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• Top 10 FAQs

  Top 10 FAQs

  1. StatNet public servers location, specs and software installed
  2. I can't seem to log in to any hosts. What's wrong?
  3. Add StatNet printer using CUPS server
  4. Server Room Noise, Server crashed, Can't print
  5. How to change my StatNet Unix, email password ?
  6. How to connect my laptop/personal computer to the Internet, StatNet.
  7. How do I retrieve a deleted or lost file from backup?
  8. Online Statistics Resources
  9. Statistics Related Search Engines Links
  10. Howto obtain my home modem/router IP address?

  • (to be categorized)

    (to be categorized)

    1. Do you have a site license for Mathematica?
    2. How do I read my Email from home or some other location outside our network?
    3. UBC wireless network
    4. How do I set up outgoing mail?
    5. mini-faq
    6. Who maintains/administers StatNet ?
    7. Are there quotas on disk usage, and if so, what are they?
    8. What network parameters do I need to know to set up a host?
    9. Are there any print quotas or printing restrictions/guidelines?
    10. Do we block viruses?
    11. I can't seem to log in to the Windows hosts. What's wrong?
    12. Do you have letter templates suitable for official department correspondence?
    13. How do I log in to a StatNet Unix machine from a remote network?
    14. How do I minimize the amount of spam I get?
    15. What rules govern the use of these labs?
    16. Some of my web pages can't be viewed because I have the wrong file permissions. How do I fix this?
    17. How do I set up a mailing list?
    18. Where can I find WinEdt?
    19. Where are the computers labs located and what do they have?
    20. How and when can I access these labs?
    21. What are your policies regarding the use of temporary/scratch disk space?
    22. How do I manage the mailing list?
• Email

  Email

  1. How do I see my mail folders (sent, spam, drafts etc...) in webmail?
  2. How do I set up automatic email forwarding, vacation messages?
  3. What are the risks of using an Email auto-reply?
  4. How do I set up a vacation email?
  5. Email Aliases. How to figure out who are in an aliases. Ex: who are in students@stat.ubc.ca list?
  6. How do I cancel automatic email forwarding (and procmail and bogofilter)?
  7. How do I turn off the vacation feature?
  8. How do I use out outgoing mail server (SMTP) from outside StatNet?
  9. How do I use To/Cc/Bcc/Fcc/Lcc in PINE?
  10. How do I read my StatNet email?
  11. How do send Email with a forbidden filename extension (e.g. .exe)?
  12. My Email didn't arrive or I didn't get Email? Where did it go?
  13. Accessing dept. Webmail from a mailroom PC at the Stat Dept, using the IE browser, now requires a second login; and this 2nd login leads to a "certificate error" message from Microsoft.
  14. How do I download messages from elm into a file I can later read again with elm?
  15. How do I use bogofilter to filter out spam?
  16. How do I use procmail to filter spam email?
  17. How can I filter (or automatically sort) Email?
  18. Why do I get nasty or automated Email notices saying I sent them viruses/spam even though I didn't?
  19. Why is the practice of Emailing attachments using proprietary formats (such as MS Word) discouraged?
  20. Why is the practice of Emailing large attachments to many recipients discouraged?
  21. How can one read email attachments with MIME-type application/octet-stream from a Unix email software?
  22. How do I view email headers for a message?
• Printing

  Printing

  1. Add StatNet printer using CUPS server
  2. How do I add a printer to Windows server in Undergraduate network(Can, Zhilla, Abel etc.)?
  3. Where does/did my printout go?
  4. How do I make the printer print single sided?
  5. How do I check printing status?
  6. How do I set the printer that my print jobs should go to?
  7. Someone has sent me a print-ready file formatted for A4 paper. What do I do now?
  8. How do I use 'enscript' to print a non-text or non-ps file?
  9. How do I print a dvi (DeVice Independent) file?
  10. How do I mark or unmark consecutive pages in gv or ghostview?
  11. How do I cancel a printing job?
  12. My printouts aren't centered on the page but are offset. Why is this?
  13. How do I enable/disable two-up printing?
  14. How do I print a postscript (ps) file or a text file?
  15. How do I print several pages per sheet?
  16. The printer says it's out of paper or toner. What do I do now?
• LaTeX

  LaTeX

  1. File format conversion
  2. How to wrap text around the figure or table?
  3. Writing thesis (PhD or MSc) in LaTeX
  4. LaTeX Workshop Series (Jan-Apr 2003)
  5. Using pdflatex/pdftex/dvipdfm as part of teTeX
  6. Common TeX/LaTeX errors
  7. How do you make a PDF document from a TeX/LaTeX formatted file?
  8. I'm behind the times, what is new LaTeX2e?
  9. Several BibTeX style files for Stats magazines
  10. How to let the cited references have the form "authors (year)" instead of "[1]" say?
  11. How to change the frame style of the slides in the "seminar" class?
  12. How to change the distance between the title and the authors in the title page in foils?
  13. How to have doublespacing effect in LaTeX?
  14. How to get bold math in foils?
  15. TexnicCenter setup configuration
• What hardware available and support

