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• Servers

  Server	Description	Primary Application	CPUs	RAM
  hajek	Sun Solaris	latex/e-mail	2 or 3	3Gb
  newton	Sun Solaris	Splus/R	2	1Gb
  playfair	Sun Solaris	Splus/R	?	2Gb
  unixlab	ugrad network. Sun Solaris	Splus/R, SAS. Same as StatLab.	2x1GHz	8Gb
  fisher	PC Pentium Linux	C/C++/f77/ Linux packages / StarOffice for Word and Excel files.	2x1.7GHz	1Gb
  cedar	PC Pentium Linux	C/C++/f77/ Linux packages / StarOffice for Word and Excel files.	2x2.1GHz AMD	2Gb
  maple	PC Pentium Linux	C/C++/f77/ Linux packages / StarOffice for Word and Excel files.	2x2.1GHz AMD	2Gb
  pearson	PC Pentium Linux	C/C++/f77/ Linux packages / StarOffice for Word and Excel files.
  Emily	Sun Solaris	latex/e-mail
  cain/Abel	ugrad network. MS Windows 2000	Matlab, JMPIN, Microsoft Office
  Zillah, Lamech, Seth	ugrad network. MS Windows 2000	Matlab, JMPIN, Microsoft Office

  Note: Unix servers have different CPUs, but common user disk space.

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• PC

  PC	Description	Primary Application
  PC in computing room	in Graduate student area	SPSS, Matlab
  PC in mail room	connect to scanner, hp5 printer	Acrobat, Photoshop, Microsoft Office

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• Printers

  General printing command on all our Unix/Linux systems is lpr -Pprintername filename . The following printers are available

  Printer	Location	Comments
  spit	Grad Area	use spits for single-sided
  buzz	Grad Area	single-sided
  hp5	Mailroom	use hp5 for single-sided
  optra	SCARL area	use optras for single-sided
  hp	MSCR area
  lexmark	MSRC area

  Note:

  • SCARL --- Statistical Consulting And Research Laboratory.
  • MSCR --- Mathematics and Statistics Computing Resources Laboratory.
  • For more printing operations, click here.

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• Laptop and Projector

  To borrow laptop and/or projector, you need to go to the general office to sign-in. When you return them, you need to sign-out in the general office.

  The laptop installs both Microsoft Windows and Linux (red hat 8.0).

  Both laptop and projector can be booked with the "xbooking" command in hajek.

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• Fax

  Ask the general office for help if you want to send fax. When you send fax, the document should face down.

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• Photocopier

  Ask the general office for help.

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• Scanner

  The scanner is connect to the PC in the mail room. Both the software Photoshop and Acrobat can be used to import the scanned document. The procedures are almost the same. In the following procedures are based on Acrobat.

  1. Put the document face down on the panel of the scanner. Make sure that the right-upper corner of the face-downed document is aligned to the right-upper corner of the scanner panel.
  2. Double click the icon "Use for PDF scanning" to open Acrobat.
  3. Choose the submenu "Import" from the menu "File.
  4. Choose the subsubmenu "Scan...". A window will popup. Click the button "Scan". Wait for a few seconds to let the scanner warm up and pre-scan the document.
  5. The right panel of the "EPSON TWAIN 5 window is the scanned document. The left panel shows options and buttons to adjust the scanning process.

     You can use the button just above the "Preview" button to adjust the scanning area. Once you click this button, an rectangle with dashed border will show up in the right panel of the EPSON TWAIN 5 window. Move the mouse over the dashed border. The shape of the mouse will change to a bar, both end of which is an arrow. Press the left-button of the mouse and drag the mouse to adjust the size of the rectangle. Make sure the size of the scanned document as small as possible. Click Preview button to update the scanning result.

     Once you select the scanning area, you can press the "Scan" button to get the final version of the scanned document.

  6. An window will popup and ask you if you want to scan next page. If you want to scan next page, then remove the first page from the scanner panel and put the second page on the scanner panel. If you finish scanning, then you can press the "done".
  7. Select the submenu "Save AS ..." to save the scanned document. From the popup window, you can choose the "Save as type" (e.g. pdf, eps, jpg, etc.). The default file type is pdf (if you use Acrobat to import scanned document).

  Occasionally, you need to adjust the scanning parameters (e.g. Image Type, Destination, and Resolution). You can click the "Help" button on the left-hand-side panel of the EPSON TWAIN 5 window. The following is a rough guideline.

