A Guide to using Computer Science Facilities
The facilities we provide in the School of Computer Science are changing constantly, so drop by these pages from time to time to get an up-to-date picture.
The following are provided for general reference.
General
- Guide to using the CSIS (Duty Office) How to get the most out of the people who are here to help you.
- Your Computer Science and Other Accounts The various machines you may log into at the University of Manchester and how to get an account to log in.
- Teaching Materials (course notes) The location and structure of the recommend place to store web based teaching materials.
- Code of Practice Code of practice for the use of our computing equipment.
- Laboratory Usage Usage of Computer Science laboratory equipment.
- Removable media Use of removable media in Computer Science laboratories.
- Third Year Accounts Termination of Third Year Accounts.
- Laptops Use of personal laptops within Computer Science.
- Software Installation Installing software in Computer Science.
- Equipment Purchase Process Buying equipment in Computer Science.
- Equipment Disposal Process Disposing of equipment in Computer Science.
Hardware
- Computer Science Teaching Labs Hardware available, where it is and what operating systems it runs.
- Printing Where our printers are, usage policy and troubleshooting.
- Network
- Wired Ethernet Partly supported by CSIS
- Wireless Supported by IT Services
- Plasma Screen Usage guide.
- DVD and Zip Drive Usage guide.
Software
- Filestore and Directories How our filestore is structured and your allocation.
- Logging In and Passwords Local and remote logging in.
- Remote access to the school How to use ssh, PuTTy and scp.
- FTP Which machines you can use for ftp-ing your files between the school and your home machine.
- Local web user's guide What the World Wide Web user needs to know to survive here.
- Accessible web pages How to write web pages accessible to people with disabilities.
- EMail Configuration and other useful pieces of email related information.
- Writing PDFs How to write Portable Document Format (PDF) files in the Teaching laboratories.
- Starting Exceed How to run an X windows session on a remote machine and display it on your PC.
- Adding a printer Recipe for adding a printer to a Windows XP desktop or laptop.
- Public Cluster PCs Your home filestore on campus machines and your own computer in halls.
- Useful Unix Commands Some useful commands which may dig you out of a hole!
- Download-able Programmes University locations to download commercial and open-source software.
- Local LaTeX material Locally generated material for the LaTeX document preparation system.
Please send any comments/suggestions/notifications about this document to CSIS (Duty Office) Written by CSIS (Duty Office)