  What hardware available and support

  1. StatNet public servers location, specs and software installed
  2. Do I need to logout from the unix system to login to Cain/Abel?
  3. Fax machine?
  4. Server Room Noise, Server crashed, Can't print
  5. How should I dispose/recycle old computers and other electronic waste?
  6. Where to find help on computing stuff?
  7. I would like to purchase a PC/workstation. What/where do you recommend I buy?
  8. What printers are available?
  9. Books on computing?
  10. What Laptops and Projectors are available?
  11. How do I use the scanner?
• SLATE

  SLATE

  1. What is SLATE?
  2. How do students get access to SLATE?
  3. How do I get instructor or TA access to SLATE?
  4. How to access Ugrad Windows to change Windows (SLATE) password?
  5. Is there a SLATE help site, or user guide?
  6. As an instructor or TA, how do I access an existing course?
  7. I'm a TA for course STAT-xxx. How do I get access to manage grades in SLATE?
  8. Google chrome won't open pdf or word files. What can I do?
  9. How do I give my TA access to see the Grade Book grades?
  10. How do I find out my SLATE username/password?
  11. How do I allow my TA to edit/upload Grades in the Grade Manager
• Software

  Software

  1. Do you have anti-virus software that I can download and use free of charge?
  2. How can I get Firefox/Linux to render the fonts larger?
  3. I can't log in to my GNOME desktop. How can I restore it?
  4. How can I access the AMS MathSciNet publication database from home/off-campus?
  5. How do I get Firefox to use xpdf as my PDF reader?
  6. How do I handle complaints from Firefox/Netscape that another browser is running?
  7. How do I get Firefox to run an external application on a particular file type?
  8. How to use Xpra and Screen to run a GUI application in background and log out?

  • R/Splus

    R/Splus

    1. How to call Fortran subroutines in R?
    2. How do I install a package in R/Splus in UNIX?
    3. How to run R/Splus program in background so that the command can continue running in the background after you log out?
    4. How to format output of R?
    5. How to use R to read data stored by Minitab, S, SAS, SPSS, Stata, ...?
    6. Date and time functions in R
    7. How to call C functions or Fortran subroutines in Splus?
    8. How to print the R graphics directly in R?
    9. How to add straight lines through the current plot in R?
    10. How to read Microsoft Excel format (.xls) data file by R?
    11. Miscellaneous Add-Ons
    12. How to call C functions in R?
    13. How to install command-line editor in Splus?
    14. How to read data files containing time data by R?
  • SAS

    SAS

    1. SAS Macro Language
    2. SAS Interactive Matrix Language (IML) Language
    3. Examples of SAS code and SAS usage (by Harry Joe)
    4. SAS links
    5. Examples with SQL and databases (by Harry Joe)
    6. How to read SAS data files into Splus?
    7. SAS online for teaching
    8. Where can I use SAS?
  • Document processing software

    Document processing software

    1. Where are the informal computing seminars from 2000?
    2. KWord and AbiWord
    3. OpenOffice.org
    4. emacs
    5. Regular expressions: examples illustrating common uses
    6. KSpread and Gnumeric (spreadsheet)
    7. gvim
  • Maple

    Maple

    1. Starting Maple in StatNet
    2. Maple Turorials
    3. Do you have a site license for Maple?
    4. Quick help on a topic/function in Maple
    5. Saving Maple sessions in LaTeX or HTML format
  • Matlab

    Matlab

    1. MatLab Tutorials
  • SPSS

    SPSS

    1. SPSS Tutorials
• UNIX / LINUX

  UNIX / LINUX

  1. I can't seem to log in to any hosts. What's wrong?
  2. Do I need to logout from the unix system to login to Cain/Abel?
  3. How can I get Firefox/Linux to render the fonts larger?
  4. I can't log in to my GNOME desktop. How can I restore it?
  5. Intro to UNIX/linux?
  6. How do I change my default StatNet Unix shell?
  7. Short Linux command line Intro

  • UNIX Filesystem

    UNIX Filesystem

    1. How to handle the error message "Error: Can't open display" or "Unable to open the display"?
    2. What is the file .bashrc for?
    3. Redirection and piping in Unix
    4. How to display and print the content of a file meanwhile showing the line number?
    5. How to refer to the file whose name contains special characters (e.g "\", "#", and " ")?
    6. How to check if a file is in the current directory or its subdirectories?
    7. How to get online help of a Unix command?
    8. What do the characters "r", "w", "x", "d", and "l" mean in the output of the command "ls -l"?
    9. Using Bash's history
    10. How do I run a unix "job" at pre-specified time? (BROKEN)
    11. How to give permission to a specific person to allow him/her to read my directory? (setfacl Howto)
    12. What is a regular expression?

