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The Basics
Local Knowledge
How to Get Help
Where is Everything?
Laboratories
Accessing the Labs
Accessing Individual Computer Terminals
The Wireless Network
The Laptop Lab
Printers
Booking Terminals
Information Terminals
Accounts
What is an account?
How to get an account
Thesis Accounts
Choosing a Password
Some Rules
Some Suggestions
A WARNING
Using Classrun
The Booking System
Booking Tokens
Class Bookings
Making a Booking
Taking Up Your Booking
Being Late For a Booking
Dishonoured Bookings
Help with Book and Tkbook
Local Etiquette
Good Laboratory Behaviour
Why is my Account Access Denied?
The Online Yellow Form and University's Rules Relating to Student Use of Computing and Electronic Facilities
Originality of Assignment Submissions
Plagiarism
Collusion
Similarity Detection and Followup
A Word of Advice
Loans From the Help Desk
Where is it?
Who Can Borrow?
How to Borrow
Responsibilities
Other Useful Things to Know
Restoring Files
Accessing Your Floppies
Accessing Your USB memory-stick/drive
Disk Quotas
Print Quotas
Internet Quotas
The acc Command
Computing at Home
Modem Access
SSH Access
More on SSH
An Introduction to UNIX
What is UNIX?
The Basics
Your Login name
Logging On and Off
Files
Directories
Home Directories
The Current Directory
Creating a File
Creating a Directory
Manipulating Files and Directories
Creating a Symbolic Link
Printing
Finding the Nearest Printer
Sending a Job to the Printer
Checking the Printer Queue
Removing a Job from the Printer Queue
Permissions
Changing Permissions
Finding and Killing Your Processes
Useful Commands
Checking your Account Details
Print Commands
Floppy Disk Commands
Compressing Files and Directories
Viewing and Printing Microsoft Office Documents
Viewing and Printing PDF and PS files
Basic
L
A
T
E
X
Commands
The Online Manual
tkman
Info
Introduction to Shells
What is a Shell?
Initialisation Files
.xsession
.profile
.shellrc
Changing Your Default Shell
What is a PATH?
Shell and Environment Variables
stdin, stdout
and
stderr
Exit Status
UNIX Shell Metacharacters
Shell Scripts
The X Window System
Some Basics
Getting Started
Logging in without .xsession
Setting the X Display Resolution
Mouse Buttons
Inside an xterm
Outside an xterm
The Window Manager
Fluxbox
Twm
WindowMaker
KDE
Changing your Window Manager
XScreenSaver
Internet Tools
Electronic Mail
mail
pine
Redirecting Mail
News
Reading News
Writing News
Reading News with a Web Browser
FTP
FTP Commands
SCP
The World Wide Web
How to Look at Web Pages
Common Browsers
Common Problems with Browsers
What is a Home Page?
Creating Your Own Web Pages
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Loc Van Huynh 2007-03-15
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