Category: SMSAS computing advice

A number of mailing lists are used within SMSAS. This blog post provides details of some of the key ones. Make sure you understand the … Read more

I’d recommend that both new and returning students check the web page published recently by the University’s Information Services department entitled “Tech and software for … Read more

Provisional instructions, with no guarantees offered… these will be updated as issues/solutions emerge Back in September 2019 the University began moving to a managed print … Read more

The following post is relevant only to Windows managed desktop users Maple is widely used for teaching and research within SMSAS and is available as … Read more

On 28 November the School’s shared storage area on the Kent network moved from fileserver2 to the files.kent.ac.uk system. This post explains how to access … Read more

A ‘ZIP’ archive is a single folder that has many individual files and/or folders compressed within it. It is a convenient way to transmit a … Read more

Short answer: possibly not. But some precautions can help reduce the risk of visiting somewhere online that you’d really rather not go to. If you … Read more

Our highest spec research server, Noether, has R Studio installed which gives a Graphical User Interface for the R Statistical application. This service is available from … Read more

Guidelines for using the School’s research servers have been updated today. This includes the Acceptable Use guidelines which all users are asked to adhere to. … Read more

Your usual Kent login can be used for Skype calls and/or video calls (hardware permitting). All managed PCs used within SMSAS, and many of our … Read more