Category: SMSAS computing advice

Please avoid using R/Rstudio on Noether until after this booking is complete We need to update RStudio on Noether so that it can support the … Read more

It is recommended that everyone leading lectures/seminars in 2016-17 take a little time to familiarise themselves with the new student desktop build… This autumn the … Read more

Use the command du –shc * …to  show how much space you’re using with a total at the end. For example: … 3.3M Matlab 75M … Read more

If you need to download and install Minitab (used for teaching/research in Statistics) see Software you can download on the following page: https://www.kent.ac.uk/itservices/software/index.html If you … Read more

Historically a popular tool for creating LaTeX documents is WinEdt. However neither the University nor the School holds a license for this. You can download … Read more

The easiest way to move files from a local folder to one of the SMSAS servers is to follow these steps. Note that these relate … Read more

There can be times when it is handy to force your PC to update Windows, rather than to wait for the next system-wide automatic update. … Read more

Windows users wishing to transmit PDFs securely should consider creating them using PDFCreator. This is an Open Source (and free) application: http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download Ubuntu Linux users may … Read more

The University makes every effort to screen out mischievous and malicious emails but inevitably these find their way to our inboxes. While many are crude … Read more

Setting your default print settings to “duplex” (meaning that both sides of the page are used) can significantly reduce paper usage and, with lengthier documents, … Read more