window manger).
• Use with dxwm and ncdwm (text)


• GnuPlot (plotting utility) Linux, Digital Unix
• Manual (postscript)
  
Mathematica (Math crunching software) Linux, Digital Unix
• Mathematica License Instructions
• Mathematica Technical Support (Wolfram Corp)


• Matlab Interactive computational environment
• Matlab Licensing Information


• MikTex Tex/Latex compiler for Windows
• MikTex software
• PCS MikTex Faq



• Printing Utilities
• Printing multiple logical pages per physical page) (text)


• Shells
• bash Linux
Brief Working Introduction to BASH
• On-line Documentation (html)
• BASH FAQ (text)
• Introductory article on BASH (.ps)
• Job Control (.ps)
• tcsh
On-line Documentation (html)



• SSH (Secure rlogin) Linux
• Using SSH2 at UCSB Physics
• Getting started with SSH


• Supermongo 2.4.1
Linux
• Contact PCS to obtain installation binaries.
• On-line Manual (html)
• Home Page (html)

PHYSICS COMPUTING SERVICES On-Line Information

• On-Line PCS Forms (requests, etc.)
• Windows 2000/XP Professional Installation Instructions

Physics Computing Services, pcs@physics.ucsb.edu
Last Modified: July 1, 2008