    • File Management

      File Management

      1. How do I see my mail folders (sent, spam, drafts etc...) in webmail?
      2. File format conversion
      3. How to Compress and Uncompress Files (tar, gzip, and zip)?
      4. How to output specified columns of a data file?
      5. I have deleted/overwritten my file. Can I recover the lost data?
      6. mc --- Midnight Commander
      7. How to output lines which match the specified pattern?
      8. Can I backup data from my personal workstation?
      9. How to Check and Clean Unused Files in the Directory /tmp?
      10. How to Check the Total Size of Files in the Current Directory?
      11. How to use scp (secure copy)?
      12. How to use ispell?
      13. How to add a white space column between each column if there is no delimiter in the data set?
      14. How to use sftp (Secure file transfer protocol)?
      15. How to output all lines of a file except the lines match the specified pattern?
      16. Preserving files ownership and permissions when coping
  • UNIX Graphics tools

    UNIX Graphics tools

    1. What is ghostscript/ghostview/gv?
    2. What is xv?
    3. What is GIMP?
    4. What is convert?
    5. What is xfig?
  • Xfce Linux Desktop environment

    Xfce Linux Desktop environment

    1. How to add short cut of application icon on Xfce Desktop.
    2. How to add Items to the Panel
    3. What is Xfce? Where can I read more on it ?
• Department Websites (StatWeb mainsite, Webtools,WebMail)

  Department Websites (StatWeb mainsite, Webtools,WebMail)

  1. How do I update my profile on the Department Personnel web page?
  2. Internal Website: You need StatNet account to login
  3. How to book meeting room (LSK336, LSK316b, and LSK314a)?
  4. How do I use the editor on the Department Website?
  5. How do I upload a file and link to it on the Department Website?
  6. How do I create a folder on the server, to upload files to?

  • Horde Mail. Collaboarion tools: webtools.stat.ubc.ca

    Horde Mail. Collaboarion tools: webtools.stat.ubc.ca

    1. How do I see my mail folders (sent, spam, drafts etc...) in webmail?
    2. How do I view and add to the shared calendars on webtools.stat.ubc.ca? I want to book a room/laptop.
    3. Webmail: Send-mail folder display misbehaving
    4. How-to save my outgoing Send mail to "sent-mail" folder ?
• Personal Web pages

  Personal Web pages

  1. Personal webpage Tutorial
  2. Help with PHP and XML?
  3. How to create a password-protected website?
  4. Departmental Disclaimer and Personal Web Page policy
  5. How to automatically post a bunch of photos in your webpage?
• MacIntosh Mac OS X iMac

  MacIntosh Mac OS X iMac

  1. How to get Mouse to focus or FocusFollowsMouse on a MacIntosh?
  2. How to get copy-paste with left-right-middle mouse buttons (traditional X11) with MacIntosh?
  3. How to get an xterm on a MacIntosh (in order to run ssh to a Unix computer)?
  4. Terminal MacOS X Native setup. (Not X-Term)
  5. Focus follows mouse
  6. How to change Mac OSX Password
• Microsoft Windows Vista XP 2000

  Microsoft Windows Vista XP 2000

  1. Do you have anti-virus software that I can download and use free of charge?
  2. I can't seem to log in to any hosts. What's wrong?
  3. Do I need to logout from the unix system to login to Cain/Abel?
  4. How do I add a printer to Windows server in Undergraduate network(Can, Zhilla, Abel etc.)?
  5. Question #1: I updated WindowsXP with SP2, but some of my programs don't work now. What do I do now? Question #2: After I updated WindowsXP with SP2, my UBC Wireless logout window disappeared. How do I logout now?
• Security Issues

  Security Issues

  1. Do you have anti-virus software that I can download and use free of charge?
  2. How do I encrypt a file?
  3. How to protect your private files?
  4. Encryption of your private files
• StatNet Private Cloud Computing

  StatNet Private Cloud Computing

  1. How to mount/unmount StatNet home directory using sshfs ?
  2. How do I access my virtual server?
  3. What is my VM specs and softwares and how do I use it?
  4. Howto Add Guest user on my Virtual server?
  5. Does StatNet offer Dropbox alternative ? Owncloud ?
• Programming Languages

  Programming Languages

  1. Where are the informal computing seminars from 2000?

  • Perl

    Perl

    1. File management
    2. Information about Perl
    3. Starting Perl
    4. FOR loops
    5. FOREACH loops
    6. IF ELSE
    7. Subroutines
    8. Strings
    9. Conditionals
    10. Scalars
    11. Lists
    12. Basic Syntax
    13. Perl Functions
    14. Associative Arrays (Hashes)
    15. Variables
    16. Arrays
    17. WHILE/DO loops
    18. File test operators
  • C/C++

    C/C++

    1. Some useful C/C++ links
    2. How to call Fortran subroutines/functions by C?
    3. How to create your own C libraries?
    4. What does the error message "segment fault" mean?
    5. How to write the makefile?
    6. How to debug C programs?
    7. How to compile and link C programs?
  • Java and Javascript

    Java and Javascript

    1. Java and Javascript links
    2. How do I compile and run Java programs?
  • Fortran

    Fortran

    1. Some links
    2. How to compile and link Fortran programs?
  • R

    R

    1. What is best way for R data entry in Mac OSX?