  Document type	Image Type	Destination
  Text only document or line-drawing (without color)	Text/Line Art	EPSON Stylus Printer (FINE)
  Magazines or Catalogs in black & white	Black & White Document	EPSON Stylus Printer (FINE)
  Magazines or Catalogs in color	Color Document	EPSON Stylus Printer (FINE)
  Color Photos	Color Photo	EPSON Stylus Printer (Photo)

  Note:

  • You can use the default resolution setting.
  • You can use the Full Auto mode by click the "Full Auto mode..." button.

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• CD Burner

  The CD Burner is connected to the PC in the mail room.

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• Bulletin Board

  The bulletin board is at http://help.stat.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl.

  If you are new user, you need register first (click on Register and follow the instructions, It will give you new passwd via Email). Do not use the same Password on Hajek to avoid security problems although this is pretty secure.

  To change Passwd, first login. Next click on Profile to Edit your passwd , and other stuff.... Scroll down to the bottom, click on Change Profile to save.

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• Webmail

  You can check your e-mail by using web browsers. The webmail is at https://newton.stat.ubc.ca/horde/imp/login.php

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• Books on Computing

  In the computing room, there are some books on computing, such as SAS manuals, Splus manuals, SPSS manuals, LaTeX manuals. After your using the book, please return the book to the computing room so that other students can borrow them.

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• Do I need to logout from the unix system to login to Cain/Abel?

  No. You can login Cain/Abel from your Fisher account by typing

    cain&
  

  or

    abel&
  

  To get full-screen display, type

    cain -F
  

  or

    abel -F
  

  To specify the display size, you can use the "-geometry" flag. For example,

    cain -geometry 780x640
  

  The second way to setup display of cain/abel is as follows:

  Here is how to connect to MSRC from Newton only
  
  1)choose Newton on your CAIL terminal
  Login (GUI is the same as Hajek)
  Note:  You don't have to ssh to Hajek to do mail, this is duplicate of
  Hajek)
  
  /usr/local/bin/win
  is where the command is
  
  >win &
  
  this will bring up a window call Citrix Client for Solaris
  
  2)Under tab Entry, choose New
  
  This bring up another Properties box
  
  Under Network Protocal undo the Use default, choose TCP/IP
  
  Next box is Description  :  Type in any thing ie. MSRC
  
  Server type      cain.ugrad.stat.ubc.ca
  
  Click Apply 
  
  Next:   Uptop click on network button .  This will give you more
  option...
  Choose windows
  
  Under Window Colors
  Undo Use default
  choose 256
  
  Under Window size
  Undo Use default
  Choose Percentage of screen  (this is rather personal choice, leave it
  up to you)
  
  Click OK to close that window
  
  3)Next just double click on the highlight "cain.ugrad.stat.ubc.ca"
  This will bring up Windows 2000 from MSRC.
  

  Note: If your workstation uses neoware, then you can press

     ctrl+alt+End
  

  to switch to the host menu. Then from the host menu, you can choose cain/abel. You can use

      ctrl+alt+Up/Down arrow
  

  to toggle among the sessions you opened.

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• How to book meeting room (LSK336, LSK316b, and LSK314a)?

  You can book meeting room by typing the following command in a terminal in your Hajek account:

      xbooking
  

  or

      xbookroom
  

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• Where to find help on computing stuffs?
  • Ask an office mate
  • Ask another grad student
  • Check online help.

    For example, in Unix/Linux system, you want to find help on a command, "grep" say. Then you can type

        man grep
    

    or

        grep --help
    

  • Check the Department's Howto Webpages
  • Check the Homepage of Statlab
  • Check System manager's website
  • Check Dr. Harry Joe's Tips website
  • send a request to help at stat dot ubc dot ca

    Note this email is for grads, an equivalent one exists for undergrad students help at ugrad dot stat dot ubc dot ca

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• Howto recover files/folder that been deleted within 24 hours yourself

  If you need to recover files you accidentally delete, you can login Cedar and cd /data/Hajek/backup/. This directory will be updated via rsync daily. That means it will over written the older files.

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• Where to report problems related to the computing stuffs?

  If you encounter problems such as system crush, please report to the System manager at (604)822-1629 (tha at stat dot ubc dot ca), or the Assistant to the system manager at (604)822-1629 (thi at stat dot ubc dot ca).

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